NEWS
TUESDAY, MARCH 20, 2012
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Design for library granted $17.5 million LIBRARY PAGE 1 issue, when I’m in the library, “There’s some things we’d trying to just focus by myself love to do here. But now with when I’m on the third floor with the new building on the horizon, people bringing really aromatic we don’t want to put resources food up there.” into expensive changes here Fellow SLAB member Gathat…they’d have to change brielle Nichols does not mind everything again somewhere the smells when “you need endown the road,” Bell said. ergy to keep studying.” A common complaint from “There’s obviously been students is the layout of Paley’s want for more computers, more stacks. wireless printers, spaced out Zack Groff, Temple Stu- different, more study rooms, dent Government director of the the issues of quiet sections verAcademic Affairs committee, is sus group sections,” Nichols, a member of the TSG director the Student of the University Library AdviPride and Tradisory Board. tions committee “Overall, said. “Hopefully, we all kind with a new liof agreed that brary, we’ll be it would be able to create a a good idea set-up that makes to bring in distinctions and a consultant makes everyone Margaret Carney / with specific university architect have a happier knowledge on study space.” those kinds Nichols said of things,” he she does most of said. “Not a marketing person, her studying in Paley, and uses but, a graphic design person or the facility “daily, if not more.” someone who specializes in in“Actually, I calculated one terior design.” time and I spent more time in He said some issues in the library than in my apartPaley, like noise levels in study ment,” she added. areas, are things that students Nichols jokingly referred to can most effectively address herself as a member of “Team themselves. Paley” versus “Team TECH.” “I don’t think that the so“We have resources in this lution is hiring more security university where we could get personnel [to control noise]…I help at low cost, or even totalthink that students are able to ly for free, just to discuss, you be a little bit more proactive,” know, ‘What would make more Groff said. “Everyone has dif- sense to the common student?’” ferent ideas of what a public Groff said. space is. I have taken more of an Bell and Lang said the new
“The vision is going to be kind of brought to life during the design phase.”
Courtesy Temple University
A conceptual drawing from Temple’s 20/20 plan illustrates what the “signature” library building on Broad Street could look like. The design for the building was granted a $17.5 million budget at the Board of Trustees meeting on March 12. There is not yet a completion date for the project. library will need to balance students’ needs for books and other print media, as well as increasing supplies of electronic and online content. Carney said Temple has given the Department of General Services a set of requirements for the building, including approximately 300,000 square feet of space for programs and general use. “The requirements we’ve given them are very preliminary,” Carney said. The new library is set to be located at Broad and Berks
streets, where the Student Pavilion and a parking lot currently sit. The pavilion is to be removed after the completion of the renovated Pearson and McGonigle halls. “That kind of a site would only be given to a very important building,” Carney said, calling the move a big “statement.” Groff and Nichols were each surprised at the decision to move the new library away from the center of Main Campus, considering, as Groff pointed out, the majority of academic
buildings used by undergraduate students are not on Broad Street. “From my understanding of the 20/20 vision…there is a lot of undeveloped land the university already owns that they want to build up, rather than expand,” Groff said. All books will be taken from Paley and the building will be repurposed for other uses. “We don’t have specific answers to what will the building will look like or what features will it have,” Lang said. “That vision is going to be kind of
brought to life during the design phase, and we do know that a cross-section of campus will be involved in those discussions.” Temple presently has no completion date for the new library. Amelia Brust can be reached at abrust@temple.edu.
Tickets begin campaigns as administrators answer questions TSG PAGE 1
TIMOTHY VALSHTEIN TTN
Temple Advocating for Progress (top) and Run Temple (bottom) announced their campaigns to the General Assembly.
with making sure that students know how to go about finding it.” As of midnight, March 20, the teams were able to launch their campaign websites and begin using their social media pages to promote their platforms. TSG Elections Commissioner Shanee Satchell said teams are prohibited from using Temple trademarks on their sites or social networking pages, as it pertains to TSG elections. Satchell added that teams are prohibited from using “@ temple.edu” emails for campaign purposes and said teams should post links to voting pages through their campaign sites. “They should mention TSG more so than the university,” Satchell said. The first debate for executive candidates will be on March 26, with a second, more informal debate on April 2. Elections for the candidates will take place April 3 and 4. Nominations for General Assembly directors will be announced on April 9, followed by nominees’ speeches and voting on April 16.
TSG hosted guest speak- “great response rate.” ers Richard M. Englert, provost “When you participate in and senior vice president for these kinds of surveys, we really academic affairs, and Ken Law- do listen,” Englert said. rence, senior vice president for Englert said Peter Jones, segovernment, nior vice provost community of undergraduate and public afstudies, has yet fairs at the to begin analyzGeneral Asing the survey sembly meetresults. ing. Starting this W h i l e summer, the uniLawrence reversity will post minded the asinstructor evalusembly about ation forms for Cherry and students online White Day rather than hand on March 27 out paper copies in Harrisburg David Lopez / in class, Englert student body said. and Englert presidential candidate spoke primarHe said that ily about the between paper university’s restructuring pro- and digital student surveys, posals, as well as results of the “generally the results are about general education student sur- the same.” vey conducted in January. The General Assembly The survey, created in part asked Englert questions reby Zack Groff, TSG director of garding evaluations and other academic affairs, was sent to restructuring measures by the 4,000 students, asking for feed- university. back on the program’s perforAri Jones, a sophomore mance. Englert said about 800 neuroscience major, asked Enresponded, which he called a glert how students could have
“Our university has a problem with making sure that students know how to go about finding [opportunities].”
more representation in administrative decisions, citing TSG Student Body President Colin Saltry’s presence as the sole student on the Presidential Search Committee. “Work through student affairs, looking for those opportunities that you think are important to participate in…I hear all the time from Dr. [Stephanie] Ives and Dr. [Theresa] Powell about ‘we need students,’” Englert said. Hamer, a junior broadcast, telecommunications and mass media major, asked Englert about rumored plans to separate the School of Communications and Theater into separate schools and colleges. “The programs stay the same,” if the proposals are undertaken, Englert said. “Faculty the same, degrees the same, courses the same. The question is how to best organize at the higher levels, which are the school and college levels.” Amelia Brust can be reached at abrust@temple.edu.
Political organizations split on voter-identity bill VOTER PAGE 1 effort in combating forms of voter fraud involving the impersonation of voters. “I support voter [identification] just because you should be who you say you are whenever you’re going to the polls to vote,” Erik Jacobs, junior political science major and president of the Temple University College Republicans, said. “We have to show our identification to drive a vehicle, to buy liquor, to buy cigarettes, to open a bank account, to cash a check, to use a credit card, there’s no logical reason, in my opinion, why
you shouldn’t have to show one when you vote.” “If we truly are one person and one vote, then we should make sure that the person who’s voting is actually the person they claim to be,” Jacobs added. The bill, while lauded by conservatives, has been criticized by many people across the city who have said that its claims of voter fraud are unfounded. Dylan Morpurgo, membership director for the Temple College Democrats, said the risk of getting caught is enough
to deter most people from im- law is baseless, proponents of personating oththe bill claim ers. that voter “Voter imfraud is not alpersonation is a ways obvious. federal crime that “I think carries a penalty that their of up to five years claims are just in prison,” Mornot based in purgo, a sophofacts,” Jacobs more political said. “There’s science major, voter fraud goErik Jacobs / ing on everysaid. “It’s a crime president, temple university that’s not worth college republicans where. A lot of it. It doesn’t hapvoter fraud is pen.” not documentThough Morpurgo said the able because what happens is,
“You should be who you say you are whenever you’re going to the polls to vote.”
let’s say that I’m Erik, but I want to go to the polls to vote for Joe Smith, I show up, I claim that I’m Joe Smith, I get Joe Smith’s information, and I vote on behalf of Joe. That show’s up as a legitimate vote, but it’s actually voter fraud and there’s no way to document it.” While the bill has generated debate over voter fraud, Morpurgo said the bill largely affects college students. “Overall the bill disenfranchises thousands of voters,” Morpurgo said. “The requirements are that you have to have
a picture, you have to have a name…and an expiration date. Temple IDs don’t have expiration dates. Hundreds of universities don’t have expiration dates.” Morpurgo added that TCD will be asking Temple to add expiration dates to current university identification cards. Sean Carlin can be reached at sean.carlin@temple.edu.