Temple student Francesca Ruscio was crowned Miss Philadelphia on Saturday, March 2. The 20-year-old broadcast journalism major was one of out 17 women competing for the title, according to the Philadelphia Inquirer.
Ruscio, according to the Inquirer, has overcome polycysic ovary syndrome, which she was diagnosed with two years ago.
Ruscio will now advance to compete for the title of Miss Pennsylvania.
The Temple News secured nine awards from the Pennsylvania Newspaper Association yesterday, March 4. The Student Keystone Press Awards recognize student journalists throughout Pennsylvania.
TTN’s website won best website of all four-year schools in Pennsylvania. The site was redesigned by TTN Web Editor Chris Montgomery this past summer. Also, TTN took home four other first place awards in the feature story, personality profile, columnist and sports story categories.
In addition, TTN won two second place awards in the feature story and cartoon/graphic illustration categories as well as honorable mention in the column and editorial categories.
First Friday isn’t just for Fridays anymore.
Old City will extend the Friday fun of exhibit openings to the rest of the weekend in the form of First Friday Weekends. The new events will include Stop-In Saturdays and Brunch & Browse Sundays.
The first First Friday Weekend will begin March 1.
Exhibits involved in March’s First Friday include “The Painterly Pursuits of Brian Keeler” at Rodger LaPelle Galleries, The Betsy Ross House Opening Reception and taxidermist Beth Beverly’s “Life on the Farm at Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction.” Beverly is an alumna of the Tyler School of Art. Check back with The Temple News in coming weeks for an interview with Beverly on her exhibit.
The university will not renew its contract with the Edge Student Village this year, in anticipation of the opening of 1,275 at Mitchell and Hilarie Morgan Hall this fall, Associate Vice President of Student Life Michael Scales said.
The university has renewed a one year contract with the building’s company Campus Living Villages every year since the Edge opened in 2006, Scales said.
The university leased roughly 750 beds from the complex, which sits one block from campus at 1601 N. 15th St.
Students will still have the opportunity to rent from the Edge, but will no longer be able to do so through the university’s Residential Life system.
Check out the full story in The Temple News on Tuesday, March 5.
Made possible by a $1.5 million donation, the Beasley School of Law will create a Social Justice Center that will work with nonprofits and agencies in the city to address social justice needs in the area, according to University Communications.
The donation was made by Sandra and Stephen Sheller.
Pick up The Temple News on March 5 for a full recap of the gift and the new Social Justice Center.
Temple film alumnus William Goldenberg won the Academy Award Sunday, Feb. 24, for Best Achievement in Editing for his work on “Argo,” which also went on to win the night’s most coveted award for Best Motion Picture of the Year. Goldenberg was also nominated in the category for editing “Zero Dark Thirty,” which was nominated for five Academy Awards total and won for Best Achievement in Sound Editing.
Goldenberg graduated in 1982 from Temple with a radio, TV and film bachelor’s degree. A Northeast High School graduate, Goldenberg picked up his first Academy Award last night after having been previously nominated for Best Film Editing for “Seabiscuit” in 2004 and “The Insider” in 2000.
Two weeks after Temple started its spring campaign to have all students update their living addresses online, more than 70 percent have responded. Students are prompted to update their living address through a pop-up window after logging into TUPortal.
The number of eligible students who would see the window is 34,344, Dean of Students Stephanie Ives said. As of Friday, Feb. 22, 24,551 students have updated their living addresses.
However, Ives said not all students have logged into TUPortal to see the prompt, but, of those who have, the “vast majority complete the information the first time they see the window.”
It may have been cold outside, but that did not stop the sold out crowd at World Café Live from enjoying indie-rock group Bad Books on Feb. 21.
Although Bad Books featured members of Manchester Orchestra as well as Kevin Devine, fans of both artists came to support the super group.
The crowd, comprised of mostly 20-somethings, often yelled out to band members. A particularly vocal fan proclaimed her love for singer Andy Hull. He promised her a meeting after the show, before the fan was quieted down by security.
The band featured more upbeat tracks, like “Baby Shoes” and “You Wouldn’t Have to Ask,” as well as the more somber tunes, like “The After Party.”
The show also featured New Jersey-based band The Front Bottoms and Weatherbox as opening acts.
New Bad Books fan Matthew Lilly described the band as, “encompassing a younger feel to it, yet with a mature spin. They are all extremely talented musicians and I would love to see them again.”
Lilly added, “I thought the atmosphere of the venue was really classy. It. complimented the main act very well.”
Danielle Miess can be reached at Danielle.miess@temple.edu.
There are very few things that I hate more than being talked down to, which may very well be why your much-discussed State of the Union response last week rubbed me in the exact opposite direction of my fur on Tuesday, Mr. Rubio. I caught every single word – and gulp –of your address, Mr. Senator, and to be frank, I demand an apology of sorts.
You see, my compatriots and I are the most connected generation in history. We are able to, in a moment’s notice, use the spooky magic of the Internet to fact check every single word you broadcast into the public sector in real time. And we enjoy doing it. We appreciate facts, and we expect you to use them, abuse them and make them up as you please, like a real politician. So when you turn in a speech full of enough sweeping generalizations to make a teen abstinence activist blush, inquisitive college kids like me get a tad ornery.
Thank you for kindly informing me that the government creates “complicated rules and laws.” If you could hang out in my living room and inform me when my fireplace is hot, that’d be a massive help as well. Your job as a Senator is to create “complicated rules and laws,” Mr. Rubio. You are the government. If you refuse to make the scary, scary rules that allow our country to operate and keep businesses from dumping asbestos into my local water supply, who will?
Another gem from your rebuttal speech: “Our government can’t control the weather.” Why not, Mr. Senator? The Chinese claim to have built weather cannons for the Beijing Olympics that destroyed the city’s typical life-smothering smog. What say you to that? Is this why your party fears the Chinese so much? Can I now blame Philadelphia’s inconveniently snowy February on menacing Chinese weather guns? I demand answers.
Jokes aside, I wanted to like you, Mr. Rubio. I wanted to believe that you really were the “Savior of the Republican Party,” as Time Magazine was so quick to anoint you this month. I wanted to believe that your party’s recent thrashing at the Presidential polls had forced your constituents to modernize and align yourselves with causes that young people could get behind. Like any semblance of science, for instance.
Instead, you denied global warming, blankly ignored the raging gun control debate, and served the American public more clichéd statements about Republican values than a seventh-grade Social Studies class. Thank you for informing me that you think government is a bad, bad thing. It’s great to know that you hate taxes more than Ke$ha hates disinfecting herself. It was nice to hear that you think that I should be able to afford college, Mr. Senator.
It would have been even nicer if you told me how.
Jerry Iannelli can be reached at gerald.iannelli@temple.edu or on Twitter @jerryiannelli.
“Do you hear the people sing? Singing the songs of angry men!” – Les Miserables
A revolution starts with a spark, a small flame to ignite a peoples with a common goal. In this case, a Facebook event is all that was needed to round hundreds of inspired young adults to sacrifice their Friday afternoons for a common cause: dance.
Temple Students gathered around the Bell Tower this afternoon to recreate the famous Harlem Shake videos, creating a sea of costumes and fist pumping that clearly said, “We’re mad as hell, and we’re not going to take it anymore!”
Yet to what oppressive force can we attribute this phenomenon? With so much going on, it’s clear these Youtube pioneers were making a statement about something.
What about President Obama and his policies?
“Absolutely,” said sophomore Harmon Sachse, “Obama is directly related to this.”
Could this be in response to the recent debate surrounding immigration?
“I think it says nothing at all about immigration,” said junior Joseph McGovern, “I think everyone who’s here was already in the United States.”
Maybe this video will be a defiant rejection of corporate culture. A Temple student, who to protect his identity decided to go simply by “Tim,” commented on this possibility.
“Um,” said Tim, “I don’t know. Maybe it’s about like overplayed pop music that’s exploited by record companies.”
Although the direction of this movement is not clear, we can say for sure that it is a bold expression of our Wayne and Garth given right to party on.
Daniel Craig can be reached at daniel.craig@temple.edu.
