Despite repeated attempts to ask for an interview with Temple alum, booster and Board of Trustees member, Bill Cosby, we, the 86-year-old newspaper of the community for which he is, invariably, the most public figure, haven’t heard back. (Even though we want to promote his new book, “Come on People” – see a review by Broad and Cecil).

Since the January 2004 sexual harrassment allegations by a former official of Temple women’s basketball program, Cosby has only been on campus representing Temple officially twice, by my count. Once for a small College of Education movie screening during September of last year and then in the wildly public announcement of the football team’s new uniforms last April when he dressed up in a throwback jersey and leather helmet. He spoke to the track team before last year’s season and has friendships with a handful of Temple administrators and staff, but beyond that, we get the feeling the Cos is rethinking his ties to this school.

For that new book, which came out last month, I don’t need to mention that it burned to see Bill Cosby wearing a University of Massachusetts shirt in the book flap photo of him, seated alongside co-author Alvin Poussaint, even if he went to graduate school there.

Now, to be fair, we haven’t been told no, but, it is tough to think so many emails and phone calls have been … misdirected. Come on, Bill, you’ll talk to the freakin track and field team, but not us?