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Student government meeting on Oct. 21

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Sustainability was the word of the day for the Temple Student Government General Assembly meeting Monday, Oct. 21 in Room 200C of the student center.

Ivy Lane, assistant director of the Temple Fund, was the guest speaker discussing the senior class gift. After talking with university officials to see what would work on campus, Lane announced that this year’s class gift will be “two or possibly three” water refilling stations.

Lane said that they wanted to build on to the university’s efforts to further campus sustainability. The refilling stations are expected to further the lifespan of water bottles, therefore cutting down on the amount needed.

Lane asked each senior to donate $10.14 individually, making the total cost of the gift around $6,000. Seniors can donate at the Web site address giving.temple.edu/SeniorClassGift.

The locations of the stations have not been finalized but Lane said they will possibly be on Liacouras Walk and near the Bell Tower.

Lane added the class gift is being brought back to prominence like it was 40 years ago. This could potentially help the university’s national ranking as alumni participation plays into this, she said.

Melvin Hudson, TSG director of grounds and sustainability, also spoke on the topic of sustainability. He announced that this will be “Sustainability Week,” a series of events for students with a focus on green friendly practices.

Evan Feinstein, TSG director of university pride and traditions, then announced the winners of the clubs competition during last week’s Cherry and White Night. The Chinese Students and Scholars Association were congratulated on their win by standing for recognition.

After the Open Forum and Organization Announcements, the meeting came to a close. The next TSG meeting will be Oct. 28 in the same room at 4 p.m.

Marcus McCarthy is the TSG beat writer for The Temple News. He can be reached at marcus.mccarthy@temple.edu or follow on Twitter @Marcus.McCarthy6

Crime logs for 10/17-10/20

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Main Campus

An incident of public drunkenness occurred on Oct. 19 at 1:10 a.m. in 1300 Residence Hall. The incident was handled by the School Code of Conduct.

An issue of underage consumption occurred on Oct. 19 at 12:55 a.m. in Johnson Hall. The incident was handled by the School Code of Conduct.

An issue of underage consumption occurred on Oct. 19 at 1:20 a.m. in Johnson Hall. The incident was handled by the School Code of Conduct.

An issue of underage consumption occurred on Oct. 19 at 2:55 a.m. on the 1700 block of North Broad Street. The incident was exceptionally cleared.

An issue of public drunkenness occurred on Oct. 19 at 2:50 a.m. on the 1900 block of North 16th Street. The incident was handled by the School Code of Conduct.

An issue of public drunkenness occurred on Oct. 19 at 5:45 a.m. on the 1900 block of North Broad Street. An arrest has been made in regards to this incident.

An incident of simple assault occurred on Oct. 19 at 11:45 a.m. at the 1700 block of North Broad Street. No arrests have been made at this time.

An issue of criminal mischief occurred between Oct. 18 at 2 p.m. and Oct. 19 at 5 p.m. on the 1500 block of West Jefferson Street. No arrests have been made at this time.

An issue of harassment occurred on Oct. 19 at 3 a.m. in Hardwick Hall. The incident was handled by the School Code of Conduct.

An issue of a violation of city ordinance occurred on Oct. 19 at 9 p.m. on the 2000 block of North 16th Street. An arrest has been made in regards to this incident.

An issue of public drunkenness occurred on Oct. 20 at 12:45 a.m. on the 1300 block of West Cecil B. Moore Avenue. An arrest was made in regards to this incident.

An issue of underage consumption occurred on Oct. 20 at 12:40 a.m. in Morgan Hall North. An arrest was made in regards to this incident.

An issue of underage consumption occurred on Oct. 20 at 2:30 a.m.on the 1100 block of West Diamond Street. The incident was handled by the School Code of Conduct.

An issue of underage consumption occurred on Oct. 20 at 2:44 a.m. in a White Hall. The incident was handled by the School Code of Conduct.

An issue of underage consumption occurred on Oct. 20 at 12:50 a.m. on the 2000 block of North Carlisle Street. The incident was handled by the School Code of Conduct.

An issue of underage consumption occurred on Oct. 20 at 2 a.m. in a White Hall. The incident was handled by the School Code of Conduct.

An incident of sexual assault occurred on Oct. 19 at 10:30 p.m. at the 2000 block of North Broad Street. No arrests have been made at this time.

A theft occurred on Oct. 20 between 3 a.m. and 4 a.m. in 1300 Residence Hall. No arrests were made.

An issue of underage consumption occurred on Oct. 19 at 10:50 p.m. on the 2000 block of North 15th Street. An arrest was made in regards to this incident.

A theft from auto occurred on Oct. 20 between 2 a.m. and 1:15 p.m. on the 1600 block of North Sydenham Street. No arrests were made at this time.

An issue of criminal mischief occurred on Oct. 20 between 1:30 a.m. and 7 p.m. on the 1600 block of West Oxford Street. No arrests have been made at this time.

An incident of sexual assault occurred between Oct. 11 at 10 p.m. and Oct. 12 at 8 a.m. in Morgan Hall North. No arrests have been made at this time.

A theft occurred on Oct. 20 at 9:28 p.m. on the 1700 block of North Broad Street. No arrests have been made at this time.

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No incidents were reported.

Alpha Chi Rho loses recognition

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Barely a month after recruiting new members and just as the 2013 Greek season begins, the brothers of Alpha Chi Rho lost recognition at Temple. Alpha Chi Rho will join the ranks of other unrecognized and unendorsed Greek organizations on campus, Phi Kappa Sigma and Zeta Beta Tau.

Though unable to discuss the details behind Temple’s decision to no longer recognize Alpha Chi Rho, Interim Director of Student Affairs, Chris Carey said “[Temple has] expectations for how our recognized organizations positively contribute to the university, the fraternity and sorority community, and the surrounding neighborhoods.”

Unrecognized organizations lose their ability to hold social events with recognized Greek organizations, cannot work with National Pan-hellenic Council, the Panhellenic Council nor the Interfraternity Council. They also lose their access to school resources and other Greek activities.

Representatives for Alpha Chi Rho could not be reached for comment.

Crime Logs 9/17

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Main Campus

A theft occurred on Oct. 17 between 1:45 p.m. and 1:50 p.m. on the 1700 block of North Broad Street. No arrests have been made at this time.

A bike theft occurred on Oct. 17 between 11 a.m. and 3:15 p.m. on the 1800 block of North Broad Street. No arrests have been made at this time.

An incident of fraud occurred on Oct. 17 at 5 p.m. on the 1500 block of North 15th Street. No arrests have been made at this time.

A bike theft occurred on Oct. 17 at 7:15 p.m. on the 2000 block of North Broad Street. An arrest was made in regards to this incident.

A robbery occurred on Oct. 17 at 8:30 p.m. on the 1400 block of West Diamond Street. An arrest was made in regards to this incident.

A robbery occurred on Oct. 17 at 10:05 p.m. on the 1000 block of West Susquehanna Avenue. No arrests have been made at this time.

An incident of underage consumption occurred on Oct. 17 at 10:50 p.m. in Johnson Hall. The incident was handled by the School Code of Conduct.

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A theft occurred on Oct. 16 between 2 p.m. and 2:15 p.m. in the Rock Pavilion. No arrests have been made at this time.

A theft occurred between Sept. 15 at 3 p.m. and Sept. 23 at 2 p.m. in the Dental School. No arrests have been made at this time.

University cancels homecoming concert

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On Tuesday, citing financial considerations and unforeseen circumstances, the university canceled this year’s homecoming concert, Director of Student Activities Chris Carey said.

The concert, which was supposed to feature B.o.B and Far East Movement, was scheduled to be held at 8 p.m. on Saturday, Oct. 20, at the Liacouras Center.

Main Campus Program Board’s website has a message in place of the concert on its homecoming calendar that states that people who bought tickets can return them to the Liacouras Center Box Office for a full refund.

General Assembly meeting Oct. 15

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Business was short for this week’s Temple Student Government General Assembly meeting in room 200c of the Student Center on Monday. With no guest speakers, the meeting was mostly updates by members of TSG.

Starting with Darin Bartholomew, Temple’s student body president, the class gift for this year was announced as water bottle refilling stations. Donations for this gift will be accepted Friday at the inauguration celebrations.

Sonia Galiber, vice president of external affairs, thanked those involved with Sunday’s zombie run and Morgan Jenkins, director of local and community affairs, spoke about an upcoming event.

Avenue of the Treats, a Halloween event hosted by CSS for children, will be held Oct. 31 from 5 p.m. to 7 p.m. at Progress Plaza near the intersection of Broad and West Oxford streets.

Evan Feinstein, director of pride and traditions, discussed the Cherry and White Games to be held on Friday. This event will set student organizations in competition with the winner receiving a plaque.

Following that was the Open Forum where Bartholomew inquired as to concerns from students who were affected by yesterday’s lockdown on Willington Street. Bartholomew, who said he was neighbors with the student, told The Temple News he is looking in to ways to better the university’s response.

Organization announcements were last on the agenda before the meeting ended a few minutes earlier than usual.

The next TSG GA meeting will be Oct. 21 also in room 200c of the student center at 4 p.m.

Marcus McCarthy is the TSG beat writer for The Temple News. He can be reached at marcus.mccarthy@temple.edu or follow on Twitter @Marcus.McCarthy6

Student recovered alive from Willington after 17 hours

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A tense standoff between police and an armed Temple student who officials said was “suicidal” ended early Monday morning, with the suspect being detained in safe condition, police at the scene said.

The scene from 17th & Berks streets around 8:30 p.m. | JOHN MORITZ TTN

The scene from 17th & Berks streets around 8:30 p.m. | JOHN MORITZ TTN

The student, a 26-year-old male, was talked out of his armed barricade in the basement of his North Willington Street row house around 2 a.m. after a nearly 17-hour standoff that began at 9:20 a.m. Sunday morning, Oct. 13.

Sgt. Frank McFillin of Philadelphia police said the student was taken to the Episcopal Campus of Temple University Hospital for evaluation. Episcopal is the behavioral sciences wing of TUH.

The incident began when officers responded to calls from concerned family members that their son was in need of help. Officers responded to the house, 1852 N. Willington St., and found the student inside with a gun, Philadelphia Police Department Homeland Security Chief Joe Sullivan said.

Sullivan said the student was alone in his apartment throughout the incident, and told police they had to leave.

Philadelphia police SWAT units were quickly brought in along with Temple Police and Philadelphia firefighters to clear the scene and cordon off the area around the 1800 block of North Willington Street.

Due to the armed standoff, police shut down access to the 1800 block of North Willington Street and the 1600 block of Berks Street. While police told students living on those blocks to remain in their homes on the second floor, several were allowed to leave to get food and return with a police escort. Throughout the warm afternoon, students on the block stood on their stoops and porches watching the incident unfold with SWAT units entering and leaving the house.

Sullivan and several other sources at the scene said the student is diagnosed with an undisclosed mental illness, and was behaving with suicidal tendencies. The student fired multiple shots throughout the day, several police sources confirmed, though no injuries to officers or the student were reported.

Despite several false reports by various news outlets claiming that the student had committed suicide, police at the scene said they were in constant communication with him throughout the day via cell phone.

“When they are talking to us we know they are in good health,” Sullivan said.

By 2:30 p.m., Sgt. McFillin said that while negotiations remained ongoing, officers had lost hope for a quick ending to the standoff.

Students locked down in their homes on the 1800 block of North Willington Street said they heard police officers negotiating with the student through megaphones. Police brought the student cigarettes and water late in the evening, students and officers said.

Replacement crews of firefighters and SWAT officers began arriving around 4 p.m. to relieve colleagues who had been working since the morning. The replacements themselves began to dwindle around midnight, when police said it seemed likely that the standoff would last through the night.

Two hours later, police successfully negotiated an end to the standoff with no harm to the student or officers, McFillin said.

McFillin said that the student was briefly able to speak with his parents, who had waited inside the police barricade for hours, before being taken away to TUH.

A few minutes later, the streets were cleared for students and residents to return, and all signs of the day’s commotion were gone. Several inquisitive students peered out of doors and windows to watch the last of the cop cars drive away.

The university sent out two email alerts to students throughout the day, the first at 10:01 a.m. and the latter at 7 p.m. Students displaced from their homes had to scramble to find alternatives, and many reported through social media that they were forced to stay at friend’s houses.

Crime Logs 10/7-10/8

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Main Campus

A DUI occurred on Oct. 5 at 3:15 a.m. on the 1400 block of West Norris Street. An arrest was made in regards to this article.

An incident of harassment occurred on Oct. 7 at 10:30 a.m. on the Student Center. The incident was exceptionally cleared.

A sexual assault occurred on Oct. 6 between 12 a.m. and 1:00 a.m. on the 1400 block of West Diamond Street. No arrests have been made at this time.

A sexual assault occurred on Oct. 7 between 10 p.m. and 11 p.m. on the 1000 block of West Diamond Street. An arrest has been made in regards to this incident.

An incident of underage consumption occurred on Oct. 8 at 4:40 a.m. in 1940 Residential Hall. The incident was handled by the School Code of Conduct.

An incident of criminal mischief occurred on Oct. 8 at 5:30 p.m. on the 1600 block of North 15th Street. The incident was handled by the School Code of Conduct.

A theft occurred on Oct. 8 between 5:32 p.m. and 5:42 p.m. in the Bell Building. No arrests have been made at this time.

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A theft occurred on Sept. 30 between 8:45 a.m. and 9:15 a.m. in the Boyer Pavilion. No arrests have been made at this time.

A theft occurred between Oct. 4 at 4:30 p.m. and Oct. 7 at 3 p.m. in the Parkinson Pavilion. No arrests have been made at this time.

A theft occurred on Oct. 8 between 11:30 a.m. and 3 p.m. on the Rock Pavilion. No arrests have been made at this time.

An incident of public drunkenness occurred on Oct. 8 at 7 p.m. on the 3000 block of North Broad Street. The incident was exceptionally cleared.

Student Government meeting of Oct. 7

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The new Speaker of the General Assembly, DeVaun Brown, opened up the Temple Student Government General Assembly meeting in room 200c of the student center Monday to an audience of roughly 200 people.

Joe Oleksak was announced as the new Auditor General, the other previously open TSG office.  

Darin Bartholomew, Temple’s student body president, was first to speak with the president’s report. He introduced Brown and Oleksak and explained that TSG is pursuing a solution to the long lines at the food court in Morgan Hall.

The first guest speaker, Sakinah Muhammad from Teach for America, spoke next. She explained how the program sets up college graduates as teachers to help with low-income students’ educations, and how students can apply.

Homecoming was the next topic with the candidates for king and queen describing themselves and why they should be elected.

Isaiah Gaymon, Kristian Pel, Kwashee Totimeh and Dan Busko spoke about their candidacies for Homecoming king. For queen, Tiffany Dean, Megan Fry, Joie’ Johnson-Walker, and Tasia Morgan stated their cases as well.

Voting for these titles is still open on Owl Connect via the Student Activities webpage. The Homecoming Pageant will be Oct. 18 at 7:30 p.m. in room 200 of the student center.

A few of the TSG directors then spoke individually on various events occurring soon. The Zombie Run will be on Oct. 13 and registration for the event is still available.

Evan Feinstein, director of University Pride and Traditions, announced that Cherry and White Championships will be held on Oct. 18 during Cherry and White Night.

For the open forum, Bartholomew asked the audience, which consisted mostly of students, what event they would like to see in the spring to replace the cancelled Spring Fling. The conversation mostly focused on a childhood throwback themed showcase of some student organizations.

The organization announcements were last before the meeting came to an end.

The next TSG General Assembly meeting will be held Oct. 14 at 4 p.m. in room 200c of the student center.

Crime logs 10/5-10/6

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Main Campus

An incident of public drunkenness occurred on Oct. 5 at 12 a.m. on 1926 Liacouras Walk. An arrest has been made in regards to this incident.

An incident of public drunkenness occurred on Oct. 5 at 1 a.m. in The Edge Apartments. The incident was handled by the School Code of Conduct.

An incident of underage consumption occurred on Oct. 5 at 1:30 a.m. in White Hall. The incident was handled by the School Code of Conduct.

Another  incident of underage consumption occurred on Oct. 5 at 1:30 a.m. in White Hall. The incident was handled by the School Code of Conduct.

An incident of simple assault occurred on Oct. 5 at 1:48 a.m. on the 1800 block of North 16th Street. No arrests have been made at this time.

An incident of underage consumption occurred on Oct. 5 at 3:04 a.m. on the 1600 block of North Broad Street. The incident was handled by the School Code of Conduct.

An incident of harassment occurred on Oct. 5 at 3 a.m. on the 1100 block of West Cecil B. Moore Avenue. No arrests have been made at this time.

An incident of aggravated assault occurred on Oct. 5 at 5:12 p.m. on the 1700 block of North 11th Street. No arrests have been made at this time.

A robbery occurred on Oct. 5 at 6:45 p.m. on the 2000 block of North Broad Street. An arrests has been made in regard to this incident.

A robbery occurred on Oct. 5 at 6:45 p.m. on the 1300 block of West Norris Street. An arrests has been made in regard to this incident.

An incident of harassment occurred on Oct. 6 at 12:16 a.m. in Peabody Hall. That incident was handled by the School Code of Conduct.

An incident of underage consumption occurred on Oct. 6 at 1:15 a.m. on the 1900 block of North Broad Street. The incident was exceptionally cleared.

An incident of underage consumption occurred on Oct. 6 at 1:21 a.m. on the Edge Apartments. The incident was handled by the School Code of Conduct.

An incident of underage consumption occurred on Oct. 6 at 2:15 a.m. in Morgan Hall South. The incident was exceptionally cleared.

A theft occurred on Oct. 6 at 2 p.m. on the 1400 block of West Cecil B. Moore Avenue. No arrests have been made at this time.

A theft occurred on Oct. 6 between 12 a.m. and 10:30 a.m. in 1300 Residential Hall. No arrests have been made at this time.

An incident of criminal mischief occurred on Oct. 6 between 2:30 p.m. and 6 p.m. on the 1900 block of North 16th Street. No arrests have been made at this time.

A theft from auto occurred between Sept. 29 at 12 p.m. and Oct. 6 at 9 p.m. on the 1500 block of North Carlisle Street. No arrests have been made at this time.

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A theft occurred on Oct. 5 between 3 p.m. and 5 p.m. at the Rock Pavilion. No arrests have been made at this time.

A robbery occurred on Oct. 6 at 1:45 p.m. on the 3200 of North Broad Street. An arrest has been made in regard to this incident.

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A theft occurred between Oct. 2 at 4 p.m. and Oct. 4 at 8 p.m. at the Ambler Herb Garden. No arrests have been made at this time.