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In The Nation NORTHWESTERN FOOTBALL PLAYERS ARGUE FOR UNION REPRESENTATION Members of the Northwestern University Wildcats football team are attempting to create the first college football players’ union, a move that could alter the NCAA’s business model. In order to form a union recognized and protected by the federal government, the members must be employees among other requirements, something the university contests. Northwestern officials argued that the players are studentathletes and therefore do not legally qualify as employees. In a National Labor Relations Board hearing on Thursday, Feb. 20, the main witness for the players’ union, Northwestern’s outgoing quarterback Kain Colter, stressed the amount of work required of the players with none of the huge profits returned to them. “It’s a job. There is no way around it. It’s a job,” Colter said. -Marcus McCarthy
HARVARD RECEIVES RECORDBREAKING $150 MILLION ALUMNI DONATION Harvard College, the main undergraduate school of Harvard University, received the largest donation in the college’s history on Feb. 19. The $150 million donation was made by Harvard alumnus and hedge fund manager Kenneth Griffin. With an estimated net worth of $3 billion, Griffin ranks as one of the most successful hedge fund managers alive. He founded the hedge fund firm Citadel Advisors LLC, which has a market value of $45.5 billion, according to NASDAQ. The donation is to be used to pay for financial aid, impacting up to 800 undergraduates a year. Temple’s alumni gifting record could be set after Lewis Katz announced in November a $25 million pledge, one sixth the size of Girffin’s donation.
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GUN DEBATE CONTINUES ON COLLEGE CAMPUSES The gun debate has heated up on college campuses. Officials from Occidental College in
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Los Angeles have announced that they will not invest the college’s endowment in any companies that manufacture military-style assault weapons for sale to civilians. The college, with 2,176 undergraduates, had a $330 million endowment as of 2012, according to U.S. News & World Report. This idea is not rare in Los Angeles, as the city pension fund and the California Public Employees’ Retirement System have both made similar announcements. However, in Idaho, the state legislator is expected to pass a bill to the governor that would allow students to carry concealed guns on college campuses.
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UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND FACES DATABASE HACK State and federal law enforcement are investigating how thousands of sensitive records were hacked from the University of Maryland database, which contained information on all students, faculty, staff and alumni who received school IDs since 1998. University officials estimated that the hack exposed more than 300,000 peoples’ names, So-
cial Security numbers and dates of birth. As a precaution, the university is offering free credit-monitoring service to those affected.
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PENN LAUNCHES TASK FORCE TO INVESTIGATE MENTAL HEALTH The University of Pennsylvania launched a task force into investigating and making recommendations to how the school handles student mental health and stress. Although not named as the reason for the task force, this update comes on the heels of two Penn students having commited suicide since the beginning of January. Formed to release recommendations “related to programs, policies and practices designed to improve the quality” of student life in early 2015, the Task Force on Student Health and Welfare will be headed by the former dean of the School of Arts and Sciences. On Jan. 17, Penn freshman Madison Holleran committed suicide by jumping off of a Center City parking garage. Sophomore Elvis Hatcher hung himself on Feb. 4 at an undisclosed location. -Marcus McCarthy
The Let Out, a local club where a fight between patrons spilled out into Cecil B. Moore Avenue. Two men and multiple security guards began shooting early Sunday morning, leaving two injured. Police found 29 spent shell casings and one bullet nearby. | JOHN MORITZ TTN
Two injured, 29 shots fired on Cecil B. Moore Ave. during shootout outside nightclub birthday party SHOOTING PAGE 1 Communication was hit in the abdomen and taken to Hahnemann Hospital, where was later released according to CSS. Shnayder said he returned to Cecil B. Moore Avenue after being in the city with friends when they heard gunshots fired down near his residence on 16th Street and Cecil B. Moore Avenue. “It was all kind of a blur but the next thing I remember I just kind of felt a pain in my stomach. I lifted up my shirt and I was bleeding,” Shnayder said. “I was more shocked than anything. It all happened like right then. I was just out with my friends and we were walking home and the next thing I know, I’m in the hospital.”
Charlie Leone, the acting executive director of CSS said the man fled the scene in a green minivan and threw his firearm into a snowbank. A second man, who Leone said was the driver of the minivan, arrived at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania later driving a vehicle matching the description with a gunshot wound to the knee and is in stable condition. The four security guards were taken in for questioning but later released as they were certified to carry the firearms, a police spokesperson said. Police first responded to the scene when an officer on patrol said they heard the shots, Leone said. A TU Alert was sent out at 2:47 a.m. warning students to
avoid the area. According to the we could get it out.” alert, the message was sent 40 “I think the assumption is minutes after the that when the incident. incident oc“It was pretcurs we’re inty long after [the stantaneously shooting],” said there and that Madison Blyler, we know eva senior art eduerything that’s cation major and happened and nearby resident we’re able to on the 1700 block pull that inof Willington formation out Street. “When in minutes,” we got the TU Leone said. Alert, it didn’t “That’s just really make us Odi Obilo / owner of the Let Out not going to feel any better. happen. It’s reIt made us more ally difficult in scared.” most instances, However, Leone said the especially when you have a case alerts were sent out “as fast as like this with so many moving
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a nice place safely for people to have fun, and these guys... they just don’t know how to act.
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parts.” “We have information that we know is accurate and we put that information out in hopes that if you’re a student and you’re receiving that information then: [No. 1] If you’re in the area then you know what’s happening and [No. 2] You want to take some precautions,” Leone added. A second TU Alert was issued at 3:09 a.m. reporting the student had been discharged from the hospital. Obilo, an alumnus of the Fox School of Business, said the event going on that night was a 33rd birthday party. “I try to provide a nice place safely for people to have fun, and these guys… they just
don’t know how to act,” Obilo said. The police are still looking for the second man they say was the gunman. The incident is still being investigated. “[Following the gunshots] we were like, ‘Oh my God those were really gun shots,’” Blyler said. “We were paralyzed by the fact that it could have been any one of us.” Marcus McCarthy can be reached at marcus.mccarthy@temple.edu or on Twitter @MarcusMcCarthy6. Addy reporting.
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