Volume 91, Issue 22

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SPORTS Despite faltering in the A-10 tournament, the Owls pick up an at-large NCAA tournament bid.

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TUESDAY, MARCH 19, 2013

Robbery speaks to off-campus safety challenges

A Hall of Fame embrace.

An armed robbery two weeks ago represents a growing problem for CSS. SEAN CARLIN News Editor

T Hall of Fame men’s basketball coach John Chaney embraces former President Peter Liacouras during halftime of last week’s men’s basketball game against Virginia Commonwealth. Temple honored the 1987-88 men’s basketball team at halftime, during which many former players made their way over to Liacouras’ seat.| HUA ZONG TTN

hree girls initially shrugged off their fourth roommate who had just entered their second floor apartment crying. The roommate had been having “boy trouble” and it didn’t startle the others who were hanging out in a bedroom on the third floor. But a few words changed all of that. “We actually sat there for a good two minutes then we heard her scream, ‘Just don’t hurt any

of us, don’t hurt me, we’re good people, just take everything,” said Katie, a senior nursing major, who requested her last name not be published at the direction of the District Attorney’s Office. “We all went to go down to the kitchen to see her...and there were two guys just standing there.” Over the next few minutes, Katie and her roommates were bound and robbed as armed men searched their apartment. “We heard duct tape and looked at each other and that’s when we lost it and all started crying thinking we were going to be raped, or beat. We just didn’t know,” she said. “They laid us face down and had our hands and our feet together. They said, ‘Give us 30 minutes.

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Boathouse history TSG heads to Harrisburg complicates process City officials ask Temple to explore rehabilitating the East Park Canoe House. JOEY CRANNEY Sports Editor After the Philadelphia Commission on Parks and Recreation requested that Temple develop plans to renovate the East Park Canoe House as an alternative to building a new boathouse, the university’s next step is to consider the feasibility of such an option, considering the building’s historic stature. In a March 8 letter to Mayor Michael Nutter and City Council President Darrell Clarke, the commission extended the deadline for when it would make its recommendation to City Council on Temple’s proposal to build a new boathouse in Fairmount Park. The East

Park Canoe House, the Owls’ old home, was condemned in 2008, but the commission wants Temple to see if the building can be restored to suit the rowing programs’ needs before the commission makes its final determination. However, the limited size of the East Park Canoe House and the building’s historical significance could make that process more complicated. The East Park Canoe House, which opened in 1914 and was used for years as an Olympic training site, is on the Philadelphia Register of Historic Places. The designation protects a building’s exterior from being altered without approval from the Philadelphia Historical Commission. Temple has made previous claims that it couldn’t restore the East Park Canoe House to suit its needs without jeopardizing its historic character, but preser-

vation experts said restoration is a plausible, even laudable, plan for the building’s future. “The goal of the Historical Commission is not to prevent change, but manage change so that it is appropriate,” Johnathan Farnham, executive director of the Philadelphia Historical Commission, said in an email. “Managing adaptive reuse is the Historical Commission’s primary job.” Temple considered the alternative of using the East Park Canoe House in its proposal to the city in October 2012. In that document, Temple said the building was too small for the use of the rowing teams. The university claimed it needs at least 17,000 square feet to effectively operate its rowing programs, and wants to build a boathouse that would be 23,000 square feet. The East Park Canoe House is a total of 9,000

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TSG is hosting its third annual Owls on the Hill Day in Harrisburg.

JOHN MORITZ Assistant News Editor Students will turn into lobbyists today, March 19, when Temple Student Government, in conjunction with the Office of Government, Community and Public Affairs, treks to Harrisburg to meet with state representatives about the university’s appropriation. Owls on the Hill Day, part of Cherry and White Week hosted by the university, is an attempt to show lawmakers the importance of the institution and its funding to the common-

TU Rome students witness history Students share their experience from inside St. Peter’s Square. JOHN MORITZ Assistant News Editor

The East Park Canoe House was condemned in 2008; the crew teams have utilized tents since. Hopes for a new boathouse are caught in red tape.| ABI REIMOLD TTN

FUND-RAGING, p. 7

Despite being illegal, some student groups turn to house parties to make money. NEWS DESK 215-204-7419

wealth by having students share their own experiences. “Students have the most bearing on this, they are the ones most affected by flat funding,” Andrew McGinley, manager for public affairs and policy for the university said, adding “many representatives do not know that they have our students in their districts.” While this is the third year that TSG will be hosting the event, this year it took a new approach toward sending students to the capitol. Through the Owl Advocate Academy, which was set up this spring, students met with Ken Lawrence, senior vice president for government, community and public affairs, McGinley and other professional lobbyists for the university to be trained in how to approach representatives and their staffs.

As the rain soaked the square, the crowd began to gather in front of St. Peter’s Basilica, watching, waiting. Mike Madeja was one of thousands of people who began to gather inside the Vatican on March 13 in anticipation of witnessing first-hand the election of the next pope. Standing in the rain since 4 p.m. local time, Madeja witnessed the crowd grow into an “ecstatic chaos,” the first vote earlier in the afternoon had already ended in a plume of black smoke: no pope. Then, shortly after 7 p.m., smoke again began to pour out

DRESSING THE DEAD, p. 9

Rogue taxidermist and Philadelphian Beth Beverly is featured on AMC’s “Immortalized.” NEWS@TEMPLE-NEWS.COM

of the small copper chimney atop the famed Sistine Chapel. In Madeja’s words, a moment of anticipation filled the crowd, all trying to decipher the signal of the gray smoke. And then they cheered. “‘Bianco Bianco, WHITE SMOKE WHITE SMOKE’ was all that could be heard aside from the shouts. Then the bells rang, we all got goosebumps and started yelling too just because we couldn’t believe it,” Madeja said in a message. Madeja, a junior biological anthropology and Italian major, was just one of several Temple Rome students who dotted the crowd outside last week’s Papal Conclave, and who witnessed first-hand the unveiling of the 266th leader of the Catholic world. In separate correspondenc-

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McGinley, who worked closely with TSG and the student representatives, said his office’s goal was to direct students in how to talk to state representatives using a more personalized approach by telling their own stories rather than giving the traditional list of facts about the university. His office also informed students on what kind of relationship the university already has with the representatives they will be meeting. TSG Student Body President David Lopez said that he hopes 100 to 150 students will show up for the event, and that 268 have already registered online. Lopez said that last year, around 70 students showed up out of a registration of 158. To increase turnout, Lopez and TSG reached out to students

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Ads will focus on classroom Redesigned advertisements will shift focus to academics. MARCUS MCCARTHY The Temple News Gone are the intense game day faces of Temple Made. New slogans and an organic social media buzz are changing the appearance and form of Temple’s advertising campaign. New advertising posters consist of short phrases that describe driven students working hard for their education. This represents a shift in focus from athletics toward academics in

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CREDENTIAL CONTROL, p. 5

Joey Cranney argues that credentialing is a tool the university can use to control media.


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