LAW STUDENT ORGANIZATION FELL ILL AFTER BANQUET IN CHINATOWN
About 100 people suffered bouts of sickness after eating at a Chinatown restaurant on Feb. 27 during a banquet hosted by a Temple student organization, according to a philly.com report.
The Asian Pacific American Law Student Association’s event drew about 250 people to Joy Tsin Lau at 11th and Race streets. About two days afterward, several attendees experienced symptoms of food poisoning.
“Many, many people fell horribly ill,” user Antima C. wrote on restaurant-review site Yelp!. “This was the worst case of food poisoning I’ve ever witnessed,” she said. Yelp identifies users only by their first name and last initial, but philly.com identified her as Antima Chakraborty, an assistant district attorney for the City of Philadelphia.
Chi Mabel Chan, owner of Joy Tsin Lau, told philly.com she did not believe the diners got sick at her restaurant.
“It was not a problem with my restaurant,” she said. “Maybe they got cold or drank too much.”
The restaurant, well known for more than 30 years for its dim sum cuisine, has also faced several health inspection violations.
The APALSA supports Asian Pacific American law students in finding career and networking opportunities.
-Joe Brandt
AMBLER CAMPUS EXPERIENCES POWER OUTAGE, CANCELS CLASS
Temple’s Ambler Campus experienced a power outage on Friday morning, according to a TU Alert sent out around 11:45 a.m.
Ambler’s Facilities Management and Public Relations offices could not be reached for comment Monday on the cause of the outage.
Because of the outage, classes were canceled for the remainder of the day. A second TU Alert sent out at around 12:45 p.m. on Friday stated that power had been restored, but that classes and activities remained canceled for the day. The university’s shuttle service remained operational through the outage.
-Steve Bohnel
TEMPLE JAPAN STUDENTS MEET U.S. AND JAPAN’S FIRST LADIES
On March 19, Temple Japan students Shoko Ito and Aiko Shigeta met with First Lady Michelle Obama and Akie Abe, the wife of Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, in a joint Japan-U.S. Event on Girls Education, according a press release last week.
The event, held in the Iikura Guest House of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, focused on the importance of education for women, especially between those in Japan and America.
According to the release, only a few students spoke at the roundtable discussion, including Shigeta, who said she was thankful for having the opportunity to talk with Obama and Abe.
“It was evident from the discussion that both of them are very serious about the issue of girls not having access to education, and the importance of female students like us stepping up and taking action,” Shigeta said.
“This experience has left us to reflect on the significance of the issue and the importance of solving it,” she added.
The event was part of a three-day trip in Japan for Obama, who was promoting the “Let Girls Learn” initiative – a plan that aims to better education opportunities for women worldwide – the Washington Post reported.
-Steve Bohnel
MAYORAL HOPEFUL OLIVER SLAMS ABRAHAM FOR INTERNAL POLL
After a recent poll conducted by Democratic mayoral candidate Lynne Abraham’s campaign indicated 30 percent of respondents favored the candidate above the rest, Doug Oliver released a statement on the incident.
Oliver cited his own satirical poll which put him at 60 percent, far above other candidates Jim Kenney and Anthony Hardy Williams, who were each given 10 percent. Other candidates including Abraham were given 1-percent ratings.
“The survey utilized a gym-membership registration-based sample which models the likely electorate that we chose to create,” the statement, which was primarily satire, read.
The polling results “unsurprisingly indicated whatever [Oliver] wanted them to indicate,” the release read.
The Abraham poll gave Oliver just 2 percent of the vote, while Kenney and Williams were each given 14 percent. Nelson Diaz and T. Milton Street Sr. were reported at 6 and 5 percent, respectively.
The poll also showed that Abraham drew 24 percent of African-American voters, compared with 22 percent for Williams and 7 percent for Kenney.
The Next Mayor reported Sunday that TV ads would soon be ramping up for the candidates, with Kenney and Williams ads beginning to air Friday. American Cities, a political action committee operated by three Main Line financiers, purchased $560,000 in ad space on behalf of Williams.
-Joe Brandt
