Talking Trash

Penn joins the city in cleaning up its act.
By Morgan A. Zalot | Philadelphia Weekly
The grassy stretch of University of Pennsylvania’s College Green provided the perfect locale for an epic amount of trash to be piled last Wednesday.
Every day thousands of students pass through the Green, hustling to classes, social events and dorms. Which is [...]

Love on the Rocks

An unassuming amateur paleontologist shuns the limelight.
By Morgan A. Zalot | Philadelphia Weekly
To anyone driving along scenic Pennsylvania Route 120, which winds through the north-central part of the state between Lock Haven and Ridgway, Red Hill looks like just another wall of rocks along the highway.
But to Academy of Natural Sciences paleontologist Dr. Ted Daeschler, [...]

TBS’s new comedy 10 Items or Less targets college audience

By Morgan A. Zalot | The Temple News
During the wayward days of his freshman year at Northwestern University in Chicago, John Lehr wouldn’t have imagined that someday he would become the star of his own television show.
“My freshman year was not great,” Lehr said. “I got busted smoking dope with my [resident assistant]. I was [...]