In a letter to the university, President Ann Weaver Hart announced what we already knew on Tuesday: Temple’s getting some money.

But not until the 2010 fiscal year.

And, Temple is going to have to share.

Governor Rendell announced Tuesday that he would be receiving $42 million from the federal government as a result of the stimulus package and Temple would be getting a slice of the pie, along with Penn State, the University of Pittsburgh and Lincoln University.

Hart said in her letter that Temple will still be increasingly mindful of its spending in this “economic downturn,” but “the funding will help Temple to keep tuition increases at the lowest possible levels for the next academic year.”

Keep a watchful eye on that tuition bill.

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It’s all clear now but around noon Broad street in front of Progress Plaza was closed because of a suspicious package.

Lieutenant Hill, of the Philadelphia Police, said an unattended briefcase was left in the plaza and became a cause for concern.

“It was there and it wasn’t there before, so we called in the bomb squad to look at it,” Hill said. “They detonated it and we’re still processing the scene.

Progress Plaza and Broad Street between Oxford and Jefferson streets was closed off to traffic and pedestrians.

Hill said the briefcase probably didn’t pose a danger, that it was most likely left behind as garbage or as a practical joke, but it’s best to be safe.

I was walking down Oxford Street on my way home from class Tuesday night.  At about 17th Street the man who had been walking toward me clobbered me in the side of the head, pulled my coat over my head, pushed me aside, grabbed my purse, and bolted down a side street.
I was robbed.  I ran the rest of the way home as fast as my stubby legs would carry me, my coat hanging on by one sleeve, a tears-and-nose-drippings combo running (almost as fast) down my face.  The doorbell is broken (why wouldn’t it be?), so I had to scream and bang on the door loud enough for my roommates to hear from our second floor apartment.
They didn’t.  But one of my neighbors did, and let me in.  She called the cops while I called my mom – Must. Cancel. Credit card.
The police officers who arrived asked the general questions one would expect to get (What was taken?  What did he look like?) and were patient and quiet.  They asked if I had been listening to my iPod when I was attacked, and an officer rolled her eyes when I responded “yes.”
After some time at the station (spent mostly answering the same four or five questions over and over and over…) I was free to go.  A Temple counselor called me later to set up a meeting where she could help me cope (though it seemed the main issue was re-printing my TU ID card).
In my three years at Temple, I have never before had any run-in with crime or violence.  I have never even had a trifle stolen by a weird roommate or random campus thief.  At the end of the day, I’m short a wallet, one law book, some keys, and an over-priced Nalgene bottle, but I’m healthy and home.  I refuse to feel sorry or wrong for feeling at ease in my own neighborhood; I refuse to let a mean person steal my pocketbook AND my piece of mind; I refuse to let this experience make me a cold or hateful person; Most of all, from now on, I refuse to carry cash.