The learners who come through the doors of Temple University Center City, also known as TUCC, on any given day might be a working mother completing her MBA degree, an older adult taking noncredit classes about Buddhist philosophy, a 22-year-old getting their real estate license or a child nurturing their talent by taking piano lessons.This is TUCC, where people of all ages and
In the 1993 film Groundhog Day, Bill Murray’s character Phil gets stuck in a time loop, reliving the same day over and over again. Now, imagine if we could pull a Groundhog Day of our own, the option to repeat a certain day in Temple’s history. From record-breaking athletic upsets to iconic moments in history that took place on our own campus, Temple has had its fair share of
It’s 7 a.m. on the morning of May 26, 2021, and third-year law student Neilay Shah just finished his morning cup of coffee. In a few hours, Shah will appear before a panel of federal judges from the Third Circuit Court of Appeals, where he will challenge the decision to deport a man named Jay Wright to Trinidad and Tobago. Shah and Wright have only known each other for about
After months of anticipation, Joseph V. Labolito walked into the Charles Library on Nov. 13 for the grand opening of its fall exhibit. The exhibit explores decades of photographs that Labolito, a senior photographer at Temple University for the last 27 years, and fellow photographer Jim MacMillan shot during some of the most pivotal periods of Philadelphia’s history, and for
It was a fall day on Temple’s campus 75 years ago when Stanley Isenberg cleared his throat, leaned into the microphone and said, “Can you hear me?” Those were the first words ever broadcast by WRTI, the Temple-supported public radio station which bases its operations near the corner of Broad Street and Cecil B. Moore Avenue. Today, the beloved jazz and classical station is