South Gateway residence hall project will likely don trustee’s name

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Temple’s largest residence hall underway at Broad Street and Cecil B. Moore Avenue will likely don a trustee’s name, pending finalized paperwork.

At today’s Board of Trustees meeting, the trustees approved the authorization for the university to name the new residence hall, dining and retail complex. Although documents will still need to be finalized, David Unruh, senior vice president for Institutional Advancement, said the complex will likely be named in honor of Trustee Mitchell Morgan and his wife, Hilarie Morgan. The couple offered a $5 million donation for the project, he said.

Board Chairman Patrick J. O’Connor thanked the Morgans for their support to Temple as the board unanimously approved the naming process.

Mitchell Morgan is an alumnus, having earned an accounting degree, in 1976, and a law degree, in 1980, from the university.

Similarly, the board approved the following naming opportunities:

  • The box office and green room in the Temple Performing Arts Center for Kal and Lucille Rudman, two well-known philanthropists in the area. Kal Rudman is also a Temple alumnus.
  • The coach’s locker room in Edberg-Olson Hall for J. William Mills III, a trustee.
  • The hydrotherapy training center in Edberg-Olson Hall for Peter Chodoff, M.D., an alumnus and booster for Temple. The football practice field adjacent the hall is also named after Chodoff.

Owls favor early bowl matchup

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The football team will travel to Albuquerque, N.M on Wednesday morning to begin preparation for their game against Wyoming in the Gildan New Mexico Bowl on Saturday afternoon.

Saturday’s contest, set for noon Mountain Time (2 p.m. EST), is the first game of the 2011-12 college football bowl season.

“I really like being first,” coach Steve Addazio said at a press conference on Monday. “Everyone will watch this game. In the middle of [the bowl season], it’s one bowl game after another and you lose sight of what game is when until the BCS games are played. I think this gives us an opportunity for a great audience.”

Addazio said he couldn’t be more pleased with the timing of the bowl. As opposed to playing in a bowl in late December, the early game has allowed the Owls to stay relatively on schedule.

“It’s really just a bye week,” Addazio said. “We tried to do the best we could to give the kids some time off, yet still get a number of practices to prepare our team for this football game.”

Addazio added that playing in an early bowl allows the student athletes to be able to finish their season before having to go home for winter break.

“It gives our players a chance to go compete at a high level and come home and enjoy the holidays with their families,” Addazio said.

Addazio said he expects redshirt-sophomore quarterback Chris Coyer to start on Saturday after recovering from a shoulder injury he suffered against Kent State on the Owls’ last game of the regular season.

“[My shoulder] is feeling great,” Coyer said. “The strength has been coming back a lot. I feel really confident about the game.”

Though the Owls (8-4) have already had one of the most successful seasons in school history, Addazio said the team is primed to pick up its ninth victory.

“This is our championship game, that’s how our kids are viewing this,” Addazio said. “We’re playing for a championship. We want this legacy and we want this for our football team.”

 

 

 

One suspect in armed robberies surrenders

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One of two suspects believed to be responsible for the Nov. 30 chain of robberies near Main Campus turned himself in Monday, Dec. 5 at 9 p.m. Four out of five robberies and attempted robberies included students, police say.

Timothy Ballard, 31, has an arrest warrant active.

Kevin Wilson, 26, of the 3800 block of North Franklin Street in Hunting Park, surrendered at the 39th District headquarters at 22nd Street and Hunting Park Avenue.

Wilson was then taken to the Central Detective Division for further investigation.  He is currently in custody and charged with five counts each of Robbery, Aggravated Assault, Violation of the Uniform Firearms Act (VUFA) and related offenses.

Wilson’s suspected accomplice, Timothy Ballard, 31, has an arrest warrant active and has not been apprehended.

“Police are still aggressively looking for Ballard, pulling out all the stops. I believe an arrest is imminent,” said Charles Leone, deputy director of Campus Safety Services.

Police are asking anyone with information to contact the Central Detective Division at 215-686-3093 / 3094 or call 911.

Police name suspects in robberies, release photos

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The Philadelphia Police Department has released the identities of two men believed to be responsible for a series of robberies near Main Campus.

Four out of five robberies and attempted robberies included students, police say. The robberies occurred on Wednesday, Nov. 30.

Anyone with information about the whereabouts of the two men are asked to contact the PPD’s Central Detective Division at 215-686-3093.

(Top) Timothy Ballard. (Bottom) Kevin Wilson.

Hospital’s transplant programs hope to make comeback

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Those in need of heart and lung transplants can breathe easy again.

Temple recently hired a Pittsburgh surgeon and researcher, Yoshiya Toyoda, to bring back Temple University Hospital’s heart and lung transplant programs, according to Philadelphia Magazine. Both of the programs became inactive at the end of the spring semester.

Toyoda came to Temple in October, from the University of Pittsburgh.

In August 2010, the Pennsylvania Department of Health cited the lung-transplant program for having higher-than-expected deaths after transplants, according to a May report by the Philadelphia Inquirer. TUH officials stated in the report that the program had been improving.

The lead surgeon for the lung transplant program left in May, causing the program to become inactive.

The heart transplant program reportedly was temporarily inactivated, too, due to low patient volume.

Temple has reapplied to the United Network for Organ Sharing in order to reactivate to the programs, Philadelphia Magazine reported.

Toyoda has been listed as a top doctor by U.S. News and World Report.

[Updated on Dec. 5 at 12:20 p.m.]

Eric reinjures knee in practice-UPDATE

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Graduate center Micheal Eric reinjured his right patella and will be out for six weeks.

Eric reinjured his right knee during the men’s basketball team’s practice last Friday. Eric will sit out the Owls’ (3-1) away game today at 2 p.m. against Bowling Green.

It is the same injury that kept Eric from competing in the team’s remaining 10 games last season.

This season Eric ranks fourth on the team in scoring (10.5 ppg.) and leads the Atlantic Ten Conference in rebounding (11.3 per game).

Photography exhibit and sale Friday

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From Aperture Agency:

EXPOSURE! A student photography exhibition and sale in the Annenberg Hall Atrium, 3-7 pm this Friday, December 2. Come view and perhaps purchase a beautiful, one-of-a-kind print from the artist him/herself. What better [insert the winter holiday you celebrate here] gift than the unique art of Philadelphia’s finest? Support artists, beautify your space, express yourself.

Eric reinjures knee in practice, will miss today’s game

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Graduate center Micheal Eric reinjured his right patella during the men’s basketball team’s practice last Friday. Eric will sit out the Owls’ (3-1) away game today at 2 p.m. against Bowling Green.

It is the same injury that kept Eric from competing in the team’s remaining 10 games last season.

This season Eric ranks fourth on the team in scoring (10.5 ppg.) and leads the Atlantic Ten Conference in rebounding (11.3 per game).

Social event website reaches Temple

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Having a hard time finding something to do in your “oh so often” free time?

Then Qwicklr, a new nationwide social event planner, might be for you.

Today as I was leaving the Student Center, a nice man holding the door for me handed a blue and white business card with www.qwicklr.com written on it.

Instead of throwing it on the ground like everyone else, I figured I’d take a look at what it has to offer.

Qwicklr features social events posted by students and was created to “enhance your college experience.”

This is a great idea to get the word out about school-wide events, especially for students who don’t have Facebook or other social media accounts.

Check it out today!

Pizza should be pizza, not a vegetable

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According to the Huffington Post, the United States Congress voted to rebuke new USDA guidelines for school lunches that would have increased the amount of fresh fruit and vegetable in school cafeterias and instead declared that the tomato paste on frozen pizza qualified it as a vegetable.

The first thing that came to mind after reading about this new legislation was that this directly affects children of low income communities where children qualify for the free lunch program, and might I add, where obesity is more prevalent among children.

Is the health of children not worth investing in more fruits and vegetables for school lunches? Furthermore, wouldn’t it make more sense to Congress to invest in preventative measures by providing healthier foods at schools rather than having to pay for the costs of treating obesity?

It seems that Congress isn’t protecting the interest of children, but rather large food corporations.

Kierra Bussey can be reached at kierrajb@temple.edu.