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Victory with a violin
‘Lesson Before Dying’
Three-peat
Music prof wins national
Artist-Teacher Award.
Theaters stages Philly debut
of death penalty drama.
Women’s basketball takes third
straight A-10 title; Dupree MOP.
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TEMPLE TIMES
March 16, 2006
www.temple.edu/temple_times
Vol. 36, No. 23
For Temple Admissions, urban is hot
By Hillel J. Hoffmann
[email protected]
Jaclyn Eck wasn’t the kind of
high school student you would
expect to choose a big-city school
like Temple.
She grew up in the small town of
New Oxford in Pennsylvania’s rural
Adams County, far from Temple’s
traditional recruiting strongholds.
Her
parents
aren’t city folks
either; both went What it
to small, rural takes to get
colleges. Many of into Temple,
her friends, rela- Page 5
tives and even
some of her
teachers urged her not to go to college in Philadelphia.
So why is Jaclyn now a happy
freshman advertising major in
Temple’s School of Communications and Theater? With a 3.6
grade-point average in high school
and an SAT score of 1320, she had
plenty of options.
“I wanted to go to school in a big
city,” Jaclyn said. “I was only considering colleges in Philadelphia.”
She’s not alone. More and more
students are choosing Temple
because of its location.
According to a survey conducted
last summer, more than 60 percent
of new Temple students said that
the University’s “location in a large
city” was a “very important positive
factor” influencing their decision to
attend Temple, an increase of 12
percentage points since the 2000
survey and 20 percentage points
since 1997.
The attitude shift has been profound and swift. Not that long ago,
many students chose Temple in
“You can make a strong
argument that Philadelphia
is the best city in America
for college students.
I think people have picked
up on that.”
Todd Hoffman
President of Collegia
More than 60 percent of new Temple students say that the University’s “location in a large
city” was a “very important positive factor” influencing their decision to attend Temple, an
increase of 20 percentage points since 1997. Traditionally a commuter school, Temple is
attracting more students who grew up in small towns, rural areas and suburbs.
spite of its location. In 1997, one in
five new students said that Temple’s
urban location was “not a positive
factor” in their decision to attend
Temple. Now only one in 12 says
that Temple’s big-city environment
wasn’t a positive factor.
The surge of enthusiasm about
Temple’s urban setting is coming at
an unusual time in the University’s
history. Traditionally a commuter
school, Temple is attracting more
students who grew up in small
towns, rural areas and suburbs. It’s
understandable that kids who grew
up in the shadow of Philadelphia
appreciate the advantages of big-city
life, but what’s the appeal to kids
who grew up in non-urban areas?
For many prospective students,
Philadelphia offered a change from
the slow pace of home.
“I’ve noticed that a lot of the high
school students who visit Temple
from places like the Poconos are just
ecstatic to be here,” said Chris
Stover, a freshman whose duties as
an Owl Ambassador include leading
tours from Temple’s new Welcome
Center. “They want to be in a city
because of the hustle and bustle.”
Kyle Uhlman, a freshman history major from Butler, a steel town
in western Pennsylvania, thinks of
Philadelphia as an extension of
Temple’s campus. “At a place like
Penn State, the campus is your
social life,” said Uhlman, who was
accepted at 11 other colleges. “But
at Temple, your social life is the
whole city: pro sports teams, museums, concerts, restaurants, shopping — and when you get older,
clubs and bars.”
For Karen Shuey, a sophomore
from Lebanon, Pa., Temple’s locaAdmissions on page 5
Chaney
retires
after 24
years
Hall of Fame basketball coach John
Chaney announced his retirement
March 13 after 24 years at the helm of
one of the most successful college basketball programs in the nation.
“I have said all along that I would
know when it would be time to step
down, and now is that time,”
Chaney said. “I want to thank Temple University, its fans and community for allowing me to do what I
love for so long. It has never been a
job for me, but a passion. When I
look back, it will not be the wins
and losses — but the people who
influenced me and touched me
greatly, and especially the men’s and
women’s coaches and players who
have made this University and my
Chaney on page 3
Technology at Temple in the palm of students’ hands
By Rebecca Carroll, with Erin Cusack
[email protected]
This semester, 40 business students received handheld computers to use both in and out of
the classroom. The PDA pilot program is one of many ways Temple students are using new
technology to take their work offline and anywhere they go.
Temple University, a top “connected campus” in the country for
the second year in a row, according
to the Princeton Review, is on the
cutting-edge of implementing new
technology into the classroom and
across the campus.
Increasingly, professors are finding high-tech — and cool-to-use —
ways to put classroom technology
directly into students’ hands, so they
can take their work offline and anywhere they go.
Business students are integrating
handheld computers into their class
work and lives. Music students are
listening to comments on their proj-
ects online and to MP3 files for class
on their iPods. And across campus,
students are using interactive
response pads and powerful classcapture software.
Handheld computers
This semester, Management
Information Systems 120: “Data
Networking”
Communication
launched a Mobile Interactive Student (MIS) pilot program. Forty students in two sections of MIS instructor Mart Doyle’s class received handheld computers to use both in and
out of the classroom.
“When our students graduate, we
want to be confident that we have
exposed them to everything available
in technology and make sure that they
are comfortable with it,” Doyle said.
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These handheld computers,
which run the Windows Mobile 2005
operating system, enable students to
download all of the materials they’ll
use in the classroom, including the
course textbook, slides, syllabus and
study guides. And because the units
are Internet-ready, students are able
to check their e-mail and other
important information from any
spot that has a wireless connection.
And thanks to a donation from
Dell, students received the units,
which normally cost around $400
each, for free.
“Before having it, I used to write
notes and appointments randomly
in a spiral notebook that I was using
to take notes in class,” said Eric
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Bits&PCs
Boyer’s Kwalwasser wins Artist-Teacher Award
TECH Center breakout rooms
are a runaway success
The violin professor joins
Isaac Stern and Yehudi
Menuhin on the list of winners
of the prestigious award.
The student breakout rooms in the
TECH Center have been a runaway
success, with all 13 rooms fully
booked until as late as 3 a.m. each
day. The rooms offer practice, study
and group presentation space for
eight students. All of the rooms are
outfitted with a work table, whiteboard, computer and a large wallmounted, flat-screen monitor. Three
of the rooms are high-end multimedia rooms with an extra-large
screen, surround sound and an array
of audiovisual equipment. Another
room holds a smart board, an
advanced flat-panel display on
which students can electronically
“write” and make notations.
To reserve a breakout room, students should visit the central consulting desk on the second floor of
the TECH Center. Note that while
beverages are allowed, food is not
permitted in the breakout rooms.
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My goal is for students to play better
than when they came in — a lot better
— and to be prepared for their
musical life ahead. The rewards are
in watching someone grow as a
person, and as a musician, and in
the relationships that begin and
continue for many years.”
By Harriet Goodheart
[email protected]
Violin professor Helen Kwalwasser has
enjoyed the best of both worlds: a flourishing
performance career that took her to the great
concert halls around the globe as a soloist and
chamber ensemble player, and more than four
decades as a faculty member at the Boyer College
of Music and Dance.
On March 9, she was honored for her accomplishments in both spheres when she received
the coveted Artist-Teacher Award for 2006 from
the American String Teacher Association at
ASTA’s national conference in Kansas City, Mo.
In accepting the award, which recognizes a
renowned artist/pedagogue from within North
America, Kwalwasser joins an impressive roster
of past winners that includes Jascha Heifetz,
Dorothy DeLay, Yehudi Menuhin and Isaac
Stern, among others.
Her musical interests were nurtured early on
by her parents, both music educators, who handed her a violin at age 4. Her first teacher was
their next-door neighbor, who, like her father,
was a professor at the Syracuse University.
When she was just 8 years old, her parents
would drive from their home in Syracuse to New
York City for her lessons with Louis Persinger,
who had also taught Menuhin.
“He was like a grandpa to me,” Kwalwasser
said of Persinger. “He was always playing games,
even crouching under the piano to make a musical point. He was so dedicated to my loving
music and enjoying playing.”
She received a full scholarship to the Curtis
Institute of Music, where she studied with the
legendary Efrem Zimbalist, and then went on to
study with Ivan Galamian, at first privately, and
then at the Juilliard School of Music.
After her recital debut at New York’s Town
Hall in 1947, she was signed by a performance
management agency and took off on concert
tours of Europe — London, Paris, Amsterdam.
“I did a lot of solo work, but the life of a soloist
is a lonely one,” she reflected. “You fly in and go
Helen Kwalwasser
Professor of violin
to the concert hall to rehearse, go to the hotel
with just enough time to wash your face and get
into your gown, then play the concert, go back to
the hotel and go to bed so you can get up in the
morning and go to the next city.”
A world map in her office in Rock Hall is dotted with pushpins that document her travels.
There are clusters of pins in Europe, South
America and the United States, and others that
pinpoint destinations in China, Mexico, Japan,
Vietnam and Hong Kong.
It was in chamber music that Kwalwasser found
her greatest fulfillment as a performer. “The quality of the repertoire — it’s endless and absolutely
gorgeous. And when I was playing chamber music,
I knew that’s what I wanted to do.”
In fact, she’s done it all — soloist; chamber
musician with the New York Chamber Soloists;
concertmaster of American Chamber Orchestra,
the Mozart Chamber Orchestra, Princeton
Chamber Orchestra and the Pennsylvania Ballet
orchestra; recording artist for Odyssey, Vanguard, Westminster and Delos Records; even a
member of the pit orchestra for “Belafonte on
Broadway”; and, of course, revered teacher.
At the Boyer College, Kwalwasser has witnessed, and been part of, decades of change, giving private lessons, teaching chamber music and,
since 1985, serving as artistic adviser for string
instruction.
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“Our string program has grown in size and in
the quality of students who choose to study at
Temple. We’re a fine school of music, commensurate with the best university string programs
in the country.”
Teaching continues to delight her. “It’s never
boring. Every time the door opens and a student
walks in, it’s a whole new experience. My goal is
for students to play better than when they came
in — a lot better — and to be prepared for their
musical life ahead. The rewards are in watching
someone grow as a person, and as a musician,
and in the relationships that begin and continue
for many years.”
Her students have gone on to play in major
orchestras throughout the country, to teaching
in universities and conservatories, and to conducting. She hears regularly from many of them
and takes pride in their career accomplishments.
Her own accomplishments have already been
recognized at Temple with both the Creative
Achievement Award (1984) and the Lindback
Award for Distinguished Teaching (1998). On
May 5, she will receive the Inspiration Award
from Temple Music Prep.
“Helen Kwalwasser is one of the crown jewels
of the Boyer College of Music and Dance,” Dean
Robert Stroker said. “She is a master teacher and
performer of the highest level who has touched
the lives of so many young people at Temple. I
can’t think of a more deserving recipient of the
2006 American String Teacher Association’s
Artist-Teacher Award.”
Kwalwasser is particularly humbled by this
latest honor. “This prize is so big — just look at
who has gotten it! I really thought it was a mistake or someone was playing a joke when they
called to tell me I’d won.”
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President David Adamany visited Duckrey Elementary School on
March 2, “Read Across Philadelphia Day,” to celebrate the birthday of
beloved author Theodore Geisel, better known as Dr. Seuss. Adamany
visited classrooms and read Dr. Seuss’ I Can Read With My Eyes Shut!
Duckrey School is one of the four schools in North Philadelphia
managed by Temple’s Office of Partnership Schools, which has
focused on increasing children’s literacy achievement through a
multi-faceted Literacy Initiative, designed to boost the reading and
writing abilities of the 1,800 students enrolled at the schools. The
other schools in Temple’s Partnership consortium are the Dunbar,
Ferguson and Meade schools.
That same week, Temple announced a gift of $6,000 worth of books
on African-American history and culture ($1,500 to each school) to
increase students’ opportunities to read and broaden their horizons.
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Hall of Famer Chaney retires after 24 years at Temple
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time here so special.”
Said President David Adamany:
“Coach John Chaney’s basketball
achievements are legendary. In two
dozen years at Temple, Coach Chaney
did not always have the strongest
recruiting classes, but he always got
the most out of his players, on and off
the court. John’s most exemplary
accomplishment will be in the lives he
transformed by providing opportunity to, and demanding excellence
from, the student-athletes he recruited to Temple. His very presence
restored Temple’s basketball program
to one of national importance.
“On behalf of his players, the
entire University community and
college basketball fans everywhere, I
thank and congratulate Coach
Chaney for his remarkable perseverance and success,” Adamany added.
A search for a successor will
begin immediately, Director of Athletics Bill Bradshaw said.
Temple prides itself on one of the
richest basketball traditions in the
country, and John Chaney played a
major role in perpetuating that tradition. Only six schools (Kentucky,
North Carolina, Kansas, Duke, St.
John’s and Syracuse) have more alltime wins than Temple and only
three active Division I coaches (Bob
Knight, Eddie Sutton and Lute
Olson) have more career victories
than the 74-year-old Chaney.
Chaney became the second Temple
coach inducted into the Naismith
Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame
upon his election in 2001, joining
Harry Litwack, who coached at
Temple from 1952 to 1973.
Throughout his storied coaching
career, Chaney was a dedicated and
strong-willed teacher, who molded
the character of his players with discipline, hard work and common
decency. Noting that Chaney’s Hall of
Fame banner hangs from the Liacouras Center rafters and that
Chaney’s name joins Harry Litwack’s
on the basketball floor’s tip-off circle,
Bradshaw commented that “Coach
will always be part of Temple.”
“John has done as much for his
kids, for our program and for this
University as has any basketball
coach anywhere in the country,”
Bradshaw added. “He helped bring
national visibility to the University
and he re-established Temple basketball as the team nobody else wanted
to play come tournament time.”
Twenty-three of Chaney’s 24
Temple teams played in postseason
tournaments, including 17 NCAA
Tournament appearances. Before his
arrival in 1982, the Temple basketball program had never participated
in back-to-back NCAA Tournaments. Under Chaney’s leadership,
the Owls earned five consecutive
berths between 1984 and 1988. The
program rode a school-record streak
of 12 straight appearances in the
March Madness field from 1990
through 2001, including five trips to
the Elite Eight (1988, 1991, 1993,
1999 and 2001). Only four schools
went to as many regional finals in
those 16 years: Duke (9), Kentucky
(8), North Carolina (7) and Arizona
(6). During his tenure, Chaney was
twice named the national Division I
coach of the year and his 1987–88
team ended the season ranked No. 1
in the country.
John Chaney, shown here coaching at the Liacouras Center, told the players, friends,
reporters and co-workers who packed the Fox-Gittis room Monday that the University should
continue putting its faith in the abilities of students. “Don’t give up on young people, because
they don’t fail you,” Chaney said.
Dawn Staley, coach of Temple’s
nationally ranked women’s basketball team, described Chaney as a
high-energy, visionary mentor.
“Coach has high expectations, but
he also provides tremendous support,” Staley said. “Just like with his
players, he has taught me a lot about
the game of basketball and a lot about
the game of life. Many times, during
practice or in a game, I’ll think to
myself, ‘What would John do in this
situation?’ Just watch him in a game.
No matter what the score, he never
stops teaching. That’s the best compliment you can give to any coach.”
Chaney joined Temple in 1982
after 10 years as basketball coach at
Cheyney University, where he turned
the program into a national Division
II power. His Cheyney teams compiled a phenomenal 225-59 record,
appeared in eight national championship tournaments and won the
NCAA Division II title in 1978.
Chaney began his coaching career
at Philadelphia’s Sayre Junior High,
where his teams won 59 of 68 games.
He then moved up to Simon Gratz
High and quickly turned a struggling
1-17 club into a perennial winner.
As a player, Chaney earned many
honors. At Benjamin Franklin High,
he was singled out as the Most Valuable Player in the Philadelphia Public
League. At Bethune-Cookman College in Daytona Beach, Fla., he was
honored as an NAIA All-American
and named the Most Valuable Player
in the 1953 NAIA Championships. In
the ensuing 10 years, as a professional player in the Eastern Basketball
League, he was named all-pro six
times and earned the league’s MVP
award in 1959 and 1960. He even
doubled as a coach for two seasons.
A 1955 graduate of BethuneCookman College, Chaney also holds
a master’s degree from Antioch College. He and his wife Jeanne are the
parents of a daughter (Pamela) and
two sons (John and Darryl), and have
four grandchildren. The Chaneys
reside in the Mount Airy section of
Philadelphia.
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Technology at Temple takes learning out of the classroom
Technology from page 1
Horne, a sophomore MIS major.
“Now I can put assignments in for
class. I like to be organized, and the
PDA helps me to be even more
organized than before.”
Response pads
Imagine a device that can improve
class attendance, promote classroom
interaction and make learning fun.
Enter electronic response pads.
In courses ranging from business
to medicine, podiatry to science and
technology, students are interacting
with their professors and each other
via pads that look much
like TV remotes.
With them, students can “instantaneously register their
votes to a question,
much as they would if
they were on a game
show,”
explained
Samuel J. Hodge Jr.,
professor and chairman of legal studies at
The Fox School of Business, who has
been using the response pads since
last fall.
The pads can also be used to take
attendance and administer tests and
quizzes, and because they are fully
integrated with Microsoft Office,
professors they can integrate them
into their PowerPoint lectures.
According to Eileen Aitken,
director of instructional technology
and training, as well as a professor in
the College of Science and Technology’s computer information science
department, the cost of the response
pads ranges between $15 and $55,
depending on whether the
pad was purchased
new or used. Aitken
said the bookstore has a
buyback program for the
response pads similar to the
buyback program for books. Students can turn in their response
pads and receive 50 percent of the
purchase price if they don’t need to
use them for other courses.
At the Medical School,
students in their first two
years receive the response
pads for free.
Students in professor
Tom Marino’s “Anatomy
and Cell Biology” class at
the School of Medicine
have been using them
since January.
“I use them so that the
students actively participate in the
learning process rather than sitting
passively and observing the lecture,”
Marino said. “They become active
participants.”
Blackboard: ‘Can you hear
me now?’
Blackboard was introduced at
Temple in 1999, delivering online
access to course material, grades and
more.
This semester, Temple launched
the application of Horizon Wimba
products, which enable faculty to
make voice
recordings,
import
the
recordings to
Blackboard, and distribute them to students’ digital dropboxes. Currently
in the testing phase,
Wimba acts as a more interactive substitute to e-mail, and a voice direct
component enables online verbal
conferences and chat room features.
Wimba, in use by faculty members from the OnLine Learning Program to the speech communications
department in the College of Health
Professions, is just catching up to
Boyer College of Music and Dance
professor Steven Kreinberg, who
was taking advantage of voice
recording capabilities and MP3 files
even before Wimba was integrated.
In his “Technology for Education in
Music” course, he uses MP3 technology to record his commentary on
student projects and send audio
evaluations to students’ digital dropbox via Blackboard. To supplement
class material, he also posts MP3
files in which he discusses topics
pertaining to class, which the stu-
dents can conveniently download
from Blackboard to their iPods.
According to Kreinberg, advances
in technology such as this are useful
— but are ultimately only supplemental to the teaching and the
learning process.
“Technology will never make a
good teacher out of a bad one, but it
does offer incredibly exciting tools
to engage students,” Kreinberg said.
Wimba is available to faculty in
the OnLine Learning Program and
to any faculty who request it by calling the Instructional Support Center
at 215-204-8529.
Capturing class
content for replay
For many students, being able
to record a lecture
and replay it is an
enormous help in
learning and studying.
Apreso Classroom content capture
systems, introduced as a Business
School pilot in fall 2004, allow faculty
who use specially equipped “smart”
rooms to record audio, plus anything
displayed on the classroom computer,
and post these class captures on the
Internet for later replay. The captures
are posted on Apreso and Blackboard.
Now used by more than 50 sections of classes in The Fox School, the
College of Liberal Arts, the schools of
Medicine and Podiatric Medicine,
and at Temple University Center City,
Temple’s weekly newspaper for the University community
Apreso has captured more than
200,000 minutes of classroom time
throughout the University since June
2004, according to David Feeney,
director of digital education at Fox.
And like Blackboard, Apreso just
got more useful: A new podcasting
feature means students no longer
need to be connected to the Internet
to hear their recorded lectures.
According to Feeney, “Students can
listen to lectures on a plane, train,
bus, cab, at their home — anyplace
they can have a podcasting device,
such as an MP3 player.”
Ongoing testing and collaboration between faculty and Computer
Services make many of
these types of innovations in teaching
possible at Temple.
“One of our
major priorities is to
provide faculty technology options that ultimately enhance learning
for students,” Timothy O’Rourke, vice
president of computer and information services, wrote recently in the
Faculty Herald.
“Temple has earned the reputation
for providing first-class technology
resources,” O’Rourke said. “To continue this, we must be willing to, at
times, be out on the ‘bleeding edge,’
and we must remain committed to
evaluating the numerous and everchanging technology products.” u
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Announcement
Theaters to debut ‘Lesson Before Dying’ New asst.
By Harriet Goodheart
[email protected]
The setting is the Jim Crow
South of rural Louisiana in 1948
where Jefferson, a young black
man, has been condemned to die in
the electric chair for a crime he didn’t commit. Enter Grant Wiggins, a
conflicted plantation schoolteacher
sent by Jefferson’s godmother to
teach him to die with dignity.
Thus begins A Lesson Before
Dying, Romulus Linney’s searing
drama, adapted from the 1993
novel by Ernest J. Gaines. The play
makes its Philadelphia premiere
with the Temple Theaters production opening a 10-day run on
Thursday, March 16, at the Randall
Theater.
Convicted by an all-white jury,
unsuccessfully defended by a white
lawyer who portrayed him as an
“ignorant hog” incapable of
responsibility, Jefferson, handcuffed and in chains, meets Grant
in the jailhouse storeroom. Jefferson, stubbornly determined to
prove the truth of his lawyer’s characterization of him, and Grant,
reluctantly drafted for this teaching
assignment and questioning his
own worth, are thrust into a compelling relationship with lessons
learned by both men as each
searches for his own inner dignity
and strength.
“This is an intensely human
story,” director John Bellomo said.
“There is something here for all of
us to get out of our collective American history. It’s not about how you
die but how you live.”
Lesson’s finely crafted ensemble
characters provide a prism through
which to view that history: Emma,
the elderly godmother who is
strong, fiercely proud and unafraid
to stand up to the bigoted white
sheriff; the Rev. Moses Ambrose,
single-minded in his Bible-based
view of salvation; Grant’s girlfriend
Liacouras
Center
GM named
Temple Theaters’ Philadelphia premiere of “A Lesson Before Dying” features (from left) James William Ijames, Arleigh Hughes and Kalif
Troy in Romulus Linney’s powerful drama about a young black man wrongfully sentenced to die for a murder he did not commit and the
school teacher who helps him to restore his sense of self-worth and dignity.
‘A Lesson Before Dying’
Opening-night curtain on Thursday,
March 16, is at 7 p.m. Performances
continue Friday and Saturday, March
17 and 18, and Monday through
Saturday, March 20–25, at 8 p.m.,
with Saturday matinees March 18
and 25 at 2 p.m.
Tickets are $18. Tickets for seniors,
students, and Temple employees
and alumni are $13, and are available at the Liacouras Center box
office, online at www.liacourascenter.
com, or Charge-By-Phone at 1-888OWLS-TIX (1-888-695-7849). For
more information, call the Temple
Theaters Information Line at 215204-1122.
Vivian, a schoolteacher who wants
Grant to believe in the power of
education as the path to liberation
for black youth; and Paul, the white
deputy drawn into the struggle
Announcement
Police, security officers reach
four-year agreement with Temple
Temple University and the Security, Police and Fire Professionals of
America, Local 511, have agreed to a
four-year contract that provides a 3
percent across-the-board wage
increase each year for the entire bargaining unit and an additional, market-scale adjustment for the police
officers in each year of the agreement.
The membership of Local 511
ratified the agreement by a vote of
58 to 52 on Feb. 27, the day before
the previous contract expired. The
bargaining unit represents 146
police officers and security officers
on Temple’s campuses.
“A safe and secure environment
is essential for the University to
offer high-quality education,
research, and campus-life experiences,” President David Adamany
said in announcing the new agreement, which expires Feb. 28, 2010.
“We are pleased that we were able
to reach an agreement that recog-
nizes and values the essential work
of our police officers and security
officers and also acknowledges the
financial constraints facing the
University.”
Beginning in the first year of the
contract, the University will increase
its contributions to the union’s
defined contribution pension plan
by 0.75 percent.
Beginning in the first year and
also in the third year, there will be
increases in the employee contribution toward health-coverage premiums.
Among its other provisions, the
new contract provides access to
Temple’s newly designed Employee
Assistance Program launched on
Jan. 1, 2005; increases the probationary period for new security officers from 90 to 120 days and police
officers from 90 to 180 days; abbreviates the grievance procedure to
two steps; and establishes an expedited arbitration procedure.
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against injustice that he is forced to
witness.
“This play really got to me,” Bellomo said. “I knew when I first read
it I would have to do it somewhere
down the line.”
Working with his cast of undergraduate and graduate actors, Bellomo said, “We all knew that this
was a necessary story to tell, and in
the telling, we needed to go places
that are uncomfortable for all of us.”
Bellomo, a third-year M.F.A.
candidate in directing in Temple’s
theater program, has an undergraduate degree in acting from the
University of the Arts and is a stage
combat expert certified by the Society of American Fight Directors.
In Lesson, the combat is psychologically driven, he said. “It’s deeply
rooted in the issues of race and the
death penalty. When the electric
chair is trucked in for Jefferson’s
execution, which was the custom
back then, it becomes an intrusive
symbol of the conflicts unfolding
onstage: white versus black, justice
versus injustice, humanity versus
contempt, living versus dying.”
The electric chair used in the
Temple Theaters production is constructed from the schematic of the
one actually used to execute prisoners — including the man whose
real-life story was the basis for
Gaines’ novel and Linney’s stage
adaptation. It now sits in a
Louisiana museum.
The set designer for A Lesson
Before Dying is Kathleen Chadwick,
second-year M.F.A. design candidate. The costume design is by senior theater major Erin Snider.
Lighting design is by Shon Causer,
third-year M.F.A. design candidate,
and undergraduate theater student
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Global Spectrum, managers of the
Liacouras Center, recently named
Lou D’Angeli as the facility’s assistant
general manager. D’Angeli was most
recently the assistant general manager and director of marketing at the
Global Spectrum-managed Budweiser Events Center in Loveland, Colo.
“We’ve been extremely pleased
with Global Spectrum’s management,” said Rich Rumer, associate
vice president of business services.
“They have delivered top-notch
quality events and brought a superior level of customer service to the
Liacouras Center. We are very excited that Lou D’Angeli will be working
at our facility. He is well-known
throughout the industry for his creativity and his relationships with
talent managers, and we are confident that he could bring some new
and exciting events to the Liacouras
Center for our students, our alumni
and the residents throughout the
greater Philadelphia region.”
In his new role, D’Angeli will
oversee many of the Liacouras Center’s day-to-day operations, including scheduling of events, financial
review and operational setup and
procedures, as well as marketing
and public relations of all events.
Prior to his position at the Budweiser Events Center, D’Angeli was
promotions manager for Global
Spectrum at the Wachovia Center in
Philadelphia. Before joining Global
Spectrum, he was a promoter and
on-air talent for the nationally
based sports and entertainment
group Extreme Championship
Wrestling from 1995 to 2001.
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Chemistry’s Borguet receives U.S. grant
to target power plants’ mercury emissions
By Preston M. Moretz
[email protected]
As the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania proposes to reduce mercury emissions from coal-burning
power stations by 90 percent by
2015, chemistry’s Eric Borguet is
part of a three-school collaboration
exploring how to reduce those emissions through a three-year, $533,349
grant from the U.S. Department of
Energy, of which Temple and
Borguet will receive $100,000 over
two years of the project.
Borguet will be collaborating
with researchers at the University
of Pittsburgh and University of
South Carolina on the project.
“Coal-fired power stations are
one of the major sources of mercury,” Borguet said. “The basic idea
behind this project is to understand
what happens to chemical species
that are emitted by these stations,
with a particular focus on mercury.”
Borguet pointed out that the
Environmental Protection Agency,
TEMPLE TIMES
the Bush administration and various environmental
groups are debating over permissible levels of mercury emissions.
While the EPA’s
Borguet
rules call for utilities to reduce to mercury emissions
at coal-fired plants by 70 percent by
2018, on Feb. 22, Gov. Edward G.
Rendell proposed that the state
reduce its emissions by 90 percent
three years sooner.
“If we are going to reach these levels, we need to have the technology
that will enable us to reduce the mercury emissions from these plants,”
said Borguet, who is part of Temple’s
environmental chemistry group.
The researchers will be using
surface chemistry to try to understand how reactions occurring on
microscopic particles in the coalfired power plant’s gas flue stream
affect mercury emission into the
air, he said.
Borguet, who has had an ongoing collaboration with the environmental engineering department at
the University of Pittsburgh and
retains a secondary appointment in
chemical engineering there, has in
the past advised two environmental engineering doctoral students in
the basic sciences, mainly looking
at reactions on carbon surfaces.
“Carbon materials is part of our
ongoing research activities because
we want to use carbon materials in
environmental
remediation,”
Borguet said. “As part of this project, we’re interested in injecting
carbon particles into the flue
stream of the coal-fire power plants
in order to try and capture the mercury that is being emitted before it
gets into the atmosphere.”
Borguet added that the United
States has larger reserves of coal
than gas or oil, so energy suppliers’
problem is how to burn the coal in
an environmentally friendly way,
while getting the maximum energy
out of those coal reserves.
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Urban setting becoming
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Photo courtesy Taylor Benjamin-Britton
Political studies and Asian studies major Taylor Benjamin-Britton (right) is one of three students sharing their study abroad experiences through online journals. Benjamin-Britton is in
Tokyo attending Temple University Japan this semester.
‘Overseas Adventures’:
Evolving perspectives
It is now mid-semester, and, like
all Temple students, those studying
abroad are hitting the books and
cramming for exams. At the same
time, they are also continuing to
learn more about other cultures and
themselves. In their most recent
journal entries, Taylor, Khanh and
Ian share their changing viewpoints.
Vietnam has changed my perspective on life. Hanoi is changing rapidly, as the old mixes with the new.
Skyscrapers and apartment complexes tower over French colonial
buildings and pagodas. Sometimes I
feel very privileged, as I see the
huge gap between the rich and poor.
— Khanh Le, from Vietnam National
University in Hanoi, Vietnam
If you really want to learn the language in your new country, and if at
all humanly possible, get a homestay! … Because I’m at an American
university, and my classes are in
English, the only way for me to really
learn Japanese is by speaking with
my family daily. … Immersion is the
best way — dare I say the only way
— to really learn a foreign language
with effect. … it’s definitely thanks
to my family that my speaking has
improved over the past weeks.
— Taylor Benjamin-Britton, from
Temple Japan
After seeing all of the greatest monuments and landmarks of the Western
world, many of us even take our surroundings for granted. We’ve hit the
grind, especially now that midterms
are upon us. I now find many of my
colleagues saying things to the effect
of: “I’m tired. Let’s go see the greatest architecture in the history of
mankind tomorrow; is that cool?”
— Ian Waldraff, from Temple Rome
To read Ian’s, Khanh’s and Taylor’s journal
entries, visit the “Overseas Adventures:
Spring 2006” Web site at www.temple.edu/
temple_times/oip.
‘Nature Nurtures’ wins Flower Show award
Last week, Temple’s
Philadelphia Flower
Show exhibit garnered
a “PHS Award of
Merit” by the Pennsylvania Horticultural
Society in the Academic Educational category. This marks the
fifth straight year that
the Ambler Campus
has garnered a major
exhibitor award at the
Flower Show.
Temple’s 2006
Philadelphia Flower
Show exhibit, “Nature
Nurtures — Mind,
Body, Spirit,” emphasized the healing
potential for gardens
of any size, educated
visitors about how to
make healing gardens,
and explored the
medicinal use of
plants over the course
of human history.
tion offered the promise of professional opportunities.
“I’ve always wanted to be in an
urban setting,” she said. “I wanted
to major in journalism, and
Philadelphia is a major market.
Many of the teachers here have jobs
in the city; they might help me
make good career connections.”
Like many Temple students,
Shuey also was attracted by the
city’s ethnic diversity.
“I wanted to go outside my comfort zone,” Shuey said. “For me,
[college is] all about learning how
to interact with people who are
unlike myself.”
Along with a select group of
other city schools such as New York
University, Temple’s popularity has
surged in recent years. Undergraduate applications to Temple are up
nearly 40 percent since 2000,
reaching an all-time high of 17,360
last fall.
Todd Hoffman, president of Collegia, a consulting firm that has
helped promote regional coalitions
of colleges and universities in
Pennsylvania, Massachusetts and
Ohio, says it’s no surprise that location helps make Temple hot.
“You can make a strong argument that Philadelphia is the best
city in America for college students,” Hoffman said. “I think people have picked up on that.”
Hoffman attributes Philadelphia’s rising popularity among
applicants to a wide range of cultural phenomena.
“Millions of eyeballs saw ‘The
Real World’ when it came to
Philadelphia. That marked the city
as a hip, fun place,” he said.
“National Geographic Traveler
called Philadelphia America’s ‘next
great city.’ People like M. Night
Shyamalan, who is dedicated to the
city and shoots his movies here,
also make a difference, as do
brands associated with Philadelphia such as AND1 and Urban Outfitters.”
Although Philadelphia may
score points with young people,
convincing parents can prove to be
a harder sell. But as familiarity with
Temple’s improving reputation and
campus grows, even attitudes
“I wanted to go outside my
comfort zone. For me, [college is] all about learning
how to interact with people
who are unlike myself.”
Karen Shuey
Sophomore journalism major
from Lebanon, Pa.
among parents are beginning to
soften.
Lorraine W. Eck admits she
wasn’t thrilled when her daughter
Jaclyn became one of seven New
Oxford High School graduates to
enroll at Temple as freshmen last
fall — by far the largest Temple
contingent in the school’s history.
“I have to be honest, we were a
little bit nervous,” said Eck, who is
the guidance department chair at
New Oxford High. “But now I feel
more comfortable, having been on
campus. Now I tell my students
who are up in the air about their
college decision: Have you considered Temple?
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What it takes to gain admission to Temple
Editor’s note: The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette recently asked Mary
Beth Kurilko, associate director of undergraduate admissions, to
submit an essay on the admission process. This essay is reprinted with the permission of the author.
By Mary Beth Kurilko
[email protected]
I think that at the end of it all, what really matters
in college admissions — even at a large school — is
authenticity, humility and a deep-down drive to be at
a particular college. Above all, this is what seems to
get to even the most hardened admissions officer.
Large colleges can get as many as 20,000 applications;
without requiring personal interviews, how can a student stand out?
I hope this won’t be a depressing bit of news for
eager high school students, but in more than seven
years at Temple, I have only lobbied hard for admission for a handful of students. So what was it about
these students? I can tell you that it wasn’t the plaintive pleas from parents, nor the entreaties of teachers,
nor (in one memorable case) the lengthy personality
profile of the candidate from the best friend. It was
the way an applicant presented their true selves as
they are — not what they think admissions committees will want to see.
In truth, most students present with the usual host
of activities, clubs and civic involvement. All well and
good, but a borderline candidate has a better chance
at admission if they write a genuine essay that outlines precisely why they want and need to be admitted. No doubt writing is one of the most difficult challenges a student faces, but an essay with personality
goes a long way with an admissions committee. Also
significant is a call from a college counselor with
additional information about a student that is not in
the application.
It is true what you read about colleges closely reading an application for obstacles overcome. It is the
true American dream in each of us; we cheer the
underdog and applaud those who have lifted themselves up over what seems an impossibly rocky terrain. I remember one Chinese student who had been
born a third child. In his mountain village, this student was without country. His low verbal SAT score
might have denied his admission, but his counselor
lobbied for him and in turn, I did as well. After a tele-
Temple’s weekly newspaper for the University community
phone interview to assess his English language skills,
the committee overturned his admission denial and
he finished his first year at Temple with a 3.4 G.P.A.
Of course, not every student has such a profoundly
affecting personal history. Some of us are lucky
enough to have been born into privilege, never knowing struggle, tragedy or despair. You don’t need to
have overcome great obstacles to impress an admissions committee. If you are blessed with abundance,
describe how it has helped you in life. Consider how
your life would have been without the luck you were
born into. A critical thinker jumps off the application
and screams to the committee: “Here I am! I can’t
wait to get into your classrooms and make a difference.” Please don’t misunderstand; even the most
earnest young person will not be admitted to a selective college if their academic profile is substantially
under that school’s criteria, but even schools with
huge applicant pools still look at each applicant as an
individual. And this is where we all can shine.
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Trial team sweeps regionals
In mid-February, Temple’s National Trial Team successfully defended
its National Trial Competition Region III championship title at the
Criminal Justice Center in Philadelphia, marking Temple’s 18th consecutive regional championship.
The team will now travel to Texas on March 22 to compete for the
National Trial Championship against the 24 winners and runners-up
from the 12 other regional contests. Temple has won the NTC national
championship three times in the past 11 years.
The teams are coached by professor Maureen McCartney, director of
Trial Advocacy Programs, and 2003 graduate Elizabeth Lippy (center)
of Rubin, Glickman & Steinberg. The members of the championship
teams are second- and third-year law students (left to right) Brad Terebelo, Marian Braccia, Tiffany Gainer and Justin Oshana.
Conference to explore
the power of the arts
to affect quality of life
By Harriet Goodheart
[email protected]
hospital experience.
In their presentation on “Architecture as a Curative Power,”
If music hath charms to soothe a Brigitte Knowles, architecture prosavage beast, as William Congreve fessor and associate dean of the
once wrote, how else can the arts Tyler School of Art, and architecaffect our lives?
ture student Jessica Zivkovitch
The inaugural conference of the explore how architectural space can
Arts and Quality of Life Research create a sense of comfort at a time
Center will draw together scholars of crisis.
and practitioners in the arts —
“The emotion of the space is frearchitecture, music, film, dance, quently missing from what we creand the visual arts — to share ate,” Knowles said.
their
innovative
programs,
Other conference presentations
research and observations. The include:
two-day event will take place Fri• “A Prescription for Musical
day and SaturPerformance
March
day,
Anxiety,” a look
17–18, at Rock
“The conference will focus at techniques to
Hall.
assist musicians
on the elements of the arts in channeling
“The conferthat go beyond what we
ence will focus
the feelings and
on the elements know happens in a perform- behavioral
of
of the arts that ance or any arts experience.” responses
performance
go beyond what
Cheryl Dileo
anxiety.
we know hapDirector
of
the Arts and Quality
• “Singing the
pens in a perof Life Research Center and
Songs of Life:
formance or any
professor of music therapy in the
Exploring the
arts experience,”
College of Music and Dance
Boyer
Benefits of Chosaid
Cheryl
ral Singing for
Dileo, director
Elderly Persons
of the Arts and
Quality of Life Research Center with Illness or Disability,” measurand professor of music therapy in ing the short- and long-term outthe Boyer College of Music and comes for members of a performing
Dance, which offers the only Ph.D. choir in a nursing and rehabilitation
program in the nation in music facility.
• “The ‘Let’s Dance!’ Project,” a
therapy.
Dileo’s own research is examin- 10-week experimental dance proing the effects of music on medical gram for homeless residents of St.
patients at Temple University John’s Hospice in Philadelphia.
For information on the Arts and
Hospital, specifically, those seriously ill with heart disease or cancer, Quality of Life Research Center at
and how music therapy affects them Temple or to view the full conferphysiologically as well as emotion- ence schedule, go to www.
ally, as well as how it might influ- temple.edu/boyer/ResearchCenter/
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ence their satisfaction with their index.htm.
In Memoriam
Henry N.
Michael
Andrew Hart, a 2005 graduate, used his knowledge of upstate Pennsylvania to design a
proposed cultural center built from abandoned mine equipment. Hart’s senior thesis architecture project last year, the idea recently earned him top honors in the “Best and the
Brightest” Architectural Student Competition sponsored by the Vitetta architecture firm.
Hart takes first prize
in architecture contest
By Harriet Goodheart
[email protected]
Growing up in upstate Pennsylvania’s coal country, 2005 graduate
Andrew Hart was keenly aware of
the region’s painful history. “A lot
of my friends didn’t have grandfathers — these were coal mining
families, and black lung disease
took its toll.”
When it was time for him to
plan his senior thesis architecture
project last year, Hart returned to
his Wyoming Valley roots and
sought a way to restore and preserve a structure that stood as an
icon of that past.
The result: his proposed design
for the Huber Breaker Cultural
Center and Historical Archive,
which recently took top honors in
the “Best and the Brightest” Architectural Student Competition
sponsored by the Vitetta firm. The
annual juried design competition
invites up to three submitted projects from each of the four
Philadelphia institutions with
architecture programs: Temple,
Drexel and Philadelphia universities and the University of Pennsylvania.
Built in 1939 in Ashley, Pa., the
Huber Breaker crushed and sized
the anthracite coal from three
nearby mines until its closing in
1976. The looming structure, 10
industrial stories tall, is the last
remaining coal breaker, a “testament to the mining heritage of
the region,” according to visitPA.com, which also notes that it
“is not open to the public but visitors can view it from Route 81
south.”
That’s what Andrew Hart proposes to change. “This eyesore can
become once again a center for
this community’s rebirth and a
place where its citizens can share
their proud history.”
His plans call for creating a
large public forum and meeting
space; transforming the coal silos
into a central archive, a shared
repository for old photos, documents, and other artifacts that
would otherwise be languishing in
people’s attics; and a path with a
handrail, giving access to the interior of the breaker. He’s even
thinking of moving the Town Hall
to the breaker’s power house as “a
way for the community to empower itself and take pride in the
industrial past of the Pennsylvania
rust belt.”
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Three-peat
No. 19 women’s basketball took its third straight A-10 title with its
March 6 win over George Washington, while Candice Dupree earned
her third straight Most Outstanding Player Award. Dupree is just the
second player in A-10 history to earn MOP honors three times (2004,
2005, 2006) and the only player to win it outright in all three years.
The Owls drew a No. 6 seed in the NCAA Tournament, and will
play America East champion Hartford (26-3) at Sovereign Bank
Arena in Trenton, N.J., on Sunday at noon. The game can be seen
live on ESPN2.
TEMPLE TIMES
Henry N. Michael, former
professor and chair of geography, died Feb. 19, at the age of
92.
Born in Pittsburgh, Michael
earned his undergraduate and
doctoral degrees from the
University of Pennsylvania,
where he maintained strong
working relationships throughout his life.
Michael arrived at Temple as
an assistant professor in 1959,
and served as chair of the geography department from 1965 to
1973. In his first years here,
Michael helped transform geography from a small section of
the history program to its own
department. He retired from
Temple in 1980. Each year, the
geography department awards
the Henry Michael Prize in
Geography and Urban Studies to
an outstanding student for
achievement in geographical
studies.
Michael’s research included
studies of Siberia and the cultures of the Eskimos and other
Arctic people, and research on
the ancient bristlecone pine
trees found in east-central California.
He is best known for his work
using the pine trees, the ages of
which could be determined
based on their ring patterns, to
help resolve problems of radiocarbon dating. He applied radiocarbon testing to the trees,
which can live 4,500 years or
more, and compared their
known ages with the results. His
research ultimately helped
expand the known record for
radiocarbon testing by thousands of years, creating “a reliable chronology for archaeologists and other scientists,”
according to The New York
Times.
Until last year, Michael continued his studies at the
University of Pennsylvania,
working at its Museum Applied
Science Center for Archaeology, where he was a senior fellow.
Described by former colleagues as an “enthusiastic geographer” and “intrepid traveler,”
Michael traveled to Siberia during the Cold War, when travel
there was difficult, and well into
his 80s. In demand as a lecturer
on the Soviet Union, Michael
amassed a huge collection of
maps and slides of Russia,
which he often used in his popular classes on the Soviet Union
as well as his many guest lectures.
Michael was a founder of the
Delaware Valley Geographical
Society in 1964,and served on
the society’s steering committee until recently. He was honored with the society’s first lifetime achievement award in
2001.
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SUNDAY, March 19
Baseball vs. St. Francis (N.Y.)
Noon. Ambler Field.
Faculty recital featuring
Adam Unsworth, horn
3 p.m. Rock Hall auditorium. Philadelphia Orchestra member Adam Unsworth
premieres Dana Wilson’s Graham’s Crackers, commissioned for him by the Boyer
College, as well as other pieces from his
new jazz album Excerpt This! Sponsored
by the Boyer College of Music and Dance.
For more information, call 215-204-7600
or visit www.temple.edu/boyer.
“Madea Goes to Jail”
3 and 7:30 p.m. See “On Sale at the Liacouras Center” for details.
MONDAY, March 20
Registration begins for fall semester.
Registration begins for PAV
tennis tournament
Recreation Services access required. For
more information, call 215-204-1267, or
visit www.temple.edu/recsvcs.
Student exhibition opening:
Department of art and art education and architecture program
Through April 9. Engineering and Architecture Building, room 102, Fishbowl
Gallery. See “Ongoing” for details.
“Should I Stay or Withdraw
From My Course?”
Noon. 1700 N. Broad, room 204. Assess
the advantages and disadvantages of
making either decision. For more information, or for additional group and individual tutorial services, contact the Russell Conwell Center at 215-204-1251, or
visit www.temple.edu/rcc.
Meet the “First Lady of Hip-Hop”:
Kimora Lee Simmons
12:30 p.m. Temple University (Law
School) Bookstore, Broad Street and Cecil
B. Moore Avenue. The “First Lady of HipHop” signs copies of her new book, Fabulosity: What It Is and How to Get It. Simmons will meet only with attendees purchasing a copy of the book for $25.95.
Sponsored the Temple University Bookstore. For more information, call Mary
Beth Sweetra at 215-204-0514.
“Plan to Study Abroad”
2:30 p.m. Student Center, room 217A.
Studying abroad is a great opportunity
for many different majors. For more
information, or for additional group and
individual tutorial services, contact the
Russell Conwell Center at 215-204-1251,
or visit www.temple.edu/rcc.
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This Week’s Scores
Baseball
March 6: Hawaii-Hilo 5, Temple 2
March 6: Hawaii-Hilo 5, Temple 3
March 9: Hawaii-Hilo 6, Temple 5
March 9: Hawaii-Hilo 11, Temple 4
March 11: Temple 7, Hawaii-Hilo 0
Men’s Basketball
March 8: Temple 74, Rhode Island
45
March 9: Temple 68, George Washington 53
March 10: Saint Joseph’s 73, Temple 59
Women’s Basketball
March 6: Temple 59, George Washington 54
Men’s Tennis
March 7: Temple 7, St. Thomas 0
March 8: Temple 4, Florida
Atlantic 3
March 9: Temple 7, Palm Beach
Atlantic 2
March 10: Lynn 9, Temple 0
March 11: Temple 6, Northwood 3
Women’s Tennis
March 7: Temple 5, UMBC 2
“The Roots of Tango:
A Blending of Cultures”
5–6:30 p.m. Great Court, Mitten Hall. In
the first of three seminars, Philadelphia
tango professionals present tango music
appreciation and beginner dance instruction. No experience or partner necessary.
Walk-ins welcome. Wear casual clothes
and shoes that pivot easily. Includes
refreshments. Faculty/staff $5, Students
free w/confirmation card with GAF codes.
Sponsored by the department of dance
and the Boyer College of Music and Dance.
For more information, visit www.temple.
edu/boyer/dance/DancingForSchools/index.
htm or contact Elizabeth Seyler at
[email protected] or 215-204-7613.
“Canoe Days”
6:15 p.m. Pearson Hall pool. Recreation
Services access required. Sponsored by
Recreation Services. For more information, call 215-204-1267, or visit www.
temple.edu/recsvcs.
Men’s Golf
March 7: No team scoring
Men’s Gymnastics
March 12: First of seven
Women’s Gymnastics
March 10: West Chester 2, Temple 1
March 12: Cornell 47.250, Temple
46.800
Men’s Crew
March 11: No team scoring
Women’s Crew
March 11: No team scoring
Women’s Lacrosse
March 7: Temple 11, Connecticut 10
Softball
March 9: Illinois-Chicago 10,
Temple 2
March 9: Temple 7, Buffalo 3
March 10: Tennessee 14, Temple 0
March 10: Hofstra 6, Temple 4
March 11: NC State 7, Temple 0
March 11: Temple 8, Wright State 0
March 12: No team scoring
rium. Lecture presented by Maureane
Hoffman, professor of pathology and
immunology and director of mematology
and flow cytometry labs, Duke University.
Hoffman is the recipient of the fourth
annual Stewart-Niewiarowski Award for
Women In Vascular Biology, and will be
presented with a plaque and honorium
after her lecture. Sponsored by Wyeth
Pharmaceuticals, the Thrombosis
Research Center and the physiology
department. For more information, contact Fredda London at [email protected].
“Join the McNair Undergraduate
Research Program”
1 p.m. 1700 N. Broad, room 203. Find out
if you are eligible to become a McNair
Scholar. For more information, or for
additional group and individual tutorial
services, contact the Russell Conwell Center at 215-204-1251, or visit
www.temple.edu/rcc.
Student exhibition opening
reception
“A Lesson Before Dying”
8 p.m. See “Ongoing” for details.
TUESDAY, March 21
Information session: TU Japan
Noon. Tuttleman Learning Center, room
200. Learn about studying abroad at Temple Japan for a semester or year. Sponsored
by International Programs. For more information, contact International Programs at
[email protected] or 215-204-0720,
or visit www.temple.edu/studyabroad.
Wyeth lecture: “Rethinking
the Coagulation Cascade”
Noon–1 p.m. Health Sciences Center, Student-Faculty Center, fourth-floor audito-
‘Law and Adolescence’ symposium
In a two-day national symposium at Klein Hall on March
17–18, the Temple Law Review
and the Juvenile Law Center in
Philadelphia will bring together
scholars, attorneys, judges and
other professionals from
research and practice in the
fields of law, psychology, criminology, sociology and other
social sciences.
Presentations and panels will
examine how research about
developmental differences
between adolescents and adults
affects, or should affect, policies
and court decisions for youth
involved in the child welfare, juve-
March 10: Temple 5, Aquinas 2
March 11: No team scoring
nile and criminal justice systems.
“Law and Adolescence: The
Legal Status, Rights and Responsibilities of Adolescents in the Child
Welfare, Juvenile and Criminal
Justice Systems” is free for students with TUid. Others pay $150
(non-TLAA members) or $110
(TLAA members); scholarships
are available. Lunch and refreshments are provided.
Registration forms are available
at http://law.bepress.com/templelr
or on-site March 17 from 8 a.m. to
9 a.m. For more information, contact Alex Bak-Boychuk at
[email protected] or call 215204-7868.
3:30–6:30 p.m. Engineering and Architecture Building, room 102, Fishbowl
Gallery. Department of art and art education and architecture program. See
“Ongoing” for details.
“Woman to Woman”
4 p.m. Student Center, room 205. An open
discussion about issues concerning
women. For more information, or for additional group and individual tutorial services, contact the Russell Conwell Center at
215-204-1251, or visit www.temple.edu/rcc.
Women’s lacrosse vs. Penn State
4 p.m. Home game.
“Fighting the Root Causes of
Poverty Through Political and
Social Change”
7 p.m. Ritter Hall, Walk Auditorium. A
panel discussion focusing on hunger and
homelessness and what students can do
to help. Sponsored by the Main Campus
Program Board.
Ambler Campus: Arboretum
Lecture Series: “It takes a Big
Gorilla to Save a Little Plant”
7:30 p.m. Ambler Campus, Bright Hall
lounge. Presented by Robert Halpern, former horticulture curator for the Bronx
Zoo and 1984 graduate of Ambler College. Halpern will share the life and goals
of a zoo horticulture designer, focusing
on the Bronx Zoo’s award-winning $50
million exhibit, “Congo Gorilla Forest.”
Tickets: $10 for one lecture; $30 for five
Arboretum lectures; free w/TUid and for
donors to the arboretum of at least $100.
Nobel to address environmental ethics
Claes Nobel (right), chairman and founder of the National Society of High School Scholars, champion of environmental
stewardship and member of
Sweden’s Nobel Prize family,
will be coming to Temple next
Wednesday. Nobel established
NSHSS in 2002 to highlight the
accomplishments of high
school students who have
demonstrated outstanding leadership, scholarship and community commitment. In his
keynote address, “Earth Ethics:
A Nobel Approach,” Nobel will
share his vision of the planet
and its future with a gathering
of local high school students
and their families, as well as
Photo courtesy Claes Nobel
any interested members of the
Temple community. Sponsored
by the Temple University
Honors Program.
WHERE: Anderson Hall,
room 17
WHEN: Wednesday, March
22, 4:30 p.m.
Sponsored by the Landscape Arboretum
and the department of landscape architecture and horticulture. For more information or to purchase tickets, call 215283-1306 or 215-283-1534.
potential employer. For more information, or for additional group and individual tutorial services, contact the Russell
Conwell Center at 215-204-1251, or visit
www.temple.edu/rcc.
“A Lesson Before Dying”
Baseball vs. St. John’s
8 p.m. Randall Theater. See “Ongoing” for
details.
WEDNESDAY, March 22
3 p.m. Ambler Campus, Ambler Field.
Softball vs. Delaware State
3 p.m. Ambler Campus, Ambler Softball
Field.
Off-campus living fair
11 a.m.–1 p.m. Student Center atrium.
Sponsored by University Housing. For
more information, contact Lisa Prestileo
at [email protected].
Part-time, summer job
and internship fair
11 a.m.–3 p.m. Mitten Hall, Great Court.
Temple students who need some extra
cash or are looking to build their experience are invited to stop by the job fair
and meet employers who are looking for
Temple talent. Dress professionally and
bring your résumé. Sponsored by Career
Development Services. For more information, visit www.temple.edu/careerdev,
or contact Mary Claire Dismukes at
[email protected].
“Death in the Shape
of a Young Girl”
11:40 a.m.–1 p.m. Gladfelter Hall, 10th
floor, CHAT lounge. Talk by Patricia Melzer, women’s studies program: “‘Death in
the Shape of a Young Girl: Media Representations of Women Terrorists and Feminist Responses during the ‘German
Autumn’ of 1977.” Sponsored by the Center for the Humanities. For more information, contact [email protected] or
visit www.temple.edu/ humanities/chats.
Information session:
Non-Temple study-abroad
programs/scholarships
“A Lesson Before Dying”
8 p.m. Randall Theater. See “Ongoing” for
details.
ON SALE AT THE
LIACOURAS CENTER
Tickets are available at the Liacouras
Center box office at 1776 N. Broad St.
(cash sales only), online at www.
liacourascenter.com or by telephone at
1-888-OWLS-TIX.
Women’s basketball
Visit www.owlsports.com for schedules.
“Madea Goes to Jail”
March 15–26. $46–$64. Visit www.
liacourascenter.com for exact dates, times
and prices.
The Whispers & Friends
April 15: 8 p.m. featuring legends such as
The Whispers, The Dells, Blue Magic and
Ray, Goodman and Brown. $46–$77.
New Jack Swing Reunion Tour
May 13: 8 p.m. Including Guy,
BLACKstreet, Tony! Toni! Tone! and After
7. $46–$77.
Andre Rieu and his Johann
Strauss Orchestra
May 20: 8 p.m. $47 and $62.
MAIN CAMPUS
CINEMA SERIES
Noon. Tuttleman Learning Center, room
200. Learn about studying abroad on
non-Temple programs and available
scholarships for these programs. For
more information, contact International
Programs at [email protected] or
215-204-0720, or visit
www.temple.edu/studyabroad.
Student Center Cinema (the Reel). $2
with TUid; $4 all others.
Show times:
Mon.–Wed.: noon, 2:30, 5 and 8 p.m.
Thu. & Fri.: noon, 2:30, 5, 8 and 10:30 p.m.
Sat.: 2:30, 5, 8 and 10:30 p.m. Sun.: 2:30,
5 and 8 p.m.
Visit www.temple.edu/sac/studact/cinema.
htm for more information.
Ambler Campus: Women’s
History Month lecture: “The
Founding Women of Ambler”
“Syriana”
12:30 p.m. Ambler Campus, Bright Hall
lounge. Join Jenny Rose Carey, director of
the Landscape Arboretum, for an indepth look at the pioneering women who
established the roots for what Temple
Ambler is today. Sponsored by the Landscape Arboretum, the department of
landscape architecture and horticulture
and the Office of Student Life. For more
information, call 215-283-1424/25.
“Career Preparation Series”
2:30 p.m. 1700 N. Broad, room 203. A
look at yourself through the eyes of a
Temple’s weekly newspaper for the University community
March 16.
“Harry Potter and the Goblet
of F ire”
March 17–23.
List your events
If you would like your Universitysponsored event included in the
TUcalendar, fill out the “Submit an
Event” form at http://calendar.
temple.edu.
All submissions must be received at
least two weeks prior to the event.
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Events March 16–22
All events free unless otherwise noted. For
the most up-to-date listings, visit the
TUcalendar at http://calendar. temple.edu.
ONGOING
Rome Campus:
Faculty exhibition
Through March 17. Rome Campus. Exhibition includes the works of faculty artists
in the fields of visual art and architecture,
photography, sculpture, design, painting,
printmaking and architecture. Sponsored
by Temple Rome. For further information, contact Shara Wasserman at
[email protected].
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“A Lesson Before Dying”
March 16–25. Randall Theater. Temple
Theaters presents this adaptation by
award-winning playwright Romulus Linney of Ernest Gaines’ prize-winning novel
in its Philadelphia premiere. Directed by
John Bellomo. Single tickets: $13 senior
citizens, students and Temple employees;
$18 all others. Temple students free with
TUid, as well as a current confirmation
card w/GAF codes. Tickets are available
at the Liacouras Center box office (cash
sales only), online at www.liacourascenter.com, or by telephone at 1-888-OWLSTIX. For more information, visit
www.temple.edu/theater.
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Student exhibition: Department
of art and art education and
architecture program
March 20–April 9. Engineering and
Architecture Building, room 102, Fishbowl Gallery. Continuing a tradition of
innovative programming, the departments will present a comprehensive exhibition of works by undergraduates who
have demonstrated outstanding abilities
in their art forms. The exhibition is a culmination of the progress made by students during this academic year. For
more information, contact Pepon Osorio
at [email protected].
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Libraries’ Urban Archives
exhibition
Through March 31. Paley Library, ground
floor, Paley Lecture Hall. Part of Temple’s
Black History and Women’s History Month
celebrations. Sponsored by Temple University Libraries. For more information, call
the Urban Archives at 215-204-5750.
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2006 M.F.A. exhibition
“Madea Goes to Jail”
Through May 20. Temple Gallery, Tyler
Gallery and Penrose Gallery. Visit
www.temple.edu/tyler for details.
8 p.m. See “On Sale at the Liacouras Center” for details.
THURSDAY, March 16
“Finding Scholarships:
Money to Burn”
This workshop is located on the Web at
www.temple.edu/rcc/workshops. Find out
about the many kinds of scholarships
available to students. For more information, or for additional group and individual tutorial services, contact the Russell
Conwell Center at 215-204-1251, or visit
www.temple.edu/rcc.
Coffee hour:
Study abroad in Rome
1–2 p.m. Tuttleman Learning Center,
room 200. The application deadline for
the fall 2006 semester in Rome is April 1.
For more information, contact International Programs at study.abroad@
temple.edu or 215-204-0720, or visit
www.temple.edu/studyabroad.
Open office hours for
Theresa Powell, vice president
of Student Affairs
2–4 p.m. Sponsored by the Division of
Student Affairs.
Registration deadline: Ambler
Campus: Student Government
Association nomination packets
4 p.m. Ambler Campus, Bright Hall,
Office of Student Life. For more information, call the Office of Student Life at 215283-1424/25.
“Management and Ownership”
4:30–6 p.m. Speakman Hall, room 201.
Learn information regarding the building
of a management team, structuring ownership and managing managers. For more
information, contact Michelle Eisenberg
at 215-204-3081.
“A Lesson Before Dying”
opening night
7 p.m. Randall Theater. See “Ongoing” for
details.
8 p.m. Student Pavilion. Recreation Services access required. For more information, call 215-204-1267, or visit www.temple.edu/recsvcs.
FRIDAY, March 17
Deadline for early registration:
“Women in the Workplace:
Research, Policy and Advocacy”
Conference: March 23, 9 a.m.–4:30 p.m.
Mitten Hall, Great Court. The second
annual interdisciplinary research symposium features a distinguished panel of
national leaders and faculty researchers
will present the challenges and opportunities for women in the workplace. For more
information, contact Sally Rosen at sallyr@
temple.edu or Rob Gage at 215-204-7467,
or visit www.research.temple.edu/whrla.
Registration deadline:
Student Leadership Challenge
ropes course trip
Held March 25, 7:15 a.m.–6 p.m.
Millersville University. A bus will take
students to the ropes course site. Part of
the TU Student Leadership Challenge.
Register in McGonigle Hall, suite 102;
registration will continue until all 36 slots
are filled and the 12-person waiting list is
complete. For more information, contact
Steve Young at 215-204-1267 or
[email protected], or visit www.
temple.edu/studentleadershipchallenge.
“Law and Adolescence”
symposium
8–9 a.m.: registration; 9 a.m.–5 p.m.:
symposium. Klein Hall. Lunch and
refreshments provided. Fee for faculty
and staff (free for students w/TUid);
scholarships available. $150 non-TLAA
members; $110 TLAA members. To register, mail or fax registration form, contact [email protected] or register onsite on March 17 only. For more information, contact Alex Bak-Boychuk at
[email protected] or ababanski@
temple.edu, or call 215-204-7868.
Hip-hop dance workshop
7 p.m. Mitten Hall, Owl Cove. Learn the
latest hip-hop dances from choreographer
D. Whit, who has worked with artists such
as Britney Spears, Destiny’s Child, Usher,
112 and TLC, among others. Refreshments
provided; free giveaways. Sponsored by the
Main Campus Program Board.
Boyer’s Unsworth to perform
For Adam Unsworth, the classical and jazz idioms have
always been part of his musical
mix. And the French hornist
with the Philadelphia Orchestra
— who is also instructor of horn
and coordinator of brass repertoire at the Boyer College of
Music and Dance — readily
admits it’s not an easy marriage.
“The overall styles are worlds
apart,” he said. “Playing jazz
requires a completely different
approach — it just doesn’t fly if
you put air into the instrument
in the same way you do for classical.”
With the release of his debut
jazz CD excerpt this!, Unsworth
is indeed flying. The groundbreaking soundtrack features six
of his original compositions and
includes three unaccompanied
jazz works for horn as well as
pieces for his studio jazz sextet.
The release coincides with
two Philadelphia performances
for Unsworth and the sextet: On
March Madness three-on-three
basketball tournament
Arts and Quality of Life
Research Center Inaugural
Conference
9 a.m.–4 p.m. Through March 18. Rock
Hall auditorium. This two-day event provides an opportunity to learn and explore
the various ways that the arts can
enhance the quality of life for all. For
more information, e-mail aqlrcenter@
temple.edu or visit www.temple.edu/
ResearchCenter.
Open office hours for
Theresa Powell, vice president
of Student Affairs
2–4 p.m. Sponsored by the Division of
Student Affairs.
Russell Conwell Center
book club
2:30–4 p.m. 1700 N. Broad, room 204.
Discussion of the Book Club selected
novel Wicked by Gregory Maguire. For
more information, or for additional group
and individual tutorial services, contact
the Russell Conwell Center at 215-2041251, or visit www.temple.edu/rcc.
Photo courtesy Adam Unsworth
Friday, March 17, at the Philadelphia Museum of Art (two sets,
5:45–6:45 p.m., and 7:15–8:15
p.m.) and Sunday, March 19, at
Rock Hall, 3–4:30 p.m.
“I love getting out onstage and
just blowing. Being able to create the music rather than reading
what someone else wrote —
that’s when I’m happiest.”
— Harriet Goodheart
Baseball vs. Long Island
3 p.m. Ambler Campus, Ambler Field.
Dissent in America Teach In:
“The Danish Cartoon
Controversy: Images of the
Prophet Muhammad”
3:40–5 p.m. Anderson Hall, room 821.
Presented by Khalid Blankinship. Sponsored by the history department and Phi
Alpha Theta. For more information, contact Ralph Young at 215-204-8927 or
[email protected], or visit www.
temple.edu/history/Teachin/index.htm.
Symposium to address women at work
Shinae Chun (right), director
of the women’s bureau at the
U.S. Department of Labor, will
deliver the keynote address at
Temple University’s “Women in
the Workplace: Research, Policy
and Advocacy” symposium on
Thursday, March 23, in Mitten
Hall.
The daylong event, sponsored
by the Center for Women’s
Health Research, Leadership and
Advocacy, part of the Office of
the Vice President for Research
and Graduate Studies, will feature many distinguished women
from business and academia, as
well as an afternoon research
session focused on women and
work.
“Our goal is to promote the
growth and development of
interdisciplinary collaboration
in research relating to women’s
health and well-being that
includes: economic, educational, legal and social factors as
well as physical and mental
health issues in the workplace,”
said Sally Rosen, co-director of
Women’s lacrosse vs. Brown
4 p.m. Home game.
Ambler Campus: Philadelphia
Phantoms vs. Wilkes-Barre/
Scranton Penguins
5 p.m.: Bus leaves the Ambler Campus
commuter parking lot for Wachovia Spectrum, 3601 S. Broad St. $10 w/TUid; tickets available in the Temple Ambler Office
of Student Life. Sponsored by the Ambler
Campus Program Board and the Office of
Student Life. For more information, call
215-283-1285.
Table tennis tournament
7–9 p.m. IBC Student Recreation Center.
Recreation Services access required. For
more information, call 215-204-1267, or
visit www.temple.edu/recsvcs.
“A Lesson Before Dying”
8 p.m. Randall Theater. See “Ongoing” for
details.
the Center for Women’s Health
Research, Leadership and
Advocacy.
All interested faculty, staff
and students are invited to
attend and asked to register by
contacting Nancy Kolenda at
[email protected], or 215-2048487. The deadline for early registration is Friday, March 17.
For more information, read
the program agenda at
www.temple.edu/medicine/
calendar/documents/
WomenintheWorkplace.pdf.
20-Year Club
dinner date set
This year’s dinner, honoring
all those who have worked at
Temple 20 years or more —
even if they have since retired —
will be held Friday evening, May
5, in Mitten Hall. New and current members will receive formal invitations in April. In the
meantime, questions may be
directed to Eileen Bradley at
[email protected].
commuter parking lot. Forrest Theatre,
1114 Walnut St. $20 w/TUid; tickets available in Bright Hall, the Temple Ambler
Office of Student Life. Sponsored by the
Ambler Campus Program Board and the
Office of Student Life. For more information, call 215-283-1424/25.
Baseball vs. Saint Peter’s
“Madea Goes to Jail”
8 p.m. See “On Sale at the Liacouras Center” for details.
Noon. Ambler Campus, Ambler Field.
“A Lesson Before Dying”
“Free Food and Fun Fridays”
2 and 8 p.m. Randall Theater. See “Ongoing” for details.
10 p.m.–2 a.m. Student Center atrium.
Texas Hold ’em Tournament. Sponsored
by Student Activities.
“Madea Goes to Jail”
SATURDAY, March 18
Arts and Quality of Life
Research Center Inaugural
Conference
9 a.m.–4 p.m. Rock Hall auditorium. This
two-day event provides an opportunity to
learn and explore the various ways that
the arts can enhance the quality of life for
all. For more information, contact [email protected], or visit
www.temple.edu/ResearchCenter.
Fox executive M.B.A. program
information session
9:30 a.m. The Desmond Conference Center, Malvern, Pa. Registration is required.
For more information or to register, contact Valerie Liepis at [email protected]
or visit www.fox.temple.edu/emba/
info_sessions.html.
Ambler Campus: “Les Miserables”
at the Forrest Theatre
Noon. Bus departs the Ambler Campus
TEMPLE TIMES
Photo courtesy the U.S. Department of Labor
3 and 8 p.m. See “On Sale at the Liacouras Center” for details.
TUCC: Music Prep:
Winter student recital
4:45 p.m. Temple University Center City,
room 222. Sponsored by the Boyer College of Music and Dance. For more information, visit www.temple.edu/boyer.
Women’s tennis vs. Duquesne
5 p.m. Student Pavilion.
Men’s tennis
vs. George Washington
6 p.m. Home game.
“Saturday Night Live
at the Underground”
10 p.m.–2 a.m. Student Center annex,
the Underground. Featuring Novell.
Sponsored by Student Activities and
Infrared.
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