Victim of alleged hate crime on campus testifies in court

By Morgan A. Zalot | The Temple News
Four students will go to trial for their role in an anti-Semitic hate crime on Main Campus in February, a judge ruled during a preliminary hearing this morning.
    David Scott, 20, Stephen Scott, 19, Bryan Pedreiro, 18, and Michael Walsh, 19, all Temple students, still face charges of [...]

E-mail scam hits TUmail

By Morgan A. Zalot | The Temple News
An e-mail scam hit Temple April 23, when a hacker gained access to a TUmail account and sent mass e-mails requesting that users reply with their username, password and date of birth.
“You should never give out your personal information in an e-mail,” said chief information security officer Ken [...]

Former grad student sues university

By Morgan A. Zalot | The Temple News
A lawsuit filed by a former graduate student has Temple in the midst of a legal battle over students’ First Amendment rights.
On April 10, in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit, Temple appealed a March 2007 ruling that the university’s old sexual harassment policy was [...]

Police Commissioner Charles Ramsey speaks to a crowded class at Penn

By Morgan A. Zalot | The Temple News
Police Commissioner Charles Ramsey took the floor at a University of Pennsylvania class Thursday afternoon and addressed a room packed with students about the media’s role in public safety.
After a five-minute introduction of himself and his work, the commissioner, who is nearing the four-month mark in his position, [...]

Police react to SEPTA violence

By Morgan A. Zalot | The Temple News
Riders are on edge due to the recent string of random subway concourse attacks, but many Temple students who rely on SEPTA for transportation remain unfazed.
“I’m not any more nervous than I was before,” said Eric Weis, 36, a junior history major. “Philadelphia is a dangerous city sometimes, [...]

Ralph Nader ’08 takes Philadelphia by storm

By Morgan A. Zalot | The Temple News
In his fifth run for president, public interest activist Ralph Nader spoke at the Constitution Center about the current state of politics.
“One of these days, the American people will say enough is enough,” he said
Nader called the neck-and-neck campaigns between Sens. Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama as [...]