SPORTS With the demolition of the Student Pavilion set, tennis players will be left without a home court.
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The theater department debuts its double-cast performance of the 2007 Tony-winning musical running through Nov. 4.
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The abandoned Reading Railroad inspired concepts by Temple and Penn design studios.
Housing policy leads recruits to hotels University officials declined to talk specifics on housing policy impacts. JOEY CRANNEY Sports Editor University Housing and Residential Life is working with University Counsel to amend a change in housing policy that has restricted the way the school has been recruiting students and student-athletes.
Focus shifts to turnout
The university’s guest policy was changed at the beginning of this semester to prohibit non-student minors from staying overnight at residence halls, among other tweaks. The changes were spurred by a recommendation during the summer from the Task Force on Institutional Integrity, which was created to analyze Judge Louis Freeh’s report on Penn State’s handling of the Jerry Sandusky child sex-abuse scandal. A month and a half after the new policy was placed into effect, the university is trying to
amend it again. The task force’s report cautioned the university that a complete ban on overnight stays for non-matriculated minors may have negative consequences, such as its impact on student-athlete recruitment. When Temple hosts recruits on official athletic visits, the prospective student either stays overnight on Main Campus or is housed elsewhere off campus, depending on the sport, said a university official who requested to remain anonymous. The change in housing
policy has eliminated the oncampus option for this semester. This changed has caused athletic recruits to stay in area hotels, Michael Scales, associate vice president and director of University Housing and Residential Life, said through a statement sent to University Communications. The housing policy has only partially affected Temple’s three revenue sports: football, men’s basketball and women’s basketball. The contact period for
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JOHN MORITZ Assistant News Editor
T Hundreds of sorority sisters flocked to the Bell Tower earlier this month. This semester, 446 students registered for recruitment, a 100 percent increase from last fall.| JOHN MORITZ TTN
DOMINIQUE JOHNSON The Temple News
heresa Henneman stood among a long line of grey-sweater clad women waiting on the steps of Paley Library earlier this month. A short time later, Henneman was one of more than 200 women to rush through the arch of the Bell Tower, unzip their drab jackets unveiling neon T-shirts printed with Greek letters and rush into the awaiting arms of their new sorority members screaming from the plaza below. “In short, pretty awesome,” the sophomore therapeutic recreation major and transfer student said of receiving a bid to Delta
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Sororities this semester have seen a 100 percent increase in recruitment.
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Business school and LexisNexis form partnership to track election campaigns.
LexisNexis and the Fox School of Business have formed a new partnership in order to support the university’s newly released media index to track and score the presidential, U.S. Senate, U.S. House of Representatives and gubernatorial campaigns throughout the country, across social, broadcast and print media. David Schuff, one of three professors from Fox who is working on the research project, said the partnership between LexisNexis and the university could have a larger benefit to society. “In 2008, we did a similar project on the election on the presidential primaries,” Schuff said. “So this is a follow up to that study that’s more comprehensive.” The goal of the project is to look at how candidates’ use of social media and how their exposure in using it would result in campaign outcomes. The index, Translating the Effectiveness of Media into Performance, analyzes mediarelated data from more than 900 candidates nationwide by using customized software designed by Schuff and the other Fox professors, and direct access to the extensive content resources of LexisNexis. “Part of what we wanted to do was to also integrate broad-
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Voter registration deadline passes, turning focus to issues and turnout.
Politically affiliated and non-partisan student organizations on Main Campus are preparing for the upcoming election on Nov. 6, by boosting interest among students and community members. Now that the voter registration deadline has passed, activities throughout the rest of this month aim to increase voter turnout and to explore in-depth issues voiced by political campaigns. “Between all of the organizations on campus registering people to vote, I think
when football programs can officially sponsor recruiting visits doesn’t begin until Nov. 25, according to the 2012-13 NCAA Recruiting Calendar. Women’s basketball had a contact period from Sept. 16 to Oct. 6 and men’s basketball’s recruiting period began Sept. 9 and will continue throughout this semester, according to the recruiting calendar. However, the three revenue sports have not housed recruits on Main Campus in the past for the most part, The
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City controller’s report calls out developers near Main Campus Lack of oversight, enforcement on construction cited by controller. CINDY STANSBURY The Temple News In the near-campus streets, construction has been constant in recent years. Dirt whips through the air carrying leftover debris from forgotten projects, as pieces of concrete form into mountains in the vacant lots. The sound of jackhammers demolishing gritty cinderblock awakens the neighborhood and the frustration of those tucked
away in their beds. On Oct. 10, City Controller Alan Butkovitz sent out a report – the North Philadelphia Construction Review – detailing the issues with the Temple area construction and is now demanding change. Butkovitz states in the report that in this area there is not enough oversight and enforcement on construction projects, which allows for extensive and frequent code violations. These code violations include illegal dumping of construction debris, lack of dust screens and filters, missing air vacuum hoses, street lane closures without proper permits
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and stairs built beyond where codes allow them to be, according to the report. These violations are said to inconvenience those living in the area. “As our city continues to grow and new construction projects take place, the city needs to take an aggressive approach to protecting the quality of life for citizens in the surrounding neighborhoods,” Butkovitz said in the report. The report largely blames the issues on the lack of communication and enforcement from various departments in the city including Licenses and Inspections, Streets, Public A clutter of trash from construction fills a vacant lot near Main Campus. Last week, a report was released outlining issues with Temple-area construction. | CINDY STANSBURY TTN REPORT PAGE 3
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