In an editorial in today’s paper, the Inquirer compares LaSalle’s recent efforts of “stabilizing and reviving its neighborhood” with Penn and Temple:
As Brother McGinnis recently told The Inquirer, La Salle looks to model itself after the University of Pennsylvania, which has been the major player in renewing sections of West Philadelphia.
Along with Penn, Temple University could be a good role model – even if the three schools and their respective neighborhoods differ.
In today’s Iloveyou/Ihateyou in the CityPaper, someone in the North Philadelphia community is not happy with Temple (or La Salle?) kids:
DON’T BE FOOLED
To all you students that walk around our neighborhoods like you own the place, piss off, we get tired of seeing you all look like you don’t have a care in the world while we are in this same neighborhood fighting foor our lives P.S. The brochure may not have told you this, but this still is North Philly.
Ouch. [link]
Temple’s own Bill Cosby hits the talk show circuit to promote his new book: Come On People: On the Path from Victims to Victors. Tonight at 9pm its Larry King Live.
According to his Web site the book is about
hav(ing) a powerful message for families and communities as they lay out their visions for strengthening America, or for that matter the world. The authors aim to help empower people make the daunting transition from victims to victors.
Fill in your own Jello pudding joke.
Entrepreneur magazine and The Princeton Review recently rated Temple the #8 school for entrepreneur undergrads and #12 for grad school. Unfortunately, we’re not even the best in Philly as Drexel University beat us in both categories.
According to Entrepreneur magazine, the details are due to be posted on their Web site later today. If you find yourself wondering what’s so special about Temple, check out a recent Temple Living article about student business as well as our wonderful Innovation and Entrepreneurship Institute.
According to Rolling Stone magazine, Philadelphia is hot. The City of Brotherly Love made the music mag’s annual Hot List, earning nods from editors for its cheap living costs and ever-blossoming, ever-unique music scene. In their words:
HOT SCENE: Just try to live like this in New York: Peter McDavis, bassist for rising Philadelphia indie band the Teeth, spends just $250 a month on rent – and supports himself off-tour by painting houses and slinging pizzas. Meanwhile, rapper Spank Rock pays almost nothing to live in a former warehouse he shares with a hardcore label, two roommates and an indoor skate ramp. Welcome to the diverse, thriving Philly music scene, where everyone knows each other (the Teeth worked with West Philly underground hip-hop producer RJD2), sounds cross-pollinate and commercialism hasn’t intruded on a grassroots DIY ethic: “This town created everything good it has all on its own,” says rapper Amanda Blank. And in the abscence of a grunge-style signature sound, the scene is united by its eclecticism and disregard of outside trends. “In Philly, people just do what they want,” says McDavis. “All the bands are kind of wacky.”
Meanwhile, temperatures remain unseasonably high. Coincidence? I think not.
So that’s why we always fail exams in Ritter.
A new study from the College of Health Professions finds that second-hand smoke lowers teenagers’ test scores. Dr. Bradley Collins, director of the Health Behavior Research Clinic, looked at 16 and 18-year-olds whose parents smoke — and found they weren’t as sharp as their smokeless counterparts.
“These data highlight the importance of helping smoking parents create smoke-free homes for their children — outcomes that can be achieved without requiring … immediate parental smoking cessation”
The study fails to pinpoint the link between smoking and stupidity, begging the question — are they just blowing smoke up our asses?
Secondhand smoke boosts teens’ test failure risk (Reuters via UCSF)
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There’s no doubt, students who rely on public transportation have been worried about the possibility of SEPTA fare increases over the past few months.Transportation is probably the last thing we remember to factor in to our loans, long after calculating our ration of beer and sneakers.
While the number of students residing on campus is climbing fast, there are still 13,000 undergraduate students who commute to Temple each day. Can you even imagine how much homework gets done when you calculate 13,000 30-minute rides on the R6? Dayum.
While we may have exhaled a sigh of relief when Judge DeVito blocked SEPTA’s elimination of transfer passes, SEPTA is still appealing the decision. Many think that SEPTA has no where else to turn. But others say that SEPTA is turning its back on its most loyal customers- the customers that rely on it.
Fox School of Business professor Frederic Murphy participated this week in a roundtable series led by the Metro and Philadelphia Forward evaluating SEPTA’s problems. Marc Stier of Neighborhood Networks and Young Involved Philadelphia’s Erik Johanson also weighed in. This week’s question: Should transit agencies like SEPTA be responsible for going beyond federal regulations to protect low-income mass transit riders?
Their answers after the jump.
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