From 11 a.m. until 2 p.m. today, the Bell Tower was swarming with students checking out all that The Sustainability Day Fair had to offer.
The Bell Tower is a great place to hold events like this, because most students have to walk through this area to get to class.
In my eyes, The Sustainability Day Fair was a success, stopping many students – including myself – to check out all of the cool stands.
For the love of staying healthy, go do us all a favor and get a flu shot. They are still being offered from Student Health Services, free of charge in the underground tomorrow from 8 a.m. 12 p.m. and Wednesday from 1 p.m. – 4 p.m.
If you are busy during those times, make an appointment to have one by calling 215-204-7500, but be prepared to sit on the phone for a few hours.
For more information, visit the Student Health Services website.
As I walked into my 10 a.m. class – which felt more like an 8 a.m. – this Monday morning, I was greeted with an outrageously loud and fast-paced-one-minute-Australian-accented lecture on a travel option for this summer 2012.
As snickers and smiles beamed across the lecture hall, I tried to understand what was being said about the International Student Volunteers program.
International Student Volunteers is a non-profit organization that combines “meaningful volunteer projects with action packed adventure travel.” Travel destinations include South Africa, Ecuador, Australia, New Zealand, Dominican Republic and Costa Rica. A total of 50 students are being chosen from Temple to go on this trip.
Volunteer projects include sea turtle conservation, teaching English to children, home and community building, rainforest regeneration and elephant conservation projects.
While volunteering, adventure tours are offered, highlighting white water rafting and sea kayaking, SCUBA and snorkeling on exotic reefs, canyoning and cave exploration, horseback riding to hidden waterfalls and more.
Information meetings are being held this Thursday, Oct. 13, from 9 a.m. until 5 p.m. every hour on the hour in room 220 in the Student Center.
Check out the ISV website for more information.
Every Thursday from 2 p.m. until 6 p.m., a farmers market will come to Cecil B. Moore Avenue between Broad Street and Park Walk with what seems like endless options of fresh, local and affordable produce.
Some of the delicious treats available include home made pies, seasonal fruits & vegetables, mint leaves, pumpkins, flowers, jelly, jam, cider, beef jerky, honey, and organic dairy products.
From 1-3 p.m. today, the student center will be celebrating its fourth birthday.
There are two huge cakes, popcorn, games and prizes.
Stop by for some FREE fun in the Howard Gittis atrium today!
This afternoon at the Bell Tower, girls were selling $15 pink t-shirts for tomorrow’s football game at the Lincoln Financial Field against Toledo. Temple students can get tickets for free, and in hopes of spreading breast cancer awareness, $5 tickets are available for non-Temple attendees wearing pink.
All of the profits of the t-shirts go toward breast cancer awareness.
Click here for more information on ticket specials for tomorrow’s game.
Philadelphia is in the Atlantic Flight Corridor, which means that migratory birds fly over the city during the fall migration, which is going on right now.
Because birds will see lighted windows at night as transparent and try to fly through them, Temple currently has a “lights out” campaign through the Office of Sustainability, partly to help the number of window strikes.
Turn off campus lights at night to save electricity and the birds.
Hundreds of birds die from crashing into windows of buildings on our campus, and as expansion of high risers and office buildings in Philadelphia increase, this problem will only continue to escalate.
Daniel Featherston, the faculty advisor for PAW, is working with Audubon, the Philadelphia Zoo, and some Temple people to reduce the deaths of the wild bird population during their migratory and seasonal travels.
If you want to get involved, you can help install patterns on windows at Paley for one day for a few hours in a week or two. These patterns were applied to windows at the Philadelphia Zoo, and are working.
If anyone is interested in helping, contact danielf@temple.edu.
Tomorrow, the Liacouras Center will warm the hearts of house music listeners, as it hosts the first Dayglow experience North Philadelphia has ever seen.
Dayglow, “the world’s largest paint party” is described as a unique entertainment experience that combines music, art, and dancing into one large venue. With gallons of neon paint shooting from cannons all over the crowd, aerialists flying high above, laser shows and an incredible performance from famous DJ Sidney Samson, it is bound to be a great time.
Tickets went on sale over a month ago, and sold out in a matter of minutes. Because of this, another Dayglow experience will be hosted on Friday, Sept. 16.
Temple announced that President Ann Weaver Hart will step down from presidency on June 30, 2012.
Because of the need to be nearer to family in Utah, she decided that it would be beneficial for the Temple community to have a president who can make a “multiple-year commitment to the university.”
After 5 years of leadership, Hart made this announcement now with hopes of having the Temple Board of Trustees “embark on a thoughtful and measured nation-wide search for a new president for Temple University.”
