Vol. 96, Iss. 18

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TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 6, 2018

HEALTH

‘THE BEST DAY OF MY LIFE’ About 10,000 students took to Broad Street to celebrate after the Philadelphia Eagles won the Super Bowl on Sunday.

JAMIE COTTRELL / THE TEMPLE NEWS Sophomore theater major Dana Liu drinks from a water fountain in Annenberg Hall on Saturday. Students reported becoming ill after drinking from the fountains.

Students hospitalized from water The university disinfected and changed the filters on all the water fountains in Annenberg Hall.

JAMIE COTTRELL / THE TEMPLE NEWS Fans cheer on top of a garbage truck on North Broad in front of City Hall after the Philadelphia Eagles beat the New England Patriots, 41-33, in the Super Bowl on Sunday.

speaker attached to the roof of his 1997 Honda Civic. Mill, a rapper from North Philadelphia, is currently incarcerated for violating his probation. Many hiphop musicians, including rapper Jay-Z, have aådvocated for his release. Chants of “Free Meek” mixed with the sound of crowds celebrating the Eagles’ win along Broad Street.

The Eagles defeated the New England Patriots, 41-33, in the franchise’s first Super Bowl win. Tens of thousands of football fans celebrated on city streets after the game ended around 10 p.m.

An estimated 10,000 students living

BY EMILY SCOTT & IAN WALKER For The Temple News

A

fter the Philadelphia Eagles won the Super Bowl on Sunday night, the scene on Broad Street was like one out of a

movie.

Near Hamilton and Broad streets, more than 100 people gathered around the car of Mike Ortiz.

Ortiz, 19, from Camden, New Jersey, blasted hip-hop songs like Meek Mill’s “Dreams and Nightmares” from a

BY ALYSSA BIEDERMAN On-Campus Beat Reporter

on or near Main Campus took to Broad Street, according to Temple Police.

Charlie Leone, the executive director of Campus Safety Services, wrote in an email that there were no arrests or injuries reported that night. He added that there were four small fires near off-campus apartments that were extinguished by the Philadelphia Fire Department.

He wrote that, overall, the students who celebrated were cooperative with authorities.

Andrew Hamilton, a sophomore fi-

Students said they were hospitalized after drinking from water fountains in Annenberg Hall last week.

The university has since changed filters and disinfected all bottle-refilling stations after receiving complaints from students and their families.

Sophomore film and media arts major Kaila Shields said that on Jan. 24 she felt dizzy and nauseous and began to vomit after drinking water from Annenberg Hall. She called Temple Police, which brought her to Temple University Hospital.

“I was completely fine until I drank the water that day,” Shields said. “The water made me

EAGLES | PAGE 11

WATER | PAGE 3

FENCING

CONSTRUCTION

Donors gift student-athletes new lounge in Pearson Hall Independent investors paid for the new lounge that features gaming units and TVs.

BY AMANDA LIEN Copy Editor

Temple Athletics unveiled a new lounge for student-athletes on Jan. 26 in the Fitness Mezzanine on the second floor of Pearson Hall, equipped with Xbox gaming units, sleep pods, lounge chairs and TVs. The lounge was funded entirely by donations to the university from the New York City Angels, a group of independent investors, and is part of Temple Athletics’ “student-athlete wellness initiative,” which was announced last May. Only studentathletes can access the space.

No money for the lounge came from university funds, said Senior Associate Athletic Director Larry Dougherty. The New York City Angels requested that the donation amount not be made public. “[Director of Athletics Pat Kraft] had a vision for this and it was up to our development office to track down donations,” Dougherty said. “The New York City Angels came through with the funding. We had the idea for having a student-athlete space and we were able to find a group to fund it.”

“Pat definitely lived up to all his promises on this one,” said David Fitzgerald, a junior political science major who represents the men’s cross country team on the Student-Athlete Advisory Committee. “He told us he was going to do it and he met that deadline. Walking in there was amazing. I can’t wait to use it every day for my free cup of coffee.”

But some students responded negatively to photos of the lounge posted on social media, questioning the university’s funding priorities — despite the fact Temple did not directly pay for the lounge.

“Do you need someone to coach you on finances?” junior psychology major Sarah Bockrath tweeted at the official Temple Twitter account. “I’m not too good at it but I’m pretty sure you shouldn’t spend your money on useless crap like this.”

The tweet received more than 300 engagements.

“It just seems like a shame that these spaces are being created for a specific group of students while other students are saying, ‘We want a sexual assault crisis center, we want more counselors in Tuttleman,’” Bockrath told The Temple News.

“Even if the money comes from donors, I think it’s still something we should think about.”

“I would be interested in seeing how

LOUNGE | PAGE 6

JOCELYN BURNS / THE TEMPLE NEWS Coach Nikki Franke (center) watches as sophomore foil Kennedy Lovelace (left) and freshman foil Megan Ross prepare for last weekend’s Northwestern Duals during practice at the Student Pavilion on Thursday.

Franke earns milestone win Nikki Franke, who has coached the Owls since 1972, won her 800th career match on Sunday.

BY MICHAEL ZINGRONE Fencing Beat Reporter

Nikki Franke clinched her 800th career win at Temple on Sunday. But her historic coaching career almost never happened.

After she graduated from Brooklyn College in 1972, Franke didn’t plan to continue her education. But Denise O’Connor, her college coach and teammate at the 1976

Olympics, called Franke’s mother to convince Franke to attend graduate school at Temple. O’Connor’s former fencers often studied at Temple after leaving Brooklyn.

Many became involved with the fencing club before it was a Division I sport. Franke did the same.

Franke has been Temple’s coach since the team formed in 1972. Franke entered this season with 781 wins before earning No. 800 against Air Force on Sunday at the Northwestern Duals in South Bend, Indiana.

FRANKE | PAGE 14

NEWS | PAGES 2-3, 6

OPINION | PAGES 4-5

FEATURES | PAGES 7-12

SPORTS | PAGES 13-16

A former and a current student are running for seats in the state House of Representatives. Read more on Page 6.

A student wrote a column urging the university to fund a comprehensive user engagement site. Read more on Page 4.

A 2009 studio art alumnus had work shown in the exhbit “The Good, the Bad and the Ugly,” which focused on masculinity.

Read more on Page 8.

The men’s basketball team has won three games in a row, scoring an average of 83 points per game.

Read more on Page 16.

NEWS TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 6, 2018

PAGE 2 COMMUNITY

Residents trained for tech apprenticeships Some residents were hired to work as paid apprentices in the TECH Center and the Computer Recycling Center.

BY WILL BLEIER

Community Beat Reporter

The university’s Computer Recycling Center is partnering with the Philadelphia-based homelessness nonprofit Project HOME to offer community residents a paid technology apprenticeship at Temple.

Together, the Computer Recycling Center and Project HOME, which combats issues of poverty and homelessness, provided participants with 10 weeks of training in technology courses in the fall before they began a nine-week rotating apprenticeship program.

During the apprenticeship, which began on Jan. 29, nine residents work at the Computer Recycling Center, the Computer Services help desk in the TECH Center and in computer labs on campus. They will rotate through these different departments every three weeks.

“We figured if we could teach a group of people in the community digital literacy, then they could become the resident experts to help support if we were to donate technology into the community,” said Jonathan Latko, director of the Computer Recycling Center and the apprentice program. “The expectation after is that they give back, and apply their knowledge to help out.”

Residents trained in Fall 2017 to prepare for the two-part Comp-

TIA A+ exam, a third-party industry assessment, which tests mastery in troubleshooting devices, familiarity with computer internals and other skills. The first part of the exam was administered on Jan. 26 and nine of 14 residents passed.

The nine residents who passed then moved onto the university apprenticeships.

Terence Oliver, 57, of Spring Garden and Evockeea Wayenahan, 60, of Chinatown are two resident apprentices working for Latko at the Computer Recycling Center.

They pick up surplus technology from university departments, and fix the products to potentially redistribute at Temple or in the surrounding community.

“In the beginning, I thought I knew most of the stuff, as I was preparing for the test, and I found out there was a lot of stuff I wasn’t exposed to yet,” Oliver said.

“There’s a ton of stuff to learn. It’s a great opportunity if you put forth the effort.”

“I’m learning a lot more than I knew,” Wayenahan said. “So this is definitely a valuable experience.”

The participants work three days a week at their university apprenticeships, and after their shifts, they go to Honickman Learning Center, which is Project HOME’s center for employment and education. Both Wayenahan and Oliver live in a Project HOME residence, which is how they learned about the apprenticeship program.

At the center, they study for the second part of the CompTIA A+ exam that they’ll complete at the end of the apprenticeship. The rest of the day is used for career

WILL BLEIER / THE TEMPLE NEWS Evockeea Wayenahan, 60, works at her apprenticeship at the Computer Recycling Center in Pearson Hall on Thursday.

coaching. Participants will be prepared for future careers in technology.

Alexis Pugh, the director of workforce solutions at Project HOME, helped choose the possible candidates who were presented to Temple for the program.

“Project HOME does recruitment across our sites,” Pugh said

“This person then has to apply, and after they do the application, then we do a needs assessment and an assessment on skill level. We then do interviewing to make sure this person is interested in going into this, because it’s a commitment.”

Latko said students who excel within the program will be encouraged to apply for technology job

openings at the university.

“I didn’t know anything about computers before this, so it’s really interesting to know how the things you use and take for granted work,” Wayenahan said. william.bleier@temple.edu @Will_Bleier

STATE

Research group proposes free tuition for PA students

BY THE NUMBERS: PROPOSED $1 BILLION FUND FOR STUDENTS IN NEED

100% of tuition paid for public community colleges and state four-year institutions

12-66% of tuition paid for staterelated universities

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The proposal would raise income tax by 1 percent and would cost $1 billion per year.

BY RACHAEL MELLON For The Temple News

A research group and a lobbying group submitted a joint proposal to increase state taxes in order to make tuition free or reduced for instate high school students accepted to Pennsylvania state and state-related universities like Temple.

In January, the Keystone Research Center and the Pennsylvania Budget and Policy Center announced their proposal for the “Pennsylvania Promise,” a plan that would cut costs for students going to college in Pennsylvania.

The plan offers four years of needbased grants ranging from $2,000 to $11,000 for high school graduates accepted at state-related universities: Temple, University of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania State University and Lincoln University, according to the program’s report.

Students with an annual family income less than or equal to $110,000 who are attending state universities, like West Chester University and Kutztown University, could receive four years of free tuition. Recent high school graduates attending public community colleges as full-time students in Pennsylvania could get two years of free tuition.

The plan is expected to cost more than $1 billion per year and could be funded by different taxes or tax increases on the “highest-income” Pennsylvania residents, according to the report.

By raising the personal income tax rate by 1 percent, the center claims that only a quarter of that new revenue would be needed to fund the program every year. It also proposes that half of the revenue from a progressive tax

that raises taxes on high-income people could fund the program.

The state could also introduce a severance tax, which is tax on the extraction of fossil fuels, that would target drilling from the Marcellus Shale formation, said Mark Price, a labor economist at the Keystone Research Center.

Drilling regions in the state often do not have inexpensive community colleges, according to the report, which makes attending post-secondary education difficult for students in these regions.

Funding could also come from a .054 percent flat tax on net worth or financial wealth, resulting in $540 every year from each taxpayer with $1 million in financial assets.

Pennsylvania Promise has received support from legislators like state Sen. Vincent Hughes of the 7th District. On Jan. 23, Hughes called for affordable education for students, alongside researchers from Keystone Research Center and members of the state House. The House’s Democratic Caucus also came out in support of the proposal, Price said.

A plan similar to the Pennsylvania Promise was implemented in New Jersey in 2015. Rutgers University’s Camden Campus waived tuition and fees for students whose families make less than $60,000 per year. Rutgers also covers half the tuition of students whose families earn between $60,000 and $100,000 per year.

Megan Crimi, a sophomore actuarial science major who transferred to Temple this year from Northampton Community College, said this plan would have provided her with more financial opportunity.

“I had always planned on first attending community college and then transferring to Temple since high school,” Crimi said. “I knew with my [financial] situation, I would have defi-

nitely been unable to pay for Temple’s tuition right out of high school, so Northampton was my only option.”

“If this plan were in place by the time I had graduated high school, I would have enrolled into Temple right away,” she added.

Pennsylvania is one of the lowest ranking states in terms of public higher education investment.

“One of the key drivers for rising tuition in the public schools was that the general assembly in Pennsylvania have been making fewer contributions over time to finance public higher [education],” Price said.

According to the U.S. News & World Report, Pennsylvania is ranked last on its higher education list, which considers average tuition costs, student debt, graduation rate. The state is ranked 47th for low student debt after graduation and 48th for tuition in fees.

The Pennsylvania Promise could rank the state 36th if it is enacted, according to the proposal.

Lacey Caprari, a sophomore nursing major, transferred from Luzerne County Community College to Temple this semester.

“If I knew the route I wanted to take with my education in high school, I probably would have transferred after a year of community college instead of transferring after almost two years,” Caprari said. “My mom is a single mom, and I have a brother and a sister and we are all in college, so a plan like that could have helped our family a whole lot.”

Price said he urges college students to reach out to their state representative to advocate for this funding.

“Talk to them about the challenges you face and tell them you support a proposal like this,” he added. “That could make it more real.” rachael.mellon@temple.edu

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COMMUNITY

Report: Jobs, education increase on North Broad More than 4,000 jobs were created in 2017, but local unemployment is higher than the city’s average.

BY MATTHEW McCANN Community Beat Reporter

In 2017, there was an increase in jobs, educational attainment and population along North Broad Street between City Hall and Germantown Avenue, according to a report by the community revitalization group North Broad Renaissance.

North Broad Renaissance is a nonprofit community organization that incentivizes development along the North Broad corridor, coordinating with community members, public and private developers and local businesses. North Broad Renaissance released The State of North Broad 2017 after a year of research with Philadelphia-based consulting services Econsult Solutions.

There were more than 4,000 new jobs added along North Broad in 2017 and the population grew from 48,384 people to 49,695.

There are more than 1,300 businesses along North Broad that employ 29,107 people. But the local unemployment rate is still high at 14 percent — a stark contrast to Philadelphia’s 5.7 percent rate reported by the Bureau of Labor Statistics for November 2017.

Although more people are working and income is rising in communities along North Broad, the projected income growth for 2022 will not outpace inflation. This is a problem for the many residents who don’t own their home, because their rent and other expenses could increase due to inflation.

At least 62 percent of people in neighborhoods along North Broad Street are renting their residence, said Shalimar Thomas, the executive director of North Broad Renaissance.

“When you think about community revitalization, it’s those renters that are really the most vulnerable population,” she added.

“Because if the rent goes up, then there’s nothing you can do. You can’t afford it. You just have to leave.”

North Broad Renaissance collected data on North Philadelphia communities the entire year to gear its future programs toward bettering the area. Keeping people in North Philadelphia is one of Thomas’ priorities, she said.

By collecting information about the community and communicating it to resi-

CONTINUED FROM PAGE 1 WATER gag and then I threw up.”

“We continue to monitor the water quality in the building and will make any additional changes, should the need arise,” a university spokesperson wrote in a statement to The Temple News.

The university was unable to explain how water quality is monitored at the time of this article.

Sophomore media studies and production major Ava Sullivan has experienced similar symptoms. She and two friends drank water from the Randall Theater fountain on Jan. 26, and the three all felt nauseous afterward. Sullivan went to the emergency room after being unable to stop vomiting.

“It felt like I was carsick, but worse,” Sullivan said.

Neither Shields nor Sullivan has been given medication other than anti-nausea pills and neither of them have been diagnosed with what caused their sickness.

Sullivan said after she alerted Temple’s administration, the fountain in Randall Theater was disinfected. After the disinfection, she said another student fell ill. Now there is an “out of order” sign on the fountain.

Shields emailed President Richard Englert, but was redirected to an office assistant in for the university’s chief operating officer, Kevin Clark.

dents, Thomas hopes to find a way to “maybe [get] those 62 percent [of renters to] eventually go into home ownership.”

Lee’s Hoagie House on Cecil B. Moore Avenue near 15th Street had an increase in sales and had “a great year,” said managing partner Josh Waxman.

Waxman credited the increase in business to Temple’s growth over the last year.

“The school itself is growing and building, so that helps a lot,” he added.

“North Broad is really experiencing a revitalization of growth and development and that has been greatly increasing in recent years,” said Brittany Forman, a member of the North Broad Renaissance advisory board and director at Econsult Solutions.

One of the ways North Broad Renaissance plans to help revitalize the area is by encouraging the development of business hubs that focus on complimenting and expanding the scope of existing businesses.

These hubs will incentivize similar businesses to open in the same area, creating identifiable areas along North Broad that serve a specific interest. The four proposed hubs that North Broad Renaissance is promoting are a tech hub, an arts and culture hub, a health hub and a professional service hub.

Temple and Temple University Hospital are two of the largest employers along North Broad, with 780 employees from surrounding ZIP codes.

On Jan. 24, Temple opened an unrelated Workforce Connections Hub on Cecil B. Moore Avenue near 15th Street to address high unemployment in the area.

The hub is the result of a partnership between the Pan-African Studies Community Education Program and the Center for Social Policy and Community Development’s Workforce Education Lifelong Learning Program.

The Workforce Connections Hub provides workshops, education, training and support to help people enter the workforce or find a better job.

“What we do is we start with academics,” said Carolyn Finklea, lead instructor at Workforce Education Lifelong Learning.

“Without the academic portion, even a person that’s already in the workforce is very limited. Whether they are working or have a high school diploma, they may need some more training or to increase their academic skills so that they can move forward in their career.”

“That’s where we partner…to provide

A university spokesperson said the university has not received any complaints after the filters were changed.

Sophomore film and media arts major Marcelle O’Brien said she has witnessed visibly dirty water in 1300 Residence Hall.

“I passed by and saw something that looked like a pile of dirt in the fountain,” she said.

According to the university, the fountains in Annenberg Hall have been disinfected, “out of an abundance of caution.” Fountains in other buildings have not received the same treatment.

Shields and Sullivan said this is not enough, after at least five students reportedly fell ill.

“I don’t feel like they’re handling it well, especially since so many students are getting sick,” Shields said. “It makes me really uncomfortable because they haven’t said anything about it outwardly. They’re not telling people you could get sick from it.”

“I really wish Temple would test the water, because it could always be the pipes,” Sullivan said. “There could be something that the filter can’t handle that’s contaminating the water.”

Shields said she no longer trusts the fountains on campus.

“I think I’ve been getting worse since the first day,” she said. “I will not be drinking from the fountains anymore.”

GENEVA HEFFERNAN / THE TEMPLE NEWS A North Broad Renaissance sign hangs on a pole on Broad Street near Girard Avenue. According to North Broad Renaissance, the area has seen job and population growth in the last year.

that academic piece and that support of services that help the students move forward,” she added.

Finklea and this new hub will work alongside North Broad Renaissance’s mission to improve employment and wages in the North Broad corridor.

“Having those types of businesses in those hubs, it not only compliments the area and the current establishment already in the area, but it can also provide sustainable employment for those areas,” Thomas said.

North Broad Renaissance considers

community engagement one of its top priorities, encouraging development and growth while emphasizing inclusivity and equity, Thomas said.

“Everything we do is guided by community feedback,” she added. “We went into the community and we asked, ‘What do you want to see from an organization like NBR?’ And their feedback is what has been guiding us through the years.” matthew.paul.mccann@temple.edu

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EDITORIALS

Rethink funding goals If Temple can fundraise for a new student-athlete lounge, then it can fundraise for Tuttleman Counseling Services.

The university opened a brand new student-athlete lounge in Pearson Hall last week, complete with Xbox gaming systems, sleep pods and TVs. Right away, students criticized the lounge on social media. They were angry that Temple opened a state-ofthe-art space for student-athletes, despite existing problems with services for all students, like Tuttleman Counseling Services.

But the university didn’t actually provide any funding for the new lounge. The New York Angels, a group of independent investors, funded it entirely, Senior Associate Athletic Director Larry Dougherty told The Temple News.

Still, The Temple News understands why students are frustrated. On average, there is a three-week wait time to access mental health care at Tuttleman

Counseling Services, and last semester, 66 students who tried to receive services were asked to return another day between Sept. 1 and Oct. 17. Perhaps these inefficiencies are indeed caused by a lack of funding.

The funding slated for the new student-athlete lounge couldn’t have been used to expand mental health services on campus. But for those students who are frustrated, The Temple News encourages them to call on the university to focus on fundraising programs for Tuttleman.

Temple should work harder to generate more funding for resources that all students need, including Tuttleman Counseling Services. If the university can find funding to support studentathletes, then it should make the same effort for mental health resources.

Temple: fund injection sites Temple should help make a comprehensive user engagement site a reality.

W

hen I heard about Philadelphia officials’ decision to allow a CUES, also known as a safe injection site, in the city, I thought the entire idea was more of a fantasy than a legal reality. But once I learned the undeniable benefits of these sites, it was impossible not to support this lifesaving approach to the opioid epidemic.

CUES, an acronym for comprehensive user enTYLER PEREZ gagement site, is a facility where people can use drugs and access medical care and drug treatment. And considering the Philadelphia Department of Public Health has projected 1,200 overdose deaths in 2017, I think that this decision was fundamentally important in combating this epidemic.

Health Commissioner Tom Farley said District Attorney Larry Krasner would not criminally prosecute these sites. The city is currently looking for funding to establish a CUES. Since this epidemic seems to be happening in our own backyard, I think the university should be a part of the funding that makes this site a reality.

The university has responded to the opioid epidemic with research at the Lewis Katz School of Medicine and prevention initia-

tives at its Center for Substance Abuse Research.

Joseph Alkus, a criminal justice professor, also started carrying naloxone, known by its brand name Narcan, during Fall 2017.

The nasal spray can reverse the effects of an opioid overdose, and it’s Alkus’ way of combating the epidemic.

“If you look at a map of overdoses in the Philadelphia area, there is a cluster really close to Temple University and one really close to where I live,” Alkus said. “It’s where I live and where I work.”

With professors doing their part and the Lewis Katz School of Medicine already researching solutions, the next step for Temple in helping to combat opioid use and overdoses would be offering to fund a CUES. In the past, a punitive approach has been used to try to combat addiction, like the War on Drugs — a government-led initiative that started in the 1970s and aimed to stop illegal drug use and trade by increasing and enforcing penalties for offenders.

This path rarely solves the issue. The concept of keeping users safe while they begin the process of sobriety, if they elect to do so, is much more practical.

Temple University Collegiate Recovery Program President Robert Lamb, a graduate student majoring in public health and health policy and management, said these sites would “play a beneficial role in decreasing the number of [overdose] deaths.”

“I think it could definitely have a big impact on [the number of overdose deaths] because I know that there would be trained staff professionals on site,” Lamb

said.

According to a report in The Lancet, a medical journal, overdose deaths in the Vancouver area of Canada decreased by 35 percent since the establishment of a safe injection site in 2003. It decreased the amount of syringe sharing and made participants more likely to enter a detoxification program. This evidence means sites are worth investing in.

A CUES in the city, funded by our university, would also lessen the stigma for drug users. Society should treat addiction as a disease, not a moral miscoming that leads to incarceration.

“If people have areas that they know are safe, and they know that they can utilize these areas and not be demonized or criminalized for it, that would be really beneficial,” Lamb said.

Having a single CUES in the city would save 25 to 75 lives a year and millions of dollars in hospital costs and public funds, according to a report released by city officials on the possibility of the sites.

“The promise is not to dissuade people, it’s to help,” Alkus said. “We need to take a comprehensive strategy. ... It’s not an easy deal, but a necessary deal.”

It’s time to think logically and morally about an epidemic that dramatically affects the Philadelphia community.

As a university, we should demonstrate that we truly value the lives of those with an addiction. tyler.perez@temple.edu @perezodent

Time’s up: Cut Cosby ties Temple should follow the University of Pennsylvania’s lead and revoke the former trustee and comedian’s honorary degree.

The University of Pennsylvania recently announced it would revoke Bill Cosby’s honorary degree, along with that of former trustee and alumnus Stephen Wynn. Both have been accused of several instances of sexual assault that span decades.

This is the first time in a century that the Ivy League school revoked an honorary degree. A statement from the University of Pennsylvania noted the “multiple and highly credible charges” against Cosby and Wynn contributed to its decision. The statement added that revoking both the men’s degrees was “simply the right thing to do.”

The Temple News would like to — once again — call on our university to do the right thing.

Temple needs to revoke Cosby’s honorary degree, formally severing all ties the university has to the comedian and former trustee.

It is embarrassing that more than three years have passed since the wave of accusations against Cosby first came out, the university has not once commented on the stories of nearly 60 women, including former Temple employee Andrea Constand, who

have said Cosby sexually assaulted them.

Forget admonishing Cosby.

The university hasn’t even made a general statement of support or acknowledged the bravery of the women who came forward.

And this past summer when Cosby briefly announced a town hall tour to teach young men how to avoid being accused of sexual assault, the university once again didn’t make a peep.

While institutions of higher education like Drexel University, Swarthmore College and now the University of Pennsylvania have taken a stand against Cosby by revoking his honorary degrees, Temple has sat in silence time and time again, hoping no one would notice its complicity. But The Temple News has noticed, and we know our readers have, too.

While we are sure it must be hard to take a stand against Cosby while one of his former lawyers — Patrick O’Connor — serves as chairman of the Board of Trustees, that does not excuse the university’s once again deafening silence, or likewise the shame its silence has brought on our university.

CORRECTIONS A chart on Page 13 of the Jan. 30 issue misstated Quinton Rose’s 2016-17 field-goal percentage. He shot 43.4 percent.

The previous versions of the article “Local business owners refuse ‘stop-and-go’ law” and the column “New bill endangers store owners” misstated the amended law. The law regulates some businesses’ bulletproof glass and will be enforced by the Department of Licenses and Inspections by 2021.

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 Michaela Winberg at editor@temple-news.com or 215-204-6737.

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February 4 2005: Students, faculty and the surrounding community prepared for Super Bowl XXXIX against the New England Patriots, who won 24-21. On Sunday, the Eagles won Philadelphia its first Super Bowl title against the Patriots with a score of 41-33. Students joined Philadelphia residents by celebrating on Broad Street after the win.

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LETTER TO THE EDITOR An adjunct instructor argues that an on-campus stadium shouldn’t be built because of the risk of CTE.

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More like sisters A student reflects on how thankful she is for her close relationship with her aunts.

BY JAYNA SCHAFFER

A

few weeks ago, Amy and I sat in our basement, as she showed me a tin box with a picture of an old-fashioned teddy bear on the front. It was filled with old photos. We sifted through them, sharing stories about each one.

“This is one of my favorites,” Amy said, handing me a photo of the two of us from the morning after her 16th birthday.

It was a candid image of me at age 6, wearing long-sleeved pink pajamas and sporting a severe case of bedhead. It showed me jumping on Amy after darting downstairs to wake her teenage friends up after her sleepover. It felt like just yesterday that I couldn’t wait to be 16 like Amy. The next photo we grabbed was one of me and my aunt Kelly, who is Amy’s older sister by one year. I was probably only 2 years old when it was taken, and I had fallen asleep belly-down on top of Kelly, on a couch I can barely remember now.

Most people have aunts who are a lot older than them, but I guess I’m luckier than most.

We kept looking through photos, commenting on things like how our basement looks entirely different now and the retro, Lizzie McGuire-like hairstyles her friends were wearing to their high school dances.

Each time I saw a picture featuring one of my aunts’ teenage faces, I could remember how much I adored them while I was growing up.

The more I looked at these family photos, the more I realized I wanted to thank them for all they’ve done for me, especially when we all lived under the same roof.

I’m thankful for the handme-down ‘90s board games that my middle-school friends always thought were so cool.

I’m thankful for the winters when my aunts would pull me around in our sled after it snowed — and that they ran back to get me that time after they realized I’d fallen off a few

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yards behind them.

I wanted to thank 11-yearold Kelly for willingly giving me sink baths as a baby and teaching me lots of bad words once I started talking. Kelly showed me what it’s like to be caring but also comedic.

I wanted to thank 14-yearold Amy for her concern in the page of her diary that reads, “Dear God, I’m so sorry I gave Jayna a puff of my inhaler.

Please don’t let her die! I love her so much.” And for always begging my mom to let me off timeout — even when I was in the middle of a serious tantrum.

Amy taught me empathy.

A lot has changed since the old photos were taken. Kelly lives in the suburbs with my uncle and my adorable baby cousin now. And Amy still lives with me, but not for long, because she’s moving to Florida this summer.

But in 10 or even 20 years from now, when there are way more old photos to look back on, I know I’ll still have the same bond with my aunts.

I was the wallflower during their high school drama, tragic teenage heartbreaks and their first jobs. I was around for the many sick or hurt animals Kelly nursed back to health and the kids Amy babysat.

Because of their example, I learned how our family shows support, compassion, understanding and patience.

I thought my days as an only child ended when I was almost 8 and my little brother Tommy was born. But now, after exploring Amy’s picture box and reflecting on the two young girls who taught me so much, I don’t think I ever really experienced life as an only child. I’ve always had Amy and Kelly as big sisters.

Both of my aunts are beautiful inside and out. Florida will be lucky to have Amy, captivating people with her outgoing, vivacious personality. And Carlos and little Isabella are so very lucky to have Kelly around as a wife and mom, with her thoughtfulness and playfulness.

But I’ll always know that I was lucky to have them first.

President Richard Englert, if you can name one other college program of any sort that puts its participants at risk of contracting a deadly disease, then go ahead and build that football stadium. If you can’t, then there is absolutely no moral rationale for encouraging an activity that dooms a significant number of Temple students to early-onset dementia, depression and all the other maladies that go along with CTE, chronic traumatic encephalopathy.

The days when college administrators could ignore the connection between football and CTE are over. There is now reliable research which indicates that CTE is not confined to professional football players. Playing only to the college

level still results in CTE in a significant number of players. The fact that the effect of the brain injuries they sustain typically show up years later in the lives of college football players does not absolve their schools of complicity.

As the ultimate steward of the university’s values, you must ask yourself whether you are willing to promote an activity that burdens its participants with hidden injuries that threaten to ruin their lives.

While it is simply a fact that football has been an entrenched institution in American higher education for a long time, that does not give it any special status that would shield it from moral objections. That a practice is part of a tradition, or that it is popular, or that it might enhance the profile of a school when it comes to recruiting, mean little when the question is whether it is ethical. And it would seem that any threat to the moral integrity of a university must be taken with the utmost seriousness and a willingness to make hard choices.

Given what we know now about CTE, football can no longer

be viewed as a harmless pastime, but something that raises troubling questions that go to the heart of what it means to be a school, and to the heart of just what it is that a school owes to its students. Like all schools that sponsor a football program, Temple must ask itself whether it can reconcile the damage done to its student-athletes with its basic mission as an educational institution. Given that, at the very least, that mission requires that it not leave its students with a legacy of damage to their bodies which will shorten their lives, I don’t know how you do that.

Temple shouldn’t be building a football stadium. It should be considering doing away with its football program entirely. In a few years it may be forced to do so anyway, when the evil of it becomes too obvious to ignore. You have the chance not to be on the wrong side of history — don’t miss it.

Daniel Touey is an adjunct instructor.

He can be reached at dtouey@gmail. com.

ADMINISTRATION

Fly in 4 guidelines are unclear Fly in 4 is beneficial, but the university must inform students about criteria that need to be met.

W

hen I began my studies at Temple in 2014, the Fly in 4 agreement had just been implemented, and I was eager to sign up. The agreement outlined a plan to ensure a four-year graduation plan. And if these students met all necessary criteria and still were not able to graduate in four years, Temple would cover the cost of their remaining course work.

The program has the potential to be beneficial for students.

But in its current MONICA MELLON presentation, the LEAD COLUMNIST initiative is incredibly confusing and doesn’t seem to actually offer much assistance to students.

The university should reevaluate the presentation of the program to make it more understandable and therefore more helpful to students.

A few years into my time at Temple, I changed my major. A friend told me that, by doing this, I was now exempt from participating in the Fly in 4 agreement.

Since that conversation, I found a lot of students, including myself, thought changing their major or failing a class voided the Fly in 4 agreement. But these are actually misconceptions.

Temple offers a lot of resources to students to help keep them on track for graduation, including advising appointments, program

bulletins that outline semesterly course work and access to the Degree Audit Reporting System.

These resources are available to all students, not just those who signed up for Fly in 4.

Temple has always offered these resources to students to help ensure they could graduate in four years, said Jodi Levine Laufgraben, the vice provost for policy, organizational and leadership studies.

Fly in 4 is a centralized way to provide these organizational tactics but with the added benefit of Temple footing the bill for additional courses if a student does not graduate within four years and follows the requirements of the program, like semesterly advising meetings, participating in priority class registration, an annual advance in class standing and having a graduation check.

“If a student meets all of these checkpoints and cannot graduate in four years, Temple will pay for any remaining course or courses,” Laufgraben said. “Nothing really knocks you out [of the program].”

But it’s concerning that many students were still under the perception that we could become exempt from the agreement somehow.

“When I first started, four years ago, I signed up for Fly in 4,” Eboni Killing, a senior public health major, said. “They didn’t tell me that [if] you fail a class, you’re no longer eligible for Fly in 4, so I didn’t know that.”

Killing’s belief that she was no longer able to participate in any part of the agreement highlights the lack of communication surrounding it. And I’m aware that

other students are concerned about their ability to participate in the agreement because of a failed major course or a major change.

Students shouldn’t be stuck wondering about their academic or graduation status; this concern also stretches to transfer students, who typically find the program counterproductive.

“The Fly in 4 program seems like it would be pretty lucrative to all students, when in fact if you transfer or if you’re in any other situation that isn’t ideal to the student that came as a freshman, it doesn’t work out for you,” Nyair Clarke, a junior advertising major, said.

“The program was designed for first-time, full-time freshmen, but we didn’t want to exclude transfers,” said Laufgraben. “If a transfer student, based on what they transfer in, in the time they were attending another institution, plus what they need here can equal four years, they’re given the opportunity to accept the agreement.”

After speaking with Laufgraben, the different components of Fly in 4 are much clearer to me, but they need to be that much clearer to the student body.

With many students confused regarding their participation and eligibility for each part of Fly in 4, the agreement needs to be further addressed and discussed by all students and faculty.

The misconceptions that students have are legitimate concerns that the university needs to address. monica.mellon@temple.edu @MonicaMellon

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STATE

Student, alumnus run for state House

CITY

Former Penn trustee accused of sexual assault The University of Pennsylvania is distancing itself from former trustee and alumnus Stephen Wynn and honorary degree recipient Bill Cosby following reports of sexual assault.

The university will remove Wynn’s name from the Wynn Commons at the center of campus, according to a statement from officials.

Penn officials wrote that they will revoke Wynn’s honorary degree, along with the degree held by former Temple trustee Cosby, who is criminally charged with sexually assaulting a former Temple employee in 2004. Cosby still holds his honorary degree at Temple.

The Wall Street Journal reported a decades-long pattern of Wynn’s sexual assault last month. Wynn is being investigated by gaming regulators from two different states and the Board of Directors for Wynn Resorts.

“The nature, severity, and extent of these allegations, and the patterns of abusive behavior they describe, involve acts and conduct that are inimical to the core values of our University,” wrote David L. Cohen, chair of its Board of Trustees and University President Amy Gutmann in a statement.

- Kelly Brennan

COSBY

Cosby hires new lawyer for trial Bill Cosby hired Philadelphia-based lawyer Lane Vines just months before his sexual assault retrial is expected to begin, according to court documents.

Philadelphia lawyer Sam Silver left Cosby’s legal defense team last week and declined to comment on his departure. Cosby’s team includes Los Angeles lawyer Tom Mesereau, who helped acquit Michael Jackson on molestation charges in 2005, and ex-federal prosecutor Kathleen Bliss from Nevada.

Vines is a criminal defense attorney at Berger & Montague Attorneys at Law. The former trustee is accused of sexually assaulting Andrea Constand, a former university employee, in 2004.

Cosby was tried in June 2017, but Montgomery County Judge Steven T. O’Neill declared a mistrial.

Cosby’s retrial is expected to begin on April 2.

-Kelly Brennan

CRIME

Off-campus store closed indefinitely after fire

A law student and an alumnus are seeking seats in the Pennsylvania House of Representatives.

BY MADISON SEITCHIK For The Temple News

A current law student and an alumnus are both campaigning for seats in the state House of Representatives. Malcolm Kenyatta, a 2012 public communication alumnus, is running to represent the 181st District, while third-year law student Maggie Borski hopes to represent the 177th District.

Kenyatta hopes to unseat Rep. Curtis Thomas, who is the state representative for Temple’s district. Borski decided to run for 177th District representative after long-time incumbent Rep. John Taylor announced he would retire.

MALCOLM KENYATTA A native North Philadelphia resident who lives on 18th Street near Jefferson, Kenyatta is running on a progressive platform with proposals to make college free for low-income residents in the area. He will encourage these students to attend Temple so the university is seen as “an opRAMATA KABA / THE TEMPLE NEWS tion for kids in this neighborhood and not Malcolm Kenyatta (left), a 2012 public communications alumnus, and Maggie Borski, a third-year as an opposing force,” he said. law student, are running for the state House of Representatives.

If elected, Kenyatta would replace Thomas, who has represented the 181st [Temple is] doing things that I think are education more affordable, encouraging District for nearly 30 years. going to make that relationship more her constituents to engage in civil service Kenyatta left his job as senior coor- tense, and I want to be a voice saying, and finding strategies to fight the opioid dinator of member engagement at the ‘Hey, I think that’s the wrong way to go.’” epidemic.

Chamber of Commerce for Greater Phil“The opioid epidemic is a major issue, adelphia to devote his time to the cam- MAGGIE BORSKI especially in Philadelphia,” Borski said. paign.

Borski said she saw running for office She has seen how addiction has damHis focus is not only on education, as something she would pursue “more aged her community and “how old polibut also on changing the way people talk down the line” — but she had a change of cies have been ineffective,” according to about poverty in North Philadelphia. heart when Taylor decided not to seek re- Borski’s campaign website.

“I didn’t like the way people were election. This opportunity, coupled with Nearly 68 percent of Pennsylvania talking about my neighborhood,” Kenyat- the fact that about 20 percent of women inmates have substance use problems, acta said. “For too long, our communities currently hold public office, influenced cording to the Pennsylvania Department have been held down and held back. To- her decision to run. of Corrections. gether we can unleash their possibility.”

“It dawned on me that the time was She said she believes that HarrisAs a Temple alumnus, Kenyatta has now,” she added. burg “needs to get serious” about coma “dual relationship” with the university Borski is a northeast Philadelphia na- bating the drug epidemic with a holistic and the surrounding community. He said tive who is still in law school, studying approach that focuses on education and Temple should change how it interacts law and public policy while vying to be a addiction treatment, instead of incarcerawith the community. representative. tion of nonviolent offenders.

“We have to figure out what we can When President Donald Trump was “We need to start brainstorming ideas do to make this relationship work,” Ke- elected, she decided she had to do more and looking at things through a different nyatta said. “But I will be honest, when for the country. lens and try to help Pennsylvanians and Temple was doing things like pushing for “[Trump’s election] lit a fire beneath Philadelphians alike,” she added. a stadium that’s going to drastically have me,” she added. a negative impact on people’s daily lives, Her focuses include making higher madison.seitchik@temple.edu

CONTINUED FROM PAGE 1 LOUNGE much money the university has going into places like Tuttleman and the Wellness Resource Center and how much is going to athletics,” she added.

Fitzgerald found the social media response to the lounge “upsetting,” he said.

“You have to look at the work the [student-athletes] are putting in,” he said.

“It’s a 20-hour-a-week job, and that’s not counting the hours you put in outside of the sport every day. Some of the people saying those resources aren’t earned was

definitely a little hard to see.”

Campus Recreation gave the athletics department the Fitness Mezzanine space in exchange for classroom space previously occupied by Temple Athletics. Devon Rembert, assistant director of facilities at Campus Recreation, said the boxing equipment formerly in the fitness mezzanine was moved to the IBC Student Recreation Center. All other cardio and strength equipment was swapped out with older models in the various athletic spaces around Main Campus.

Lacrosse attacker and senior strate-

gic communication major Kira Gensler said she appreciates the designated space to relax between practice and classes because she doesn’t always have time to go home.

“It’s also a really cool environment for us to hang out with other teams and be around other athletes that you’re normally not around in a relaxed setting that isn’t academically driven,” she said. “It’s a really cool space.” amanda.lien@temple.edu @AmandaJLien

A store on 17th and Diamond streets caught fire Saturday night. The Philadelphia Fire Department responded to the fire and reported no injuries.

The store, Philly Central Food, has closed indefinitely since the incident.

The fire department communications office said it received a call at 9:19 p.m. reporting visible high smoke coming from the area. The fire department tweeted that the fire was “placed under control” at 9:42 p.m.

Several occupants were displaced because of the fire and received relocation assistance from the Red Cross. The cause of the fire is still being investigated.

-Julia Boyd

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FACULTY

Bridging science and ecological decision-making in Colombia Professor Victor Gutierrez-Velez is helping develop a system to protect Colombia’s biodiversity.

BY MORIAH THOMAN For The Temple News

V

ictor Gutierrez-Velez developed a deep connection to the natural world in Medellín, Colombia, where he often swam and camped as a child growing up.

Now, as a scientist and academic, he wants to help preserve the nature of Colombia that he enjoyed as a child.

“I saw that, as I was getting older, and I went back to these places, the water would start to smell bad and I couldn’t swim there,” he said. “Beautiful forests didn’t exist anymore.”

Gutierrez-Velez, a geography and urban studies professor, is the principal investigator in a project to help the Colombian government make decisions that protect the country’s biodiversity and ecosystems. With the help of a $600,000 NASA grant, Gutierrez-Velez and his colleagues want to create a platform where policymakers can ask questions and scientists can provide needed information in digestible and valuable ways.

Biodiversity is how plants, animals, fungi and lichens — a composite organism made up of algae and fungi — are struc-

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LAURA D’AIELLO / THE TEMPLE NEWS Victor Gutierrez-Velez, a geography and urban studies professor, received a $600,000 NASA grant to develop a support system that would help Colombia’s government make decisions about the country’s biodiversity.

PEOPLE YOU SHOULD KNOW

Giving back to Temple to ‘honor your beginnings’ Larry Magid, who owns the Electric Factory, created 11 scholarships for students.

BY PATRICK BILOW Copy Editor

Before opening the Electric Factory in 1968 and becoming good friends with musician Bruce Springsteen and actor Billy Crystal, Larry Magid was a “dyed-in-the-wool, rock ‘n’ roll rebel” who booked small bands for fraternity parties at Temple and the University of Pennsylvania.

“I love music,” said Magid, a 2012 honorary alumnus. “It was on all the time in my

house growing up, on the radio, on the TV, but this was where my career in music really began. … I started asking myself, ‘How do I give back to where I came from?’”

Magid, who has owned the Electric Factory on 7th Street near Callowhill for 50 years, recently made a seven-figure pledge to Temple in the form of 11 new scholarship funds. They will be for students from the Philadelphia area in need of financial assistance who are enrolled in the Boyer College of Music and Dance, Klein College of Media and Communication, School of Theater, Film and Media Arts or the Lewis Katz School of Medicine.

Magid wanted to give back to the art

programs but was also impressed with the advancement and research at the medical school.

The scholarships bear the names of popular performers including three $1 million scholarships in honor of Bruce Springsteen, Billy Crystal and Bette Midler — legendary performers who have proven their dedication to charity through donations, Magid said.

“I never thought I could afford to go to college, but Temple took a shot with me,” Magid said. “And if even one other person could get that same opportunity, well then it’s worth it to me.”

Originally from Cobbs Creek in West

Philadelphia, Magid was able to afford tuition at Temple on a Veterans Affair allowance, as his late father served in the military.

He found a mentor in Chuck Sherman, a professor who was also a jazz disc jockey, but Magid spent three years in and out of classes for financial reasons.

Magid finished a business and management certificate through Temple’s business school in 1964. Then, he took a job with General Artists Corporation, a music booking agency in New York City.

In the late 1960s, when Magid was in his early 20s, he would return home on the weekends to see friends and family and often

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PEOPLE YOU SHOULD KNOW

In tellings of ‘Arabian Nights,’ examining cultural differences Professor Suzanne Gauch earned a university award for her “Arabian Nights” research.

BY AYOOLUWA ARIYO For The Temple News

MAGGIE LOESCH / THE TEMPLE NEWS Suzanne Gauch, an English professor, received an award from the university for her research on films’ portrayal of “Arabian Nights.”

While growing up in Quebec in the 1970s and ’80s as a first-generation immigrant, it was difficult for Suzanne Gauch to fit into a language-divisive society.

Gauch’s parents are from Switzerland. At the time, there was a lot of animosity toward immigrants in the province and people who spoke languages other than French, Quebec’s first language, because residents wanted to preserve their heritage.

“As a kid, I never really understood this [but] with 4- or 5-year-olds, they’ll

be like, ‘I’m not hanging out with you, you speak English, I’m not hanging out with you, you speak French,’ and my view was always, ‘Just let me learn your language, what’s the problem?’” said Gauch, whose first language is Swiss German.

As she grew older, she discovered that most of her immigrant friends, whether they spoke English or French, were from different parts of the Middle East and Africa. This experience influenced her current research on Middle Eastern and North African cinema.

“So that whole dynamic of even little kids taking on ideas of origins of what is someone’s culture and what isn’t someone’s culture has always been fascinating to me,” she said.

Gauch, an English professor, recently received the Temple University

Presidential Humanities and Arts Research Program Award for her work, “Animated Nights: The Arabian Nights in Early European and American Fantasy Film.”

“The Thousand and One Nights,” also known as “Arabian Nights”, is a collection of Middle Eastern stories and folktales, written and compiled in Arabic in the Islamic Golden age. The stories have ancient Arabic, Jewish, Indian, Persian and Turkish origins.

Gauch researched how the stories of “Arabian Nights” are portrayed in modern European and American cinema and how they shape cultural images, ideals and societal representations.

Through her research, she learned how present “Arabian Nights” was in

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Melanie Julian, a voice and acting professor, stars in “Lydie Breeze,” a three-part play about the Civil War.

An alumnus contributed to an exhibit at the Painted Bride Art Center that explores attributes of masculinity, like dominance and ownership.

About 10,000 students celebrated the Philadelphia Eagles’ Super Bowl win on Broad Street on Sunday.

A group of senior civil engineering majors are looking into the stability of the Engineering Building’s structure for their final design project.

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Professor stars in three-part play on Civil War Melanie Julian plays the main character of the production, “Lydie Breeze.”

BY EMILY TRINH

For The Temple News

As an actress, Melanie Julian carries her manuscripts with her everywhere she goes.

The manuscript for her latest performance is beaten up, crinkled and coffee-stained. This particular manuscript has every line for part one of the “Lydie Breeze” trilogy.

Even though she is still in the early stages of her performance, each page is filled with highlights and scribbles.

“There’s pressure with it,” said Julian, who plays Lydie, the main character in the play. “In the first play, Lydie’s in every single scene, and she’s really the connecting line throughout the whole play.”

Julian, a voice and acting professor, is performing in the world premiere of the first full presentation of “Lydie Breeze,” a series of three plays written and directed by Tony Award-winning playwright John Guare.

The first installment of the play, “Cold Harbor,” is showing at the Christ Church Neighborhood House in Old City through Feb. 11.

The second and third installments will be performed in March and April, and the three-part epic will be performed all together April 25 through May 6.

Each part of the trilogy is about two-and-a-half hours and centers around Lydie Breeze, a nurse who worked for the Union Army during the Civil War and seeks the truth about her father’s death. She finds herself in the company of many people on different

sides of the war.

Part one of the play focuses on the aftermath of the Battle of Cold Harbor, one of the final orders of Union Lt. Gen. Ulysses S. Grant, in which thousands of Union soldiers were killed in one of the bloodiest battles of the war.

In February 2017, Guare visited EgoPo Classic Theater, a nonprofit theater company on American and Filbert streets that is producing this rendition of “Lydie Breeze.” While there, Guare saw Julian acting in “The Seagull,” a production written by Russian playwright Anton Chekhov.

Guare was enthralled by her performance and decided to cast her as Lydie.

“It’s incredibly flattering, and just kind of incredible, that John Guare...had that kind of belief in me to do the role,” Julian said.

Julian said this is one of the biggest roles of her acting career, and for the first part of the trilogy, she is in every single scene.

In the play, Victoria Goins, a 2017 strategic communication alumna, plays Zenna, who is the live-in nurse for Lydie’s father.

She said the play is a dark and humorous drama.

“It fools the audience into thinking that they’re on this fun adventure story through the eyes of Lydie Breeze, with her trying to find out what happened to her father,” Goins said. “It’s important for people to come in and realize that oftentimes we are entertained by things that are very...ugly and dark and very much so reflective of our reality and our society today.”

Goins, who took some theater classes at Temple, said she never had the chance to take one of Julian’s classes, but was excited to work with her in the trilogy.

COURTESY / DAVE SARRAFIAN David Girard (left) and Melanie Julian, a voice and acting professor, perform in the world premiere of the first full presentation of “Lydie Breeze” at the Christ Church Neighborhood House in Old City.

The cast started rehearsals in December 2017 and practiced six days a week. “[ Julian] never ever complains, no matter how stressful practice gets, no matter how stressful the rehearsal process gets,” Goins said.

“She’s always patient and willing and kind, and that is the best type of castmate that you could ask for.”

Julian said she draws inspiration from her 3-year-old daughter, Emmeline, who she describes as playful and imaginative. Julian tries to stretch her imagination beyond physical barriers in her acting the

way Emmeline does while playing.

While fully immersing herself into scenes for the play, Julian has had to pretend that a rope is a bayonet and that a box is a moving horsedrawn carriage.

“It’s a real gift to be able to create something out of nothing, and it truly is amazing to watch her play,” Julian said. “It’s incredible, and luckily, I act and I get to kind of do that.”

Because the play is broken down into three parts, the actors and actresses will go through two more rehearsal processes for the

second and third parts.

Julian said the character of Lydie’s resilience in the face of struggle empowers her to achieve success.

“I thought, ‘I get to play this person who’s so...positive, and really, really deep in her heart, believes that she’s going to make the world better,’” Julian added. emily.trinh@temple.edu

EXHIBIT

Alumnus ‘taking a shot at masculinity’ with abstract art An alumnus and 14 other artists are featured in “The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly.”

BY LAURA SMYTHE For The Temple News

Mat Tomezsko doesn’t typically put his own work in the exhibits he organizes.

But the “The Good, the Bad and the Ugly” exhibit initially piqued his interest with its relevance to current events like the #MeToo movement and the Time’s Up campaign, which both focus on sexual assault awareness and gender parity.

“What was interesting is this concept of strength and ownership and the shifting nature of time,” said Tomezsko, a 2009 studio art alumnus. “That became really appealing in how that related to masculinity and our

current moment politically.”

“The Good, the Bad and the Ugly,” a group exhibit, opened on Friday at the Painted Bride Art Center on Vine Street near 2nd. The exhibit is organized by InLiquid, a membership-based organization representing more than 200 artists.

The show looks at aspects of masculinity, like protectiveness and ownership, and how these traits can be disrupted through media like painting, drawing and sculpture varying in abstractness, as well as the degree of realism or symbolism in the designs.

“Art has this really great way of communicating really complex ideas in a way that is non-confrontational and a little bit more contemplative, so it can tackle sensitive subject matter,” said Tomezsko, InLiquid’s exhibitions manager. “It can have a lot of subtlety. It can say things that people can’t really

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say with words.”

The Painted Bride will sell its space this summer to fund artists and future projects in other venues and spaces in the city. “The Good, the Bad and the Ugly” is included in the gallery’s final season, part of which explores identity.

For the show, Tomezsko said he took an abstract approach in his painting titled “NOW” by exploring the visual side of language. His piece is made from a mix of acrylic and asphalt on panel. He separated the letters in the word “now” to show that they can also form the words “won” and “own.”

“I think all of those words have this uneasy relationship to each other about the concept of ownership, owning the moment, winning, taking things,” Tomezsko said. “I think I’m exploring the darker aspect of [masculinity], but certainly a truth that we’re all living through at the moment.”

The exhibit features pieces like Matthew Courtney’s distorted sculpture crafted from a basketball titled, “Philip Guston,” and Kitty Caparella’s surrealistic painting “Smoking, or Non-Smoking,” which shows guns on plates replacing the food at the dinner table.

One digital print by Mitch Gillette titled, “The Swimming Hole 3/Tales of the Buffoon/Page 127,” shows a group of men peering at naked women in a pond in the woods.

Scott Schultheis, InLiquid’s program coordinator, curated the exhibit, which he hopes will spur conversation about masculinity and how it affects current events and people’s experiences in the world, he said.

“We want to talk about how people are influenced to be more masculine and why and how,” Schultheis said. “But we’re not really actually talking about it that much in society.”

Philadelphia-based artist Andrew Chalfen is showing his acrylic painting, “The Early Universe,” in the exhibit. His piece shows a network of multi-colored shapes, like circles and hexagons, interlacing with one another.

Chalfen said that although he didn’t originally create the painting with the theme of masculinity in mind, he’s been able to piece together a whole new interpretation of it since it was accepted in “The Good, the Bad and the Ugly.”

Chalfen said his painting is a nod to the idea in different cultures that God created the universe, relating to the stereotypical notion that men are the creators of the world’s infrastructure.

His piece explores the violent, explosive nature of the Big Bang Theory, the leading explanation for how the universe was created. The theory states, in simple terms, that 13.8 billion years ago, the universe began with a black hole that expanded and continues to expand today.

Chalfen argues the theory falls in line with the different religious deities performing macho acts of war and violence, like Shiva, the third God in Hinduism, destroying the world.

“So [the painting] is like guys blowing stuff up, but in God form,” Chalfen said.

He added that the hexagons overlapping with each other could also be interpreted as femininity and masculinity interacting in the middle of “life’s chaos.”

Ultimately, Tomezsko said he hopes the exhibit will push viewers outside their comfort zones, and they’ll leave with an enhanced sense of empathy.

“That’s something we all really need,” Tomezsko said. “Taking a shot at masculinity is a good idea because it feels like something we can all get behind.”

“Maybe we should question these things that have been unquestioned for centuries,” he added. “True strength really comes from flexibility and the willingness to see things and try to understand.” laura.smythe@temple.edu @lcs_smythe

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FEATURES TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 6, 2018 CONTINUED FROM PAGE 7 NIGHTS feature films. She became aware of how much film shapes people’s perception of what “Arabian Nights” is about.

She found this in popular American movies like “Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves,” and “The Thief of Bagdad,” as well as Disney’s famous animated movie, “Aladdin.” She also researched German titles and how “Arabian Nights” were included in their narratives.

“My first premise was, how are they using the Nights to advance technique and film form?” she said.

“I see how they really can’t deal with the Nights as a complex text [because] it’s too difficult to adapt, so they’re flattening out the Nights they’re simplifying it, they’re imposing a certain kind of European model and narrative structure and also limitations of what film can do.”

Gauch first explored “Arabian Nights” in her 2006 book, “Liberating Shahrazad: Feminism, Postcolonialism, and Islam,” in which she discussed how North African women filmmakers reshaped Shahrazad, a fictional storyteller in “Arabian Nights.”

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silent film, the character is often represented as a “silent exotic beauty,” according to her book’s summary. Gauch said the presentation of Shahrazad in recent films highlights the strength and resilience of Muslim women by overturning stereotypes of submissiveness.

After she thought she was finished with her research on the folktale, Gauch was invited to speak about the subject at Lafayette College in Easton, Pennsylvania, in 2013. While preparing for her talk, she made some findings that propelled her to do more research into “Arabian Nights.”

She learned that the only exposure had to the story of “Arabian Nights” was through “Aladdin.”

“That intrigued me because ‘Aladdin’ isn’t in the story that was originally in the Nights, that’s something that was put there by the first European translator,” Gauch said.

Gauch, in addition to her work in Middle Eastern cinema, has also explored the portrayal of North African post-colonial cinematic work.

She discussed this in her most recent book, “Maghrebs in Motion: North African Cinema in Nine Movements,” in which she explored how North African filmmakers tried to mobilize audiences who were disappointed by post-independence

governments.

Sandra Suárez, senior associate dean for faculty affairs in the College of Liberal Arts and a political science professor, said she finds Gauch’s research important because she explores how ancient narratives impact society’s understanding of Asiatic and African culture.

“I don’t study that region so for me it’s an education,” Suárez said.

“I’m someone who likes film, and I know how film can be powerful, so she’s studying very similar things to what I study except that she’s looking at those themes through the lenses of an output that I don’t look at.”

Gauch is using her award to travel to film archives and conferences. She said she hopes her research inspires people to discover more African film and literature.

“Africa is a huge continent, dynamic, and extremely diverse, but U.S. media representations of Africa and Africans remain simplistic and flattening,” Gauch said. “We like to think of ourselves as global citizens, but can we really claim that if we don’t know anything about cultural production from other parts of the world, especially from a continent as significant as Africa?” ayooluwa.ariyo@temple.edu

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It was crazy, like the atmosphere out here when I came out, just everybody celebrating. You don’t even have to know anybody here, you could just give them hugs, give them high-fives because we’re from Philly. No one likes us, we don’t care. We’re champs.

That’s all that matters.

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Sophomore Statistical science and data analytics ELIZABETH SIEGEL / THE TEMPLE NEWS Suzanne Gauch’s most recent book, “Maghrebs in Motion: North African Cinema in Nine Movements,” looks into how North African filmmakers have mobilized their audiences. Gauch won a university award for her research on the ancient folktale “Arabian Nights.”

CONTINUED FROM PAGE 7 COLOMBIA tured and function in a system. Colombia makes up less than 1 percent of the land on Earth, but it hosts 10 percent of all known species on the planet. This richness in species is what makes Colombia a megadiverse country, according to the journal, Environmental Science & Policy.

Gutierrez-Velez’s proposed support system would take remote sensing data collected from satellites — which show processes happening on Earth, like urban expansion, deforestation and agriculture — and share that information with policymakers so they can easily understand it when making decisions that may affect the biodiversity and ecosystems in the country.

Currently, the Colombian government does not have the technical expertise to be able to download, process and analyze the satellite information, so they often make decisions blindly, Gutierrez-Velez said.

Collaborators, mainly from the Humboldt Institute and the Max Planck Institute for Biogeochemistry in Germany, came together with Gutierrez-Velez in 2016 through an initiative called PEACE, or Platform for Ecological Analysis in Colombia and its Ecosystems.

After PEACE’s first meeting in 2016, NASA released a call for proposals that fit PEACE’s purposes and priorities. Gutierrez-Velez and his colleagues wrote a proposal, which was accepted.

Gutierrez-Velez said the gov-

ernment needs to make decisions about where to grow food, which areas need to be protected and how to combat sustainability challenges like deforestation. The right decisions could also result in the conservation of certain species and ecosystems.

“Our mission is to do research on biological resources in Colombia, but that research needs to be applied for political decisions for the management of Colombian biodiversity,” said Maria Cecilia Londoño, a researcher at the Humboldt Institute. “So it’s not just any type of research, but very focused on applied research.”

The Humboldt Institute evaluates Colombia’s biodiversity and uses the information to help policymakers make sustainable decisions about the environment. This organization is using the NASA grant with Gutierrez-Velez.

Before he came to the United States, he graduated with a degree in forestry from The National University of Colombia in 2000. When he was considering where to go for his graduate studies, he wanted international experience and to expand his understanding of the world.

In 2006, Gutierrez-Velez moved to the U.S. to get his master’s in geography from Clark University in Massachusetts. He then earned his Ph.D. in ecology, evolution and environmental biology from Columbia University in 2013.

“My expectation was to be able to help my country overcome many problems that it was going through at the time I came here, most of

them related to violence,” he said.

Gutierrez-Velez said Colombia has become less violent since peace talks began between President Juan Manuel Santos’ government and the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia — People’s Army began in 2012. Scientists, like him, were then able to make efforts to manage the high biodiversity in the country.

“Where people are mining, a lot of the mining is illegal, so the practices are very poorly considering the environment,” Gutierrez-Velez said.

“Now that these areas that were under the influence of violence are under more stable social conditions, they are starting to suffer a spike in deforestation rates because of colonization and economic expectations.”

Gutierrez-Velez said the two biggest environmental concerns in Colombia are the effects of mining and deforestation. The impact of these practices could be identified earlier with the satellite information so preventative decisions could be made before mining and deforestation cause damage beyond repair.

Gutierrez-Velez believes that one of the biggest challenges in sustainability efforts is bridging science with decision-making.

“I hope that that bridge will become stronger and hopefully science and decisions will be blended so that everyone is working toward solving those critical problems that are not only happening in Colombia, but in different parts of the world,” Gutierrez-Velez said.

The energy was there. ... Everyone was wild [Sunday] night. It was crazy seeing them win their first Super Bowl. … We didn’t see anybody kiss the trophy or anything. We just went straight to the streets. … We saw people in the beds of trucks, [like] 15, 20 people in the bed of a truck just going wild. People were carrying speakers playing Meek Mill and stuff. It was a good time.

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It was a pretty hype atmosphere. … There were like 10 seconds left [in the game] but we knew they were going to win, so literally we just dipped out and just started running through the streets like crazy towards Center City. … My friend jumped off the Ritz Carlton [canopy]. He was the first one to jump.

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CONTINUED FROM PAGE 1 EAGLES nance major, sat in a shopping cart as his friends raced north on Broad Street, pushing him along.

“This is the best day of my life,” Hamilton said. “I’m most happy for my dad. He’s been waiting a long time. I talked to him right after [the game.] He started crying, as was I.” During the game, students and university employees took part in watch parties around Main Campus, including small gatherings of friends in front of TVs in off-campus apartments and larger gatherings, like the sold-out watch party at the Draught Horse Pub & Grill on Cecil B. Moore Avenue near 15th Street.

More than 50 students watched from the basement of Johnson & Hardwick residence halls. The students, many dressed in midnight green and Eagles gear, cheered after big plays made by the hometown team.

After the Patriots scored their first touchdown in the second quarter, there was some subdued applause from the few New England fans in the room.

Other fans of Philadelphia’s opponent made the 300-mile trek home to cheer for the team in the Patriots’ territory, like Victoria Bremmenkamp, a freshman advertising major.

She is originally from Brazil but has relatives who live in Massachusetts. The Patriots were the first football team she ever supported. During the season, she watched all the games on her phone or in the lounge of 1300 Residence Hall.

“If Philly wasn’t playing against the Patriots, I would root for them,” Bremmenkamp said. “But the Patriots are my team that I’ll support now and forever.”

For some people in Philadelphia, the Eagles’ Super Bowl win has been nearly 50 years in the making.

Merrill Reese, a play-by-play broadcaster for SportsRadio 94.1 WIP, has been covering the Eagles for 41 years. He is the longest-tenured team play-by-play broadcaster in the NFL. He prepared for the Super Bowl like he would for any other game.

“You’re totally absorbed in it,” said Reese, a 1964 communications alumnus. “With the Super Bowl, you’re on site. It’s a full week in this environment.”

Reese said he didn’t write a script for the game, other than an introduction.

“When the moment comes, you don’t script any of it,” Reese said. “You describe what you see and let your

emotions out and share how you feel about the big moments.”

As the clock ticked to zero in the fourth quarter, Reese described the scene as Patriots quarterback Tom Brady launched a desperation pass into the endzone. Once he saw the ball hit the ground uncaught, Reese erupted.

“The Philadelphia Eagles are Super Bowl champions!” Reese said in his final call. “Eagles fans everywhere, this is for you! Let the celebration begin!”

Seconds after Reese’s final call, Javier Cruz, a security guard at Temple University Hospital, was crying with joy at his relative’s house in Sharon Hill, Pennsylvania.

“I’m crying, man,” Cruz said. “I said it from the gate that we were going to win it!”

Growing up near 5th Street and Lehigh Avenue, Cruz played football for 10 years, including when he was a student at Roman Catholic High School on Broad Street near Vine.

Cruz said Sunday’s win felt like a “black cloud” lifted from the city.

“This is a blue-collar town,” Cruz said. “We can relate to the struggle. We can relate to that underdog feel, and it’s been a long time coming for us.”

“It don’t matter if you’re me, I work security, or if you’re a doctor,” he added. “We come together. This is our common ground, and we just call each other brothers and sisters.”

Jon Jordan, 33, said he’s been waiting for the Eagles to win the Super Bowl since he was 6 years old.

A few years ago, he buried his father with a Hugh Douglas jersey.

Douglas played for the Eagles from 1998 to 2002, and then for one season in 2004.

“I put it in the casket with him,” said Jordan, who lives at 19th Street near Susquehanna Avenue. “I just buried a friend of mine across the street.

He was all decked out in Eagles gear, and he would’ve loved to see this moment. This is just so real. I’m at a loss for words right now.”

As Jordan walked down North Broad, a Ford F-150 full of people chanting drove by him. Two people were perched on the car’s hood and roof, with another dozen piled in the bed of the truck.

“This has been a long time coming,” Jordan said. “Great people have died waiting for this moment. This is so beautiful, man, I just thank God I’m here for it.”

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Seniors explore building structure in project Blockson Collection hosts author on Black women musicians Toni Rose, an author, freelance writer and musician, will host a discussion about African-American women’s roles in Philadelphia music on Wednesday at 2 p.m. at the Charles L. Blockson Afro-American Collection in Sullivan Hall.

Rose will discuss her book “How I Got Over: Clara Ward and the World-Famous Ward Singers,” which tells the story of one of the most famous gospel groups, the Ward Singers, of the mid-20th century. The book, which was published in 2000, was co-written with Willa Ward-Royster, one of the Ward sisters who died in 2012.

-Ian Walker

Photographer to discuss work at The Reel The Intellectual Heritage Program will host photographer Seph Lawless in The Reel Cinema on Thursday from 12:30 to 2 p.m. Lawless is best known for his photography of abandoned malls, amusement parks and factories.

His work reflects on the “globalization, economic collapse, and environmental degradation” of America, according to Temple’s events website.

The event is free and open to the public.

Four civil engineering students are investigating methods of strengthening the College of Engineering building.

BY ALLEH NAQVI

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At the beginning of last semester, four senior civil engineering majors met and sifted through handwritten designs and blueprints of the College of Engineering Building from the 1970s.

These 40-year-old sketches would be their integral research for their senior design project, which requires students to work in interdisciplinary groups for three semesters on one project. At its end, each group presents its work to the College of Engineering.

The students originally wanted to design a model of a building that could withstand a magnitude 7 earthquake and test it using a shake table, a rectangular platform device that moves structures to determine their seismic performance during an earthquake.

“We realized we couldn’t do the project upon further research, since it would be too heavy for the shake table,” said Michael Berry, a senior civil engineering major.

Berry and his three classmates decided to try something different: study the structural stability of the College of Engineering Building on 12th Street near Norris, a place they spend a lot of their time.

The building hasn’t been renovated since it was built in 1975.This inspired the students to look at the original blueprints.

“You can barely see what’s going on [in the design],” said John McCormick, a senior civil engineering major and member of the group. “Now, buildings aren’t allowed to be constructed until there is a foolproof set of plans and everything, but in 1975, they kind

of built as they went.”

Alex Schaal, a senior civil engineering major and another member of the group, said building codes have been updated every few years since the 1970s. This led him and his group to research what the codes and standards were in 1975.

Building codes are a set of rules that specify safety and design standards when constructing a standing object. The International Building Code, which applies to almost all new buildings, sets safety standards for the size and number of exits in a building.

For their design project, they want to see how the engineering building could be updated to meet today’s codes, which are more strict than those from the ’70s.

“Basically, all we want to do is look at this building and update it with today’s code,” Schaal said.

This semester, Schaal said the group is performing multiple analyses of the building.

In their “gravitational analysis,” the team conducted research on caissons, or the footings of a building that are drilled into the bedrock.

The team found that the building’s caissons were supporting heavy loads that would complicate any attempts to make new additions. In their proposal, the group suggested methods that would take the weight off the “loads,” referring to the forces applied to a building and its caissons.

“Once we do that, we can find weaker points in the building,” Schaal said.

The team proposed retrofitting the building — or adding components to a building after its initial manufacture – to give it greater stability and strength.

“That’s not to say that the building is unsafe,” McCormick said. “But if it were designed today, and built tomorrow, the engineers would have done it differently.”

The group’s plan would either implement

bracing, a structural frame which increases resistance to wind and earthquake force, or a damping system, another technology that controls vibrations from earthquakes and winds.

“Basically we want to see where we can beef up this building if we want to make it structurally sound,” said Jack O’Connell, a senior civil engineering major and member of the group.

Berry said the addition of bracing or a damping system would also improve the building’s lateral stability, or how the building is impacted by “lateral motion” like groundwinds, earthquakes, hurricanes and other weather conditions.

By understanding lateral stability, the group is able to understand what areas of the building are more prone to damages and need repairs.

In conjunction with their project, the group is currently enrolled in the course Structural Dynamics, which focuses on concepts related to their project. Through both their class and project work, Berry said he and his partners have gained foundational knowledge in structural engineering.

Even before deciding to study engineering, Berry said he’s always been interested in learning how buildings work.

“I think it’s interesting that most people, when they think of designing buildings, they think of the architect,” Berry said. “We do the math, we run the numbers, we make sure all the architect’s work is right. People don’t really realize that we’re the ones behind the scenes.”

“We actually make sure the building won’t fail,” he added. alleh.naqvi@temple.edu @alleh_naqvi

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The Reel Box Office is open on Wednesday through Friday from noon to 6 p.m. Tickets cost $2 with an OWLcard and $4 for non-Temple students.

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CONTINUED FROM PAGE 7 SCHOLARSHIP visited the Showboat, a jazz club at Broad and Locust streets that hosted prominent musicians like John Coltrane and has since been replaced by row homes.

The owner of Showboat, Herb Spivak, sought Magid’s advice on getting involved in the popular rock ‘n’ roll genre, and soon after, the two co-founded the Electric Factory, which was originally located at 22nd and Arch streets.

Its original location, where Magid worked as its first general manager, closed in 1973 and the venue reopened at its current spot in 1995.

Jim Crawley, a 1994 law alumnus and Temple’s vice president of institutional advancement, grew up in Levittown, Pennsylvania, and has always known of the Electric Factory. Crawley later got to know Magid during his two terms on the Board of Trustees. “[The Electric Factory] is a key part as to why Philadelphia is rec-

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COLIN PIERCE / THE TEMPLE NEWS Senior civil engineering majors Jack O’Connell, Michael Berry, Alex Schaal and John McCormick (left to right) met in the College of Engineering Building to discuss redesigning its structure, the focus of their senior design project, on Jan. 30.

ognized as a mecca of entertainment and it’s all due to one guy who had a vision,” Crawley said.

“What Larry has done with the Electric Factory is nothing short of amazing.”

At the time, the club was an early proponent of rock ‘n’ roll, including Philadelphia’s rhythmand-blues style of music.

“I love Philadelphia,” Magid said. “It’s a great town, it’s comfortable and I knew the music that the kids in Philly wanted, so I came back, and the rest is history.”

To Magid, the grand opening of the Electric Factory was the best night of his life. People filled the club, which was once an old warehouse and later a bakery, after paying a $3 cover charge. The Chamber Brothers, a Los Angeles rhythm-and-blues band, headlined and was followed by the Philadelphia rock band Woody’s Truck Stop.

Magid said people instantly loved the Electric Factory because it experimented with different genres, from jazz to rock ‘n’ roll.

“People were dressed in costume, the hippies were there, a few socialites showed up and the place was packed,” Magid said. “I was in such awe of what was happening, and it changed my life.”

He parlayed this success to start The Quaker City Rock Festival, which debuted on Oct. 20, 1968, featuring bands and musicians like Janis Joplin, Buddy Guy and Moby Grape at the Electric Factory. He began working with more popular bands across the country, and also produced Broadway productions.

Despite traveling to other cities, he’s remained rooted in Philadelphia.

“You have to honor your beginnings,” Magid said. “Being a Philadelphian and a Temple guy, I want to give people an opportunity, especially in the arts field where I got my big break. I hope more people feel the way I do and return to their roots to help people out.”

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The 6-foot-8-inch forward comes from a family of college athletes.

Parks is the younger brother of Villanova redshirt-freshman forward Omari Spellman. Spellman scored a career-high 27 points during Villanova’s 87-67 victory against Temple on Dec. 13.

Taiyer Parks — Arashma Parks’s sister and a junior center on the girl’s basketball team at North Royalton — has Division I offers from Power Five schools like Ohio State University, the University of Florida and Michigan State University.

Arashma Parks’ parents — Teresita Jones Thomas and Omari Parks — both played sports at Youngstown State University in Ohio. His mother played basketball and his father played football.

Arashma Parks said he can reach out to his family of current and former student-athletes if he has trouble adjusting to

college life as a freshman next season. “[Spellman] said before that he’ll help me with anything,” Arashma Parks said.

“He told me before, ‘The first couple of weeks are the hardest, just getting adjusted to everything.’ But once I get everything down…it will be OK.” Assistant coach Chris Clark remembers one of the first times he saw Arashma Parks play.

During a practice in Arashma Parks’ junior season at Springfield Commonwealth Academy in Massachusetts, Clark watched him clash against Hasahn French, who is now a freshman forward for St. Louis.

Clark immediately noticed Arashma Parks’ physicality, athleticism and his ability to finish at the rim.

“He plays like a football player, so now he’s going to have to start playing like a basketball player,” Clark said. “The physicality of the game, I think football helped him with that. And I think he’s still growing. If he’s a [6-foot-10] physical presence,

SYDNEY SCHAEFER / THE TEMPLE NEWS Phelps School senior forward Arashma Parks (left) takes a shot while being guarded by William Penn Charter School sophomore guard Ryan Holmes during Phelps’ 63-54 loss on Saturday in East Falls.

who couldn’t use that?”

Though Arashma Parks can finish at the rim on a dunk or layup, Clark said he’s still raw offensively because of his inexperience.

Once Arashma Parks gets to Temple, he’ll need to continue to work on his post moves and ability to score with his back to the basket, Clark added.

“He’s only been playing organized basketball for four years,” Clark said. “He’s got a lot of playing to do, a lot of learning.

I think once he gets that, I think he’s got a chance to be really good.”

In his senior season at The Phelps School, Arashma Parks starts games and learns from a former Owl. Phelps School coach Brian Shanahan, a former Temple walk-on from 2005-07, has been giving Arashma Parks tips on what to expect on North Broad.

Some of those tips include ways Temple communicates on defense, like keeping guys out of the paint, staying in a defensive stance, not getting screened off the ball and making sure a player hard hedges on the ball screens.

Arashma Parks ended up transferring to The Phelps School after playing his sophomore and junior seasons at Springfield Commonwealth Academy. He also played Amateur Athletic Union basketball for the PSA Cardinals in New York City under coach Terrance Williams during high school.

Williams’ connection with Shanahan and the chance to live closer to Spellman influenced Arashma Parks’ decision to transfer to The Phelps School from Massachusetts. In the past, Shanahan has landed former PSA Cardinals players like Connecticut redshirt-junior swingman Terry Larrier and Seton Hall University junior guard Quincy McKnight from Williams’ program.

“Any time I can get a kid from the PSA Cardinals, they’ve turned out to be very good players,” Shanahan said.

“Once [Arashma Parks] gets to Temple, his best basketball is definitely ahead of him,” he added. “He’s going to have a great college career.”

MEN’S SOCCER

Former MLS draftee hired as assistant First-year coach Brian Rowland has filled one of two available assistant coach positions.

Brian Grazier, who has been a Division I assistant coach for the past eight seasons, will join the Owls, the men’s soccer program announced Wednesday.

Grazier spent the past four seasons at St. Louis University. During his tenure, the Billikens won 36 games. The 2014 team reached the second round of the NCAA tournament.

Grazier played for St. Louis from 2003-07. He started 22 games in 2003, helping the Billikens win the Conference USA regular-season title and postseason tournament and reach the quarterfinal round of the NCAA tournament.

Before his tenure at St. Louis, Grazier coached at Rutgers University for four seasons. His stint with the Scarlet Knights followed a brief professional career. The Colorado Rapids selected him in the fourth round of the 2008 MLS SuperDraft, but Grazier didn’t appear in any games during the 2008 season.

Rowland still has one assistant coaching position to fill and one volunteer coach spot.

-Evan Easterling

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ADVERTISEMENT CONTINUED FROM PAGE 16 DAVIS kinson said. “Especially when Mia can pull out one of the bigs, our offense runs a lot smoother.”

Davis’ efficiency from behind the arc makes her one of the highest-rated players for Temple from an analytical standpoint.

Davis is second on the team in efficiency, according to sports analytics site National Statistic.

She is also second with a 46.1 effective field-goal percentage, a statistic that takes into account that a 3-point basket is worth more than a 2-pointer and therefore should count more in a player’s shooting evaluation. Her true shooting percentage — which accounts for field goals, 3-pointers and free throws together — is third on the team at 51.6 percent.

Davis only trails Atkinson in efficiency and effective field-goal percentage. The senior guard is currently in the top 35 of qualified Division I players in efficiency.

“It obviously feels really good being only behind Tanaya because of how important [she is] and well she has played this season,” Davis said. “And being just a freshman, I’m hoping it’s just the start and I’ll keep improving.”

Stretching the floor and being a versatile forward hasn’t always been Davis’ game. During her high school career at St. Frances Academy in Baltimore, Davis was predominantly a post player because she was just “bigger than everybody,” she told The Temple News in November.

But since coming to Temple, the college game has forced Davis to adapt her style of play and grow into the stretch forward she has become in her freshman campaign.

“I knew coming in that posting up as my main source of offense wouldn’t work because everyone at this level is as big as me,” Davis said.

“So the transition into becoming more of an outside player has been going well, working on my dribble moves and my shot.”

Ever since the preseason European tour, Cardoza has raved about Davis’ potential. She averaged a double-double during the Owls’ three games in Rome and Paris in August with 15 points and 12.7 rebounds per game.

Davis barely worked on her ball-handling ability and outside shot in high school, she said, but her growth in those areas has cemented her place in the Owls’ lineup.

She has started all 22 games and is Temple’s second-leading scorer and rebounder behind Atkinson.

“She’s come a long way with her shot so far,” Cardoza said. “She has shown she has the confidence in letting it fly. This summer is gonna be important for her to get in the gym and keep working on it because when the defense starts noticing she is hitting her threes, it’s gonna make her whole game easier.” kevin.schaeffer@temple.edu @_kevinschaeffer

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SPORTS TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 6, 2018

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MEN’S TENNIS

Owls hopeful after showing against defending champion Temple lost by one point to the University of Virginia last month.

BY ALEX MCGINLEY For The Temple News

Before Jan. 21, Temple had never played a team as highly ranked as the University of Virginia during Uladzimir Dorash’s career.

The junior was looking forward to facing the Cavaliers, who had the No. 12 spot in the Intercollegiate Tennis Association poll at the time of the match. Instead, he missed the match with a shoulder injury he sustained in Temple’s win against Morgan State University on Jan. 19, and Temple lost, 4-3.

“It’s always a great match, regardless of the result, to play against a team of this level,” said Dorash, who had a 15-12 singles record and won 18 doubles matches during the 2016-17 season.

“Since there was a deciding match, we probably would’ve won if I was healthy.”

“This fall, I think he played better than any of our guys,” coach Steve Mauro said. “It would’ve been great to have him, but regardless, the guys still played well and fought hard.”

Despite its loss, Temple (3-2) is optimistic after its play against Virginia, which has won four of the past five Division I titles. The Owls have won three of five matches to start the season with an average 4.6-point combined margin of victory. After missing two matches, Dorash returned to the lineup and won both of his matches in Tem-

SYDNEY SCHAEFER / THE TEMPLE NEWS Junior Alberto Caceres Casas prepares to hit to his teammate during practice on Oct. 25 at the Student Pavilion.

ple’s victory against Villanova on Friday.

“We can be a top team in our conference,” Mauro said. “Our conference is extremely strong. It’s one of the better conferences in the country, and it just gets better and better. I feel that we did a great job recruiting. There’s a good atmosphere in practice, and guys want to get better and be a top team in the country.”

The American Athletic Conference had five teams — Memphis, South Florida, Southern Method-

CONTINUED FROM PAGE 1 FRANKE “I am really happy I could reach an achievement such as this,” Franke said. “I tried not to think about it too much because I knew it would happen soon. But to reach a win number like this at a school like Temple is an extreme honor, and I am happy I could be a part of a successful program.”

“All of us are honored to be a part of something this special,” sophomore sabre Malia Hee said. “We wanted to get this milestone for her. We are pumped we were able to get it [Sunday.] It’s always fun to see coach Franke smile with us.”

In her 45 previous seasons as coach, Franke has only had two losing seasons. She has a run of 41 straight seasons with a winning record. Franke’s all-time record now stands at 803-283-1 in her 46th season, which makes her the longest tenured coach for any Temple program.

In the 1991-92 season, Franke led the foil squad to a first-place finish at the NCAA Championships. Franke also won the United States Fenc-

JOCELYN BURNS / THE TEMPLE NEWS Coach Nikki Franke (right) gives pointers to freshman foil Megan Ross (center) and junior foil Auset Muhammad during practice in the Student Pavilion on Thursday.

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ist, Central Florida and Tulane — represented in last year’s NCAA tournament. This season, Tulane is No. 20 in the ITA poll.

The five schools that represented The American in the NCAA tournament were the top five seeds in the conference tournament in April.

No. 7 Temple lost to No. 2 Tulane in the first round. The Green Wave won every singles match to give Temple its third first-round exit in the past four seasons.

The Owls added four players

ing Coach of the Year award in 1983, 1987, 1988 and 1991.

Last season, the fencing program set a record for wins in a season with 34. This year, Temple is No. 7 in the CollegeFencing360.com poll with top-five aspirations.

As a fencer, Franke was a part of the U.S. Olympic Foil Squad in 1976 and 1980. She also took home the United States Fencing Association National Foil Championship in 1975 and 1980.

Franke is a member of the United States Fencing Association, International Women’s Sports, Temple Athletics and Brooklyn College halls of fame.

“Nikki is a star in fencing,” said Peter Westbrook, Franke’s Olympic teammate in 1976 and 1980. “She was one of the first African-American women to be this successful in the sport. Wherever she goes, she is successful. She is a true star in the community of fencing, and all of her success doesn’t surprise me.”

In the fencing community, Franke is a “legend,” said Kamali Thompson, who fenced on Temple’s sabre squad from 2008-12.

In 2008, Thompson was participating at a North American Cup event, one of her first competitions as an Owl. Thompson remembers walking into the venue with Franke when a group of Temple alumnae started a conversation with their former coach. At that moment, Thompson knew her career was in the right hands, she said.

“Everyone I talked to when I was picking a school to go to knew coach Franke and had nothing but great things to say about her,” Thompson said. “When I arrived at Temple, all those things were true.”

“Nikki is so focused and calm in her approach,” O’Connor said. “It is incredible. The way she is able to process things in such a mild manner allows her to make the right decision all the time. Her sense of [comfort] rubs off on people around her, and that allows for people around her to be comfortable and perform their best.”

Franke’s love for the sport of fencing drives her every day. She wants to coach as long as she possibly can.

“I just want to contribute to the sport I love,” Franke said. “Whatever people do, it can’t be done by themselves. It takes hard work from everyone.

I just want to be able to come into work every day and share the sport I love with other people. I am grateful for an opportunity to do that.”

for the 2017-18 season. Three of them won doubles matches against Virginia. Sophomore Juan Araoz, a transfer student from Hampton University, and freshman Mark Wallner won in the third flight.

Araoz and Wallner have a 4-1 record as doubles partners this season. Temple has won the doubles point in every match but one early in the season.

Junior Alberto Caceres Casas, who is in his first season as Division I player after spending the past two seasons at Division II

Armstrong State University, won his doubles match against Virginia in the top flight. He and his doubles partner, senior Thomas Sevel, have a 4-1 record this season.

Individually, Caceres Casas has a 3-2 singles record. One of his losses came to Virginia junior Aswin Lizen, the No. 40 Division I singles player as ranked by the ITA. Sevel has a 4-1 record in the top flight in singles. He lost to Penn State junior Constant De La Bassetiere, the No. 67 singles player, Saturday.

Sevel thinks Temple has a chance to earn a national ranking.

“As a senior, my goal is to go the NCAA tournament for the first time in Temple history, and I’m pretty sure we have a good chance,” Sevel said. “We need to be ranked because we have [a] very good conference.”

Overall, Mauro believes the Owls’ performance against Virginia is a step in the right direction for the program. Temple has won two of its three matches since its loss to the Cavaliers.

Two matches remain before Temple’s American Athletic Conference opener against East Carolina (4-1) on Feb. 16.

“We’re a team to be reckoned with,” Mauro said. “We still need to work hard and it’s still a process, but everyone believes in the process.” alex.mcginley@temple.edu

LACROSSE

OWLS TO PLAY MAJORITY OF GAMES AT HOME OPPONENT

TIME

Feb. 10

Rutgers University

1 p.m.

Feb. 17

Princeton University #

1 p.m.

Feb. 21

St. Joseph’s

3 p.m.

March 2

James Madison University #

3 p.m.

March 7

East Carolina

3 p.m.

March 12

La Salle

3 p.m.

March 18

University of Denver*

1 p.m.

March 24

Cincinnati*

Noon

April 7

Connecticut*

1 p.m.

April 18

Vanderbilt University*

Noon

April 28

Georgetown University*

1 p.m.

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Temple has a 16-4 home record at Geasey Field and Howarth Field in its past two seasons. The Owls will play 11 of their 17 games at home this season. * Big East Conference opponent # Ranked in the Intercollegiate Women’s Lacrosse Coaches Association preseason poll

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LACROSSE

In 2018 season, looking for ‘team identity’ Temple hopes to reach its third straight Big East Conference tournament.

BY DAN WILSON

For The Temple News

Exceeding expectations with an inexperienced roster is nothing new for the Owls.

They were picked to finish sixth in the Big East Conference preseason poll in 2016. They finished with a 13-6 record before the season ended in a loss to the University of Florida in the Big East championship game. Despite losing their starting goalkeeper to graduation and being predicted to miss the postseason, the Owls had another Big East tournament matchup with the Gators and won 13 games in 2017.

Temple now finds itself in a similar situation, in need of inexperienced talent to step up. Seven seniors, who combined to score 64.8 percent of the team’s goals, graduated after last season.

Unlike the past two seasons, Temple is predicted to qualify for the Big East tournament by finishing fourth in the league.

“One of the things we really pride ourselves in this program is developing everyone and figuring out where our strengths are,” coach Bonnie Rosen said. “We’ve been really proud that pretty much every year we’ve had seniors that were strong contributors, and now we’re back at the start of the season where we’re trying to find our team identity.”

Temple will start its season on Saturday against Rutgers University. The Owls who were on the squad a year ago will be familiar with the majority of the opponents they’ll face in 2018. The out-of-

conference season begins with the same five teams they faced to start 2017, including a nationally ranked Princeton University squad.

The Owls’ departed senior group includes former midfielder Morgan Glassford, who won 73 draws last season. That mark is the second-highest single-season total in program history only behind Glassford’s junior season when she won 78 draws.

Glassford played in all but one game during her four seasons with the lacrosse team before playing soccer in Fall 2017. She finished her lacrosse career with 77 goals and 174 draw controls, which is the most in program history. Without Glassford, the Owls plan to use a team effort to win draws, Rosen said.

In addition to leading Temple in draw controls, Glassford scored 26 goals in 2017 to rank third on the team. The top four goal scorers last season were all seniors.

The Owls will look to the likes of junior midfielder Amber Lambeth and senior attacker Nicole Barretta, who each scored 21 goals last season, to supplement their scoring. Barretta played in all 18 games last season but didn’t make any starts.

“This year, I definitely have an even bigger role on the team,” Barretta said. “My job is to not only make sure that I’m ready for the season, but also to make sure other younger girls on the team are prepared to step into some bigger roles this season.”

Sophomore midfielders Maddie Gebert and Kimmy Weinstock started a combined 16 games as freshmen. Defender Kara Nakrasius started all 18 games last season and is now a captain as a sophomore.

GENEVA HEFFERNAN / THE TEMPLE NEWS Sophomore goalkeeper Maryn Lowell reaches out of the crease to collect a loose ball during Friday’s practice at Howarth Field.

The Owls’ starting goalkeeper will be sophomore Maryn Lowell. She had a 10-4 record in her starts and ranked seventh in the Big East in save percentage. Her goals-against average ranked 48th out of 97 qualified goalkeepers in Division I. “Honestly, as a freshman, I didn’t know much of what to expect at the college level,” Lowell said. “I’ve been working a lot on keeping my feet set, blocking low balls and being a better communicator on the field.”

As players fill new roles, Rosen has preached the message of anticipating mistakes and building on them. Rosen expects her team to deal with managing nerves and

avoiding mental lapses this season.

“The key is really going to be to expect that we are not going to be perfect,” Rosen said. “We must stay really focused on being able to work hard, communicate and be both mentally and physically tougher than our opponents.”

2018 will be the Owls’ last year in the Big East before the American Athletic Conference adds lacrosse in 2019.

The 26-team NCAA tournament field has 13 automatic qualifiers from winning conference tournaments and 13 at-large teams. Temple hasn’t qualified since Rosen’s second season as coach in 2008. The Owls lost, 207, to the University of Maryland in

the first round.

Temple will have a chance for quality wins as it tries to return to the NCAA tournament. In addition to facing Princeton, Temple will face two other teams ranked in the Jan. 30 Inside Lacrosse Poll.

The Owls face No. 17 James Madison University on March 2 and Big East rival No. 5 Florida on April 4.

“We’re always trying to make our mark nationally,” Rosen said.

“We try to give ourselves a chance at both an at-large bid to the NCAA tournament and a qualifying bid through winning the conference tournament.” danielwilson20@temple.edu @dan_wilson4

CONTINUED FROM PAGE 16 OFFENSE miss a shot, ‘Shoot the next one, stay aggressive, don’t settle for anything, just play your game,’” redshirt-senior guard Josh Brown said. “When guys do that and we’re loose like that, we’re pretty good.”

A perfect example of that is junior guard Shizz Alston Jr.’s performance against the Shockers. He started the game shooting 1-for-11 from the field, but he made the game-tying basket at the end of regulation.

Alston also hit the go-ahead basket with less than one minute against Drexel on Dec. 16 when he shot 4-for-12 from the field.

Temple has now won three straight games after Sunday’s 83-76 win against Tulane. Thursday’s win against Wichita State put Temple back in the conversation for an at-large NCAA Tournament bid. The Owls’ chances to earn an at-large NCAA Tournament bid jumped nearly 20 percent to 38.2 percent after their win against Wichita State.

That is despite their four-game losing streak to start conference play.

Temple has winnable games on its schedule to close the regular season. The first of the final seven games is at home on Wednesday against East Carolina.

The Pirates are second to last in The American, have the 320th ranked offense out of 351 Division I teams and are second to last in 3-point percentage. Temple will also face South Florida, which is last in The American, Connecticut, which the Owls beat by 28 points, and Tulsa, which the Owls beat in January.

The Owls are No. 37 in the Ratings Percentage Index and have the top strength of schedule in Division I. They have a chance for NCAA Tournament resume-boosting wins in their final seven games. Temple has back-to-back games with Wichita State and Houston on Feb. 15 and 18. Both teams are in ESPN bracketologist Joe Lunardi’s latest NCAA Tournament projection from Monday. Temple’s hopes are still alive, Alston said.

HOJUN YU / THE TEMPLE NEWS Junior guard Shizz Alston Jr. drives toward the basket during the Owls’ 81-79 overtime win against Wichita State on Thursday at the Liacouras Center.

“Every game means a lot now since we put ourselves in a position where we lost a couple of tight ones,” Alston said.

Taking care of the basketball has been key in the past three games. The Owls only had two turnovers in the second half and overtime against Wichita State.

The Owls have struggled in several offensive categories this season, but maintaining possession has been a constant strength.

They rank eighth in The American in points per game and 3-point percentage and 10th in field-goal percentage but hold a much better mark as the 28th-best team in Division I in fewest turnovers per game.

Temple had fewer than 10 turnovers for the fifth time this season against Connecticut. The Owls had a season-low five turnovers, while UConn had 16. It contributed

to Temple’s ability to take 12 more field-goal attempts.

“We talk about it every day,” coach Fran Dunphy said. “We’ll stop a practice, like, ‘You can’t make that play.’ ... You work at it every single day, and sometimes it takes great hold as it did against UConn.”

Temple also distributed the ball well against the Huskies with 20 assists on 31 made field goals. The team topped its previous season-high against Tulane with 23 assists on 31 made field goals. Alston had a career-high 10 assists with only one turnover.

The Owls average 12.7 assists per game and have dished fewer than 10 assists in a game five times this season. They have a 1-4 record and an average margin of defeat of 19 points in those games, including their loss to Cincinnati last month and their 60-39 loss to

Central Florida on Jan. 7.

Temple has a 10-5 record when it has 12 or more assists this season. In its five wins in its past six games, Temple has averaged 13.8 assists per game, higher than its season average.

A team meeting before last month’s win against Southern Methodist improved morale, Brown said.

“I know we had a couple of losses throughout these weeks, but the mindset, the competitive nature of the practice has been good and I think that we can build on that, continue on and hopefully string more wins along with that,” he said. evan.easterling@temple.edu @Evan_Easterling

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MEN’S BASKETBALL

Owls playing ‘loose,’ ‘confident’ on offense Temple has averaged 83 points per game during its three-game winning streak.

EVAN EASTERLING Sports Editor

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emple scored fewer than 60 points for the fourth time in American Athletic Conference play in its 75-42 loss to Cincinnati on Jan. 24.

In the three games since, the Owls (13-10, 5-6 The American) have averaged 83 points per game. Temple recorded back-to-back games with 80 or more points for the first time this season after beating Connecticut on Jan. 28 and Thursday’s overtime win against Wichita State. The team continued that trend in Sunday’s 83-76 road win against Tulane.

The Owls had five double-figure scorers in their win against Wichita State, which is the No. 22 team in the Associated Press Top 25 Poll. The game marked the first time the Owls have had five double-figure scorers since their win against Clemson University to clinch the Charleston Classic title in November.

“We’re telling people when they

OFFENSE | PAGE 15

SYDNEY SCHAEFER / THE TEMPLE NEWS Redshirt-senior guard Josh Brown (right) dribbles past Wichita State senior forward Rashard Kelly during the Owls’ 81-79 overtime win against the Shockers on Thursday at the Liacouras Center.

MEN’S BASKETBALL

High school signee hones on-court skill Arashma Parks, a senior forward at The Phelps School in Chester County, will join the Owls next season.

BY TOM IGNUDO

Assistant Sports Editor

Arashma Parks used to live in the trenches as a defensive end.

But that all changed three years ago. As an incoming freshman at North Royalton High School in Ohio, Parks decided to hang up his football pads and lace up his basketball shoes instead.

Parks, now a senior at The Phelps School in Malvern, Pennsylvania, didn’t play organized basSYDNEY SCHAEFER / THE TEMPLE NEWS ketball until his freshman season.

Arashma Parks (left), a senior forward at The Phelps School in Malvern, Pennsylvania, handles the ball during Phelps’ 63-54 loss to The Rivals.com three-star recruit William Penn Charter School on Saturday in East Falls. Parks signed his National Letter of Intent to Temple in November. signed his National Letter of Intent

to play at Temple in November.

“One day I sat down with my family and I told them, ‘I don’t think I want to play football ever again. I want to start playing basketball,’” Parks said. “Then we talked about it and made sure it was the right thing to do. And then I told the football coach I was done with football and started playing basketball.”

Despite getting a late start in basketball, it didn’t take long for Parks to land Division I offers.

Fordham University and the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga showed interest in the summer before his sophomore season.

Parks also had offers from UMass, St. Louis University, the University

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WOMEN’S BASKETBALL

Freshman is no longer only a back-to-the-basket big Mia Davis is second on the team in several categories, including 3-point percentage.

BY KEVIN SCHAEFFER

Women’s Basketball Beat Reporter

In the first quarter of Temple’s loss to Penn on Jan. 21, freshman forward Mia Davis grabbed one of her eight rebounds. But instead of throwing an outlet pass to a guard, this time she took the ball the length of the court.

After crossing the halfcourt line, Davis set up the Owls’ offense. Because Davis took the ball directly up the floor, Penn scrambled to get back on defense, which led to mismatches

in the Owls’ favor.

One of those mismatches had sophomore forward Shantay Taylor matched up on a guard. Davis saw the mismatch and passed the ball to Taylor, who scored in the post.

“Coach [Tonya] Cardoza has a lot of confidence in me, letting me bring the ball up after a rebound,” Davis said. “As a team, we want to get out and run, and I’m just trying to help us play the way we’re coached to be playing.”

Davis’ ability to bring the ball up the court despite typically playing with three or four guards beside her is just one facet of her versatility. Davis has become one of the Owls’ leading

3-point shooters, spreading the floor as the team’s starting center.

Before she shot 3-for-3 from 3-point range against the University of South Carolina on Dec. 21, Davis had taken just 10 3-pointers during the first 11 games of the season. She has averaged 2.1 3-point attempts in the past 10 games.

Davis is shooting 35.3 percent from beyond the arc, which is good for second on the team only behind graduate guard Mykia Jones.

“When we’re hitting our shots, it opens up the floor for all of us,” senior guard Tanaya At-

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COLLEEN CLAGGETT / THE TEMPLE NEWS Freshman forward Mia Davis shoots a runner during Temple’s 74-59 loss to Penn on Jan. 24 at McGonigle Hall.

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The Owls graduated their top four scorers from last season, but they are still predicted to make the Big East Conference tournament.

After only losing by one point to defending Division I champion University of Virginia last month, Temple is excited about its prospects of being a ranked team.

The Owls went 16-4 at home the past two seasons and will play 11 of their 17 games at Howarth Field in 2018. Temple starts its season at home on Saturday.

Brian Grazier, who played in the NCAA tournament for St. Louis University, will join the men’s soccer program as an assistant coach.