Volume 92, Issue 11

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TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 5, 2013

VOL. 92 ISS. 11

University Local man looks to buy charged in local school robbery Officials said Temple has inquired to district about buying William Penn High. JOHN MORITZ News Editor Temple is interested in purchasing the property of the shuttered William Penn High School as part of a plan by the School District of Philadelphia to raise $61 million from abandoned properties to fund its financial shortfalls. Jim Creedon, senior vice president for construction, facilities and operations confirmed the university sent a letter inquiring about purchasing the Wooden Shoe Books and Records on South Street, which sells books, patches, zines and more, finds success despite an industry property, which sits on the corthat seems to fall with each new e-book released. | KARA MILSTEIN TTN ner of Broad and Master streets. The five-acre property has a 2014 certified market value of $32.5 million, according to city property assessment records. William Penn, a 475,000-square-foot building, The Wooden Shoe is a collective, which Shoe.” Independent bookstores find Generic calls “America’s bookstore.” “We’re not dying, that’s not the kind of was closed by the district in success despite a narrowing It’s been around since 1976, supported question you ask,” Michael Fox, the owner 2010 and its 641 students were by its volunteer base, selling anarchist and of Joseph Fox Bookshop on Sansom Street moved into surrounding schools. industry. Creedon denied the univerleft-wing literature. The Wooden Shoe may in Center City said. “We survive because sity is planning to use the propbe popular because of its uniqueness, or for we’re good. All kinds of people come into ANDREW GRIFFIN erty for an off-campus football other reasons, Generic said. our store – people who like good books.” The Temple News stadium, despite some specula“There’s not really anyone we have While the bookstores are confident in tion. The volunteers at Wooden Shoe Books to compete with because there’s not many their sales, BookScan reported that of each “I’m sure the football and Records stare from behind the counter bookstores left,” Generic said. “The only book sold on the market, only 250 copies speculation is hot and heavy,” as a middle-aged bald man in neat clothes bookstores that are still around in Philadel- are purchased each year and only 3,000 copCreedon said. “But whoever is and a teenager in a torn Guns N’ Roses T- phia are independent ones like the Wooden ies throughout the book’s lifetime. saying that is coming to a lot of It’s e-books that are taking over the shirt browse through Steinbeck, Tolstoy and conclusions.” market. BookStats reported that sales of ewritings from the radical left. Any future decisions rebooks rose approximately 44.2 percent last The crowd that usually fills South garding the property should it year. Street has not arrived yet and the cold Satbe sold to the university would Bigger retailers such as Barnes & urday morning occupies the empty space. be developed as part of VisualNoble are still in business, but Borders has “Our audience is pretty mixed because ize Temple, the university’s next since closed its doors. Barnes & Noble’s we are on South Street,” said James Genermild success could be attributed to its eic, who serves as one of the store’s clerks, PENN PAGE 6 book reader, the Nook. as he absentmindedly runs his hand over his Online and electronic books are where thick beard. “We get people who are already the student population often gets its literaradicals, but also a lot of people who are just ture rather than bookstores themselves. here for the day to check it out.” SOURCES: BookScan, BookStats, American

Burgeoning books, declining sales

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Booksellers Association

Higher ed for incarcerated persons A national program that enables education in prisons began at Temple. BRIAN TOM The Temple News When he was a child, Paul’s friends would call him crazy because of his lofty ideas – he would argue it was just their way of saying he had an overactive imagination. Never did he think that one day, one crazy idea would be the bellwether of a nationwide movement. Paul is serving a life sentence at the State Correctional Institution in Dallas, Pa. In 1997, he helped establish the Inside-Out program, an educational exchange organization

The office of Inside-Out, a program established in 1997 by Lori Pompa, a professor at Temple. | CLAIRE SASKO TTN that provides learning for college students inside prisons, involving incarcerated persons. It is one of the few programs in the country that offers postsecondary education to the incarcerated.

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Action taken from task force Several of the policies from President Hart’s 2012 community relations task force have been enacted. PAGE 2

BOT Profile: Nelson Diaz

Trustee Nelson Diaz said his unlikely path to a Temple degree has led him to unique policies on the board. PAGE 2 OPINION - PAGES 4-5

Why crime alerts need to change

The idea was sparked when he was invited to be a part of a panel to discuss issues with crime and punishment with criminal justice students from Temple in 1995. Inspired by the students’ enthusiasm and

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insight, he presented an idea to create a class comprised of incarcerated men and women and students. Paul approached Lori Pompa, an instructor at the time, and the two created what is now a national program and a growing global phenomena. “I could never have imagined doing anything like this in my life,” Pompa said. The program is unique because it’s the only one that brings college students and classes into the prison while simultaneously educating incarcerated men and women. Typically, learning in that setting is one-sided, focused on the educational opportunity for only the “outside” students, which is how the college students are known. “We bring classes

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JOHN MORITZ News Editor

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he hunt for a man police identified as the suspect in last week’s assault on an 81-yearold professor in his Anderson Hall office ended Thursday with the arrest of a man with several prior robbery convictions. Darryl Moon, 45, of the 3000 block of North Sydenham Street was arrested Thursday morning on the 1500 block of West Allegheny Avenue, shortly after Philadelphia Police published his name and photo in connection with the case. Moon, who is not affiliated with the university, has multiple prior convictions for robbery charges in Philadelphia dating back to 1989. Moon has been charged on nine counts for the incident at Anderson Hall, including aggravated assault, robbery while inflicting serious injury, trespassing and reckless endangerment. His bail was set at $500,000, and his preliminary hearing is scheduled for Nov. 15. Charlie Leone, acting executive director of Campus Safety Services, said police are still working to determine how the suspect gained access to the second-floor office in Anderson Hall, which is guarded by a security officer at the main entrance along Polett Walk.

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To lead in The American, Theobald chooses Clark National search cancelled with choice of interim athletic director. SEAN CARLIN The Temple News Six months after Kevin Clark was named interim athletic director, the university announced last week that the he has dropped the interim tag and was appointed vice president and athletic director. Clark came to Temple from Indiana University with President Theobald as his senior adviser. He was appointed the interim athletic director after former Athletic Director Bill Bradshaw announced his retirement earlier this year. When the university announced Bradshaw’s retirement in May, it indicated that Temple

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Donut truck fresh on the streets

Metric prides itself on DIY nature

Undrgrnd Donut uses Twitter to spread awareness among students when it appears on Main Campus each week. PAGE 16

Jimmy Shaw, guitarist of Metric, reflects on his 11year career with the band before its Nov. 8 show. PAGE 9

ProRanger Philadelphia

Nonprofit funds creativity

The university partnered with the National Park Service to establish a certification program for students of any major to become park rangers. PAGE 7

Elderly professor robbed, hit while sitting in his office in Anderson Hall.

The Awesome Foundation, a nonprofit that recently started a Philadelphia location, gives $1,000 to projects in need of a boost. PAGE 9

Kevin Clark. | TTN FILE PHOTO

would conduct a national search to fill the vacancy. However, Theobald said in an email that the university canceled the search because Clark proved capable of taking the job during his six months as the interim. “He is excellent at building consensus and I am impressed with his ability to master the details of big challenges. He

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Owls blow lead in loss to Rutgers

Men’s soccer finishes strong

Temple was picked to place last in The American, but earned the fourth seed in the conference tournament this weekend. PAGE 22


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