61 years ago today, Charlie Brown and the rest of the Peanuts gang made their newspaper debut in seven US newspapers. The original strip had only three characters: Charlie Brown, Peppermint Patty and Shermy. Snoopy made his first appearance two days later. The gang was eventually introduced to Linus, Lucy Van Pelt, Sally and Schroeder.

For the next 61 years readers of 2400 newspapers in 68 countries laughed along with Lucy as she pulled the football right out from under Charlie Brown’s feet at the last minute (did he ever kick that football?), and watched Linus carry around his security blanket.

Charles Schulz died in February of 2000, and the last strip printed on Feb. 12. But Joe Cool is still, and always will be, too cool for school.

The Cheese Busz, located on 13th and Norris streets right outside Tyler School of Art, offers speciality grilled cheese sandwhiches on white or wheat bread. A combo with fries (sweet potato fries are available) and a drink cost $7. The speciality options look more like paninis than grilled cheeses, but mine was delicious nonetheless.

NOMNOMNOM

Multimedia Editor Luis Rodriguez chows down on a burger from the Cheese Busz's brother, the Burger Busz, which is a few steps away if you're not a lover of all things cheesy. (Here's to hoping our friendship doesn't end with the publishing of this photo).

Yesterday, a video was posted to Vimeo featuring head football coach Steve Addazio asking all cherry-and-white fans to come out on Oct. 1 to the Linc for our MAC opener against the Toledo Rockets.

Bring your mom, your dad, your boyfriend, your dog. We don’t care, just go to the game. Kickoff is at noon.

To all the Jewish students, The Temple News wishes you a happy and healthy New Year this Rosh Hashanah.

Rosh Hashanah marks the renewing of the Jewish calendar, and this year we enter into year 5772.

Services were held at Hillel, located at 1441 Norris St., and at Chabad, located at 1521 Dondill Place yesterday, where observers read scripts from the mahzor, the special prayer book for Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur, and ate lots of good food, like apples and honey, pomegranates and challah. Holla!

Tomorrow 7-11 will be offering its customers free coffee from 7-11am! Run in before your classes and get your free cup. There’s a store on Liacourse Walk and another on Cecil B. Moore Ave. across from the Liacouras Center.

Choices are one of the reasons that make America great.But if you attend Widener University, your choices are limited, including not being allowed to smoke on campus. According to Philly.com, “Widener became the first four-year school in Pennsylvania to go not just smoke-free but tobacco-free, adopting a simple, stringent policy: No cigarettes, no cigars, no cigarillos, no pipes, no hookahs, no pinch between the cheek and gum.”

Here at Temple, that would never fly. I don’t smoke. In fact, I hate the smoke of others flying in my face, stinging my eyes and burning my nostrils. But to ban that freedom seems not only extraordinarily stringent, but silly.

But that is what choice is in America. The choice to study at research institutions, like Temple, and the choice to avoid socialist-like schools, like Widener.

1. Request that your neighbors to poke you with their pencils

2. Coffee

3. Walk around

4. Draw

5. Five hour energy shots

6. Take notes

7. Talk to yourself

8. Imagine what animal your professor would be if he or she were an animal

9. Eat

10. Make lists

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As Chief Copy Editor at The Temple News, it’s only fitting that my furry son, Pancake, was trained to be a grammar guru and AP Style nerd. He let’s me know if he found an error by chewing the paper to shreds.

Pancake is anxiously awaiting the Lunchies edition of The Temple News, which comes out this Tuesday. He’ll probably feel differently when he finds out Main Campus has yet to establish a gourmet carrot truck.

(Yes, I just made a blog post about my rabbit. Yes, this is real life.)