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TUESDAY, MARCH 11, 2014
VOL. 92 ISS. 21
Grievance filed against professor
At meeting, sit-in, yells of protest
Student says professor questioned request for disability accommodation.
Administration and community at odds over ousting of Anthony Monteiro.
SARAI FLORES The Temple News The U.S. Department of Education’s Office on Civil Rights has launched an investigation into Temple Disability Resources and Services after a Temple graduate student filed a grievance against the university for a professor’s actions. David Harris, a student in the social work department, said he experienced discrimination from Associate Director of Disability Resources and Services Aaron Spector and from a professor in the College of Health Professions and Social Work after they questioned his request for an accommodation for his diagnosis of bipolar disorder. Harris said he requested his professor give him extra time on a paper so that he could take it to the writing center. During a meeting with his field liaison and social work professor, Harris said he was called an irritant and was told that he was irritating everyone in the department due to filing a grievance policy. Spector declined to comment, citing confidentiality requirements. Harris’s lawyer declined to comment, citing a desire to remain a neutral party during the ongoing investigation. Harris said he previously received accommodations in class for his bipolar disorder and has submitted a doctor’s note to Disability Resources and Services. “Temple’s unofficial policy about the accommodation letters is that you have to hand deliver it to a faculty member,” Harris said. “Even if this is done in pri-
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JOE BRANDT The Temple News
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Sacaree Rhodes (middle) shouts at the Board of Trustees during a public session in Sullivan Hall on Monday. Students and community members gathered to protest the ousting of professor Anthony Monteiro. | JOHN MORITZ TTN
GEORGE MOORE, 1946-2014
Top lawyer remembered for service JOE BRANDT The Temple News George Moore, Temple’s Senior Vice President, head legal counsel, secretary to the Board of Trustees and former law professor, died of pancreatic cancer on March 2 at 67 years old. He was honored at a service held on March 9 in the Temple Performing Arts Center. As legal counsel, Moore advised four university presidents and dozens of trustees on multiple aspects of the law, including corporate governance, policy development and law interpretation. Moore became the university counsel in 1989 and Board of Trustees secretary in 1992. He was appointed senior vice president in 2007. From 1990 to 2007, he was an adjunct professor in the Beasley School of Law. His Temple career lasted 25 years. Moore was born on Nov. 14, 1946 and grew up in Robertsville, Pa., a village near Punxsutawney in Jefferson County. From an Italian-Catholic family, Moore had 28 first cousins, several of whom lived in Rob-
George Moore. | COURTESY TEMPLE ertsville. In high school, he was valedictorian and played football. In 1968, Moore graduated from Dartmouth College, an Ivy League school in
In classroom, talk of Ukraine Roman Cybriwsky is a Ukranian-American citizen who wants to spread awareness.
New Hampshire. While attending Dartmouth he lived the “hippie” lifestyle; he grew his hair long, rode a Harley Davidson motorcycle, made silver jewelry and spoke out against the Vietnam War, Moore’s cousin Joseph Roberts said. “Punxsutawney is a quiet, family-oriented town, so that was a big deal,” Roberts said in a speech at the service. Moore graduated from Temple Law School in 1976, receiving his degree magna cum laude. He then moved on to Ballard Spahr LLP, a national law firm, where he spent 13 years as an associate and later a partner. Though he eventually moved back to Temple, he remained close with his former coworkers at Ballard. Joe H. Tucker Jr., now a managing partner at Tucker Law Group, said that Moore was the first person to give him a chance. After Tucker, a 1989 Temple Law graduate, quit his job at a national law firm where he had worked for four years, he was “practicing law out of his kitchen,” he said in his speech at the service.
rotesters against the dismissal of AfricanAmerican studies professor Anthony Monteiro demonstrated at the Board of Trustees’ general body meeting held in Sullivan Hall on Monday. The protesters said Teresa Soufas, Dean of the College of Liberal Arts, was racially motivated in her decision not to renew Monteiro’s contract The protest began outside Sullivan Hall two hours before the meeting, which was scheduled to begin at 3:30 p.m. Temple and Philadelphia police officers were on the scene and guarding the entrances. “If you think you can go forward without a black community, you might think you can have black art and black music without black people,” Monteiro said at a speech he made outside the building. The board meeting began with a memorial dedication to George Moore, secretary to the Board of Trustees and university counsel, who died on March 2. The board also approved the executive committee’s recommendation to borrow $30 million to cover expenses from April through June of this year, as well as the agendas of the other committees. The protesters, who filed into the meeting several minutes after it started, began shouting at the trustees when the establishment of a new CLA department was resolved. Sacaree Rhodes, a community resident and member of the African Daughters of Fine Lineage, shouted “Where
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A history of crew
Life on the river The storied tradition of men’s crew will continue after the Board of Trustees voted to reinstate the sport’s varsity status in February.
CLAIRE SASKO The Temple News
DANIELLE NELSON The Temple News
Sixty-eight-year-old Roman Cybriwsky is a nightclub kind of guy. At least, that’s what he calls himself. It wasn’t until the geography professor was 58 and living in Tokyo, however, that he found himself in these sweaty, shady, late-night hideouts. As an urban geographer, Cybriwsky studied nightlife in a Tokyo nightclub district called Roppongi. The location is within walking distance of Temple’s Japan campus, where he worked in administration at the time. He eventually published a book on the nightlife of Roppongi. Cybriwsky said urban geog-
When former Temple rower Ed Stinson got married, he took a particular cardboard box from his parents’ home with him. Now nestled in his attic, every so often Stinson reopens the box to relive his three-year rowing career at Temple in the 1980s. In the box sits his Temple rowing unisuit, photographs of races at regattas, awards for erg scores and run tests, trophies, dozens of medals and a few newspaper articles. One of the publications, the April 6, 1986 edition of the Augusta Chronicle, reads “Temple Triumph” on the front page. The day before, Temple’s men’s varsity eight boat came from behind in a head-to-head race to upset international powerhouse Oxford University in a 1,500-meter course by half-a-boat length with a time of 4 minutes, 17.4 seconds at the Augusta Invitational Regatta in Augusta, Ga.
Roman Cybriwsky studied nightlife in Tokyo and gentrification in Philadelphia prior to teaching.| CLAIRE SASKO TTN raphy is his passion. He’s studied topics that pertain to many cities and neighborhoods, like the gentrification of Fairmount and the demise of Roppongi. Now, Cybriwsky is approaching what is likely his biggest project yet, returning his attention to his birthplace: Ukraine. “By the time I finally finished [in Japan] I had gray hair
and I started thinking, ‘Ukraine is evolving. There’s a whole new world over there. Let’s go write a book,’” he said. “From that, I became interested in what I do now.” Cybriwsky is UkrainianAmerican. He was born in a European refugee camp at the end
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NEWS - PAGES 2-3, 6
LIVING - PAGES 7-8, 16-18
Paycheck draws students to strip
Street performance for a cause
After a round of committee meetings and public session, the Board of Trustees voted to raise funds for building security. PAGE 2
Some students who work as strippers while attending the university say the substantial money caught their attention. PAGE 7
Project Positive is an organization aiming to keep youth off the streets with hiphop. PAGE 9
Board approves security funds
OPINION - PAGES 4-5 Counting Temple’s security cams
ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT - PAGES 9-15
Temple’s men crew team was triumphant on water for much of its history. In December, however, the team was threatened with extinction when the Board of Trustees voted to cut the crew program due to inadequate facilities. But in February, the crew program was again victorious – this time on land – when university officials announced that the men’s crew program, along with women’s rowing, were reinstated due to a $2.5 million donation from the city and a $3 million donation from trustee H.F. “Gerry” Lenfest to renovate the formerly condemned East Park Canoe House. Olympian and former Temple assistant coach Mike Teti said he is glad the program is back because “it would have been a travesty.” The sentiment is similar along many involved with Temple’s storied crew program. Philadelphia has been the epicenter of rowing in American since the 1800s. Situated on the northwest side of Philadelphia, the Schuylkill
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SPORTS - PAGES 19-22
Conference tourney nears