The Temple News dishes out its annual edition of the Lunchies Awards (4 page insert)
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TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 24, 2013
VOL. 92 ISS. 5
New budget will reverse cash flow Decentralization encourages entrepreneurship at schools & colleges. SEAN CARLIN The Temple News
W The football team has made attendance strides in recent years, but still lags behind conference rivals. | HUA ZONG TTN
Admins., trustees donate to Clarke
$5,000 was given to the Council president’s 2011 relelection campaign. JOHN MORITZ News Editor Philadelphia City Council President Darrell Clarke, whose Fifth District includes Main Campus and the surrounding student neighborhood, was supported in his most recent election campaign by a number of Temple administrators, trustees and high-profile donors. Clarke, a democrat, had his most recent campaign in 2011, when he ran unopposed for reelection. According to records provided by Axis Philly, a nonprofit newsgathering service, those in high-ranking positions at Temple gave $5,000 to Clarke. Ken Lawrence, the senior vice president of government, community and public affairs, who through his position serves as the chief lobbyist for the university, gave a total of $1,000 in three payments registered in Plymouth Township, Montgomery County. “My political contributions are made using my personal money and by my personal choice,” Lawrence said in an email. “I support elected officials who I feel are effective, committed and good public servants. Councilman Clarke is one of many elected officials who I support.” Beverly Coleman, the assistant vice president of community relations and economic development gave $250 from the city’s Fifth Ward.
CLARKE PAGE 3
New conference, empty seats No specific plans to improve non-revenue facilities, officials say. AVERY MAEHRER Sports Editor Pat Kraft has trouble sleeping some nights. Hired as deputy athletic director in May, Kraft was brought in with a specific task: to engage the Temple fan base. “I want our student body to be the loudest and most recognized in all of the country,” Kraft said. “I want to put Penn State’s student body to shame. I’ve seen it and it is so awesome, and so special. That’s what keeps me up.” Despite the football team experiencing a steady rise in attendance during the past five seasons, when compared to other schools in the
conference, the Owls remain at the bottom of the pack. Four weeks into the season and through two home games, Temple has the second lowest attendance in The American with an average of 23,688. The only university with less average spectators so far is Southern Methodist, which has an enrollment nearly four times smaller than Temple. Volleyball ranks last in the conference, with an average attendance of 225. The soccer teams have struggled the most, averaging a combined 181, the lowest in The American by far. Field hockey is the one bright spot of the non-revenue sports with an average attendance of 530, the best in the Big East Conference.
ministrators say will spur that same pioneering and resourceful sense throughout the university’s 18 schools and colleges. Throughout the academic year, officials will be holding training seminars helping academic units learn about a system that reverses the way revenue is distributed in the university.
hen Anthony Wagner visited OLD VS. NEW Under the current budget Indiana Univermodel, revenue comes into the sity last year to university and, for the most part, learn about its budget model, he flows into the central adminisnoticed a common trait that runs tration, which then distributes at both Temple and the Bloomthe money throughout the uniington, Ind., campus. versity. It wasn’t excitement about To improve a basketball team that Budget Breakdown efficiency, adwas ranked in the top A look at decentralization. ministrators had 10 in the country at the been considering time: It was an ambia decentralized model for the tious and enterprising enthusipast several years. Last year, a asm that enveloped the universi12-member steering committy, in part because of its version tee consisting of financial offiof a decentralized budget. cers, faculty, administrators and There’s this “entrepreneurdeans was put together to exial spirit that runs through the plore how a decentralized model entire university,” the former executive vice president, chief would fit at Temple. In a nutshell, decentralized financial officer and treasurer budgeting reverses the current said after returning from Indimodel. Instead of money going ana. directly to the central adminisStarting on July 1, 2014, a tration, revenue goes straight to version of that model is going live at Temple, something adBUDGET PAGE 3
ATTENDANCE PAGE 22
Historic LGBT bookstore looks for new owner The fate of Giovanni’s Room is uncertain. LUIS FERNANDO RODRIGUEZ The Temple News
SOURCE: The American Athletic Conference
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Ed Hermance isn’t sure what will become of Giovanni’s Room once it’s sold, but he is sure of one thing – he’s ready to move on.
The voices of Philadelphia’s youth Local high school students hold weekly meetings on Main Campus. BRIAN TOM The Temple News Recent education budget cuts in the Philadelphia School District left many high schools without counselors, administrators and civics courses. Despite this challenge, and numerous challenges that today’s youth faces within the local Philadelphia area, Temple Voices provides a supplemental learning environment that youth
Temple Voices offers Philadelphia’s high school students a program to learn leadership. | ERIC DAO TTN wouldn’t normally receive given those circumstances. Temple Voices was created in 2001 by the University Community Collaborative. It
sought to build the individual and power of youth through collaborative research, education and relationship building with community partners, nonprofit
organizations and government agencies. The UCC allocates nearly 90 percent of its funding and efforts to supporting programs to encourage the disengaged youth to remain active within the community. Temple Voices has become the centerpiece of UCC’s efforts in this goal. Today, Temple Voices utilizes social media and technology to send its messages to communities in the hopes of implementing positive social change. “When I first came here, I was really amazed by the intelligence and the genuineness of their [Temple Voices students’]
VOICES PAGE 19
NEWS - PAGES 2-3, 6
LIVING - PAGES 7-8, 17, 19-20
Staff appreciates tech managager
Charity a part of DIY music scene
The Board of Trustees’ student affairs committee held its fall meeting on alumni and student fundraising. PAGE 2
Cyril Ireland, a tech support manager in Anderson, is a force for positivity in the building, staff members said. PAGE 7
Churches and other charitable venues have a symbiotic relationship with Philly music scene. PAGE 9
BOT meets on student giving
OPINION - PAGES 4-5 NFL hands down new bag policy
ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT - PAGES 9-14
Boyer College of Music and Dance Conwell Dance Theater
Giovanni’s Room, a gay bookstore located at 345 S. 12th St., isn’t necessarily closing its doors for good, but owner Hermance has given himself the deadline of the second weekend in January to find a new owner for the Gayborhood staple. “I need to sell the store because we are now losing money and I can’t afford to lose money,” Hermance said. “I’m hoping we can find a buyer who has the resources to change the store in ways that will make it profitable again. That person has to have the financial resources and
GIOVANNI’S PAGE 11
Ed Herman, owner. | LUIS FERNANDO RODRIGUEZ TTN
SPORTS - PAGES 21-24
Volleyball hosts tournament