Volume 92 Issue 20

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TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 25, 2014

VOL. 92 ISS. 20

Board changes face, reinstates rowing teams Theobald doesn’t recommend reinstating other eliminated sports.

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(From left) Rowers Layla Moran, Rachael Braccia and Kelly Hill react in excitement to the news that the men’s crew and women’s rowing teams will be reinstated. The programs were slated to be eliminated this summer before the Board of Trustees reversed its decision. | ABI REIMOLD TTN

A ‘BITTERSWEET’ RETURN While “relieved” and “ecstatic,” coaches feel for other cut programs. AVERY MAEHRER DANIELLE NELSON The Temple News When 34th-year coach Gavin White first learned the news that the crew and rowing reinstatements, his initial thoughts involved the other four teams that weren’t. “I feel bad for gymnastics, baseball, softball and track,” White said. “We’re all in this together.” White said it “really stinks” that the administration only voted to save the crew and rowing programs. Rowing coach Rebecca Smith Grzybowski called the board meeting “bittersweet.” “We know what it’s like – what it feels like to be

in that situation,” Grzybowski said. Still, White said that it’s “fantastic” that the East Park Canoe House will be renovated – thanks in part to a $3 million donation from trustee H.F. “Gerry” Lenfest. The boathouse’s renovation is expected to be completed between 12 to 18 months of the project’s start date. “When things get cut, that’s when you find out who your true friends are,” White said in regards to Lenfest’s donation and the city’s additional $2.5 million allocated toward the project. Grzybowski said there were times since the Dec. 6 announcement of the cuts that she thought the program couldn’t be saved from extinction. The secondyear head coach said there was a lot of information she had heard prior to the meeting, but she didn’t know for certain about Theobald’s recommendation to reinstate her program until he spoke at the meeting.

Student injured after fight at local club turns into shootout Students, witnesses describe scene where police found 29 shell casings. MARCUS MCCARTHY Assistant News Editor A stray bullet grazed a Temple student and another man was injured from a shootout between five men outside of a club near Main Campus early Sunday morning, including four security guards at the club. Police said the incident occurred around 2 a.m. on Feb. 23 outside of The Let Out, located on the corner of Cecil B. Moore Avenue and Willington Street. A Philadelphia Police Department spokesperson said the incident stemmed from a fight inside the club

after a man was removed from the building then returned with a firearm. In total, police investigators found 29 shell casings around the scene and one bullet two blocks away near Cecil B. Moore Avenue and 15th Street, where a Temple student was hit. The owner of the Let Out, Odi Obilo, said they were closing the venue when the shooting started. Obilo said a man was escorted out of the establishment, and another man, who Obilo said was a friend of the man tossed out of the club, returned brandishing a weapon. After being spoken to by a member of security, the man with a gun began firing at security from 17th Street down Cecil B. Moore Avenue, Obilo said. Martin Shnayder, a 21-year-old student in the School of Media and

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White said he’s ecstatic that his and Grzybowski’s programs will continue past this season, although he is unsure if he will continue coaching next year. The longtime coach is considering serving as an adviser next season to allow assistant coach Brian Perkins to take over the helm, because as White puts it, “he bleeds Temple, too.” Physical ailments have plagued White this year, but the announcement of the reinstatement could change his plans.

CREW PAGE 19 ONLINE - The Meeting Watch students and coaches argue for their sports’ reinstatement at the Board of Trustees meeting at temple-news.com/multimedia. EDITORIAL The crew and rowing teams’ reinstatement rights an injustice. PAGE 4

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Some classes now require students to use social media accounts as part of class participation. CLAIRE SASKO The Temple News It looks like a professor’s nightmare. In Jordan Shapiro’s Intellectual Heritage class, students’ eyes are fixed downward at their phones while their thumbs dart; almost all of them are using Twitter. Shapiro lectures on. He doesn’t mind – in fact, tweeting in class was his idea. The educational technology expert instructs his Mosaic students to tweet about class material using the hashtags “#Mosaic1” or “#Mosaic2.” Shapiro tweets back to his students under the Twitter handle @jordosh. All of the tweets are projected in front of the classroom on a massive screen, which

Jordan Shapiro requires students to tweet about the readings they are doing for his Intellectual Heritage courses. | COURTESY JORDAN SHAPIRO Shapiro said allows for “another track of conversation.” Tweeting in Shapiro’s class isn’t mandatory, but it can help raise a student’s participation grade. Shapiro said

LIVING - PAGES 7-8, 16-18

Student aids immigrant athletes

Coffee, books and tattoos

Nadia Malik, a 22-year-old pre-med student, was found dead inside a car with several parking tickets on Thursday. PAGE 2

Law student Han Lee created Global Sports Integration, which provides assistance to Asian athletes in the United States. PAGE 7

A new store on Spring Garden Street triples as a coffee shop, tattoo parlor and book shop. PAGE 9

OPINION - PAGES 4-5 Growing up without a father

n an unprecedented move, the Board of Trustees on Monday approved a motion to reverse the university’s decision to eliminate the men’s crew and women’s rowing teams, effectively maintaining the programs’ Division I status that was slated to be reduced this summer. At a public meeting at Sullivan Hall on Monday afternoon, the board passed a recommendation made by President Theobald to reinstate the crew and rowing teams, two of seven programs included in the university’s December decision to cut sports. Dozens of student-athletes and coaches from the cut sports attended the meeting, but Theobald’s recommendation did not call for reinstatement of the other eliminated sports – baseball, softball, men’s gymnastics and men’s indoor and outdoor track & field. “It saddens me that when these problems came up, nobody came and said, ‘You guys are the veterans. We’ve got this problem. Can we think of some solutions?’” men’s gymnastics coach Fred Turoff said. “Everything was done outside of the coaches, as far as I know. Where’s the collaboration? Where’s the respect for the time that we’ve been here?” Theobald approved Athletic Director Kevin Clark’s recommendation to cut the seven sports this past fall, but promised to revisit the issue after meeting with representatives of each of the affected programs on Jan. 28. “It’s a relief,” rowing coach Rebecca Smith Grzybowski said. “I’m optimistic about what the future holds and that we can continue what we’re building.” “These kids work so hard,” crew coach Gavin White said. “You won’t believe how much improvement they’ve made. Now we’re going to see these guys. Oh my gosh. I’m ecstatic about that.” The board’s decision comes after weeks of negotiations with the city to house the crew and rowing teams on

Classes migrate to social media platforms

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Student found dead on 30th St.

JOEY CRANNEY Editor-in-Chief

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students usually tweet about the books they read, like Freud’s “Introductory Lectures on Psychoanalysis” or the “Epic of Gilgamesh.”

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SPORTS - PAGES 19-22

Conference struggles continue


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