Volume 92, Issue 15

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temple-news.com

TUESDAY, JANUARY 21, 2013

VOL. 92 ISS. 15

The Fallen 7

CSS begins initial plans for security

TEMPLE ELIMINATES SEVEN SPORTS, DIVIDES COMMUNITY

Demand high for developers

Alarm systems will prevent students from holding open secondary entrances.

View at Montgomery complex sees quick sales of newest offcampus leases.

EDWARD BARRENECHEA The Temple News

JOHN MORITZ News Editor

As part of response initiative following an attack on a professor in Anderson Hall, Campus Safety Services has received funding approval for the first round of new building security implementations. Acting Executive Director of Campus Safety Services Charlie Leone said CSS and Temple Facilities Management are planning to initiate necessary measurements to prevent students from entering the academic buildings without security clearance. One example of the proposed security plan is to install delayed-egress alarms into the outside doorways in Anderson and Gladfelter halls. The technology makes it difficult for students to “piggyback” each other by forcing someone to push the door for a substantial amount of time until an alarm is activated, then the door can be opened. These types of alarms have been implemented in many department stores to reduce theft. These new initiatives were submitted by a capital expenditure request form and approved for $300,000. The second floor of both buildings can be accessed from the outside with minor resistance, and students have opened the door to other people waiting outside with the thought of being generous to their classmates. However, this sort of cordialness can weaken the safety net that the university is trying to uphold, Leone said. In late October, an 81-yearold Temple professor was assaulted in his office in Anderson Hall. Darryl Moon, 45, was arrested and charged with aggravated assault and robbery. It is unclear how the suspect entered the building. Plans to implement these tactics in other buildings will be discussed in the future, but Leone strongly emphasized that other security options will be considered. “We are not going to do a

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Student-athletes (top) were denied an opportunity to give public comment at a Board of Trustees meeting four days after the sports cuts were announced, but spoke to some administrators afterward. | HUA ZONG TTN

WHO?

WHY?

–­ The baseball, softball, men’s gymnastics, men’s crew, women’s rowing, men’s indoor and outdoor track & field teams. –More than 200 student-athletes affected. –Nine full-time coaches will lose their jobs. SPORTS - PAGES 20-24 Reaction from students and coaches from each affected sport.

After 70 combined years, game over for two legends

Fred Turoff looked down at a vacuum cleaner. It sat next to some boxes and a pair of crutches, in a room off the gymnastics team’s training gym in Pearson Hall. The gray two-toned wet/ dry vacuum was open and dirty. It had seen better days – but it was still functional. “This needs a new bag,” the men’s gymnastics coach said. “Let me see if there’s a janitor around that can get one.” The men’s gymnastics gym doesn’t have the modern, brandnew look of Edberg-Olsen Hall

Athletes jump ship

or the recently renovated areas of McGonigle Hall, but the team that has won 18 of the last 38 Eastern College Athletic Conference championships still

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A Temple football history Facing blame for sports cuts, the football team fights through a history of inadequacy to remain relevant in a new era of investment.

Junior Justin Berg transferred to Temple after his previous school cut its track team. PAGE 24

Coach Fred Turoff. | HUA

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Onward, the beaten path ‘It’s happening again’

ZONG TTN

QUESTIONS ABOUT TITLE IX The administration said Temple’s desire to be in compliance with Title IX was part of the reason for the cuts, but critics say Title IX compliance isn’t a legitimate excuse. PAGE 2

INSIDE

Temple lifers Gavin White and Fred Turoff say they won’t receive severance packages. EVAN CROSS Assistant Sports Editor

BUDGET ISSUES In the American Athletic Conference, Temple has the second smallest budget, but is tied for the highest number of sports sponsored. PAGE 2

In the first week of online leasing, the 14-story View at Montgomery apartment complex sold between 5 and 10 percent of available units, with more expected to go as students return to campus following winter break and begin to look for future housing, a spokesperson for the building said. The View is the latest in a string of private student housing developments that have begun sprouting up around Main Campus as more and more students begin to challenge Temple’s long-held reputation as a commuter school. With a rise in demand for off-campus housing, a battle has been created over available space to construct new residential buildings, several of which provide space for hundreds of students. Goldenberg Group, which purchased the property of the former John Wanamaker Middle School from the School District of Philadelphia in 2008 for $10.75 million, did so as part of a partnership with Bright Hope Baptist Church. That agreement has since been restructured, and future plans for the remaining 2.5 acres of undeveloped space on the property are undergoing continued reassessment. Kevin Trapper, a senior vice president at Goldenberg Group, declined to comment on the developer’s future plans for the property or its relationship with Bright Hope Baptist Church, and said he was focused on the current property in development. Representatives from Bright Hope Baptist Church did not respond to multiple requests to speak on the subject of their relationship with Goldenberg Group. Another nearby piece of real estate on sale by the school district, the vacant William Penn High School on North Broad Street, has attracted interest by the university and private developers. After announcing Temple’s interest in the property last fall,

Six players have left the baseball team ahead of its upcoming season this spring. PAGE 23

ONLINE – Students react Hear students’ opinions on the university’s decision to eliminate seven sports at temple-news.com/ multimedia.

JOEY CRANNEY Editor-in-Chief Sometime in the 1990s, for the honeymoon before his second marriage, Gavin White took a cruise around the world. He and his bride-to-be were on the water for 95 days. They headed south through the Panama Canal, up the West Coast and across the Pacific Ocean to Japan. They circled Australia, sailed through Indonesia and wound their way up to Southern Spain, before heading back across the Atlantic Ocean to New York. White loved that boat trip. It was the greatest experience of his life, he said. He speaks about it nostalgically, much like the way he discusses his 40-year career in Temple athletics. White, 88, served Temple as a football player, coach and athletic director from 1949-88 and is

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a member of the Temple Athletics Hall of Fame. He remembers a time when local rivalries dictated football schedules and the athletic department prided itself on the success of its Olympic sports. Last month, Temple announced it would be eliminating seven of those sports to cut costs. The baseball, softball, men’s gymnastics, men’s crew, women’s rowing and men’s indoor and outdoor track & field teams will lose their Division I sponsorship, effective July 1. White’s son, Gavin R. White, was among those affected. He will lose his job this summer after coaching crew for 34 seasons. When the older White learned of the university’s decision, he was floored. “It has nothing to do with my son. It has to do with tradition,” White said. “It’s a shame to give up on what’s good to be reaching out for stuff that

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