September 28 | Issue 3

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100 YEARS OF

THE TEMPLE NEWS The Temple News officially turned 100 years old on Sept. 19, 2021. Read stories from current and former staff members about what the publication means to them.

WHAT’S INSIDE FEATURES, PAGE 21 Ben and Natalie Watanabe discuss how their marriage started at The Temple News.

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SPORTS, PAGE 34

Kevin Neghandhi reflects on how he went from The Temple News to SportsCenter.

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THE TEMPLE NEWS A watchdog for the Temple University community since 1921.

Lawrence Ukenye Editor-in-Chief Amelia Winger Digital Managing Editor Jack Danz Print Managing Editor Dante Collinelli Chief Digital Copy Editor Natalie Kerr Chief Print Copy Editor Haajrah Gilani Assignments Editor Fallon Roth News Editor Micah Zimmerman Assistant News Editor Monica Constable Assistant News Editor Julia Merola Opinion Editor Samantha Sullivan Features Editor Mary Rose Leonard Assistant Features Editor Matthew Aquino Assistant Features Editor Isabella DiAmore Sports Editor Nick Gangewere Assistant Sports Editor Victoria Ayala Assistant Sports Editor Eden MacDougall Intersection Editor Emerson Marchese Longform Editor Maggie Fitzgerald Audience Engagement Editor Emily Lewis Asst. Engagement Editor Gracie Heim Web Editor Allie Ippolito Photography Editor Amber Ritson Assistant Photography Editor Erik Coombs Multimedia Editor Allison Silibovsky Assistant Multimedia Editor Olivia Hall Podcast Editor Hanna Lipski Design Editor Carly Civello Assistant Design Editor Scarlett Catalfamo Advertising Manager Luke Smith Business Manager

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ON THE COVER A collage of issue covers from The Temple News’s archives.

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CORRECTIONS On Sept. 14, an article on page 25 titled “Temple’s lack of execution will hurt them in the long run” incorrectly reported a statistic regarding freshman quarterback Justin Lynch. Lynch took his first career start on Sept. 11 against The University of Akron.

Accuracy is our business, so when a mistake is made, we’ll correct it as soon as possible. Anyone with inquiries about content in this newspaper can contact Editor-in-Chief Lawrence Ukenye at editor@temple-news.com.

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Letter from the Editor Dear readers,

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oday, Sept. 19, 2021, The Temple News turns 100 years old. Our publication has provided coverage about defining moments in our nation’s history, like the Great Depression, World War II, and the election of the nation’s first Black president.

The resilience of our staff and editorial processes has held Temple University accountable and served as a beacon of objective truth for students, faculty, staff, alumni and North Central residents regarding issues within our coverage zone and Philadelphia overall.

While previous editors have reported on incredible challenges facing the university and the nation — like the student body’s reaction to the attack on Pearl Harbor, President John F. Kennedy’s assassination and the Sept. 11 attacks — our efforts over the last 18 months should make clear that while the world continues to change, our true mission has not.

Today as our publication continues to manage the challenges of running a newsroom amid a pandemic while operating with decreased funding from the university, our resolve remains steadfast.

I arrived as a freelancer for The Temple News in September 2019 and witnessed this paper evolve while covering a global pandemic, an intense presidential election and a rapidly changing university landscape.

We still have work to do in improving the diversity among our staff and ensuring that we find solutions-oriented ways to best cover the North Central community.

I seek not to use this moment to celebrate our accomplishments but to highlight how The Temple News has epitomized the way student publications can amplify the voices of their readers while holding an objective lens to current affairs.

However, we have undoubtedly fulfilled our mission to be a watchdog for the Temple University community and are fully committed to doing so for the next 100 years and beyond.

During the past 18 months, our staff has risked their health and safety to cover crucial issues for the Temple community in a way not asked of previous editors. We’ve reported at political protests and COVID-19 vaccination clinics as we’ve sought to make our paper a window into the rapidly evolving world around us, all while operating primarily virtually.

Sincerely,

Instead of drastically reducing operations throughout the pandemic, we expanded our online presence, experimented with new forms of media and broadened the coverage of various sections in our paper.

Lawrence Ukenye Editor-in-Chief

Allison Silibovsky / THE TEMPLE NEWS Staff at the Temple News finalize 100th anniversary issue on Sept. 27.

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ALLIE IPPOLITO/ THE TEMPLE NEWS The front page of Temple University News from April 11, 1945.

The Temple News: How has the paper evolved?

The News Editor and Assistant University-centered and national coverage. Temple News documented how students The Temple News publishes organized a committee to support his News Editors examined the dailyToday, digital content and biweekly print campaign. history of the paper’s coverage. content using a flip-through tabloid “A new Presidential campaign format that better showcases the work of organization, the Roosevelt Independent

BY FALLON ROTH, MICAH the paper’s photographers, designers and Students’ Committee, has been ZIMMERMAN AND MONICA reporters, wrote Gillian McGoldrick, a introduced into Temple,” The Temple 2019 journalism alumna and the 2018-19 News wrote in the Oct. 21, 1932 issue.

CONSTABLE editor-in-chief of The Temple News, in “The object of the organization is to aid For The Temple News an email to The Temple News. in the Roosevelt campaign and arouse

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uring the past century, The Temple News has served as an independent voice for both the student body and the North Central community while covering everything from wars to protests and navigating changes in the paper’s structure, content and staff.

While The Temple News does not have records of the 1920s editions of the paper, issues from 1932 onward show the publication’s commitment to its watchdog mission through its reporting on social causes and economic crises.

The Temple News printed using a broadsheet form from the 1930s to 2018, which contained both short blurbs and larger columns that discussed Temple

Howie Shapiro, an adjunct journalism professor, Broadway critic for the Classical Network of National Public Radio affiliates and 1968 copy editor for The Temple News, appreciates the changes that the publication has made over time.

“The look of the paper keeps changing, but it should do that with every new bunch of students, you should make it the way you want to,” Shapiro said.

Dating back to the 1930s, The Temple News addressed significant events like economic recessions, on-campus events and presidential elections that greatly impacted the Temple student body.

Former President Franklin D. Roosevelt began his presidential campaign in 1932, and reporters at The

student interest and motivate active participation in the coming elections.”

In 1944, during World War II, The Temple News highlighted the heroics of Allied forces on D-Day, when American, Canadian and British forces stormed the beaches of Normandy in an effort to liberate France from Nazi control. Maj. Patrick Chilton, M.C., English army officer, spoke at a university lecture in Mitten Hall’s clubroom, according to The Temple University News digital archives.

“Describing preparations for the invasion, Maj. Chilton said a wall of concrete 60 feet thick was erected in England to represent the West Wall on the invasion coast, and the invasion was simulated day after day,” The Temple News wrote in the Oct. 18, 1944 issue.

“The British and Americans threw everything they had including heavy bombs at the ‘West Wall’ and left it a mass of ruins.”

The paper’s writers also voiced their opinions on ongoing reformation movements, like the Civil Rights Movement, a mobilization that took place in the 1950s and 1960s and fought for equal rights for Black people.

“Liberty must be for all and not just for some,” The Temple News wrote in an April 16, 1956 issue. “It is for the best of us and for the worst of us. These are not just luxuries to be fought for. We must uphold them.”

On Nov. 17, 1967, thousands of Black students organized a march in the School District of Philadelphia building to advocate for improved facilities, courses that would educate students about Black history and the right to wear traditional African attire at school, The Temple News reported. This protest contributed to the establishment of the Department of Africology and African American Studies at Temple in 1971.

During other civil rights demonstrations, students mourned the

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assassination of Martin Luther King Jr. in 1968, who had spoken to crowds of students on Main Campus in 1965, The Temple News reported.

In 2008, the paper documented local residents gathering at Progress Plaza to hear then Sen. Barack Obama speak during his presidential campaign. One month later, The Temple News reported the nation had elected its first Black president.

The Temple News also reported on a march that made its way through Main Campus protesting against former President Donald Trump in the wake of his victory in the 2016 Presidential Election.

“They chanted things like, ‘F-ck Donald Trump,’ ‘Donald Trump is KKK, racist, sexist, anti-gay,’ ‘Not my president,’ ‘My body my choice’ and ‘Black Lives Matter,’” Evan Easterling wrote in the article.

Besides reporting on protests and celebrations, The Temple News has reported on heartbreak and hardships.

The paper documented a constitutional amendment introduced to the voters of Pennsylvania during the Great Depression that could have eliminated one-third of the university’s commonwealth appropriation between 1933 and 1934, according to The Temple University News digital archives.

Rather than increasing tuition fees, the university resorted to cutting faculty salaries to balance its budget throughout the Depression, according to the article.

The paper also reported on students’ reactions to the terrorist attacks on Sept.

11, 2001, in New York City, Arlington, Virginia, and Shanksville, Pennsylvania.

“The first thing I thought was where were my friends and family,” a student said in the Sept. 13 to Sept. 19, 2001, issue of The Temple News.

The publication also continued to hold the university and its officials, both present and former, accountable.

In September 1990, The Temple News covered student protests alongside a faculty strike of the administration’s salary and health care package offer.

The protests included students storming former President Peter Liacouras’ office in Sullivan Hall.

The Temple News also covered the sexual assault case of Bill Cosby, former Temple Board of Trustees member,

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ALLIE IPPOLITO/ THE TEMPLE NEWS Temple University News archives are seen in the archive room in The Temple News newsroom on the second floor in the Howard Gittis Student Center.

including his conviction on three counts of aggravated indecent assault in an April 2018 retrial, his sentencing of three to 10 years in Sept. 2018 and the Pennsylvania Supreme Court dropping his charges in June 2021.

While documenting the events of Cosby’s case, the paper made sure to note that former Board of Trustees Chairman Patrick O’Connor represented Cosby in a 2005 civil suit for a related matter, The Temple News reported.

Despite its ability to produce diverse coverage on both hyper-local and national topics that are relevant to the student body, The Temple News has faced its own challenges.

The publication’s content, especially in the 1930s, seemed to cater solely toward stereotypical male interests at the time like tobacco, sports and fraternities, and nearly all advertisements featured only white people.

Now, sections of the paper, like Intersection and Opinion, aim to highlight a diverse range of student experiences by allowing students to write and report on topics related to their identity.

The paper has also evolved to suit the modern digital sphere by using online media for outreach to readers, like email newsletters, digital letters to the editor and publishing daily content to The Temple News’s website.

Since The Temple News switched to digital content there has been a greater opportunity for audience participation and engagement, said Arlene Notoro Morgan, assistant dean for external affairs at Klein College and reporter for the Temple News from 1965 to 1966.

Fast-forward to present day, The Temple News is now dealing with a new challenge, the COVID-19 pandemic.

“The coverage of the [COVID-19]

pandemic was very detailed,” Morgan said. “To really be able to spell out what the university was doing during that whole up and down, we had no idea of what we’d be doing in terms of wearing our mask or don’t wear a mask, get vaccinated or don’t get vaccinated, close the school or don’t close in school.”

While The Temple News has endured many changes throughout the last 100 years, the paper will continue forward in its reporting mission to serve as a watchdog for the Temple University community. fallon.roth@temple.edu @fallonroth_ micah.zimmerman@temple.edu @micahvzimmerman monica.constable@temple.edu @mconstable7

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ALLIE IPPOLITO / THE TEMPLE NEWS Old editions of Temple University News are archived into books and located in The Temple News newsroom on the second floor of the Howard Gittis Student Center.

The Temple News fulfills its ‘watchdog’ mission The paper reported on wars, they produced during their time on staff ed on protests from students about the Ramsey Clark. They wanted to publicly protests, university actions and held the university accountable on be- Vietnam War. Posters with the slogan announce their resistance to the war in the effects they had on Temple. half of students, employees and the local “CONFRONT THE WARMAKERS” Vietnam and their intentions of helping

BY MONICA CONSTABLE Assistant News Editor Even as the paper’s content, audience and staff have evolved over time, The Temple News has continually carried out its slogan of being “a watchdog for the Temple University community since 1921.”

The reporting of national, local and university events, like the Vietnam War, an increase in student marijuana usage, the approval of the 2018-19 operating budget and the local community dissent about the planned on-campus stadium, reflects how The Temple News has held the university and public officials accountable.

The Temple News reached out to former reporters and editors and gathered information about how the stories

community.

Arlene Notoro Morgan, assistant dean for external affairs at Klein College of Media and Communication and editor-in-chief for the Temple News in the 1965-66 academic year, kept the university community informed about the increase in students’ marijuana use through stories she wrote in 1965 as a reporter for The Temple News.

The university thought marijuana and drug use were not acceptable topics to write about, Morgan said. Carl Grip, the dean of students from 1956 to 1968, had a meeting with Morgan in which he said he did not want stories about drugs on campus to be published, however, they continued to write about this topic.

The Temple News also reported on how university administration and students responded to the Vietnam War and the Civil Rights Movement.

In 1967, The Temple News report-

were posted on bulletin boards, windows of buildings and on the sidewalks to show resistance to the war in Vietnam.

Students protested to hold the federal government accountable for this “meaningless war”, wrote Howie Shapiro, an adjunct journalism professor, Broadway critic for the Classical Network of National Public Radio affiliates and the 1968 copy editor for The Temple News, in a 1967 article for the paper.

Clubs, like DuBois Club, Young Socialist Forum, Student Mobilization Committee, Americans for a Democratic Society and Students for a Democratic Society, served as an outlet for students to express their political views, Shapiro wrote. Each club opposed the country’s policies and war effort in Vietnam.

Resist, a national group, which included university professors, planned to march in Washington D.C. on Oct. 20, 1967 and to confront Attorney General

others avoid the draft, Shapiro wrote.

Professors like English professor Robert Edenbaum, thought the Vietnam War was immoral, illegal and corrupt.

English professor Maxwell S. Luria said that there are several moral issues concerning the war like killing, maiming and forcing the United States of America’s idea of freedom onto another country, Shapiro wrote.

“It was an interesting time to be a training journalist because let’s face it, how many times would you be in college when the President of the United States was assassinated, and the country was turned to turmoil, you know, and the Vietnam War was going on and Civil Rights Movement was going on,” Morgan said.

Despite university backlash, the paper maintained its goal of informing the student body and showing how university policies like cutting collegiate sports

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directly affect student-athletes and coaches.

The Board of Trustees unanimously approved Athletic Director Kevin Clark’s recommendation to cut seven intercollegiate sports including baseball, softball, men’s track and field, men’s gymnastics, women’s rowing and men’s crew in December 2014, according to a Temple News article written by Avery Maehrer, the 2013-14 Sports editor and 2014-15 editor-in-chief for The Temple News.

“It was heartbreaking because these student-athletes and these coaches, their lives are really affected by this, and, you know, as student journalists, it was an opportunity for us to really give a voice to what they were going through,” Maehrer said.

The paper documented how the administration’s decision created job losses and impacted student-athletes and coaches as their futures were uncertain, Maehrer said.

NEWS The administration has a duty to preserve the rich history of these programs and should have been transparent when announcing the sports cuts, as opposed to not giving the sports teams prior notice of the changes, Maehrer said.

“All those things, I think, were part of how we as student journalists, you know, attempted to be watchdogs with this story,” Maehrer said.

Keeping a check on administration’s decisions has also kept the surrounding community informed on topics, like the proposed football stadium.

Temple’s 2014 master plan called for a new football stadium in North Philadelphia. North Central residents, students and faculty addressed the negative impacts of the stadium, and community members formed an activist group, The Stadium Stompers, advocating against the on-campus stadium, The Temple News reported.

The Stadium Stompers marched from Temple’s Main Campus to City

Hall in protest of the proposed on-campus stadium in May 2018, The Temple News reported. The group recommends that the stadium be built in Ambler, Pennsylvania, rather than in North Philadelphia.

The Stadium Stompers emphasized the need for reallocation of the $130 million budgeted for the stadium to public education and affordable housing for veterans and senior citizens, The Temple News reported.

As a result of the community dissent, the stadium project is no longer under consideration, according to the Pennsylvania Auditor General’s report on the university.

By reporting on behalf of the community’s perspective that the money should go to education and housing rather than a football stadium, the paper made certain that local resident voices were heard.

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responsible for its decisions has manifested in real physical changes like the row and crewing team being reinstated and the termination of the football stadium project due to community dissent. “[The Temple News] always held the watchdog role and it’s pretty much lived up to that challenge,” Morgan said.

“I don’t think it’s ever been afraid to go after a story.” monica.constable@temple.edu @mconstable7

ALLIE IPPOLITO / THE TEMPLE NEWS An article featuring the trial of Lt. William L. Callowy, Jr. is featured in an archived issue of Temple University News.

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Former News editor reflects on time at the paper Award-winning Inquirer reporter, Kristen Graham, learned important skills at The Temple News.

BY FALLON ROTH News Editor As a child, Kristen Graham couldn’t wait for the Philadelphia Inquirer to be delivered to her door and even created her own neighborhood newspaper, “The Graham Gazette,” after there was a small fire in her backyard when she was seven years old.

When she became the News editor of The Temple News in 1999, Graham gained the needed confidence to ask tough questions of the university. This has helped her hold Philadelphia officials, like the mayor and The School District of Philadelphia superintendent, accountable while reporting on Philadelphia’s public schools for the Philadelphia Inquirer, she said.

“People think ‘Oh, like, I don’t have to answer those questions because, you know, you’re just a student,’ but we took it really seriously, you know, we were writing professional-grade stories,” Graham said.

The 2012 Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and a 2000 journalism alumna, worked her way from creator of “The Graham Gazette,” to editor of her high school’s newspaper, The Northeast High School Megaphone, where she met Josh Cornfield, the Nerve Center deputy director for the Associated Press and a former football and basketball reporter for Graham at the high school’s paper.

“You knew that when she was working on a story that it was going to be done professionally,” said Cornfield, who worked at The Temple News between 1999 and 2002. “It was going to be done really well and she wasn’t going to cut corners.”

After finishing an internship at the Inquirer sponsored by Golf Writers Association of America, Graham decided that she wanted to continue news reporting and joined The Temple News.

Graham knocked on the newsroom door, shared her journalism experience and expressed interest in joining the paper.

She became a writer for a semester and then became News editor in 1999 until she graduated from Temple in 2000, an expe-

AMBER RITSON / THE TEMPLE NEWS Kristen Graham, the 1999 News editor at The Temple News and current Philadelphia Inquirer education reporter, sits in The Temple News office on Sept. 24.

rience that changed her life, Graham said.

“Being in that newsroom, you know, talking to people who care about journalism as much as I did, and were learning how to do it the same way I was, it was wonderful,” Graham said.

Graham was always searching for stories and frequently attended and reported on faculty and committee meetings at Temple, said Andrew Goldstein, a showrunner, writer, producer and the 1999 editor-in-chief at The Temple News.

The paper provided Graham with lifelong friends, like Goldstein, and memories of late nights in the newsroom, Graham said “You’re on deadline, and all of your friends are there, and you know you’re kind of listening to music and, you know, just sharing stories and, like, racing the clock to get the paper out,” Graham said.

The Temple News also gave Graham leadership and time management skills and the opportunity to look at stories

more critically, which have helped her be the award-winning journalist she is today, Graham said.

Graham was a part of the Inquirer team that wrote the 2012 Pulitzer Prize-winning series, “Assault on Learning,” which examined violence within The School District of Philadelphia after violent incidents between students at South Philadelphia High School, Graham said.

“To a lot of people in the school district, it didn’t seem that shocking,” Graham said. “It was just kind of like ‘Well, but you know that’s what happens in the school district.’”

Graham brought a sense of energy and positivity to “Assault on Learning,” said Dylan Purcell, an investigative and data journalist at the Inquirer who worked on the project with Graham.

“I think she also wanted to make sure that we told the story of, you know, the families and the kids involved and how

you can kind of, like what solutions are to that problem,” Purcell said.

Winning a Pultizer was a dream for Graham, but the most important thing was that the team was able to report on behalf of children in the Philadelphia school district, Graham said.

Going forward, Graham hopes that The Temple News continues to hold people accountable and form closer connections with the surrounding community, she said.

“I don’t know any of you folks at The Temple News personally, but I still feel connected to you because we all, you know, felt the importance of the same mission,” Graham said. fallon.roth@temple.edu @fallonroth_

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COVID-19

University extends vaccine exemption deadline

GRACIE HEIM / THE TEMPLE NEWS Students walk past Paley Library on Sept. 20. Temple extended the vaccine exemption request deadline to avoid unnecessarily disenrolling students.

Unvaccinated Temple students may face disenrollment if their exemption request is not granted.

BY FALLON ROTH News Editor Temple University will allow unvaccinated students to request medical or religious exemptions from the university’s COVID-19 vaccine mandate past the Sept. 17 exemption request deadline to avoid unnecessarily disenrolling students, the university wrote in an email to unvaccinated students on Sept. 21.

“We do not want that to happen, that is not, that is the absolute last thing we want to have to happen is to just disenroll a student,” said Stephen Orbanek, a university spokesperson.

The university has received just

under 1,000 exemptions requests as of Sept. 17, The Temple News reported.

Students who have not uploaded their vaccination card and are not in compliance with university COVID-19 testing requirements have already begun to lose access to campus buildings, Orbanek said.

The university has not confirmed if unvaccinated students will be disenrolled if found in violation of the vaccination requirement because it wants to consider each student on a case-by-case basis, Orbanek said.

For example, if an unexempted student is not vaccinated by the deadline but only has one in-person class, they could be offered remote enrollment instead of being fully disenrolled, Orbanek said. The student would not be permitted in on-campus buildings, he added.

“It’s not like so black and white to

say that, ‘Yes, you are not vaccinated, you do not have an exemption, you are disenrolled,’” Orbanek said.

Temple’s total undergraduate enrollment for the Fall 2021 semester has already decreased by 4.5 percent from last fall, largely due to the COVID-19 pandemic, students graduating in four years because of the university’s Flyin-Four program and smaller incoming class sizes, wrote Shawn Abbott, vice provost for enrollment management, in an email to The Temple News.

The Bursar’s Office is “finalizing the fee policy,” including tuition, fees and room and board, for students who are disenrolled, wrote the office in an email to The Temple News.

“It is our goal to finalize the policy as quickly as possible,” the Bursar’s Office wrote.

Temple announced its vaccine

mandate on Aug. 13 shortly after the City of Philadelphia announced all university students, faculty and health care workers must be fully vaccinated by Oct. 15, The Temple News reported.

As of Sept. 16, nearly 78 percent of Temple students are fully vaccinated, according to the university’s vaccine and case dashboard.

Approximately 82 percent of Temple employees are fully vaccinated, according to the dashboard.

Temple is required by Philadelphia’s mandate to prevent faculty and staff who are not vaccinated by Oct. 15 from working on campus, wrote Sharon Boyle, associate vice president of human resources, in an email to The Temple News.

“Termination is always a last resort, however, if a faculty or staff member refuses to submit documentation of vaccination or receive an approved exemption, we may have no choice,” Boyle wrote.

Temple’s Human Resources department is considering offering “a short period of unpaid time” for employees who did not receive the vaccine in time to be fully vaccinated by Oct. 15, submit an exemption request or submit proof of vaccination, Boyle wrote.

Students, faculty and staff should have received their first shot of a twodose vaccine by Sept. 10 and their second dose or a single-dose vaccine by Oct. 1, The Temple News reported.

The university expects its vaccination rate to rise once students and faculty get their second dose of a twodose vaccine or a single-dose vaccine in the coming weeks, Orbanek said. fallon.roth@temple.edu @fallonroth_

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TUPD has rifles in case of active shooter incident

KAITLYN JEFFREY / THE TEMPLE NEWS On Sept. 12, a TUPD vehicle was stolen with a loaded AR-15 locked inside a safe.

of officers each shift are trained and certified

Public Radio reported. TUPD does not add

ment are also equipped with AR-15 rifles and

active shooter,” Leone said.

Specific guidelines for accessing an AR15 are at the discretion of individual police departments, said Anthony Erace, acting executive director of the Philadelphia Police Advisory Commission.

No one entering the police vehicle can access the gun safes without authorization, which comes in the form of a key or an electronic lock, Leone said. The woman who stole the patrol car on Sept. 12 did not access the gun’s safe.

Active-shooter incidents increased exponentially nationwide from 2000 to 2019 with three incidents in 2000 and 30 in 2019, according to the FBI’s 2000-2019 Active Shooter Review.

“It is safe to assume that most, if not all campus police departments have these styles of weapons,” Erace said.

An AR-15 is a lightweight semi-automatic rifle, meaning the shooter must pull the trigger to fire each shot, but a bump stock can be added to the rifle to simulate automatic rifles that fire shots consecutively, National

shooting at Virginia Tech University that killed 32 people and first equipped purchased AR-15s in 2013, Leone said.

“The more time it takes law enforcement to respond and stop the actor(s), the more people are seriously injured or killed,” wrote Leone in an email to The Temple News.

All Temple police officers receive active-shooter training, but half of the current police force has received the additional training to access an AR-15, Leone said. These trainings focus on accuracy in shooting, proper storage of the weapon, use of cover and shooting stances.

TUPD trains their officers using computer simulations to prepare for the possibility of a mass-shooting scenario on Main Campus, The Temple News reported.

TUPD officers used this training when they responded to an active-shooting incident in 2019 at a house at 15th Street and Erie Avenue, Leone wrote.

Officers with appropriate training at the University of Pennsylvania Police Depart-

perintendent of UPPD. An AR-15 is “not something you hope to use, but something you need to use” in the case of an active shooter, Rush said.

UPPD declined to comment further on the quantity and specifics of their weapons.

Incidents like the 1999 Columbine High School Shooting led police departments across the country to reevaluate their response to active-shooter incidents, Erace said. Prior to the shooting, officers would rush toward gunfire and not operate as a unit to distract and isolate an active-shooter.

The dangers of AR-15s in the hands of police depends on the culture of the department, Erace said.

“Do you want a brutal racist police officer carrying an AR-15?” Erace said. “Not really. But it all depends on the culture and training of the police department we are talking about.”

The Temple News conducted to access an AR-15, Leone said. bump stocks to their rifles, Leone said. other semi-automatic weapons in the case of an inquiry into Temple Police “Roughly 20 percent of our officers have The department began training in ac- an active-shooter incident, said Maureen owning military-grade weapons. access to an AR-15 each shift in the case of an tive-shooter scenarios prior to the 2007 mass Rush, vice president for public safety and suBY MICAH ZIMMERMAN Assistant News Editor A labeled Temple University Police car, with a loaded AR-15 locked inside a safe, was temporarily stolen, on Sunday, Sept. 12, and driven around North Philadelphia for nearly 30 minutes, 6ABC reported. The Temple News inquired about the presence of military-grade rifles on Temple police officers and their use within the department.

TUPD armed its officers with AR-15s in 2013 due to a rising number of active-shooter incidents across the nation, said Charles Leone, executive director of campus safety services. The department is equipped with an undisclosed number of the semi-automatic rifles to combat these instances. While there was not an active shooter the night the labeled police car was stolen, an AR-15 was locked up in the rear of the vehicle in a mounted safe, he said.

All police department vehicles are capable of carrying AR-15 rifles, but only a subset

micah.zimmerman@temple.edu @micahvzimmerman

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COMMUNITY

SEPTA proposes public transit service redesign The proposed system rebrand will impact local Broad Street Line stations, like Cecil B. Moore.

BY DEVON RUSSELL For The Temple News The Southeastern Pennsylvania Transportation Authority is proposing an approximately $40 million initiative to provide new tools, like online maps, apps, audio announcements and updated signage, to make the transportation authority’s rail transit services more accessible and easier for riders to navigate.

The Rail Transit Wayfinding Master Plan initiative, which is expected to be fully designed in 2022, includes recommendations for updating the signage, letters, colors, shapes and terminology at all of SEPTA’s rail transit system stops, like the Broad Street Line which includes the Cecil B. Moore and Susquehanna-Dauphin stations near Temple University’s Main Campus, to make them more consistent, according to a SEPTA press release.

The rebrand will assign one letter and a color to each city trolley or subway stop. For example, the Broad Street Line will be identified with a “B” on an orange background, and the Route 15 trolley running along Girard Avenue will be identified with a “G” on a square yellow background, said Lex Powers, manager of strategic planning at SEPTA. Other impacted rail transit stops include the Market-Frankford Line, city and suburban trolley routes and the Norristown High Speed Line, according to the press release.

The new rail transit system, which is proposed to be renamed as SEPTA Metro, will be implemented sometime after 2022, Powers said.

SEPTA also wants to make the rail transit system more accessible for nonnative English speakers and people with disabilities, Powers said. Most signs for Philadelphia’s public transit systems involve full words and sentences.

Eliminating the names of transit lines and replacing them with just one letter will remove the confusion of having to

NOEL CHACKO / THE TEMPLE NEWS SEPTA is planning to update the signage, letters, colors, shapes and terminology at all of SEPTA’s rail transit system stops. The Broad Street Line, which includes the Cecil B. Moore and Susquehanna-Dauphin stops, will be identified with a “B” on an orange background.

decipher a transit sign.

SEPTA’s regional rail and bus system will be addressed in the future, Powers said.

Linh Nguyen, a freshman data science major, takes the Broad Street Line from Main Campus to visit City Hall and her relatives in South and West Philadelphia, she said. Navigating the rail transit system’s directions is difficult for Nguyen, whose first language is Vietnamese.

“It’s quite confusing because, at some stations, like there’s no navigators, so I have to look up on Google Maps to find the right directions,” said Nguyen. “I have to, like, repeat it, repeatedly read the instructions, and it’s quite confusing.”

Despite primarily relying on her phone to navigate to destinations, the proposed SEPTA changes could make the rail transit system easier to navigate if her phone does not have service, Nguyen said.

SEPTA is accepting feedback from the public on the proposed

recommendations for improving the system’s signage after spending the last 18 months researching and reaching out to stakeholders to develop the recommendations, Powers said.

Layla Myers, a junior anthropology major, who commutes 20 miles from Bensalem, Pennsylvania, is worried that these changes from SEPTA will be confusing to people who have used the rail transit services for a while.

“I feel like, like other people who have been getting on, like it might be a bit confusing at first for the different names, like where it’s actually going,” Myers said.

The SEPTA app also experiences glitches, said Mark Iskander, a secondyear student at the Kornberg School of Dentistry.

“I would love it if they saved my schedule and fixed some of the bugs,” Iskander said.

Approximately 50 percent of Temple students, faculty and staff use

a form of public transit in an average week to commute to and from campus, according to the university’s 2019 sustainability report.

“It’s completely rethinking the way that we want people to perceive SEPTA, perceive our services and how we’re communicating about how you can best use transit in the Philadelphia area,” Powers said. devon.russell@temple.edu

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Looking forward, we must expand our diversity A student argues that The Temple News must be more accountable for its diversity efforts.

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n recent years, The Temple News has strived to be diverse in its sourcing and staff but there is always room for improvement.

As an independent JULIA MEROLA publication, The Opinion Editor Temple News must do better in diversifying its staff and sources, and remain neutral in coverage by continuing to use tools like diversity trackers and audits.

Having diverse editors can encourage diversity in freelancers, said Tyler Perez, a senior secondary education-English education major, and the 2020-21 chief copy editor at The Temple News.

“If a freelancer is a person of color, is a woman or is a person of the LGBTQ community, and they see themselves reflected in their editor, that will encourage more people to become freelancers for the paper,” Perez said.

Lack of diversity in newsrooms is not a unique issue. More than 75 percent of news analysts, reporters and White House correspondents are white and non-Hispanic, Data USA reported.

In Spring 2021, less than six percent of editors-in-chief at college newsrooms were Black, and only 11 percent of the top editors were Hispanic, according to an August 2021 survey from Voices, a program created by the Asian American Journalists Association.

Insufficient representation in the media and negative portrayals of minorities can perpetuate stereotypes about different groups of people, Vice reported.

Without a diverse newsroom, journalists are unable to serve all parts of their community, according to the American Press Institute.

A lack of newsroom diversity also prevents journalists from fully reporting certain stories because there may be no

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one who has a connection to what is being covered, said Christina Mitchell, a public health graduate student and the 2020-21 Opinion editor at The Temple News.

“You might be reporting on it, but it’s not going to have that same impact it would if it was coming from a person who could relate to that topic,” Mitchell said.

The importance of diversity is not limited to the staff. It is also important that The Temple News maintain diversity in sourcing. That was something that last year’s staff focused on, said Valerie Dowret, a 2021 journalism alumni and the 2020-21 assignments editor at The Temple News.

“We were pushing that, whether it’s in people’s genders, people’s ethnicities, people’s political views or ages, it’s something we tried to be mindful of,” Dowret said.

The Temple News would occasionally interview the same people for multiple stories, which can be a pro and a con, Mitchell said.

“We tend to reinterview people a

lot, it’s a double-edged sword because if you’re reinterviewing someone they’re definitely going to be more willing to talk but, by nature of that, that’s not super diverse,” Mitchell said.

Increasing the diversity of sources helps reporters improve their articles, as their different backgrounds add to the story and make it more relevant to the audience, according to Nieman Reports, an online and print publication that covers thought leadership in journalism.

During the 2020 presidential election it was hard to find conservative sources, people may not want to talk because they perceive The Temple News to be a left-leaning paper, Perez said.

“It’s really easy for us as Temple students to have a liberal bias when we’re writing and reporting,” Perez said.

“If there were five voices in a story, it would be four pro-Biden voices and one pro-Trump voice that we threw in there simply because we needed one.”

Last year, The Temple News attempted to utilize a diversity tracker

through Google Sheets to analyze the variety of sources. But it eventually fizzled out because the staff did not have the infrastructure or the skills to create a tracker that was easy to use and gave honest results, Perez said.

A diversity audit that assesses the demographics and culture of the staff, like the one done at the Philadelphia Inquirer, is another useful tool to track diversity in a comprehensive, quantitative and qualitative look into the representation of different races and genders in the paper’s coverage.

As a watchdog for the community, The Temple News must hold itself accountable for its lack of diversity in sources and staff so it can more effectively report and serve the community. julia.merola@temple.edu @juliaamerola

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Arlene Morgan reflects on centennial anniversary Former editor-in-chief shares how The Temple News shaped her journey as a journalist.

BY ARLENE NOTORO MORGAN 1966 Editor-in-Chief at The Temple News I marked my final day as editor-inchief of The Temple News – way back in January 1967 – with a column called “No Regrets.”

Fifty-four years later “No Regrets” still symbolizes how The Temple News experience sustains the values and friendships that marked my career as a journalist and educator.

To quote my friend and famed boxing promoter J Russell Peltz: “I didn’t go to Temple; I went to The Temple News.”

My first interview was with the late Rev. Leon H. Sullivan, founder of the Opportunities Industrial Relations Center, a job training and career opportunities service, which still exists adjacent to our campus.

A fierce civil rights advocate, Sullivan used his ministry and his position as a General Motors board member to fight apartheid in South Africa. Formidable in stature, Sullivan was not about to trust a young reporter with his story. When the interview was over, he instructed me to read back every quote, including the punctuations. When the story came out, he sent me a note of appreciation – a note I still have.

That note confirmed my decision to use my abilities to serve the voiceless and unsung community heroes that Sullivan represented.

As a political junkie, I gravitated to hard news and 1956 journalism alumna Rose DeWolf of The Bulletin who proved women had a place in the man’s world of the newsroom.

But I learned early on that it wouldn’t be easy to join this world when The Philadelphia Inquirer rejected my bid for an internship because it involved covering cops, and girls did not do that.

But I was hell bent on reporting hard news, not the typical feature stories about food and fashion that women

ALLIE IPPOLITO / THE TEMPLE NEWS Arlene Morgan, assistant dean for external affairs at Klein College of Media and Communication, sits inside her house in Cherry Hill, New Jersey, on Sept. 27.

mostly covered in those days.

Fortunately, my first job at the Delaware County Daily Times – ironically as a crime reporter in the challenging city of Chester, Pennsylvania – gave me that chance.

Temple’s location in North Philadelphia certainly helped build my confidence to do that job. Riding the beat one night with the 22nd Police District officers, I saw the tough living conditions in the community surrounding the campus. The racism and poverty that dominated this part of the city shaped my vision on how to cover Chester, one of the poorest cities in the state.

The Temple News prepared me to cover serious topics that marked the decade: drugs on campus, the Vietnam War draft, the struggle for civil rights and Temple’s expanding role in the neighborhood.

Covering Chester during President Lyndon B. Johnson’s Great Society era uncovered vivid examples of poverty and racism that I first witnessed in North Philadelphia. Schools in Chester defied description with toilets that didn’t flush

and sinks that barely spouted water.

Perhaps my proudest moment was the story about how the head of the Chester Housing Authority, who oversaw public housing, spoke openly about the intellectual inferiority of Black and Jewish people. Published the next day in the Daily Times, the story led to his immediate firing.

Eventually, I gained the confidence to apply to The Inquirer. I was only 23, and it was 1969.

The sexism that had stopped women from being hired or assigned to hard news stories had begun to crumble.

Almost immediately, The Inquirer sent me back to Chester to open the paper’s first bureau in Delaware County.

As the youngest person and one of only three women reporting hard news, I had no idea I was embarking on a journey that would make me a newsroom pioneer for women. It turned out the title of “first” was a constant in my 31 years at The Inquirer.

Within a few years of joining the staff, I was the first woman assigned as an editor on the city desk; the first

to oversee the paper’s expansion in the suburbs; the first to work with the allmale composing room staff; the first to have a baby and return to the job; the first to serve as a recruiting and hiring editor; and the first to lead a major diversity initiative in the early 1990s.

I doubt I would have accomplished any of those hallmarks without my Temple experience and the support of fellow student journalists, Steve Sansweet, Renee Winkler and Marci Shatzman, who became lifelong friends.

It seems so quaint now to remember using typewriters, glue pots and paper spikes to produce the paper while seeing today’s technology that enables The Temple News staff to face the challenge of reporting the COVID-19 pandemic from their homes miles from each other.

The 100th anniversary of The Temple News will give us multiple opportunities over the course of the year to celebrate our Temple-made newsroom.

Given the current distrust of the press, the current generation undoubtedly will have the dual mission to cover the news while it fights for the freedom to do it. But I have never had more confidence in any group to carry on the values that were the foundation of my career.

To ensure that the Temple News continues its mission, I hope alumni will join me in supporting the Temple News Endowment project, established to guarantee modest salaries for the top Temple News student editors who work countless hours each week to produce online content and a biweekly print paper.

No matter the amount of donation, it will help sustain the future of The Temple News as it makes its transition to a state-of-the-art integrated news center in the new Klein College of Media and Communication building planned for construction on the west side of Broad Street.

It’s an exciting time to celebrate the contributions of the Temple News — still going strong with “No Regrets.”

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MENTAL HEALTH

Wellness Days are essential for mental health A student argues that Temple should bring back Wellness Days and create guidlines for them.

When I first heard of Wellness Days in Spring 2020, I was so relieved.

I finally thought Temple University cared about students’ well-being. The two days off were no NADIYAH excuse for canceling TIMMONS spring break, but For The Temple News it seemed as if the university had a plan in place to give students time off.

Now that Wellness Days are gone, Temple has shown a lack of care regarding the mental health of its student body.

To allow students to take time off from school and relax with their peers, Temple must bring back Wellness Days and establish guidelines for professors to keep students from being forced to do assigned work on their days off.

When the university announced its plan to implement Wellness Days, former Provost JoAnne Epps wrote students should use the time to relieve stress during the semester amid the COVID-19 pandemic.

Although students will have a spring break this year, it doesn’t mean they shouldn’t have two Wellness Days to rest in future semesters to prevent them from going through long periods of extreme fatigue. This exhaustion can cause college students to feel burnt out while waiting for winter or spring break.

Many freshmen students entering college have never experienced a semester of nearly nonstop course activity all the way until Thanksgiving break, especially during a pandemic.

Although this may be normal, it’s time for Temple to implement days off that alleviate concerns about mental health, well-being and stress.

Last year’s Wellness Days were not effective in promoting mental wellbeing because of the amount of work due in the days following the break.

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When students hear about Wellness Days, many associate it with an extra homework day. School is stressful, and students ultimately spent their days off on their laptops, said Julia Picciotti, a senior marketing major.

“On Wellness Days I would want to do my homework and catch up, which is frustrating because I’d rather focus on myself,” Picciotti said.

In order to prevent this from happening and make future Wellness Days more beneficial, Temple must establish restrictions that prevent professors from assigning work due in the days following the break.

Eighty-three percent of students in the United States claimed their mental health negatively affected their ability to complete coursework, and two-thirds admitted to battling with loneliness and isolation, according to a 2020 study by Boston University.

Students with underlying health conditions are challenged with balancing stress and maintaining their physical well-being. About one in four adolescentes have a chronic health condition like asthma or diabetes, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

High levels of stress can often worsen lupus symptoms, said Michelle Yeboah, a senior health professions major who has lupus, a chronic illness affecting the body’s tissue and organs.

“When they get stressed out they get flare-ups, so their joints tighten up, they’re like paralyzed,” Yeboah said.

Everyone has different methods to relieve stress, like praying or running.

If Temple provided options like Wellness Days to take the time to do this, it could help students unwind, Yeboah added.

Entering college is a stressful and

tiring time, said Julia Chein, a freshman psychology major.

“I skipped my class today because I was really tired,” Chein said. “Playing volleyball helps me. It’s a really great way for me to blow off steam, or exercising. I like to go to the gym to, like, run or lift.”

Students deserve a way to spend their time away from their computer screen doing work by doing activities outside that de-stress their minds.

Students need to know that their university understands their problems, and Temple can do this by bringing back Wellness Days. nadiyah.timmons@temple.edu

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STUDENT LIFE

Temple, promote the student emergency aid fund A student argues that the emergency aid fund must be better advertised to students.

The COVID-19 pandemic, the subsequent lockdowns and economic recession left many college students with financial struggles that did not exist for them before.

RYAN MASTRO Temple UniFor The Temple versity must do betNews ter in promoting their emergency aid fund, a resource for students facing unusual or unforeseen circumstances with short-term financial assistance for those instances because many students are unaware of its existence. The university should encourage professors to speak to their students about the fund, promote the fund on social media and send out emails with emergency fund information.

For more than 10 years Temple’s Student Affairs has offered its own emergency aid fund. However, many students are unaware of the program.

If students knew about the program, they could apply for access to funds that could help pay expenses that they may not have been able to pay without the fund.

To be eligible for the fund, individuals must be enrolled as full-time students at Temple, demonstrate financial hardship, exhaust alternative options and provide documentation of expenses they are trying to receive aid for, like medical bills or car repair bills, according to the Dean of Students.

The Office of Student Affairs promotes the fund primarily through its website, wrote Rachael Stark, senior associate dean of students, in an email to The Temple News.

Additionally, professors can refer students to the fund, Stark wrote.

“If a student discloses to their faculty member that they can’t afford the text book for their class, we would hope that the faculty member would mention the fund to the student so they can apply for emergency aid,” Stark wrote.

About 40 percent of students ex-

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perienced financial disruption during the pandemic, with about eight percent withdrawing from courses or taking a leave of absence, according to the National Center for Education Statistics.

More than one in two Philadelphia-area college students experienced basic needs insecurity, during the pandemic but only 16 percent of those who experienced food insecurity actually accessed benefits to assist them, according to a May 2021 survey from Temple’s Hope Center for College, Community and Justice.

Temple does not currently advertise the fund except by posting information on the fund’s website, Stark wrote.

“This fund isn’t something that needs to be advertised, it is available to those who are facing an emergency,” Stark wrote.

While it is true that this fund is for emergency use only, students who are facing financial difficulties need to be made aware of this program without having to search for it online.

After previously hearing about

Temple’s emergency aid fund for students, what the fund is and does for students is still unclear, said Mackenzie Reed, a sophomore tourism and hospitality management major.

“It’s important for Temple to promote this fund because, in doing so, they can ensure that students are able to continue to get a good education even through troubling times,” Reed said.

Declines in enrollment for Fall 2020 suggested that students who were likely experiencing basic needs insecurity did not enroll, according to the Hope Center survey.

Only 20.1 percent of first-year accepted applicants enrolled at Temple in Fall 2020, its lowest enrollment rate since at least 2013 and a 13.4 percent decrease from Fall 2019, The Temple News reported.

Maiya Barker, junior public relations major, was also unaware of the Student Emergency Aid Fund, and believes Temple should make changes to the TU Portal to reach more students, she said.

“They could update the portal or make sure everybody gets emails,” Barker said.

Students would be able to better access information about the student aid on social media, and the university should also add new features to the TU portal to notify students, Reed said.

“They could add a notification feature so people can get alerted when information about the emergency aid fund is posted on the Portal,” Reed said.

Temple must make their emergency aid fund more well-known to students who are facing financial emergencies, or some may not be able to continue their education due to other expenses.

While the university should be requiring professors to tell students about resources, this cannot be a primary source of communication. Temple must make the effort to reach students where they are as opposed to relying on them to find information. ryan.mastro@temple.edu

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How The Temple News covered historic events

After 100 years of TTN, we revisit monumental moments for our country and our paper.

BY EMERON MARCHESE Longform Editor World War II: May 28, 1945 The Temple News published a tribute honoring Temple University faculty, former students and husbands of Temple students who lost their lives fighting in World War II. The Temple News produced profiles on those who died during the war that included how and where they lost their lives and their relation to Temple University.

The Civil Rights Movement: Oct. 24, 1961 Martin Luther King Jr. held a public event during his four-day visit to Philadelphia in late October 1961 at Amos Playground at 16th and Berks streets where he spoke to the North Philadelphia community regarding institutionalized racism and prejudice in the minds of the public. He later spoke in an exclusive interview with The Temple News about desegregating fraternities and how racism was destroying communities nationwide. During their interview, King discussed how segregation was not just a problem in the South, but an issue nationwide, including northern states. King told The Temple News that “the problem of racial discrimination should be everybody’s concern. This problem cannot be conquered until young and older people are made to live as brothers.”

President John. F. Kennedy’s Assasination: Nov. 25, 1963 Students and faculty were shocked at the news of President John F. Kennedy’s assasination, which spread quickly throughout campus the day it happened. The Temple News reported on the disbelief students felt when they heard the news, writing that there were “no tears being shed, just emotionless students and faculty shocked in their classrooms.” After the news of the Presidents’s assassination, university administration canceled all Friday and Saturday classes and all on-campus events, like fraternity events and club meetings.

Temple President Millard Gladfelter issued a statement published in The Temple News the same day as the assasination and wrote, “No incident could have touched the hearts of more people in more shocking ways than the death of the President of the United States.”

The Vietnam War: Oct. 16, 1969 Philadelphians, Temple students and professors attended an anti-war rally in John F. Kennedy Plaza on Oct. 14, 1969, to protest the ongoing war in Vietnam and to call on President Richard Nixon to stop the conflict overseas. The Temple News reported that protesters were peaceful and deliberate with their message. Professors and students gave speeches and held signs that flashed messages, like “10 years 44,798 men.” The Temple News talked to protesters and attendees regarding their thoughts about the Vietnam War, writing that the consensus at the event was that people felt the war was senseless and needed to end.

MOVING FROM LEFT TO RIGHT:

An edition of the Temple News from May 25, 1945, published a two-page memorial for Temple community members who died during World War II. ALLIE IPPOLITO / THE TEMPLE NEWS An edition of The Temple News from Oct. 4, 1961, covered moments from a speech delivered by Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King in Philadelphia.

An edition of The Temple News from Nov. 23, 1963, covers the death of President John F. Kennedy.

An edition of The Temple News from Oct. 16, 1969, covers a student-led protest against the Vietnam War held on Temple’s campus.

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The Temple News

The 9/11 Terrorist Attacks: Sept.

11, 2001 Temple students watched in horror as terrorist attacks led to the fall of The World Trade Center Twin Towers in New York City, the severe damage to the Pentagon in Washington D.C. and the death of thousands of Americans. The Temple News talked to students who were on campus that day to get a sense of their emotions. One student replied saying “the first thing I thought was ‘Where were my friends and family.’” Television lounges on campus were filled with terrified students and faculty and airwaves were jammed with the influx of outgoing calls to family members and friends.

Same-sex Marriage: Nov. 18, 2008 The Temple News reporters talked with students who were among the hundreds of Philadelphians gathered at City Hall to protest California’s Proposition 8, which called for a ban of same-sex marriages.

Reporters from The Temple News talked to members from Temple’s Queer Student Union, who said that the “proposition goes against everything queer activists have worked hard to accomplish.” Gay rights activists and concerned citizens flooded the streets of Center City with posters calling for marriage equality for all.

President Trump’s Election: Nov. 9, 2016 Temple students gathered peacefully at the Bell Tower after the election of President Donald Trump. Students voiced their concerns to Temple News reporters who attended the protest, saying they were concerned for women’s rights and immigrants’ rights and some were scared for their own safety in the U.S.

MOVING FROM LEFT TO RIGHT: A print edition of the Temple News from Sept. 13 to Sept. 19 reported on the terrorist attack on Sept. 11.

A print edition of The Temple News from Nov. 8, 2008, covers the nationwide protest of Prop 8. Protests were held in Philadelphia at City Hall.

EVAN EASTERLING / FILE Christine Choi, a freshman undeclared major in the College of Liberal Arts, holds a sign at a gathering of students organized against President-Elect Donald Trump at the Bell Tower in Nov. 2016.

JEREMY ELVAS / FILE Protestors lie on the ground during a march against police brutality at Broad and Parrish streets on June 3, 2020.

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George Floyd Protests: June 3, 2020 The Temple News reporters attended a protest held by Temple students after the murder of George Floyd by former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin who knelt on Floyd’s neck for more than nine minutes, resulting in his death.

Temple students took to Broad Street to lead a protest showing their support for the Black Lives Matter movement and to pressure Temple to end their partnership with and donations to the Philadelphia Police Department. The Temple News reported on the protest, writing that protesters laid face down in the middle of Broad Street for nine minutes in a moment of silence and remembrance for Floyd. Photographers captured powerful images of protesters marching throughout campus and the city with posters that read messages, like “I can’t breathe” and “my skin color is not a weapon.” emerson.marchese@temple.edu

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Lawrence Ukenye Amelia Winger

Jack Danz

Lawrence Ukenye is the editor-in-chief of The Temple News and a junior journalism and political science major.

Amelia Winger is the digital managing editor for The Temple News and a senior journalism and political science major.

Jack Danz is the print managing editor for The Temple News and a senior journalism major.

“I hope that we continue to be adversarial in the sense that, like, we take on a lot of topics that other outlets on campus don’t really focus on, like administration, the university’s budget, just stuff that like affects us but people don’t really think of right away, because it gets really like hard to look into,” Ukenye said.

“We should continue to hold ourselves accountable to filling in the information gaps in the community, and make sure that we really prioritize putting the community first, both Temple’s campus and in North Central,” Winger said.

“I would really like for like section editors to be able to confidently pass down their relationships with sources in and around the university,” Danz said. “If you can start off with a good relationship in August, you can start doing better reporting because you already have a relationship with the sources you’re talking to.”

MOVING LEFT TO RIGHT: ALLIE IPPOLITO / THE TEMPLE NEWS Lawrence Ukenye, the editor-in-chief at The Temple News, sits outside of his house on Gratz Street near Montgomery on Sept. 26.

ALLIE IPPOLITO / THE TEMPLE NEWS Amelia Winger, the digital managing editor for The Temple News, stands in a park near her apartment on Cecil B. Moore Avenue near Gratz Street on Sept. 27.

ALLIE IPPOLITO / THE TEMPLE NEWS Jack Danz, the print managing editor at The Temple News, stands along Liacouras Walk on Sept. 24.

of The Temple News

Dante Collinelli

Natalie Kerr

Haajrah Gilani

Dante Collinelli is the digital chief copy editor for The Temple News and a senior journalism major.

Natalie Kerr is the chief print copy editor for The Temple News and a senior journalism and environmental studies major.

Haajrah Gilani is the assignments editor for The Temple News and a junior journalism major.

“I’ve gotten to see it change so much over four years,” Collinelli said. “Like I just hope that, you know, they keep leaning into the digital side of things and experimenting with new stuff.”

“I just want us to continue to be a resource for students, and that reflects students,” Kerr said. “You know, when students open the paper, I want them to, you know, recognize themselves in the content that we’re putting out and like news that is really important to them and features that they find really interesting, you know, opinions that represent their own perspectives.”

“I don’t ever want it to feel like reporters and editors are, like, out of touch with how students are feeling so I just hope that we can, like, always keep that,” Gilani said.

MOVING LEFT TO RIGHT: ALLIE IPPOLITO / THE TEMPLE NEWS Dante Collinelli, the chief digital copy editor at The Temple News, sits at a table inside The Temple News newsroom on the second floor of the Student Center on Sept. 26.

ALLIE IPPOLITO / THE TEMPLE NEWS Natalie Kerr, the chief print copy editor at The Temple News, stands outside of Howard Gittis Student Center on Sept. 22.

ALLIE IPPOLITO / THE TEMPLE NEWS Haajrah Gilani, assignments editor at The Temple News, stands along Liacouras Walk on Sept. 22.

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Students, faculty read paper for insights into campus Temple community discusses The Temple News as the paper celebrates 100 years.

BY ROSIE LEONARD Assistant Features Editor

D

uring the past 20 years, Larry Stains, an associate professor of journalism and assistant chair of the journalism department, has walked to a newspaper stand on Main Campus and picked up the latest print edition of The Temple News.

“I started reading it as soon as I set foot on campus,” Stains said. “I can’t imagine not reading it. And why?

Because I wanted to hear what the students were thinking about.”

The Temple News has provided readers like Stains with weekly content ranging from the latest campus and community news to trends and insights into student life since 1921. The publication celebrated its 100th year on Sept. 19, and students and faculty reflected on its community impact and expressed optimism about the newspaper’s future impact on Temple.

“It’s a good start,” Stains said. “I look forward to the next 100.”

The Temple News publishes daily online and biweekly in print. In recent years, they have utilized social media, making it easier for students to stay informed on campus updates. Erin Maguire, a freshman theater arts major, learned about the university’s vaccine mandate through a Temple News Instagram post.

“It was through The Temple News that I found out that the vaccine was mandatory,” Maguire said. “I find out, like different, important things like that through following it on social media. It helps me stay informed.”

The Temple News has informed students, like Matheus Fronza, a senior Latin American studies and economics major.

After reading an opinion letter from Melissa Bellerjeau, a 2019 Temple journalism alumna, about the controversy surrounding O’Connor

AMBER RITSON / THE TEMPLE NEWS Larry Stains, a journalism professor, browses the latest print edition of The Temple News in his office in Annenberg Hall on Sept. 23.

Plaza, Fronza’s perspective on the inner workings of the university changed because he felt the Temple’s actions were contradicting messages they sent about diversity and representation, he said.

In 2017, the university renovated Founder’s Garden, located in the center of Main Campus on Polett and Liacouras walks, and unveiled O’Connor Plaza, named in honor of former Board of Trustees Chairman, Patrick O’Connor, and his wife, Marie O’Connor, an inaugural Rome Board member, The Temple News reported.

However, the renaming was considered disrespectful to both the Temple community and Russell Conwell, the university’s founder, because Patrick O’Connor defended Bill Cosby, a 1971 Temple alumnus and former Board of Trustees member, after sexual assault allegations in a 2005 trial involving Andrea Costand, former director of operations for women’s basketball, Bellerjeau wrote.

“This place reminds us of the university’s history and represents

the beauty of our community and its future,” Bellerjeau wrote.

“O’Connor’s name casts an ugly and negative light on that.”

The university’s lack of response and continued support of someone who defended Cosby contradicted ideals preached in their #YouAreWelcomeHere campaign, which promotes diversity and safety for all students at colleges in the United States, and made him more aware of how ideals preached by the university conflict with their more business-oriented interests, Fronza said.

Temple student reporters’ ability to push back on administration and provide an outlet for more diverse conversations through Intersection and Opinion pieces is why Scott Dunn, a first-year biomedical sciences graduate student, finds The Temple News an important aspect of the university.

Dunn values the way student reporters can both recognize and provoke change through articles like “Temple: increase diversity in the classroom”, an opinion piece about Temple needing to hire more professors of color to diversify

classrooms, as this type of reporting encourages learning about other people’s cultures and debunks stereotypes, he said.

“It encourages open dialogue amongst different parties, different people of different customs or religions or beliefs,” Dunn said.

Linn Washington, journalism professor of 25 years, has watched the publication grow, transform and tackle controversial and nuanced subjects like crime, budgetary processes and financial dealings of Temple administration, he said. Washington values the way The Temple News has cultivated an understanding and appreciation for news media within the community for an entire century, he said.

“I think that any entity that has existed for 100 years deserves a compliment, and the fact that an entity has existed for 100 years speaks volumes about its role and its function,” Washington said. mary.rose.leonard@temple.edu

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Couple falls in love working at The Temple News Alumni who met at The Temple News are now married and have two daughters in Massachusetts.

MATTHEW AQUINO Assistant Features Editor For Ben and Natalie Watanabe, driving to cover Temple University football games together in a metallic blue PT Cruiser was the beginning of a lasting connection.

“I always kind of joke about the fact that Temple football was god awful that year, and so I would say, ‘we’re kind of one of the most productive things to come out of that season,’’’ said Natalie Watanabe, owner of Natalie Nigito Photography and co-owner of Fairmount Photography.

While spending one year working together at The Temple News, Ben and Natalie Watanabe fell in love and are now raising two daughters outside of Boston.

Ben Watanabe and Natalie Watanabe met on Aug. 23, 2004, at Temple’s first football media day, an event where the press can talk to athletes and coaches about the upcoming season.

Reporting together on the Owls’ football and basketball games each week allowed them to grow closer and get to know one another, Natalie Wantanabe said.

The two were drawn to each other after realizing how well they worked together and how much they liked spending time together, Natalie Wantanabe said.

“We both will listen to each other and give good feedback to each other,’’ Natalie Watanabe said. “I feel like that’s a good start for any relationship, knowing that you can work with somebody.”

After going out one night with staff from The Temple News, Ben walked Natalie to her car and asked her out, Natalie Watanabe said.

The two have been inseparable ever since, said Ben Watanabe, a digital content manager at New England Sports Network.

“We didn’t just connect and reconnect, we connected,” Ben Watanabe said “We’ve been connected ever since.”

Ben Watanabe started at The Temple News as a staff writer covering men’s and women’s gymnastics events and women’s volleyball his sophomore year to grow professionally, he said.

COURTNEY HIZEY / COURTESY From the left, Natalie Watanabe and Ben Watanabe, sit with their daughters for a family portrait in Hudson, Massachusetts, in October 2020.

Natalie Watanabe joined The Temple News the second half of her junior year and worked as a sports photographer and page designer, she said.

The Temple News was a huge part of their lives during college, Ben Watanabe said. Meeting his wife there made it even more special to him.

“It just makes sense that a place that we had so many friends and learned so much, and spent so much time on was also the place that I ended up meeting the person that I would spend the rest of my life with,” Ben Watanabe said.

Sitting with Natalie and looking at the way she would present stories, photos and headlines for the articles she covered made him appreciate the work they created together, Ben Watanabe said.

Longtime friend and former Sports editor at The Temple News, Christopher Vito, isn’t surprised Ben and Natalie Watanabe are happily married with a family after seeing their relationship grow each week in the newsroom.

“We worked many hours together, you know, you’re in a newsroom together, working late,’’ said Vito, a senior director of strategic communications at La Salle University. “You’re getting the experience you crave and desire, and as a result of it, strong relationships, and friendships come out of it.”

Once Ben and Natalie Watanabe graduated from Temple, they both landed jobs in the journalism industry.

Ben Watanabe started at The Daily Journal in southern New Jersey, as a staff writer, and eventually became the assistant sports editor.

Ben credits John DiCarlo, a 1998 journalism alumnus and managing director of student media at Klein College of Media and Communication, for helping him get his first job.

DiCarlo’s former sports editor at The Daily Journal, Jason Carris, asked him to refer someone he could hire for a job there and, without hesitation, DiCarlo referred Ben Watanabe, he said.

DiCarlo formed a friendship with both Ben and Natalie Watanabe and believes they were perfect for each other.

“They were always just great for each other but just like just a perfect combination of who you’d want to be around, like they were just great journalists, wonderful people and it’s just been really cool to just to see like their lives develop,” DiCarlo said.

Natalie Watanabe took a job with the Courier Post, a sister publication to The Daily Journal, as a front page designer and was eventually promoted to special sections designer.

While working at the Courier Post, Natalie Watanabe taught Design for Journalists as an adjunct professor at Temple from January 2008 to December 2011 as a way to stay up to date on new computer technology, like Photoshop, Dreamweaver and Indesign, and pass on skills to students to help further their careers and education, she said.

Ben Watanabe oversees all the editorial content on New England Sports Network’s website. Natalie Watanabe runs her photography company Natalie Nigito Photography and co-owns Fairmount Photography, a wedding photography business. She also covers sports events and things that are going on in her town as a freelance reporter.

Shortly after getting married on June 26, 2010, Ben Watanabe was offered a job at NESN and they decided to move to Watertown, Massachusetts.

Their first daughter was born in January 2012 and their second daughter was born in Augusy 2014.

Natalie Watanabe has enjoyed watching her daughters follow in both of their footsteps as they have already started to write their own stories, she said.

“I think that Ben and I both being journalists, we are both naturally curious people and it’s kind of fun to see that curiosity in our kids, too,” Natalie Watanabe said. “So like, that’s a cornerstone of being a journalist and that’s probably something that’s passed on to the kids that way.” matthew.aqunio@temple.edu

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Editors-in-chief guide reporting on COVID-19 Former and current editors-in-cheif discuss how The Temple News has changed under their leadership.

BY SAMANTHA SULLIVAN Features Editor The news never stops and neither does the editor-in-chief at The Temple News.

In the past four years the Temple University and North Central community have been faced with major events from a presidential election to the COVID-19 pandemic. It has been the responsibility of the past three Editorsin-Chief Kelly Brennan, Madison Karas and Lawrence Ukenye, to guide The Temple News’ coverage of these major events and student’s experiences navigating them.

The biggest challenge came with the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic in March 2020, which forced the paper to operate virtually. Each of the three former editors-in-chief had to navigate reporting on the pandemic and leading a staff during unprecedented times.

When Brennan became editor-inchief in 2019, she sought to continue the work her and Gillian McGoldrick, the 2018-2019 editor-in-chief, were doing to redesign the website and focus more on intersectionality in all of The Temple News’s reporting, Brennan said.

However, everything changed in March 2020 when the COVID-19 pandemic forced The Temple News to stop printing weekly and shift to publishing entirely online.

The Sunday before Temple made the announcement to go virtual, Brennan recalls standing at the news cubicle and talking to the staff about transitioning to a fully-digital publication, she said.

“Everyone at every desk had this collective moment of, ‘oh this is going to impact everyone at Temple and how do we address that?’” Brennan said. “It was very overwhelming.”

In their coverage of the pandemic, Brennan focused on including critical information about COVID-19 case

ALLIE IPPOLITO / THE TEMPLE NEWS Lawrence Ukenye (left), the current editor-in-chief, and Madison Karas (right), the 2020-2021 editor-in-chief, stand on Liacouras Walk on Sept. 25.

numbers and resources about dealing with public health risks, food and job insecurity, Brennan said. The Temple News also published daily and weekly updates about developments in the pandemic that included information about city orders, capacity restrictions and mask mandates. They also continued in-depth feature reporting on students’ experiences.

“We were student journalists reporting at a time where we were also going through something that’s never happened before in our lifetime,” Brennan said.

Despite Temple starting the Fall 2020 semester with some in-person classes, Karas had to keep The Temple News operations almost entirely digital during her time as editor-in-chief, due to Temple’s COVID-19 restrictions.

Karas resumed printing the paper but shifted to a biweekly schedule during the Fall 2020 semester and paused printing in November and December due to the extended winter break, she said. She also continued to hold staff meetings via Zoom.

“During a period of such disconnect it was really meaningful to continue to report, continue to find and connect with sources and readers, because we were continuously hearing from parents, alumni, students, instructors with their questions, concerns, comments and insight into what was going on through such an unpredictable time,” Karas said.

Karas guided the paper through historical moments such as the 2020 presidential election and the COVID-19 vaccine rollout in the spring.

While serving as editor-in-chief,

Karas also covered deeply personal events, like the death of professor Brian Monroe, who initially encouraged her to apply for the position, she said.

“He wrote my letter of recommendation to the editor-in-chief position and he was the first person I emailed when I got the job,” Karas said.

“I told him you know, thank you for the support and he gave me some words of encouragement and advice and then that ended up being the last time I saw him.”

This year, Ukenye, a junior journalism and political science major, successfully brought staff back into the newsroom, holding the majority of meetings in person, he said.

Coming back to the newsroom was surreal for Ukenye, who’s only memory of it was when everyone was spaced out in adherence to social distancing measures, he said. Ukenye is optimistic about the return to in-person operations and feels confident that he would be able to transition back to operating virtually if necessary.

Ukenye is happy that The Temple News 100 year anniversary is happening as things transition back to normal, he said.

He is honored to be editor-inchief for such a significant milestone in the paper’s history, Ukenye said. He is confident that future generations will look back on the 100 year anniversary coverage to see how the paper celebrates such a milestone, he said.

“We’re celebrating something that’s bigger than any of us,” Ukenye said. “I think it’s even more special because we’re living in such interesting times right now and this gives us an outlet to reflect on how other people throughout history covered challenging times, which makes this coverage even more worthwhile.” samantha.sullivan0002@temple.edu

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ART

Students bridge gap with residents in new exhibit The Neighbors of North Philly exhibit showcases connections between residents and students.

KRISTINE CHIN For The Temple News Six times a semester, Michael Vitez and his students spend an hour walking up and down the streets surrounding Temple University Health Sciences Campus to speak, listen to and celebrate the stories of North Philadelphia community members.

“I just think it’s really important to know where you work and know the community you work with, and meet them on their own terms, and sort of demystify the neighborhood of North Philadelphia,” said Vitez, director of narrative medicine at the Lewis Katz School of Medicine.

Vitez is trying to bridge the gap between the Lewis Katz School of Medicine and Temple University Hospital and the surrounding North Philadelphia community through the Humans of North Philly: Portraits from the Streets course, an elective offered for the Narrative Medicine Program at the medical school, a program designed to increase the students’ understanding of their patients as more than their medical history.

Vitez hopes his students will learn to bond with residents in the same way they should bond with their patients to bring a sense of trust with people they would otherwise treat as strangers.

A new exhibit, “Neighbors of North Philly”, showcases stories and photos collected by seven students from 2018 and 2019 as part of Temple Libraries’ Made in North Philly programming series.

Photos of residents are accompanied by a short description of the person based on interviews that the students conducted. The descriptions provide brief insight into the resident’s life and role in the community.

The exhibit is open to the public from Sept. 1 to Dec. 15 in Charles Library on Main Campus in room 401. Students covered everything from Meadowlane Bar-B-Que, a couple-run BBQ restaurant on Broad and Erie streets, to Betty Jones, who runs a state-funded free lunch

ALLIE IPPOLITO / THE TEMPLE NEWS The Neighbors of North Philly exhibit, which showcases photos of North Philadelphia residents made by students in the Lewis Katz School of Medicine, is located on the fourth floor in the Charles Library.

program every summer.

Connor Hartzell, a fourth year medical student at the Lewis Katz School of Medicine, is one of the seven Humans of North Philly students whose work is on display at the exhibit. Hartzell took the Humans of North Philly course in Fall 2018 as a first year medical student to learn how to better engage with North Philadelphia residents who often are patients at Temple Hospital, he said.

“It’s like bringing a story to the patient, or helping you as the healthcare provider realize that the people you’re taking care of are just that,” Hartzell said.

“They’re people, they’re not patients, they’re people with all these lives of their own, with families and kids and stories and love and heartbreaks and all that.”

Hartzell hopes that through the exhibit, students can become more aware of the Narrative Medicine Program, and even be inspired to

pursue medicine themselves.

The elective has been offered since Fall 2016 and allows students to interview and photograph North Philadelphia community members to build trust and positive relationships with them, according to Vitez.

Jenny Pierce, head of Research and Education Services for the Temple Health Sciences Libraries, recommended the students’ work be showcased for the Made in North Philly programming series, which aims to showcase the people from the community surrounding Temple’s Main Campus and Health Sciences Campus.

Pierce saw the work the students collected in previous years displayed in the atrium at the Medical Education and Research Building and wanted to help bring more recognition to these unique stories and experiences, she said.

“When the main library, the Charles

library, put out a call for ideas around how to celebrate North Philadelphia, I thought about this project and, by that time, they had done it twice, so [Vitez] had two years worth of photographs and interviews with people in the North Philadelphia community to display,” Pierce said.

Kaitlyn Semborski, program coordinator at Temple Libraries, is thrilled to showcase the students’ work, as it fits perfectly with the theme of the Made in North Philly programming series, Semborski said.

“There’s always more that you can learn, people and experts from the community that you can appreciate, and we’re hoping to help the Temple community better appreciate North Philadelphia,” Semborski said. kristine.chin@temple.edu

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Residents help fight to keep community garden Sunflower Philly hosts community events to keep North Philadelphia neighborhoods clean.

BY ROSIE LEONARD Assistant Features Editor While developers are encroaching on beloved green spaces in the North Central community, Melvin Powell is working to save them.

“I’m not trying to come in here and buy this land or something like that,” said Powell, executive director for Sunflower Philly. “I’m literally trying to make sure that it gets taken care of, and that the people who should be taking care of it have the ability to.”

Sunflower Philly, a nonprofit organization that hosts clean-up events and workshops to provide art, music and sustainable resources to bring Philadelphians together, launched the Green Space Advocacy initiative.

Through this project, they identify different community-maintained gardens in Philadelphia that have been blighted, mismanaged or overtaken, including the Uber Street Garden on Uber Street near Norris.

Powell had never heard of the Uber Street Garden during his time at Temple University, where he graduated in 2013 with a bachelor’s degree in tourism and hospitality management, even though he lived a block away from it, he said.

He first became aware of the land development issues impacting the garden and green spaces like it after meeting sisters Agnes Domocase and Willamae McCullough, who serve as block captain and assistant block captain of Uber Street, at one of Sunflower Philly’s biweekly trash clean-up events in 2020.

Uber Street Garden is one of more than 400 food gardens in Philadelphia, and has been maintained and prayed in

by Domocase and McCullough and other residents for 22 years. The communitymaintained garden grows produce, like peppers, lettuce, tomatoes, strawberries, cherries and plums, that local residents are welcome to take home or distribute to

GRACIE HEIM / THE TEMPLE NEWS Willamae McCullough, assistant block captain of Uber Street, cleans up the remaining brush at the Uber Street Garden on Sept. 19.

others in the community, Domocase said.

“It’s a beautiful feeling,” Domocase said. “When the neighbors receive the stuff they be so happy and to know that it grew right here.”

Prior to the pandemic, 18 percent of Philadelphians were food insecure and that percentage is increasing during the pandemic, according to the Share Food Program, an organization that fights against food insecurity in Philadelphia.

For these reasons, Domocase and McCullough have made an extra effort to make sure residents have access to fresh food.

“Especially during this time of COVID, it’s very important that we have fresh vegetables and fruit that’s not tainted,” McCullough said.

However, their efforts to promote food security are being threatened by encroaching development directly next to the garden. Green spaces often don’t have owners, meaning developers can purchase them and turn them into

anything they want, Powell said.

“We’re trying to get the community, private organizations, sponsors, everything, to start buying into making sure that we prioritize the community space,” Powell said.

Domocase is in the process of gaining ownership of the Uber Street Garden’s land from the Redevelopment Authority of Philadelphia and hopes to become its owner before developers swoop in, she said.

In the meantime, Sunflower Philly is collaborating with Temple students, volunteers and North Central residents to help maintain the Uber Street Garden.

The organization most recently hosted a clean-up event at the garden on Sept. 19 from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m., where volunteers enjoyed music while weeding, harvesting garden beds, building a new picnic table and tending to the garden.

Olya Zhugayevich, a senior environmental engineering major and intern at Sunflower Philly, appreciated

how the event brought students and local residents together, she said.

“It fosters a sense of community because you could be living next to someone all your life and not know anything about them and not care about them too,” Zhugayevich said.

Ann Marie Paul, a construction engineering technology major, said the event helped to strengthen students’ relationships with the community itself.

“My impression of it is that Temple’s a little bit of an island,” Paul said. “And it’s better to have it connected to the surrounding community.”

Domocase and McCullough value how the garden sprouts relationships in addition to providing residents with free and easy access to healthy food options.

“It’s been a blessing to us,” McCullough said. “It helps us stay youthful and we have a lot of fun.” mary.rose.leonard@temple.edu

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STUDENT LIFE

Ambler community mourns loss of trees Ambler students and faculty memorialize the loss of trees on campus after Sept. 1 tornado.

SAMANTHA SULLIVAN AND ROSIE LEONARD For The Temple News Madelyn Scott was one of the few students from the Landscape Architecture program left inside the studio as the Sept. 1 tornado wreaked havoc on Temple Univesity’s Ambler campus.

“I was alone in the studio and I got the warning,” said Scott, a junior landscape architecture major. “Thirty seconds later the tornado hit and I was surrounded by tree limbs flying everywhere.”

Immediately after, Scott navigated her way through fallen trees and debris to find other people. While she was grateful no one died, she mourns the loss of the historic biodiversity the campus is known for, she said.

On Sept. 1, Temple’s Ambler campus was hit by a tornado caused by Hurricane Ida, The Temple News reported. It touched down on the Ambler Arboretum, causing significant damage to buildings, botanical gardens and greenhouses. The campus was forced to return to remote learning for two weeks and partially reopened for in-person instruction on Sept.

15, utilizing only two buildings, Dixon Hall and the Learning Center.

Many students and faculty returned to campus feeling devastated about the damage that Ambler had endured.

The tornado blew off the roof of Temple Ambler’s West Hall, damaged the Ambler Learning Center and blew over trees on campus, The Temple News reported.

The tornado ranked a two on the Enhanced Fujita scale, a scale used to measure the intensity of tornadoes, Philly Voice reported.

E-F2 tornadoes can have wind speeds ranging from 111 to 135 miles per hour and have enough intensity to rip roofs off buildings, according to the Federal Emergency Management Agency.

When Kathleen Salisbury, director

of the Ambler Arboretum, saw the damage, she burst into tears, she said.

“I’ve been crying almost every day since,” Salisbury said. “It’s heartbreaking.

The buildings can be fixed. Trees can’t.”

More than 175 trees were either damaged or removed from the Arboretum, Salisbury said. Some of which had been on campus for hundreds of years.

Jasmine Henne, was devastated when she walked onto Ambler’s campus for the first time after the tornado hit, because she has formed many memories while studying and learning in the garden over the years.

“I felt an immense feeling of grief,” said Henne, a junior landscape architecture major . “I had memories flooding in of ‘Oh, that’s where I sat with my family and showed them all the trees I had learned, where my class walked through and my favorite garden that is not necessarily going to be there anymore.”

Still, students and faculty have found glimmers of hope by honoring and memorializing the trees they lost.

Lamba Baldev, Henne’s studio landscape architecture professor, held a small memorial service for the trees that were lost to the tornado, Henne said. The students and faculty left flowers at the base of a 60 year old tree that survived the damage.

Sudents and faculty are also helping to restore the environment by continuing to plant trees for future generations and the community to enjoy, Henne said.

During the COVID-19 pandemic, Henne and Salisbury recognized the role Ambler’s campus serves in providing an escape from the outside world for the surrounding community as well as students and faculty.

“We are a place where people come to get away from the things that are troubling them,” Salisbury said. “And our whole community, not just the Arboretum, not just the campus, but the entire town around us, was devastated by this tornado.”

Students and faculty are also helping to restore the environment by continuing to plant trees for future generations and the community to enjoy. mary.rose.leonard@temple.edu samantha.sullivan0002@temple.edu

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Editors look back on Intersection’s creation, goal Intersection aims to report on Wolters was excited by the opportunity a new section, she felt the work she reported an article about hijab fashion, students who would otherwise to do something different than the did mattered, she said. Part of being a she made an effort to keep the main be overlooked in media coverage. other sections at The Temple News reporter is listening to other people’s focus on why students wear the hijab

BY EDEN MACDOUGALL Intersection Editor

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illian McGoldrick created Intersection in 2018 to make a space in The Temple News for writers to explore how different identities impacted the experiences of students at Temple University.

“I was always so amazed and I learned so much every week from the Intersection and I’m pleased to see that, that’s like still happening today,” said McGoldrick, a 2019 journalism alumna and 2018 editorin-chief of the Temple News.

McGoldrick was inspired by Canela López, a former editor-in-chief of the Tulane Hullabaloo, Tulane University’s student newspaper, who started a similar section in 2016, and created Intersection to give stories about identity a home in the paper. For The Temple News’ 100th anniversary, former editors are reflecting on the role they played in shaping Intersection.

Claire Wolters was the first Intersection editor along with co-editor Anaya Duckett-Carter, said Wolters, a 2020 journalism alumna.

As the editor of a brand new section,

but was also intimidated by how new Intersection was, she said.

“There’s a lot of kind of unknown, which means there’s some pressure to like, want to get things right, but not totally know what right looks like, because it hadn’t been there before,” Wolters said. “Overall I think that the section ended up being kind of fun and an outlet for people to explore some of the things that weren’t necessarily, typically in college newspapers.”

During Wolters’ tenure as editor, Intersection covered a range of topics, like the importance of natural hair, Jewish culture and the MeToo movement, she said.

One of the challenges Wolters faced was finding writers to report stories for Intersection because there weren’t any established writers from past semesters, Wolters said. Writers were recruited from journalism classes, student organizations and students who signed up for Temple News email listservs.

Another challenge was assigning writers to articles, Wolters said.

Because many stories were about topics that Wolters didn’t have first-hand experience with, she wasn’t always sure who to assign to stories or how to report those articles.

Even with the challenge of being

stories and that was at the core of Intersection for her.

Alesia Bani, a senior journalism major, started out as a freelancer under Wolters before becoming the Intersection co-editor in 2019, she said.

Bani loved freelancing for Intersection and wanted to become more involved with The Temple News, she said. So when the editor position opened up, she applied and became coeditor with Gionna Kinchen.

“It was super fun working with [Kinchen] and being two different people from different backgrounds, different identities among us,” Bani said.

“We were able to put our brains together and think of a lot of different things that we could cover on and around campus that Intersection hadn’t done before.”

Bani and Kinchen wanted Intersection to do more reporting on the international community and student organizations, Bani said. She and Kinchen would go on OwlConnect and look up cultural organizations and reach out to them to see if they were doing anything newsworthy.

When she became the Intersection editor in 2020, Nico Cisneros, a senior journalism major, wanted to tell stories about identity that didn’t focus on discrimination, she said. When Cisneros

and combine it with their fashion sense.

“The students were so appreciative of that,” Cisneros added. “Having moments like that where, like, the sources text you back after they read the articles, they’re still grateful and they welcomed you into their experience and they saw that you honored it in a way that respected them.”

Making Intersection a collaborative experience was key to Cisneros’s time as editor, she said. Building relationships between The Temple News and different student organizations gave her opportunities to connect with people, like when she covered Diwali and Gaye Holud Day and interviewed students who participated in the celebration and the organizers about the event, who invited her to attend.

In the future, Wolters hopes to see more coverage of topics that empower students, to balance out pieces dealing with serious issues, she said.

“Once you kind of get the heavy stuff out, it’s rewarding and it’s helpful to show the good and that’s more enjoyable to write and more enjoyable to read,” Wolters said. eden.macdougall@temple.edu

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Students use social media to engage with activism Students and activists connect and amplify their political views by using social media.

BY JENNIFER PENNISE For The Temple News During the summer of 2020, Thomas Dyer gave a speech about double standards for African American citizens at a Black Lives Matter protest in his hometown of Pennsauken, New Jersey.

It was recorded and shared on Instagram where it gained more than 600 views.

“Something before that night told me I should write out how I’m feeling about all of this down and then I did,” said Dyer, a junior political science major.

Social media is allowing activists to spread their message to more people, and for students to engage with social justice issues through posting about racism and other forms of injustice in addition to organized in-person actions like protests and speaking to lawmakers.

Twenty-three percent of survey respondents said that social media led them to change their views on issues like Black Lives Matter and police reform, according to a 2020 survey from the Pew Research Center.

Motivated by civil rights leaders, like Malcolm X, Martin Luther King Jr, James Baldwin and Huey P. Newton, Dyer often writes letters to them and posts the letters on Instagram as if they were still alive, asking them what they would do about injustice in the modern day, he said. He mainly writes about police brutality, the way it’s covered by the media and how people react to racial inequality.

“I didn’t want to be too focused in on one specific thing, I kind of wanted everyone to see every single aspect of all parts of society and see how we can look at and change it,” Dyer added.

There is value in utilizing both social media and in-person forms of protest to advocate for a cause, said Thomas Wright, a communication and social influence professor.

“Quantitatively, more people can

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participate such as those with disabilities, parents with young children, or those who are demographically isolated,” he said. “It is easier to contact lawmakers, spread awareness and allow others to engage in these life-changing events.”

Lucia Robertson, a junior biochemistry major, uses Instagram to educate herself about a variety of social-justice issues, including Black Lives Matter and the Israel-Palestine conflict, she said.

Robertson fact checks what she reads on social media by looking at unbiased news sources, she said. Comparing the news sources to the social media posts lets her draw her own conclusions and learn more about the issue.

“With social media, things can be spread so easily that it’s good to go back

and fact check because, you know, I don’t know, somethings can get mixed in there,” Robertson said. “It gives an opening for miscommunication.”

While social media has allowed people to learn more about social justice issues and get involved, social media is also an effective tool for spreading misinformation and encourages confirmation bias, which is when people are more likely to believe something that fits their worldview, Scientific American reported.

During BLM protests in summer 2020, there were numerous rumors and lies about the movement being spread on social media, including that BLM had been designated a terrorist organization, National Public Radio reported.

“For people of color, social media

was our biggest friend but also our biggest enemy during the Black Lives Matter movement in the summer of 2020,” Dyer said.

Even so, it has become normal for organizations to utilize traditional forms of activism and social media together to make their voices heard and protest, Wright said. There is also usually a social media element to in-person events now, with protestors recording and posting footage from events online.

“You need to look at the particular topic, you need to look at the particular people you’re trying to influence,” Wright said. “Some people might respond more, and you can target them and reach them more.” jennifer.pennise@temple.edu

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Older Temple students share education journeys Older students often feel disconnected from their peers and that college isn’t for them.

BY EDEN MACDOUGALL Intersection Editor Donna DiGiacomo began her first semester at Temple University in 2012 at the age of 43, only to take a leave of absence after one semester due to personal and financial reasons. She returned during the Fall 2019 semester to finish her degree.

“The economy was pretty much in shambles, still is, but you know I tried my best to get a job,” said DiGiacomo, a 45-year-old senior journalism major.

“And didn’t really work out so it just got to the point pre-pandemic, where I was just like you know what, why don’t I just go back to school, finish my degree.”

Like DiGiacomo, many nontraditional Temple students chose to return to school after taking a break in their studies because their passion for education outweighs challenges like connecting with younger peers and feeling out of place.

Before coming to Temple, DiGiacomo graduated from the Community College of Philadelphia with an associate’s degree in humanities in 2010 and a creative writing certificate in 2011. Part of the reason she originally left Temple in 2012 was that she didn’t want to dig herself into debt by taking out more loans for school, and she didn’t like being in class with kids half her age.

“I just thought about it,” she added.

“I’m like ‘Am I a little bit too old for this?’”

Now that she is back at Temple, DiGiacomo doesn’t have much of a connection to her peers outside of class because she feels most clubs and student organizations are aimed at younger students, and the age difference between her and others will cause friendships to fail, she said.

“Being an older student you feel like a lone wolf in, you know, a sea of young faces,” DiGiacomo added.

Although she is unsure of how her classmates view her, DiGiacomo feels like she doesn’t belong and wishes

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younger students cared more about what she has to say because they don’t usually engage with her, she said.

DiGiacomo wants to get involved with student organizations related to her major but can’t shake the sense that student life is not for her and her connections to her peers is limited to discussing class work in GroupMe, she said.

“That’s where it begins and ends,” DiGiacomo added.

Sinh Taylor, a 35-year-old junior studying English education and gender, sexuality and women’s studies, has attended college on and off since 2004, starting as a part-time student at CCP right after high school, they said.

After attending CCP for a year, they transferred to the Katherine Gibbs trade school to study graphic design, had a baby and then worked full time while taking classes at CCP in 2016. They enrolled at Temple in 2018, Taylor said.

One of the reasons Taylor decided to go back to school is that their daughter is now in high school and doesn’t need much supervision, giving them time to do school work, Taylor added.

“She thinks it’s cool that her mom’s in college,” Taylor said. “Like, she tells all her friends her mom’s in college and, like, she’s come to campus with me a couple of times after school.”

Being older than other students also means Taylor can help their classmates in ways younger students might not be able to, they said. When Temple first shut down at the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic in March 2020, there was a student from France who couldn’t travel home and ended up staying with Taylor for two weeks.

Malcolm Thomas, a 32-year-old junior geography and urban studies major, started his degree in 2009 at the University of Maryland, Baltimore

County, where he stayed for a single semester before pausing his studies. At the time, he worked in food service and warehouses and didn’t care much about his future because it didn’t seem like a big deal, he said.

“Ten years of life has kind of made me realize that maybe, you know, you have to do something else with my life,” Thomas added.

In 2020, he enrolled at Temple because he liked its geography and urban studies program and it was closer to his job at Continental Battery, a battery distributor, than other local schools, like the University of Pennsylvania or Drexel University, he wrote in an email to the Temple News.

Thomas decided to study geography and urban studies because he has always had a “strong sense of place” and believes the places where people live influence who they are, he wrote.

Despite having multiple classes with people who share his interests, Thomas hasn’t made a serious effort to form any friendships at Temple because he doesn’t feel he has much in common with younger students due to having more life experience and already having a friend group outside of college, he said.

“It would be different if I was, you know, on campus, or especially living on-campus stuff like that or away from home for the first time,” Thomas said.

While Taylor doesn’t mind lending a helping hand to their peers, they want younger students to remember that older students are peers, not parents, they said.

Older students are trying to get an education that they might not have had a chance to get earlier in life and have their own college experience, Taylor said. eden.macdougall@temple.edu

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My parents made mistakes but I still love them A student shares how his parents went from disrespecting to accepting his gender identity.

BY EDEN MACDOUGALL Intersection Editor In grade school, most of my friends were boys from my neighborhood.

When my female friends wanted to play house, I was happy to play the role of the dad. I always wanted the boy toy in my Happy Meal and I refused to wear dresses or pink. Anything I deemed girly was like Kryptonite to me.

Even when my friend group shifted to mainly girls, I still loathed wearing dresses and the color pink. For a while, I thought of myself as a tomboy and was desperate to distance myself from femininity as much as possible.

I didn’t consider the possibility that I might be transgender until my sophomore year of high school when I started to learn about LGBTQ identities

from friends and social media.

I didn’t come out until my senior year of high school when I wrote a heartfelt letter for my parents to read while I was at school. I did my best not to think about their reactions during homeroom and classes. I’d made my choice. The rest was out of my hands.

Around the third period I got the first text message from them saying that they would always love and support me no matter what.

When I got home from school that day, I was excited and wanted to get the ball rolling. New name, new pronouns, new me.

I sat down with my mom and dad at the kitchen counter and tried to get a discussion about my new name started. I already had one in mind and was hoping I could convince them to accept it.

It didn’t go my way.

The exuberance I’d gotten from their affirming text messages faded when my parents told me they didn’t want me to have a new name because they were

attached to my old one. I don’t think we even discussed using different pronouns.

The next year I went to Rider University and I remained closeted to everyone but my roommate until the second semester when I came out to two of my professors who seemed like safe choices. They fumbled a bit with my chosen name and pronouns but I could tell they were making an effort.

In the summer between my freshman and sophomore year, I tried to find a room in a co-ed dorm but my mom pressured me into living in the girl’s dorm because she thought I’d enjoy the feminist programs the dorm sponsored.

I couldn’t argue with her, she and my dad were the ones paying for my education and housing after all.

My breaking point was the start of sophomore year. Physically being in the allgirls dorm finally drove home the message that my parents weren’t going to come around on their own. I finally snapped and demanded that they start calling me Eden and using he/him pronouns.

Progress was slow. Painfully slow. I would catch them referring to me by my deadname when they thought I wouldn’t notice and get angry when I corrected them on my pronouns.

But it was still progress. After I transferred to Temple University, my mom started sticking up for me when my grandma deadnamed and misgendered me. My dad helped me get my name legally changed to Eden last July.

I used to resent them for every slipup, every time I was called daughter instead of son and for how personally they took me wanting a new name.

Every now and again my parents still slip up and misgender me or use my deadname, but it’s been almost five years since I first came out and I am focusing less on what went wrong and more on the effort my parents put into doing better.

I am grateful that they eventually listened to me and made good on those initial text-message promises. eden.macdougall@temple.edu

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Evan Easterling was Temple’s ‘gold star standard’ The former Temple News Sports and chief copy editor, has advanced to the New York Times.

BY NICK GANGEWERE Assistant Sports Editor

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van Easterling served in many journalistic roles early in his career at Temple University, but a tireless work ethic is what landed him his current job as a senior staff editor for sports at The New York Times.

A work ethic cultivated at The Temple News, he said.

“I would be on Google Docs at two in the morning sometimes,” Easterling added. “I’d get back from the Inquirer, eat something, then start going in on copy.”

Easterling spent four years working for The Temple News. His development through the different staff positions served as an example for those around him, said Sam Neumann, a 2018-2019 co-Sports editor and 2021 journalism alumnus. It gave fellow editors an idea of how they could progress their craft.

He started off as a freelancer for The Temple News’ Sports section and then moved into the Sports editor position for two years. In his senior year, he served as a chief copy editor. Easterling never lost the drive to work hard that he came into Temple with, he said.

Easterling wrote stories for Sports, Features, News and Longform while also shooting photos and videos for the Multimedia section, he said.

Along with his job at The Temple News, Easterling worked the night shift at the high school sports service for the Philadelphia Inquirer.

Former assistant Sports editor Mike Zingrone, a sixth year journalism major and education minor, remembers Easterling editing his stories in the middle of the night after Zingrone covered events, like the 2018 Independence Bowl in Shreveport, Louisiana, between Duke University and Temple, Zingrone said. “[Easterling] was on the ball with everything,” Zingrone added. “It’s 3 a.m. and I’m eating at a Waffle House in

COLLEEN CLAGGETT/ COURTESY Evan Easterling, former Temple News Sports editor and current sports section editor at the New York Times, attends Klein College of Media and Communication’s graduation on May 9, 2019.

Louisiana and [Easterling] is texting me and commenting on my stories.”

Not only did Easterling work his way to the top of The Temple News, but he did it with a grace and kindness that can get lost in today’s world, Neumann said.

Easterling wanted to help everybody else before getting to his own work.

He would spend Sunday nights in the newsroom editing stories with Neumann when other section editors had already left.

“He was the gold star standard for The Temple News,” Neumann said. “He was just a good guy overall.”

Easterling stuck with The Temple News for four years because of the opportunities it gave him to cover sports while also pursuing other passions, like multimedia storytelling, he said.

He has turned his passion into an influential portfolio and helped other student reporters improve their craft along the way, said Owen McCue, a 2017 Temple News Sports editor and

2018 journalism alumnus.

After graduating in May of 2019, Easterling spent two weeks in Philadelphia covering high school sports for The Philadelphia Inquirer. A month later, the Dow Jones News Fund internship program sent him to the print hub desk as an editing intern at The New York Times in June of 2019.

“It’s definitely something where you get nervous walking through the building,” Easterling said.

Knowing the strict accountability and accuracy The New York Times holds, Easterling’s nerves stemmed from his desire to succeed and advance as a writer.

Easterling earned a job as a full-time senior staff editor in February 2020 at The New York Times, which was a one hour train ride from his parent’s home in West Orange, New Jersey, where Easterling still lives today.

Easterling was hired as a full-time assistant to the lead night editor just

five months after joining The New York Times, before becoming a senior staff editor for sports.

He was mentored at The New York Times through hands-on work and lots of repetition, Easterling said. He would always try to help out students still at The Temple News the same way his mentors helped him, he added.

Nobody was surprised when Easterling found professional success as quickly as he did, Zingrone said.

Easterling’s former coworkers always knew he was one of the hardest working and most talented editors.

“Everything [Zingrone] and I did we didn’t try to emulate [Easterling],” Neumann said. “We knew we could never be [Easterling], because [Easterling] is just the best at what he does, but we would try to model the work that we did after his.” nick,gangewere@temple.edu @nick_gang16

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A look back at Temple’s most successful coaches The Sports editors at The Temple News reflect on historical coaches to honor 100th Anniversary.

BY ISABELLA DIAMORE, VICTORIA AYALA AND NICK GANGEWERE For The Temple News From bowl games to qualifying for NCAA championships, The Temple News has been there to cover it all.

To honor 100 years of publication at The Temple News, the Sports editors went through the archives and highlighted coaches, who made history in Temple University’s programs.

Coaches Tina Sloan Green, women’s lacrosse and field hockey head coach, John Chaney, men’s basketball head coach, Dawn Staley, women’s basketball head coach, Matt Rhule, head football coach, and Nikki Franke, head fencing coach, all played a pivotal role in shaping the university’s athletic identity.

Whether it was former Temple News Sports editors or writers watching Chaney having an outburst on the sidelines or Franke remaining humble even after her 800th win — let’s take a look back on who these coaches were through the lens of The Temple News coverage.

TINA SLOAN GREEN

As the only Temple coach to win three national championships, two NCAA and one Association for Intercollegiate Athletics for Women, Green remains Owls royalty.

Green joined the program in 1975 and became the first African American collegiate women’s lacrosse coach in the United States.

“It would be tough to argue that maybe she’s the greatest head coach in Temple athletics history for winning two NCAA championships and a third with the AIWA,” said Mark Morgan, a 1983 communications alumnus and 1981 Sports editor at The Temple News.

In her 18 seasons with the university, she compiled a .758 career winning percentage and a 207-62-4 record, including an undefeated 19-0 season in 1988.

During the 1983-1985 seasons,

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Green led her team to a record-setting 29-game winning streak.

“Some people underestimated her and didn’t realize, but boy could she coach, did she know the ins and outs of lacrosse and she was a pioneer,” Morgan said. “There weren’t many African Americans playing lacrosse back then, let alone coaching.”

Green is a member of the Philadelphia Sports Hall of Fame, the National Lacrosse Hall of Fame and the Intercollegiate Women’s Lacrosse Coaches Association Hall of Fame. She also received the Philadelphia Legacies Award in Sept. 2018.

JOHN CHANEY

After coaching at Cheyney University for 10 years and leading the team to eight national championship tournaments and the NCAA Division II title in 1978, Chaney started as Temple men’s basketball head coach in 1982.

“I had such a reverence for coach Chaney that being able to cover him, being

able to listen to him,” said Rob Knox, a 1994-95 Temple news writer and 1996 Lincoln University graduate. “[Chaney] didn’t really know me and he asked me this after a game at the Palestra: ‘What do you want to do when you get your degree?’ and I said ‘I’m going to be a sports writer.’ And all I remember Chaney saying ‘why the hell would you want to do that for?’”

The Owls earned five consecutive NCAA tournament berths between 1984 and 1988. Before Chaney’s arrival, the team never had back-to-back appearances at the NCAA tournament.

By the end of his career, Chaney led the Owls to 17 NCAA Tournament appearances.

Chaney’s coaching term came to an end when he retired in 2006. Between his time at Cheyney and Temple, he finished with 741 wins.

“He was larger than life,” said John DiCarlo, a 1997-98 Temple News Sports editor and 1998 journalism alumnus.

“You would see [Chaney] on the sideline, who was very intimidating and he was

fiery, and he would sometimes yell at the refs. But when you got to cover him, there was this healthy level of respect.”

For Chaney, basketball was more than just perfecting three-pointers, it was taking the game and comparing it back to life — to mature the young players into men.

Chaney passed at age 89 due to a short illness on Jan. 29, 2021. His character and love for the game will forever be remembered in the Owls’ basketball program, DiCarlo said.

DAWN STALEY

Staley joined Temple’s program as head coach in 2000. During that summer, she also continued to play professional basketball for the Charlotte Sting and played in the WNBA until 2006.

“What was really cool about coach Staley being named a coach was that it brought a star to campus,” said Josh Cornfield, a 2000 Temple News Copy Editor and 2004 journalism alumnus.

“She grew up in Philly and I grew up in Philly as well, and you’ll always

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me up to do an interview, [Easterling] got on TV down there. It was a big time to cover Temple athletics.”

NIKKI FRANKE

TEMPLE ATHLETICS/ COURTESY Tina Sloan Green, former women’s lacrosse and field hockey coach, celebrates with her team after they won the National Championship after an undefeated season (19-0) in 1988. Temple beat Penn State 15-7 in the title game.

remember the Dawn Staley mural that used to be on Market Street.”

In 2002, Staley helped the Owls capture the school’s first-ever Atlantic-10 Conference Tournament title and in 2004 she led Temple to the top of the A-10 East standings with a 14-2 record.

In that same season, Temple won their second A-10 Tournament title for Staley’s second trip to the NCAA Tournament as a coach.

In total, she led the Owls to five NCAA Tournaments in her seven years with the program and won a record of 172-80 games in eight seasons with the Owls.

Staley decided to leave the Owls program in 2008 and agreed to become coach of the University of South Carolina’s women’s basketball team.

Staley was a three-time Olympic gold medalist and helped young women develop in their player careers to advance at the professional level, Cornfield said.

MATT RHULE

Temple football saw greater success

under Rhule than any prior football coach. Rhule, now the head coach of the NFL’s Carolina Panthers, served as the coach of Temple football from December 2012 until December 2016.

Under Rhule, Temple reached two bowl games and finished with back-toback 10-win seasons for the first time in program history.

“It had to be the best era of Temple football ever,” said Owen McCue, a 2017 Temple News Sports editor and 2018 journalism alumnus.

His four seasons at the helm was his second tenure at Temple, previously serving as an assistant coach from 2006 to 2011, spending a year as an assistant with the New York Giants before returning to the Owls.

Rhule finished 2-10 his first year, but turned the program around, finishing his tenure with two 10-4 seasons.

Temple football earned their first top-25 ranking in 36 years in 2015, reaching No. 22 in the Associated Press Top 25.

“Rhule was more about ‘we’ll win games and that will speak for itself,’”

said Evan Easterling, a 2017-18 Sports editor at The Temple News.

While Rhule kept winning games his last two years, Temple football received national attention, leading to primetime games and had ESPN’s College Gameday come to Philadelphia. Temple’s largest crowd of 69,280 fans came on Oct. 31, 2015, as No. 9 Notre Dame came to play the Owls on Halloween night.

“As a student journalist, the experience itself was about as big-time as it gets,” said McCue. “That was a moment where the whole city, even whole country were watching and we were right there covering it.”

The Owls lost to the Fighting Irish in a thriller, but it was a prime example of Rhule’s coaching bringing Temple football to new heights.

Rhule coached 29 all-conference honorees during the four seasons, including 20 NFL draftees over his two tenures.

“Temple had lost coaches before, had kind of gotten used to that, but he was pretty beloved on campus,” said McCue. “ESPN Radio in Texas called

Current Temple fencing coach Franke is entering her 50th year with the fencing program.

For the first time in program history, the maximum number of 12 fencers qualified for the NCAA championships in 2020, finishing seventh among the 17 women’s teams present.

During the Owls’ 2019-20 season, Franke led the team to its highest ranking in program history, putting Temple in the number five spot in the College Fencing 360 rankings.

“She was an inspiring teacher and won some individual championships during her tenure,” Morgan said.

“Regardless, she’s obviously one of the greatest coaches in fencing history and certainly should be in any fencing hall of fame.”

During the 2017-2018 season, Franke reached her 800th win, a milestone achieved by few coaches.

“I remember just calling her, I was thinking I’d maybe get a little bit of excitement out of her, a little extra something or a quote I wasn’t expecting,’’ said Mike Zingrone, a 2018-19 co-Sports editor. “But she was so gracious and so well-spoken and just so humble. After an 800th win, you’d expect a coach to be a little different. It just showed me who she was.”

Franke’s dedication to the team has led them to 22 straight team titles at the National Intercollegiate Women’s fencing Association and her career record of 863-259-1.

Franke received the United States Fencing Coaches Association Women’s fencing coach of the year honors in 1983, 1987, 1988 and 1991, and was inducted into the International Sports Hall of Fame in Oct. 2002, the Temple University Athletics Hall of Fame in 1995 and the United States Fencing Association Hall of Fame in 1998. isabella.diamore@temple.edu @belladiamore13 nick.gangewere@temple.edu @nick_gang16 victoria.ayala@temple.edu @ayalavictoria

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Kevin Negandhi accomplishes a lifetime dream Former Sports editor uses his Temple News experience while anchoring on ESPN.

BY ISABELLA DIAMORE Sports Editor Every Sunday as a kid, Kevin Negandhi and his dad sat in the family room of their home in Phoenixville, Pennsylvania, watching football.

But, it was more than just watching the Philadelphia Eagles get trampled on. During the week Negandhi would consume the Sports section of The Philadelphia Inquirer, so he could tell his dad all the stats and background of each team.

Sports was the way his family connected, and Negandhi’s hobby quickly turned into a passion. When he came to Temple University for college to study communications, Negandhi found the resources to become a successful sports journalist.

“By the time I was in high school, I realized what I wanted to do was become a sportscaster,” Negandhi said. “Go to ESPN and go on SportsCenter.”

After getting sick of the cold at Syracuse University by October of his freshman year in college, Negandhi decided that he wouldn’t spend the rest of his three years in Upstate New York, he said.

When he confided in his mother, she suggested Temple, because Negandhi’s older brother attended business school there.

Starting in the spring semester in 1994, Negandhi was enrolled in classes at Temple. Once he felt comfortable on North Broad, Negandhi knew it was time to get involved with different sports media outlets, he said.

In his sophomore year, Negandhi walked into the newsroom and spoke with an editor on his desire to work for the sports section. The editor then offered him the position.

At the time, The Temple News had about ten students on staff and the paper printed daily. Part of Negandhi’s plan as Sports editor was to rebuild relationships with sources and find

JOE FARAONI / COURTESY Kevin Negandhi sits on the set of SportsCenter in Bristol, Connecticut, on Feb. 8, 2016.

reliable writers for the section, he said.

“There were a couple of writers that were basically stealing the press passes to go to games, and they would take their girlfriends,” Negandhi added. “My first order of business was to go to the [sports information director] office and build relationships up again.”

It was important for Negandhi to build relationships with Temple Athletics, so he, along with other writers, could cover sports to their full potential.

Then it came down to finding the right students to cover those games, he said.

Negandhi made sure every sport was receiving an equal amount of coverage, and once he found those reliable writers who constantly handed in stories on time, he would offer the writer a chance to cover a sports beat.

Fomer Temple News writer Rob Knox, a 1996 Lincoln University journalism alumnus who attended classes at Temple through a partnership with Lincoln, remembers Negandhi taking the time to sit down with him to edit stories, but Negandhi also made it clear he trusted Knox as a writer on the women’s basketball beat, Knox said.

“The best part about [Negandhi] is not only was he in front of the workforce, but he made you feel empowered,” Knox said. “He helped you learn and grow from the experience.”

Late nights in the newsroom were only one part of Negandhi’s job each day.

In his third year, Negandhi began writing sports columns for The Temple News, calling the women’s basketball play-by-play for WRTI, a Pennsylvania public radio station, and anchoring on the sports desk for Temple Update, all while balancing a job at the King of Prussia mall to pay rent.

“Anything he could do, he did,” said a 1997-98 Temple News Sports editor and 1998 journalism alumnus John DiCarlo.

“That’s what I took away from him.

He really worked hard, he cared about working hard, being genuine, getting it right and not letting anybody down.”

By Negandhi’s senior year, he managed to do five internships, two of which were at 6ABC Action News and NBC10 Philadelphia.

With minimal sleep and weekends spent covering basketball at the Liacouras Center, formerly known as

the Apollo of Temple, Negandhi never minded doing the extra work, because he didn’t want to leave Temple with the question of “What if?”

“This job is not normal,” Negandhi said. “We’re not normal people. But if you love it, you never think about the hours.”

After graduating in his fifth year at Temple in 1997, Negandhi got a job four months later in Kirksville, Missouri, through an affiliate of ABC. A few jobs later, Negandhi landed his dream job on ESPN in 2006, and in 2017 he made his way to the ESPN on ABC College Football studio team.

Negandhi carries over the same principles and character he had as Sports editor every time he goes live most days of the week on SportsCenter at 6 p.m.

“I promised my mom when I left for my first job that eventually I would be in her living room,” Negandhi said. “When all is said and done, I’ll be in your living room every night, you’ll get to see me, realizing that I fulfill that dream every day when I’m on ESPN.” isabella.diamore@temple.edu @belladiamore13

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MEN’S SOCCER

Rowland’s successful career helps guide the Owls Brian Rowland earned the program’s highest-ranked win during his tenure as head coach.

BY SEAN MCMENAMIN Co-Men’s Soccer Beat Reporter When head coach Brian Rowland steps onto the field at the Temple Sports Complex each day, he wants to give the Owls the same opportunity his coaches gave him: a chance to grow as a player, he said.

Rowland is now in his fourth season with Temple University men’s soccer and his successful athletic career has helped him to expand the Owls’ program to develop professional players.

During the 2021 season, Temple has posted a record of 1-3-2 and a mark of 0-2-0 in the American Athletic Conference. Despite dealing with tough injuries, including redshirt-freshman goalkeeper Eoin Gawronski fracturing his foot, Rowland hopes to lead the team to a deep run in the conference tournament with his past experience and knowledge of the game, he said.

In his first year with Temple in 2018, Rowland made a 17-man roster change and brought in an entirely new coaching staff to create a winning team by identifying new talent where certain schools may not be recruiting, he said.

Part of the new coaching staff is assistant head coach Armante’ Marshall,

who believes part of the reason he and Rowland click together as coaches is due to their similar philosophy of making the most of their experience, Marshall said.

“It’s been a really good partnership, a really good relationship,” Marshall said.

“You never know what to expect but he is a very passionate coach about what he wants.”

Rowland led the squad to wins in 2018 against nationally-ranked teams like Old Dominion University and the University of Central Florida in his first year at the helm.

“We all kind of showed up on the first day and figured it out and won some pretty important games,” Rowland said.

“We were in every game that year and I think we could have probably won a few more games had we been maybe a little bit more seasoned as a group.”

In the first round of the AAC Tournament in 2019, the Owls defeated Memphis University for their first-ever win in conference playoffs.

When the Owls were competing in the spring last season, Rowland recorded the team’s highest-ranked win against No. 2 Southern Methodist University and defeated No. 23 ranked Tulsa University, while finishing with a 5-4-2 record.

This was the group’s first winning season since 2017. The team also clinched the third seed in the AAC playoffs, the highest seed in postseason history.

Rowlands coaching tactics are different from the ones graduate student

defender Mickael Borger experienced before joining the Owls’ program, he said. During practice Rowland prioritizes time for individual position groups to work with one another, which Borger believes is part of Temple’s success.

“He’s trying to implement this winning mentality,” Borger said. “He helped me and other players to really have this, to be renewed, to want to win every single game, to compete all the time.”

Nine of Rowland’s former players earned postseason accolades from the AAC under his direction and mentorship, including First-Team selections sophomore forward Sean Karani and graduate defender Pierre Cayet.

“We can’t argue with first round draft picks and conference players of the year, I mean these are big accomplishments for guys that came here when there was nothing,” Rowland said.

Rowland played goalkeeper for the Canadian Youth National U-20 team in 2001 and this jump started his successful playing career.

He then went on to play in college for nationally-ranked University of Maryland in Baltimore County, where he graduated as the career and single-season record holder in shutouts and served as a two-time captain for the team. He was later inducted into UMBC’s Hall of Fame in 2014.

Following college, Rowland played professionally for the Toronto Lynx in the

United Soccer League A-League from 2003 to 2004, and learned details on goalkeeping from other guys in the game, he said.

“What I learned the most was, how to be part of a winning culture,” Rowland said.

Playing professionally helped Rowland become a confident leader by teaching him the ins and outs of the game, but also helping him understand the different phases an athlete has to advance in to make it to the professional league, he said.

“It was a great experience being able to play for four years, firstly in this job, it helps me relate to them and share some experiences,” Rowland added.

The coaching staff is proud of the progress Temple has made, but the remaining goal is leading the Owls to an NCAA tournament victory and growing the development of players who were under recruited, Marshall said.

Rowland hopes to grow the confidence that his former staff members instilled in their program into the Owls program as he continues his role as head coach, he said.

“What it comes down to is just being able to put in the work, loving what you do and and really you know, invest in yourself and helping their experience,” Rowland added. “Which then ultimately makes my experience much better.”

“Sometimes I have to get on my players and be instructive and sometimes be critical and it is a big part of who I am as a goalkeeper.”

Stablein can often be heard shouting out to her teammates, telling them where to play and what to do on the field.

Graduate student defender Marissa DiGenova agreed that Stablein’s vocal leadership on the field is a big positive for the team, she said.

“Since the minute [Stablein] got here she established herself as a leader on this team,” DiGenova said. “We are all confident having her behind us and

when she gets on us we know to not take it personally, we know she is here to help us get better.”

Before college, Stablein did not play soccer for her high school team, instead she chose to strictly play club soccer for F.C. Pennsylvania Strikers, a decision that helped her further develop her skills and better prepared her for the college level than a high school team would have, Stablein said.

While playing for the club, Stablein started to get serious about the goalkeeping position. She trained every day and studied hours of film, she said.

“I started taking it very seriously, and trained very hard,” Stablein said. “I knew that I wanted to play at the college level and professionally.”

Stablein is prepared to help the Owls down the stretch during conference play and help get the team back to the AAC tournament for the first time since 2018.

“I think the program is looking up and all of us are excited to get back after it down the stretch,” Stablein said.

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Stablein has a higher save percentage this year than her sophomore year at Delaware while playing harder opponents. The Owls have faced Memphis (7-1-1,1-0-0 AAC) and Cincinnati (5-4-1, 1-1-0 AAC), who both have winning records this season.

Not only has Stablein been one of the Owl’s best players so far this season, but she has also been the team’s biggest vocal leader on the field.

“I have a pretty good understanding of the game and it is something that I have studied a lot,” Stablein said.

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Stablein is the backbone in net for Owls Junior goalkeeper Kamryn Stablein has been consistent on the Temple women’s soccer field this season.

BY SAMUEL O’NEAL Women’s Soccer Beat Reporter

W

hen junior goalkeeper Kamryn Stablein transferred to Temple University after spending two years at the University of Delaware, she brought the consistency in the net the Owls were looking for.

Stablein’s presence as goalkeeper has paid dividends for the Owls this season, as so far she has recorded two shutouts and started in all but one game this season.

Stablein has also seen her save percentage steadily climb during her collegiate career.

Stablein was named the American Athletic Conference goalkeeper of the week on Aug. 30, her third time winning the award since transferring to Temple prior to the 2020-2021 season.

She ranks first in saves and saves per game in the AAC and is in the top five in save percentage this year.

“Accolades are always nice to get and I will stand by the fact that I work very hard,” Stablein

said. “I care far more about my team’s performance and us being successful as a whole than any individual accolade.”

Since arriving at Temple, Stablein has been a fundamental part of the Owls pursuit of the postseason, said head coach Nick Bochette.

“I truly believe that [Stablein] is among the more complete goalkeepers anywhere in the country,” Bochette said.

“Even when we have that rough day defensively, she makes up for a lot.”

After two years at Delaware, Stablein felt as if she was not growing as a player with the limited amount of playing time she had, she said.

The transfer portal gave her the opportunity to branch out and meet new coaches, who saw her potential, Stablein said. Bochette was able to produce a vision for Stablein’s development and committed to her having an integral role on the team, he said.

“Once I entered the transfer portal, I talked to [Bochette] and just loved everything he had to say,” Stablien said. “I knew that Temple was a place

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ALLIE IPPOLITO/ THE TEMPLE NEWS Kamryn Stablein, junior goalkeeper, prepares to hit the ball at an Owls’ game against the University of Pennsylvania at Temple Sports Complex on Aug. 28.