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A cut above the rest A fraternity from Fox participated in Philly I-Day by shaving their heads. PAIGE GROSS The Temple News When sophomore actuarial science major Mary Grace Sear pictured herself attending her organization’s Gamma Gala on April 9, she knew it would be a formal affair. A shaved head was not part of her plan. Even so, Sear didn’t shy
away from her most recent charitable action through one academic fraternity in the Fox School of Business. The Sigma chapter of Gamma Iota Sigma is a student professional organization in the Fox School of Business with more than 500 members that has connections with professionals in the industry. The group is primarily focused on risk management, insurance and actuarial science. Thirteen Sigma members, including the president, senior Elizabeth Mattox, shaved their heads this month to show support and awareness for child-
hood cancer. Next year’s president, junior Steven Costa, also participated. The 13 members raised $5,700 for St. Baldrick’s Foundation – a volunteer-driven charity dedicated to advancing research on a cure for childhood cancer – during the Insurance Society of Philadelphia’s Philly I-Day on April 9 in the Pennsylvania Convention Center. “It was hard to picture myself all dressed up with a bald head,” Sear said. “But I think it’s such an amazing organization, and I was excited to be a part of something that would
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Officers of the academic fraternity Gamma Iota Sigma-Sigma shaved their heads during Philly I-Day to raise money for children battling cancer. | KRISTEN VANLEER TTN
Full-time student, mom Alumna Tyler
Brittany Redfern will graduate this May with the sociology degree that she pursued while raising her son.
expands jewelry business Marisa Lombardo uses her first major, jewelry making, for her business. ALEXA BRICKER The Temple News
Brittany Redfern holds her son John Brice Jr., who was born during her junior year of college at Temple. | ANDREW THAYER TTN
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hen sociology major Brittany Redfern steps foot on Main Campus at 11 a.m. every weekday, she said she is strictly in student mode. Like
any other senior, she attends classes, works on finalizing her capstone project and counts down the days until graduation. At 5 p.m., Redfern leaves and heads to Chestnut Hill to pick up her 2-and-ahalf-year-old son from daycare before going back to their home in Fern Rock.
That’s where she clocks in for her favorite job as John Brice Jr.’s mother. “I found that splitting myself in two is the best balance for him,” Redfern said. “Once I get home and get my son home, I don’t turn on my laptop or open my books. I just worry about being a mom.”
But that doesn’t mean Redfern can’t multitask. Even as she speaks, she simultaneously bounces her son on her lap, wipes ice cream off his face and plays an Elmo video on her iPhone to distract him from boredom. When he accidentally knocks
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Inside the classroom | poetry of place
Poetry class will explore city A new class available this summer will take students throughout Philadelphia to write. CLAIRE SASKO The Temple News Pattie McCarthy doesn’t think writing needs to be done alone in a room. That’s why the creative writing professor is taking students off campus to write poetry this summer. A poet herself, McCarthy will teach Poetry of Place,
an introductory-level English course, during the first summer session. Students will travel to locations in the city that are mentioned in the work of established Philadelphia poets, like Jenn McCreary and Ryan Eckes. “I think that a lot of the time when we’re students and we’re thinking about poetry, so much of that is inside the classroom,” McCarthy said. “Thinking about this workshop is a way to get poetry out of the classroom and into the city.” The class is a traditional workshop, meaning that students will share their own work
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and critique the work of other students. McCarthy said she hopes the workshop will foster discussion about the importance of settings in poems. “The place in which you write something features in what you write,” McCarthy said. “Poems are not necessarily always just something that happens in the poet’s head.” McCarthy has planned two trips for the class so far, one including a stop at the Philadelphia Museum of Art. She said it’s important that poets utilize their surroundings, especially if
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Pattie McCarthy will teach Poetry of Place as a summer class. | COURTESY PATTIE MCCARTHY
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It was the 2011 holiday season in New York City when Marisa Lombardo walked into Rockefeller Center planning on an afternoon of ice skating. When she saw the Anthropologie store window display on her skates, she noticed mannequins adorned with her jewelry line, The Artemisian. The 1999 Tyler alumna has always had a passion for jewelry, but after her first two years of college as a jewelry major, she decided that a fine arts medium would benefit her more. She moved from where she was studying abroad in Scotland to Temple’s Rome Campus. “I took a printmaking class and it felt freeing to me,” Lombardo said. “Printmaking was really attractive because I was still working with metal. I went into printmaking at that time and at that age because I felt like I needed the freedom of a fine art.” While in Rome, Lombardo said she was greatly influenced by the wife of one of her professors, who went on to inspire Lombardo’s later-established line, The Artemisian. “I noticed that everyone that had been in America that had come to Rome couldn’t find the same materials they were using,” Lombardo said. “I remember [my professor’s] wife told us to narrow our scope and create from that place, as opposed to saying I need this, I need that. It was really important in my development as an artist, and for this collection.” Her relocation to Rome and the influence of her professor’s wife returned her interests to jewelry. Lombardo said the pieces she uses in her work often come from items she finds
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