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TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 19, 2013
VOL. 92 ISS. 13
TSG announces proposal for new security policies In response to the Willington standoff and attack on professor, TSG calls for change. there are ideas that are coming, we take them very, very seriously. And if they can be implemidst recently mented, we’ll certainly do our heightened safety very best.” Of the five suggestions, ofconcerns on camficials have not yet made conpus following the crete plans regarding the system standoff on Willington Street of checking IDs or a website and the attack on a professor in that would compile alerts. Anderson Hall, Temple Student Using the Government University of TSG PROPOSALS announced last Cincinnati’s FOR CAMPUS week a series of Public Safety proposals to the SECURITY website as university adan example, dressing five security concerns. 1. A more efficient ID- Temple’s Student Body TSG memchecking system. P r e s i d ent bers met with 2. Expanding alert Darin Baruniversity oftholomew practices. ficials three weeks prior to 3. Title all notifications said the program to crethe official an“alerts” and eliminate ate a website nouncement of compiling the suggestions “advisories.” alerts is free at the Nov. 11 4. A website with a list and would be General Asa quick instalof all alerts. sembly meeting. The five 5. A review of security lation. “Techniproposals called in the Student Center. cally it’s not for a more effidifficult, but cient ID-checkbureaucracying system in campus buildings, expanding wise, it can be,” Bartholomew the alert system, more consis- said. “There’s a lot of moving tent alert labeling, a website parts there. It’s not just putting compiling a list of all alerts and the software onto the website.” Creedon said a timeline for a review of security in the Stuthis proposal will be determined dent Center. later this week and that a more “My read of it in general is efficient ID-checking system is that it’s very constructive,” said a long-term goal of the univerJim Creedon, senior vice presisity. The leading proposed soludent for construction, facilities
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A Long Race to the Finish More than 30,000 runners competed in the the Philadelphia Marathon on Sunday, Nov. 1. PAGE 2| AJA ESPINOSA TTN
Nurse’s murder sparks call to service Suzanne Durocher was remembered by colleagues after tragic death in N.J. home. JOHN MORITZ News Editor Friends say Suzanne Durocher traveled to the mountains of Honduras this summer looking for a “new beginning” following the death of her husband in 2011. During the volunteer trip with Temple’s Global Medical Brigade, Durocher had the students write their personal thoughts and feelings about her and the trip in her journal.
Suzanne Durocher works with children in Honduras this past summer as part of a clinical tour.|COURTESY LINA KHONG Before she left, she thanked all her fellow volunteers for their friendships formed abroad.
“We all agree that we were the lucky ones [to have met her],” said Nitasha Khanna, a
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and operations. “Certainly if
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Gavin White was diagnosed with Parkinson’s in 2002.
Former starting fullback not on team, remains a student.
Wyatt Benson, a former starting fullback for the Owls, was put in an Accelerated Rehabilitation Disposition program at a hearing for assault charges in Philadelphia Municipal Court on Wednesday, Nov. 14. Benson’s case is the latest court decision handed down in four separate cases involving university football players. All but one, starting defensive tackle Kamal Johnson, have been dismissed from the team. Benson, 21, was arrested after an incident at a party at the University of Pennsylvania in April. The state initially charged Benson with aggravated assault, but eventually dismissed that charge and ordered him to community and other penalties on a charge of simple assault.
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Longtime coach charges through toughest battle yet
Benson gets service time for assault EDWARD BARRENECHEA JOHN MORITZ The Temple News
second year medical student at Temple and vice president of Temple’s Global Medical Brigade. “We hope she looked back at the journal to know how we all felt.” Students and faculty at Temple University Hospital expressed shock and sorrow after learning Durocher was stabbed to death on Wednesday, Nov. 13, in what has been ruled an attempted double murder on a mother and daughter. According to police, Durocher, 50, the associate chief nursing officer of operations at Temple University Hospital, and her daughter, Kristen Durocher, 22, were found inside their Merchantville, N.J. home
DANIELLE NELSON The Temple News A LION, A TRIP AND A PHOTO Junior Kelsey Dubinsky entered her shot of an African lion in a photo contest. PAGE 17 | COURTESY KELSEY DUBINSKY
Administrative transition continues under Theobald University posts top cabinet position on Web. SEAN CARLIN The Temple News After concluding the search for four vacant dean positions with the appointment of Laura Siminoff last week as dean of the College of Health Professions and Social Work, the university is turning to another search – this one within the president’s cabinet. The university posted a job opening earlier this month for vice president of Institutional Advancement on the Chronicle
of Higher Education’s website. The position is currently held by the interim senior vice president for Institutional Advancement Tilghman Moyer. Moyer said in an interview in August that he was told by the president that he is expected to be a candidate for the position. “My goal is that I will be here a long time,” Moyer said. The university is employing the search firm Witt/Kieffer – the same firm used by the Board of Trustees’ presidential
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Before the start of each 6 a.m. crew practice, coach Gavin White tunes the car stereo to 93.7 WSTW, where he and members of the team hear artists like Pink, Rihanna, Maroon 5 and Miley Cyrus. “I really like this station,” White said. “They have a short playlist but I like it. It’s a good pre-race station. Last week, I said to the guys, ‘I don’t know what you listen to on the radio now.’ All they listen to is garbage. One guy got smart and Coach Gavin White looks toward his team during an earlysaid, ‘Coach, you like Christ- morning November practice. | JACOB COLON TTN mas music?’ I said, ‘Yeah, I like Christmas music.’ Then they that he has Parkinson’s dis“They put electrodes in my started singing ‘White Christ- ease – a brain disorder that af- brain,” White said. “I have a fects a person’s ability to move, box in my chest, like an electric mas.’” White, who is one of the with tremors being the most programmer that sends electric most decorated coaches in Tem- noted symptom. voltages and dopamine to my But White didn’t stop brain.” ple history, has been running the crew program for more than coaching. “My body is breaking In June 2010, White un- down,” White added. “My three decades. In 2002, however, a medical diagnosis would derwent deep brain stimulation hands shake, my handwriting is surgery to treat irregular brain terrible, it’s all scribbles. Taking change his life. Doctors informed White activity.
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NEWS - PAGES 2-3, 6
LIVING - PAGES 7-8, 16-18
Tyler students assist L.A. artist
Program teaches about horticulure
Police have not filed charges in their investigation of a drug lab in an off-campus apartment. PAGE 2
Katie Grinnan, an L.A.- based artist, came to Tyler for a residency this semster and enlisted students to help finalize a sculpture. PAGE 7
“We the Weeds” aims to teach the city’s youth about urban and rural plant life. PAGE 9
No arrest in MDMA bust
OPINION - PAGES 4-5 Improving campus rape reporting
ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT - PAGES 9-15
SPORTS - PAGES 19-22
Owls blow late lead, fall to UCF