LIVING Urban riders of Temple equestrian club saddle up against rural competitors.
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Columnist Victoria Marchiony explores how an alumnus found success in a Ridge Avenue arts venue.
Bri Bosak continues the discussion surrounding the privatization of state liquor stores.
Dispute Seven schools slightly up tuition despite freeze leads to student shot Some colleges, schools must up tuition to operate specialty programs. KHOURY JOHNSON The Temple News
A weekend shooting stemmed from an altercation between neighbors.
Although Temple’s base tuition was kept level for the current fiscal year, some schools
and programs still saw a tuition increase. Thanks to a base tuition freeze made possible by a leveled state appropriation, the majority of students in the university saw their tuition stay the same this year – $13,006 for instate students and $22,832 for out-of-state students. But, seven schools within the university faced an increased, or differential, tuition rate.
The Boyer College of Music and Dance, the School of Media and Communication, the College of Engineering, the College of Science and Technology, the Fox School of Business, the School of Tourism and Hospitality Management and the Tyler School of Art’s architecture and fine arts programs saw a slight increase in tuition for this year, according to a summary for approved and ac-
tive tuition differentials. In addition to these schools seeing an undergraduate tuition increase, their graduate programs also saw an increase per credit ranging from $20 to $36 for in-state students. The tuition differentials were held constant for in-state and out-of-state students in every school that saw a tuition increase except for Fox and the School of Tourism and Hos-
Temple runs past city rival Villanova in the Fourth Annual Mayor’s Cup.
ALI WATKINS SEAN CARLIN The Temple News A 19-year-old student was hospitalized and a 27-year-old man is in custody after a shooting early Sunday, Sept. 2, west of Main Campus, according to police. Philadelphia police responded to the 1900 block of Gratz Street at 3:30 a.m. where they found the student shot in the neck. Deputy Director of Campus Safety Services Charlie Leone said in an email that the student was taken by Philadelphia Fire Department paramedics to Temple University Hospital where he was listed in serious, but stable condition. The shooting stemmed from an earlier fight between two houses on the block that had students in them, Leone said. He said that two students initially became involved in an altercation with people from another house on the block that included students and non-students at a party. After the initial fight, more people joined in on Gratz Street, intending to fight. While the victim was watching his friend, who was not a student, fighting,
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JOHN MORITZ Assistant News Editor A $100 million fundraising effort to increase financial aid and university endowment is being kicked off this fall as part of a campaign developed through the Office of Institutional Advancement and the Board of Trustees. The unnamed fundraiser, which was announced along with the freeze in base tuition on June 28, calls for a five-year marketing campaign that will reach out to alumni and friends of the university to raise money for student scholarships. “Rising student debt is one of the major issues facing this nation today. Temple is committed to being a national leader in the effort to offer an affordable quality education,” said Board
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Raucous bus video goes viral Video of group trying to flip Owl Loop bus spread online during the past week. SEAN CARLIN JOEY CRANNEY The Temple News One person has been charged with disorderly conduct after a mob on 18th Street near Arlington nearly led to an Owl Loop bus being flipped. Deputy Director of Campus Safety Services Charlie Leone said that at around 1:30 a.m. on Sunday, Aug. 26, two Temple police bike officers were flagged down while they were patrolling on the 1600 block of Berks Street and told that a large group was trying to flip a Temple shuttle bus at 18th and Arlington streets. Leone said that officers dispersed the crowd and a
Temple defeated Villanova 41-10 in the Mayor’s Cup on Aug. 31. See Page 20 for related stories.| TIMOTHY VALSHTEIN TTN
Campaign aims to raise $100 million Fundraising effort targets alumni and friends of the university.
pitality Management, where out-of-state students’ undergraduate tuition differential was nearly double that of their in-state counterparts. Out-ofstate graduate students also saw a raise per credit of $13 more than in-state students in these two schools. When asked why more specialized schools saw an increase
of Trustees Chairman Patrick O’Connor in the press release announcing the campaign. “This is going to be an all-out effort. We are going to ask everyone who cares about the university to step up and take action. We need them to invest in our students.” Development on the campaign was started by Institutional Advancement during the last fiscal year, and was proposed to the Board of Trustees in the spring with the help of the Office of Marketing within Enrollment Management. The campaign officially launched July 1, David Unruh, senior vice president of institutional advancement, said. The campaign comes after the university cut $113 million from the budget within the last three years, according to the June press release. The appropriations budget is currently at $139.9 million for the 2012-13 academic year. The university plans on spending $50 million of the
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Construction making progress Science building project closes two entrances to adjacent buildings. SEAN CARLIN News Editor A little more than five months after the Board of Trustees voted to begin construction on the science, education and research center on the east side of Main Campus, officials said that the structure should start sprouting out of the ground later this semester. The $137 million project located at 12th Street and Polett Walk between the College of Engineering building and Gladfelter Hall broke ground earlier this summer, James Creedon, senior vice president of construction, facilities and operations, said. Construction started with shoring up the areas surrounding the construction site. In early July, the south entrance to the College of Engineering building and the west entrance to Gladfelter were
closed off and their windows sealed with plywood to sound proof the building and prevent damage from the construction going on outside, Creedon said. The sidewalk in front of the construction site was also closed and Creedon said two or three food trucks were moved north on 12th Street out of the way of the construction, but are still in operation. “We haven’t had any problems, any complaints,” Creedon said of the operators of the food trucks. “They don’t like when they have to move at all, but there’s got to be some flexibility.” Deputy Director of Campus Safety Services Charlie Leone said that CSS has kept an officer on throughout most of the day at 12th Street and Polett Walk to direct traffic, which differs from what CSS used to do, which was to typically keep an officer at the intersection only during peak times and class changes. Leone also said that they are monitoring foot traffic in the area to see if they need to close down additional The site between Gladfelter Hall and the College of Enstreets during peak hours on gineering building will soon house the seven-story science, education and research center.| ANDREW THAYER TTN
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