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TUESDAY, APRIL 30, 2013
Crimes face two outlets
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Multiple jurisdictions at Temple handle underreported crime.
As Temple makes its move to the American Athletic Conference, concerns about its budget become clear.
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The Visualize Temple initiative will focus on future development. JOHN MORITZ Assistant News Editor
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t was Nov. 28, 2012. Earlier that week, the Big East Conference admitted Tulane and East Carolina as members to counter the departures of Louisville and Rutgers, which are headed to the Atlantic Coast Conference and Big Ten Conference, respectively. In an interview on WPHT during halftime of the men’s basketball game that night, Athletic Director Bill Bradshaw tried explaining why Temple was still in a good place, despite the fact that most of the prestigious athletic programs in the Big East had announced their intention to leave. Ignoring concerns from fans about a drop in Big East competitiveness, Bradshaw said to think of the money instead. “If anyone’s confused and frustrated, just know one thing – it’s the color green,” Bradshaw said. “Think of the color green, and that answers all of your questions.” Bradshaw has gone on to say Temple’s move to the Big East – since renamed the American Athletic Conference – is a step up because Temple will
have most of its sports competing in a conference with schools that are on an even playing field. “The level of competition that we’re playing in a league with like institutions, with similar enrollments and commitment to athletics, missions of the university, all of those things in the league we’re in now are similar,” Bradshaw told
The Temple News in January. However, through a comprehensive analysis of athletic budgets, it’s clear Temple doesn’t have a similar financial investment in athletics with almost all of the universities set to compete in The American in the next couple of years. Even though Bradshaw cited revenue as a gain, the amount of money
the university will receive from the new conference in the future will not approach what the Big East used to bring in, nor is it clear that revenue will increase steadily as schools continue to come and go. According to records, Temple’s operating expenses per
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From the entrance to Campus Safety Services headquarters near the corner of 12th Street and Montgomery Avenue, you can see the back of the Student Center, lurking behind new construction. The red brick is dotted with windows, one of them belonging to the Student Code of Conduct office. Standing at CSS, it’s difficult to pick out. There’s no indication that these offices are connected. And yet, they both handle a critical component of university life; they’re the two organizations on Temple’s campus that formally handle the crisis of campus sexual assault. Dean of Students Stephanie Ives, who oversees the Student Code of Conduct, and Charlie Leone, deputy director of CSS, sit at the helm of two distinctly different processes. Leone handles the criminal side of things, which includes formal reporting of sexual assault incidents, formal charges and criminal court proceedings. Ives heads the more informal, but parallel process of SCC, which handles internal investigations of sexual assault referrals committed by students. Ives and Leone sit in different offices, but information between the two flows freely. With sexual assaults involving students, Leone said, Campus Safety Services will always inform SCC of the incidents, regardless of whether students intend to press charges or carry through referrals. Similarly, Student Code of Conduct and university authorities are required by law to inform Campus Safety Services about any sexual assaults that are reported to them. “Whenever we get a student involved with a sexual assault, we send it over to SCC,” Leone said, adding that this communication works both ways. “If [SCC has] a sexual assault, we’re going to be made aware of it, definitely. We may not know academic dishonesty and things like that, but a sexual assault, I guarantee we’re going to be made aware of it.” Although communication flows freely between the two offices, some numbers are not reported to the public. Unless the crime occurs within Clery geography, the numbers seldom
Post 20/20 era begins for Temple
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Four years and six projects since the 20/20 plan initiated in 2009, the university is hitting the drawing boards again as administrators begin to unroll a new master development plan for the future design of the university’s regional campuses. The new master plan, under the name “Visualize Temple,” is an “evolution” of the major development project started by 20/20, James Creedon, senior vice president for construction, facilities and operations, said. It will focus more on open-source input from students and faculty and will replace many of the unfinished projects left behind by 20/20, as the university conducts a self-study on the needs of the university’s various areas. “This isn’t just to say, ‘Where do you put buildings on a map?’ This is really to make the business cases for, ‘What do we need next, what’s the strategy behind what we need?’” Creedon said. Launched in May 2009, 20/20 consisted of close to a dozen projects throughout Main Campus. These projects included the renovations of Pearson and McGonigle halls and Edberg-Olsn Hall, the Architecture Building, Morgan Hall, the Montgomery Street parking garage and the Science and Technology Building currently under construction between Gladfelter Hall and the
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Theobald reflects on first semester at helm The president plans on learning more about Temple this summer. SEAN CARLIN News Editor Four months into his tenure as president, Neil Theobald has had little time to relax. “He’s in early every day, just constantly working,” said Assistant Vice President for the Executive Office of the President Anne Nadol. “He’s nonstop and that extends into the weekend.” Though the title entails a bigger time commitment, Theo-
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In his final column, Opinion Editor Zack Scott urges students to voice their opinions.
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bald said his role at Temple doesn’t differ much from his role as senior vice president and chief financial officer at Indiana University. He ended up working on academic planning in addition to being the CFO, because the university doesn’t have a provost, Theobald said. Theobald has maintained throughout his tenure as president-elect and his few months as president that his main goals include providing an environment that lowers student debt and encourages students to graduate in four years. “We’re going to look at how we create plans for students,” Theobald said. “Clearly we want people to make smart
decisions, and they need to have information to make smart decisions. But decisions you can make are based upon the options available to you.” So far, the university has introduced courses aimed at improving students’ financial literacy in an effort to curb student debt, and the president and provost are working to provide an adequate supply of classes and “doable” paths to encourage students to graduate in four years. “It’s a student’s choice to graduate in four years, you’re not forcing anybody into a box,” Theobald said. “But if a student comes up and says, ‘I’d like to
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BIKE ACROSS AMERICA, p. 15 Two students will bike cross-country to raise money for affordable housing efforts.
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President Neil Theobald talks with The Temple News in his office last week. | ANDREW THAYER TTN
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The Temple News covers all aspects of Temple’s conference realignment and its effects.