Events Sept. 19 – Sept. 21

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Jazz at Hawthorne Park
Thursday, September 19 / 7 p.m. / Hawthorne Park: 12th and Catharine Sts
Free

Venissa Santi and her trio are playing at one of Philly’s finest parks on a glorious summer’s eve. These performers are up-and-coming in the Philly jazz scene, so bring a chair, some food and a friend and get ready to groove.

Gender Reel Festival
Thursday, September 19- Saturday, September 21 / 6 p.m.- 10 p.m. / 4014 Walnut St.
Day pass: $10 / All festival pass: $20

Gender Reel was formed as a response to the absence of transgenders in mainstream art and films. It is a national film and performing arts festival featuring over 20 independent films. It will include performance art pieces and Q&A panels. The festival is dedicated to celebrating the beauty of transgenders and creating a space in which they are celebrated.

Cycles and Cemeteries
Saturday, September 21 / 8 a.m. / Laurel Hill Cemetery: 3822 Ridge Avenue
$35

This is for all you cyclists out there. Laurel Hill Cemetery is working with the Schuykill River National & State Heritage Area and Montgomery Cemetery in Norristown to arrange a 14-28 mile bike ride between the two historic cemeteries. Along the way, participants get lunch as well as tours which focus on the well-known Civil War burials at both sites.

Shopping Day Out on the Parkway

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Shopping Day Out on the Parkway is Sept. 21st. From noon until 6 pm that Saturday, everyone is encouraged to enjoy Philly Fashion Week for free. Local Philadelphia boutiques and retailers will set up stalls, along with food trucks for hungry shoppers in the oval of the Parkway. There will also be music throughout with DJs playing hour sets. Peruse through and enjoy the outdoor festival and the fashion Philly has to offer.

Manayunk strEAT Food Festival

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If looking for a reason to get out of the city and find some of the area’s most popular food trucks, this Saturday’s Manayunk StrEAT Food Festival is the place to do it. From 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. food trucks, art vendors, and farmers’ markets will be set up along Main Street, between Green Lane and Shurs Lane. More than 20 trucks will be on site, including the Tot Truck, the Cow and the Curd, Pitruco Pizza, and Farm Truck Philly. Some restaurants along Main Street will also be a part of an apple themed food tour, in honor of the fall season. The festival is also a kick-off to Manayunk Restaurant Week, running from Sept. 22 to Oct. 4.

Crime Logs 9/10

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Main Campus

A theft from an auto occurred between 11 p.m. on Sept. 9 and 11 a.m. on Sept. 10 on the 1500 block of North Carlisle Street. No arrests have been made at this time.

A theft from an auto occurred between 11 p.m. on Sept. 9 and 7 a.m. on Sept. 10 on the 1400 block of West Jefferson Street. No arrests have been made at this time.

A theft occurred between 12 a.m. and 9 a.m. on Sept. 6 in Morgan Hall South. No arrests have been made at this time.

A theft occurred between 7:30 a.m. and 11:30 a.m. on Sept. 10 on the 1300 block of West Oxford Street. No arrests have been made at this time.

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A theft occurred between 8:30 a.m. and 12 p.m. on the Rock Pavilion. No arrests have been made at this time.

Campus planner meets with students on Visualize Temple

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Representatives from SmithGroupJJR, the architectural panning firm hired to develop the Visualize Temple campaign, met with students on Tuesday night in the Architecture Building to hear ideas for the the university’s next master plan.

Douglas Kozma, the principal campus planner for SmithGroup, led a slideshow explaining to students the various factors SmithGroup is looking at in planning their outline. The presentation included graphic presentations displaying the concentration of residential housing, classrooms, and faculty offices around Main Campus.

Based on the data presented, Kozma said that the group had concluded that general and liberal arts activities were focused near the Bell Tower area on campus. The campus map outlined the area around Norris Street as the creative center on campus, 12th Street as the technological corridor and the south of campus as the hub of professional studies. Kozma said that Broad Street represents the public face of campus.

When asked what they saw as the future of Main Campus, students responded with a variety of answers including greater integration with other city and regional campuses, more green space, organic and healthy dining options and better transportation services.

“A master plan, if done well, should address cars, bikes, buses and trains,” Kozma said.

Sibia Ranjbar, a PhD student in Civil and Environmental Engineering, said that Temple needed to improve services for graduate students. Ranjbar suggested that in building the new library, the designers include resources specifically geared towards researchers.

Other students said the university needs to do better at reaching out to the surrounding community and easing relations between the growing student population living off-campus and local residents.

Some suggestions proposed by the students included building more on-campus housing and shopping.

Kozma reiterated that no plans as part of the Visualize Temple campaign include expanding on the current footprint.

Kozma did say that SmithGroup has discovered that there are no legal restrictions against building a bridge across Broad Street, though there appeared to be an unwritten rule.

Another part of SmithGroup’s presentation included the idea of placing the new library in the current location of Barton Hall, which is to be demolished after the new Science and Technology Building is finished.

“I think if you don’t consider the library the center of campus then the university is doing something wrong,” said Nick Kokiko, a senior sports recreation management major.

The university is expected to unveil the Visualize Temple master plan this fall.

Continuance set for former Temple football player awaiting trial

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A motion of continuance set by the commonwealth for a former Temple football player charged with raping a woman on campus has been delayed until Thursday.

Assistant District Attorney Joseph McGlynn was attending another trial while the defendant, Praise Martin-Ogikue, 19, was waiting in the courtroom with his parents by his side.

Martin-Ogikue is pending trial for an alleged rape of a woman during Memorial Day weekend in May 2012.

According to numerous news sources, a 21-year-old female Temple student was inside the defendant’s dorm room when he allegedly attacked her, forcing the victim upstairs and raped her before signing her out of his dorm apartment as if nothing happened.

During the motions hearing, Defense Attorney James A. Funt was not reluctant to mention his need to continue, expressing concerns of collecting and filing more than 40 text messages to be used as evidence for trial.

The trial is set to begin on Oct. 7.

Old-time fight song sung on “Boardwalk Empire”

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Fans of the HBO show “Boardwalk Empire” may have recognized a few chords from the fourth season’s premier on Sunday, when one of the characters sang a 1920s era version of the Cherry and White Fight Song.

A scene in Sunday’s episode “New York Sour” shows William Thompson (played by Kevin Csolak), the son of Eli Thompson, apparently returning home to New Jersey from Temple and singing the fight song for his family, including the show’s main character Nucky Thompson (played by Steve Buscemi).

The song is a historic incarnation of the modern fight song called “Fight Temple, Fight!” The character sings the lost verse “Fight Temple fight on/ Fight with all your might/ Fight for the Cherry and White/ Keep our colors high/ Roll the ball and hit the line/ All the Temple stars will shine/ Skill and courage win the game/ Fight on Temple fight.”

Later in the scene, Nucky Thompson departs telling William Thompson and his family to “fight for the Cherry and the White.”

The show follows a group of historical gangsters and is set in Prohibition Era Atlantic City, N.J.

Crime Logs for 9/9/13

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Main Campus

An incident of criminal mischief occurred on Sept. 9 at 6:45 a.m. in Mitten Hall. No arrests have been made at this time.

An incident of indecent assault occurred on Sept. 5 at 11 p.m. on the 1100 block of West Diamond Street. No arrests have been made at this time.

A theft occurred between 12 a.m. and 8 a.m. on Sept. 9 in Morgan South Hall. No arrests have been made at this time.

A theft occurred between Sept. 7 at 12 a.m. and Sept. 9 at 4 p.m. in Morgan South Hall. No arrests have been made at this time.

A theft occurred on Sept. 9 at 4:45 p.m. in Greasy Field. The incident has been cleared.

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No incidents have been reported.

Temple rises four spots in US News ranks

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In the U.S. News and World Report’s annual college rankings published today, Temple rose four spots from last year’s report, moving from 125th among national universities to 121st.

The university’s ranking remained the same among pubic universities, placing at 60th. The Fox School of Business’ graduate program fell six spots to 58th, while the College of Education’s rose six spots to 47th. The Beasley School of Law rose two spots to 56. Temple’s medical school fell four spots to 51.

U.S. News and World report’s rankings are calculated on a variety of factors including selectivity of admissions, financial resources, graduate performance and as well as evaluations by high school guidance counselors and administrators in peer institutions.

TSG holds first meeting

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Temple Student Government had their first general body meeting of the school year Monday afternoon at 4 p.m. in room 200C of the student center.

Darin Bartholomew, Temple’s new student body president, opened up the meeting with the TSG student pledge to a crowd of roughly more than 100. He then discussed the “Cherry On” slogan and Cherry Fridays campaign which both focus on school pride as well as support for the university’s athletics program.

“No more wearing other schools’ clothing anymore,” Bartholomew joked, “don’t be that guy.”

Patrick Kraft, Temple’s deputy director of athletics, spoke next to stress the importance of student involvement in the athletics program including attendance at sporting events.

“[Students] are a critical part of the success of this program,” he said.

Kraft also asked for student feedback about what can be done better, or what is missing from Temple Athletics. He urged for students to email him with these comments at patrick.kraft@temple.edu.

Adriane Reilly, a program coordinator for Student Affairs, also spoke to the students gathered about Owl Connect, a database set up by Student Affairs for all student organizations.

Reilly stressed that this program works by user input. If the leadership of an organization changes and they don’t modify the contact information on Owl Connect, then no one will and the page becomes outdated, Reilly said. She added that the program is also meant to work closely with groups’ Facebook pages making it simple to link them.

At the end of the meeting, TSG held an open forum for various student groups to meet with students and provide meeting time schedules.