TU Nation was just declared next year’s Temple Student Government executive office. The ticket, which includes current TSG Senate President Colin Saltry, beat opponent Owl Future.

Saltry, now student body president-elect, will lead TSG with Elliot Griffin, next year’s vice president of external affairs, and Ugochukwu Obilo, next year’s vice president of services.

Didn’t keep up with the elections? Check out what TU Nation was talking about while campaigning.

Keep up with The Temple News for an article on the election results today, as well as coverage in Tuesday’s paper.

Students were evacuated from the Tyler School of Art tonight as a fire broke out inside the building.

As fire and police personnel arrived at the scene, students waited across Norris Street. Thirteenth and Norris streets were blocked off by police vehicles for a short period.

Tina Yanni, a senior painting major who saw the fire, said a graduate student spotted the fire inside a locked room and “scrambled” to find a key.

A Temple police officer confirmed that the fire was contained.

Penn State president Graham Spanier has donated more than $1 million to the 14-campus university, the Philadelphia Inquirer reports. Spanier’s “total cost of employment” at Penn State is also $800,592, according to the Chronicle of Higher Education’s newest report. This makes him the fifth highest paid chief executive at a public college for 2009-2010.

Ann Weaver Hart’s total cost of employment for the same year was $707,947.

In other presidential news, President Barack Obama makes around $400,000, plus expenses.

Over the past week, a number of crimes occurred around Main Campus. None of the crimes were followed by TU Alerts or TU Advisories.

• On Wednesday, March 23, Wendy’s at 1708 N. Broad St. was robbed by a black male who ordered a drink and demanded money via a note to the cashier. The man was given $140 in cash and fled the scene. There were no injuries and no arrests were made.
• On Friday, March 25, there was a robbery by handgun at 1902 N. Broad Street at approximately 3:40 p.m., according to the Philadelphia Police Department’s crime statistics.
• On Saturday, March 26, a 17-year-old male was shot and robbed near 19th Street and Cecil B. Moore Avenue, after leaving the Pearl Theater at Avenue North. After sustaining a single gun shot to his right side, the man was taken to Hahnemann University Hospital where he was listed in stable condition. There were no arrests made.
• Last night, at 7 p.m., a robbery that occurred at 1600 N. 15th Street at approximately 1 a.m. yesterday morning was reported, according to Campus Safety Services.

Photo courtesy Brittany Lewis

Last spring, senior public health major Gina Clarke-Lewis, 27, was shot in front of her home in Lindenwold, N.J.

And while Saturday, March 26, marked the one year anniversary since Clarke-Lewis was pronounced dead, Cherry Hill, N.J.’s Courier-Post reports that suspects have yet to be named.

In original reports, some speculated an ex-boyfriend was responsible for the murder.

“We were able to gather some valuable information early on,” James Pisano, an investigator with the Camden County Prosecutor’s Office, is quoted as saying, in the article. “I have leads that point in certain directions, but I still need more before I can file charges.”

Pisano suggests that a $1,000 reward announced by his office recently might help to garner the information needed to close the case.

“Gina was an innocent victim and I’m hopeful that between the public conscious and the promise of money we will get some useful information,” Pisano said to the Courier-Post.