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A Day in the Life: Sodexo Employees

They swipe us into the Johnson & Hardwick cafeteria, roll sushi at the Student Center and help people decide what to eat in the Morgan Hall cafeteria. These people are Sodexo employees, who sometimes serve as nutritional lifelines at Temple,…

Sorority Spotlight: Alpha Xi Delta

In the spring of 2014, Temple welcomed Alpha Xi Delta to its campus. Alpha Xi Delta is a sorority founded on the principles of sisterhood, leadership, knowledge and service to the community in 1893 at Lombard College in Galesburg, Illinois.…

Free Food Fun Fridays

WELCOME TO THE STUDENT CENTER- Temple kicks off every weekend with four Fs Owls love to hear: Free Food and Fun Friday. In addition to being a great example of alliteration, Free Food and Fun Friday is an event held…

HootaThon 2015

HootaThon is a student organization at Temple that raises funds for CHOP, the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia. Each year, hundreds of Temple students, faculty, alumni and CHOP patients come together for multiple fundraising events, ending with an incredible 12-hour dance…

The Most Obscure Classes

YOU HAVEN’T HEARD OF- With a campus as active, diverse and dynamic as Temple’s, one could only expect an equally interesting range of classes –– and Temple sure does deliver. A student can expect to be both surprised and challenged…

Fallen Buildings

CONSTRUCTION TO IMPROVE CAMPUS CONTINUES – “Barton Hall, you’ve been good to Temple and CST. Now it’s time to say goodbye.” Sounds morbid, doesn’t it? That’s what Temple’s College of Science and Technology posted on Facebook on Tuesday, September 22,…

74 Years in the Making

TEMPLE DEFEATS PENN STATE The highly anticipated day had finally arrived: Temple’s football team was about to face its biggest rival in the first game of the season. Fans, students, faculty and alumni gathered at Lincoln Financial Field on September…

Recruiting All Around the World

VOLLEYBALL TEAM WORLDWIDE, YEAR-ROUND Temple volleyball has one of the most diverse rosters in terms of hometowns of all the athletic teams at Temple. Eight of the 16 players come from outside the state of Pennsylvania, and four more come…

Politics on Campus

ELEPHANT AND DONKEY OWLS MAKE THEIR VOICES HEARD ON CAMPUS Temple’s student body and faculty represent 150 countries and all 50 states, so it comes as no surprise that campus embodies many varying political ideologies. With the 2016 election drawing…

Temple Performing Arts Center

SETTING THE STAGE FOR PHILLY’S ART COMMUNITY The Temple Performing Arts Center (TPAC) is not only open to the arts community all around Philadelphia, but also serves as Temple’s overall performing center, encompassing diversity, inclusivity and creativity. Many prominent people…