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TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 2, 2014
VOL. 93 ISS. 2
Temple 37 | Vanderbilt 7
TRACK & FIELD | TEMPLE NEWS INVESTIGATION
Foley out as track admin, university investigates claims Patrick O’Connor said Temple is examining details from last week’s track & field report. AVERY MAEHRER Editor-in-Chief
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Sophomore quarterback P.J. Walker celebrates during the football team’s season opening victory against Vanderbilt. Once 16.5-point underdogs to the Commodores, the Owls topped Vanderbilt at Vanderbilt Stadium, 37-7. After a 97-minute rain delay, Temple’s defense held Vanderbilt rushers to a combined 54 yards on the ground and forced seven turnovers, while quarterback P.J. Walker tossed two touchdown passes. PAGE 20
Housing faces a deficit The future budget for residential life remains in the red.
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VIA TEMPLE ATHLETICS
Senior Associate Athletic Director Kristen Foley.
fore the administrative changes were made earlier this summer, former track & field head coach Eric Mobley’s ties with the university were cut and the nearcentury-old men’s track & field team was eliminated from the university. The department’s spokesperson wouldn’t say whether the administrative switch was a result of previous problems and student concerns with the track & field program Foley was overseeing.
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Title IX complaint remains unresolved
JOE BRANDT Assistant News Editor In order to cover deficits, Temple’s Office of University Housing and Residential Life will most likely need to raise room and board rates. Ken Kaiser, Temple’s chief financial officer and treasurer, recently told The Temple News by email that future room and board rate increases were likely. “I do not think Housing will be able to generate enough alternative revenue to eliminate the need for rate increases for the foreseeable future,” Kaiser wrote in the email last week. The office faces a projected deficit of more than $2 million for Fiscal Year 2015 and will receive more than quadruple the university funds to support it, in the form of subvention, than it received in Fiscal Year 2014, amounting to nearly $1.3 million. In a February meeting of the trustees’ Student Affairs and Campus Life and Diversity committees, the trustees approved increases of about four percent to room and board rates after viewing the housing office’s budget and realizing it needed more revenue. Kaiser said at the meeting that the new rates were “being held to the lowest possible levels” except for “very strategic increases based on demand.” He told the trustees the goal is to “make housing profitable by 2018.” According to the conclusion to the proposed
enior Associate Athletic Director Kristen Foley – the main administrator named in last week’s Temple News investigation of how the university overlooked an abusive track & field coach and anguished victims for years – will not oversee the track & field program this season, athletic communications confirmed last week. Foley, who oversaw the administration of track & field and nearly a dozen other Temple sports programs, continues to supervise women’s basketball, crew, rowing and women’s volleyball. Senior Associate Athletic Director Joe Giunta has replaced Foley as the department’s track & field administrator. An athletic department spokesperson said the role change for Foley took effect on July 1. However, the move was not made public until last week when Foley’s profile was updated on the athletic department’s website. The day be-
COURTESY HUNER ANWER
Huner Anwer sits with his grandmother during a Kurdish picnic in March 2012.
IN TELLING OTHER STORIES,
KURDISH STUDENT SEES HIS OWN Graduate student Huner Anwer is molded by his experiences growing up in Sulaimani, Iraq. CLAIRE SASKO | Lifestyle Editor Huner Anwer grew up when he was five. It was 1991. He was told he had to pack up. In a frenzy, he and his family gathered crucial belongings for the 120-mile journey they would be making on foot, from Sulaimani, Iraq, to the Iranian border. Saddam Hussein was in power. Anwer and his family would be traveling among four and a half million Kurdish people desperately fleeing to Iran and Turkey after the 1991 uprisings in Iraq. Anwer and his family hiked, sometimes barefoot, in numbing temperatures through arduous mountain passes, enduring April’s sleet, snow and rain. Thousands of people who began the journey alongside Anwer did not ever finish. Many froze or starved along the way. “When I walked that distance, this was the
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first moment I realized, even though I was a young age, I can’t be a kid,” Anwer said. Now a graduate student studying civil engineering, Anwer, who grew up in Iraqi Kurdistan, a semi-autonomous region in northern Iraq, recalls harrowing memories of the Kurdish exodus. Huner said he saw many parents leave young children behind in fear they would not make it anyway. “You had to walk this road when it’s snowing, you have to decide how you’re going to get to [Iran] and how Huner Anwer you’re going to survive,” Anwer said. His younger sister was six months old. “My little sister at the time was a heavy carry for my mother,” Anwer said. “Sometimes we weren’t even sure if she was dead or alive. We thought, ‘Are we going to decide to lose the
“When I walked that
BOB STEWART The Temple News The sports cuts last December angered Susan Borschel into challenging the university for something few have argued before. “There weren’t enough opportunities for male athletes [after the cuts],” said Borschel, of Virginia, whose daughter Sylvie Borschel competed on the women’s gymnastics team and graduated last year. “This is about [the administration’s] money mismanagement, [which is] unrelated to sports,” Borschel said. In 2014, she filed a Title IX complaint against Temple for discrimination against male athletes. “The fact that the Depart-
ment of Education is taking this is landmark,” Borschel said. “I don’t think anyone has ever done this.” When legislators added the Title IX amendment 43 years ago to the Higher Education Act of 1965, the national discussion was largely focused on concern for how gender inequality in collegiate sports negatively impacted women. But the law is written to ensure across-theboard equality, not to focus exclusively on females. The amendment reads, “No person in the United States shall, on the basis of sex, be excluded from participation in, be denied the benefits of, or be subjected to discrimination under any education program
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distance, this was the first moment I realized ... I can’t be a kid.
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Temple Fest incident response
Film group nominated for Geek Award
Despite the announcement of a university investigation, students and alumni remain dissatisfied. PAGE 2
Student-run film group Wandering Studios placed third among 500 nominations for a Philly Geek Award. PAGE 7
OPINION - PAGES 4-5 Bias in Temple Fest incident
A complaint argued the university has not given equal opportunity for male athletes.
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ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT - PAGES 9-13
SKYLER BURKHART TTN
The athletic department offices on North Broad Street.
Reggae rock band released EP on USB Post Sun Times released its EP “PST” on flash drives instead of CDs or vinyl. PAGE 9
SPORTS - PAGES 17-20
New facility for crew, rowing