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Students’ travels to Israel during the break offered cultural lessons not found in class.
West Philadelphian and indie musician Candice Martello is making her mark in the DIY scene.
President addresses issues facing Temple The Temple News sits down with the university’s new president. SEAN CARLIN News Editor
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ince Neil Theobald was named Temple’s 10th president in August, the university community has been waiting to see what changes the former Indiana University senior vice president and chief financial officer would bring to North Broad
Street. Last week, The Temple News sat down with President Theobald to gauge his thoughts on a number of issues Neil Theobald facing Temple. The Temple News: You’ve had a few months between being named president and actually leaving Indiana. Can you take us through a typical
day of prepping for Temple, but still focusing on your job as a senior vice president and CFO? Neil Theobald: It ended up being a seven-day-a-week job. Generally, I would do my IU job until about 6 p.m. I’d have two separate email accounts, an IU email and the Temple email, and about 6 p.m., I would start on the Temple work and that would go until about 10 p.m. and did that pretty much around the clock. I wouldn’t want to do that as a regular job, but we had committed to my boss at IU that
weekend and during the holiday weekend. The 18th annual Greater Philadelphia Martin Luther King Jr. Day of Service channeled the sentiment behind King’s “I Have a Dream” speech, delivered at the Lincoln Memorial five decades ago, into abiding dedication to community service. Freshman education majors Shannon Reilly and Jenna Lee said volunteerism should begin at an early age. On Friday morning, Reilly and Lee, alongside other students from the School
of Education, volunteered their time to teach KIPP Elementary Academy students about King’s A public hearing legacy. “Our team connected the was held for some to five values that KIPP stands support the idea and for, which are excellence, teamwork, integrity, joy, and deter- to air out concerns. mination to what MLK stood for,” Lee said. “So it was easy JOEY CRANNEY for them to understand and Sports Editor pledge to carry on with.” The celebrated civil rights The Philadelphia Commisleader once envisioned educa- sion of Parks and Recreation tion as the combination of intel- held a public hearing on Boathouse Row Jan. 16, discussing MLK PAGE 2 Temple’s proposal to build its
A member of the crew team speaks at a hearing on Temple’s proposed boathouse. Its former home was condemned in 2008.| ABI REIMOLD TTN
Crew teams speak up MLK Day spreads service for proposed boathouse Initiatives through Day of Service benefit community. LAURA ORDONEZ The Temple News Martin Luther King Jr.’s lifelong concerns of the education and moral growth of children, volunteerism and equal access shaped several of the community service projects led by Temple students, alumni and employees throughout the
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own boathouse. At Lloyd Hall gymnasium in a hearing that lasted more than two hours, dozens of members of the public spoke to the 14-person commission arguing for and against the proposal. Temple is trying to acquire a half-acre plot of land to build a new boathouse on Kelly Drive south of the Strawberry Mansion Bridge and north of the East Park Canoe House, Temple’s rowing home until it was condemned in 2008.
The university submitted an analysis to the city in October arguing for the public good of the boathouse that had to undergo a period of 30 days of public comment before Wednesday’s meeting reviewing the proposal. Proponents of the new boathouse argued in favor of giving the student-athletes, who have been forced to share space in a tent, a home to call their own, as well as the public inter-
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Suit filed against Temple
Lawsuit suggests Temple was wrong to suspend volleyball player from team. SEAN CARLIN News Editor
Volunteers participate at a Martin Luther King Jr. Day of Service event at Bright Hope Baptist Church, at 12th Street and Cecil B. Moore Avenue. | LAURA ORDONEZ TTN
A former volleyball player has filed a federal lawsuit indicating that she was removed from the team and had her scholarship revoked after reporting to the school that her ex-boyfriend, a Temple football player, assaulted her, according to court records.
Emily Frazer and Andrew Cerett, a former punter on the football team, dated on and off from August 2010 to January 2011, according to court records. The two broke up due to Cerett’s obsessive, controlling and disturbing behavior, the lawsuit said. At approximately 10 p.m. on Jan. 21, 2011, Frazer, a sophomore at the time, was in a friend’s room when Cerett came into the dorm to speak with her. The lawsuit states Cerett forced himself into the room. Frazer and her friends fled to another room, where Cerett forced his
way into the room again and beginning yelling at her, according to court records. Frazer ran into her room and, as she tried to shut the door behind her, he kicked it open and screamed at her, threatening to kill her, court records state. Friends apparently restrained him and forced him to leave, before calling Temple Police. The lawsuit also states that as he was leaving, the man punched through a window in the hallway and spread his blood along the hall. Frazer spent the night at her roommate’s home in New Hope,
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Remodeled budget moves forward A decentralized budget model is likely to be in place for fiscal year 2015. SEAN CARLIN News Editor After a lagging economy caused family incomes to stagnate and university state appropriations to level, administrators began to think about changes to counteract these downturns. “Increasingly along the way we were asking, ‘What are fundamental changes that we can make to help us be more efficient, but without sacrificing excellence?’” said Executive Vice President, Chief Financial
Officer and Treasurer Anthony Wagner. That’s when officials started to view decentralized budgeting as a budget model that could be suited for Temple. A decentralized budget allocates funds to schools and colleges and gives power to the deans, instead of the current model which largely keeps resources in the center of the university. “It’s really about creating a polarity, so that you have both strong decentralized operating units, but a strong central administration that’s helping to coordinate and guide the work and activities of those units,” Wagner said. While the university has been looking into the idea for a
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few years, it appointed a steering committee last year to seriously explore whether the model could fit at Temple. Members of the committee, made up of financial officers, staff, administrators and deans, traveled to Indiana University for two days in December to learn about how Indiana uses their decentralized budget model — called Responsibility Centered Management. Temple has been working with Indiana Bloomington’s Director of Budget and Planning Aimee Heeter and now-retired Senior Associate Vice President Doug Priest throughout the process, but from going to Indiana, members of the steering committee were able to meet with about 30 people from Indiana
who are involved with the various aspects of RCM. When Wagner returned from Indiana, he said the most important thing he took from the trip was the “entrepreneurial spirit that runs through the entire university.” While he said Temple has that spirit, he hopes a new budget model will bring more to the university. “Quite frankly, it was a fundamentally different mindset in that regard,” Wagner said. “Decentralized budgeting will help us institutionalize that here and reward strong program and financial management by schools and colleges.” Though the redesigned budget is not coming to Temple specifically because of Presi-
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dent Neil Theobald, who was Indiana’s senior vice president and chief financial officer and worked with RCM for 20 years, the choice of Theobald allows Temple to use a person who university officials called an expert in this subject matter. Senior Associate Vice President for Finance and Human Resources Ken Kaiser told The Temple News in December that the hiring of Theobald “boosted our ability to do this right.” Theobald, who said he’s met with deans and faculty about the restructured budget, said the budget allows funds to be used more efficiently by giving schools the ability to spend on what is important to those particular programs.
“My knowledge of what is really needed in the school of engineering, and the school of business and the school of law is obviously pretty limited because I’m a long way away,” Theobald said. “The deans of those schools and the faculty of those schools are in the position to know how to most effectively spend funds. It has a logic to it that I think resonates with people.” Deans responded positively to the idea of the budget, Theobald said, although he warned that with increased freedom to spend on specific needs, comes increased responsibility. “They’re held accountable, there’s two sides to that,” Theo-
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