SPORTS
May 3, 2013 | Daily News Wire Reports
TEMPLE UNIVERSITY has asked a Canadian high school to stop using an owl mascot that looks very much like its own. Temple officials said Thursday that the school in Kelowna, British Columbia, has agreed to change its symbol. The Kelowna Daily Courier reported that the local high school's scowling bird was virtually identical to Temple's Hooter the Owl. Kelowna Secondary School began using the symbol in 2002, after Temple had trademarked its image. It's not clear how the mascots ended up looking alike.
SPORTS
May 3, 2013 | The Inquirer Staff
The University of the Sciences defeated Philadelphia University, 4-3, after falling to Georgian Court, 5-0, Thursday in the Central Atlantic Collegiate Conference softball tournament at Georgian Court in Lakewood, N.J. In the Philadelphia U. game, Haley Kavelak's walk-off single capped the Devils' comeback from a 3-0 deficit. Courtney Spina (Garnet Valley) became the Devils' all-time leader for strikeouts with 334. Jackie Keifer (Archbishop Prendergast) hit her first collegiate home run in the second inning, a two-run shot.
NEWS
May 1, 2013
Philadelphia University honored Nicole Miller with the Spirit of Design Award at its annual student fashion show Saturday. The shy designer with two local boutiques was lauded for her easy-to-wear silhouettes that range from office-appropriate to super-sexy, as well as for her fabric innovation. Miller is a pioneer in working with stretch metallics and body-camouflaging fabrics. (No wonder her body-skimming ruched pencil skirts and evening gowns actually allow for breathing.) Other innovations were on display as designers sent a cadre of wearable looks down the runway.
NEWS
April 25, 2013
Wakefern Food Corp., the cooperative that supplies ShopRite stores in Pennsylvania, New Jersey, and elsewhere, donated $1 million to the Academy of Food Marketing at St. Joseph's University in Philadelphia, Wakefern said. The money will be used to pay for scholarships and educational costs for 540 undergraduates in the food marketing program, which is one of four such undergraduate programs in the United States, Wakefern said. Wakefern, which is based in Keasbey, N.J., raised the money through ShopRite stores and vendors.
NEWS
April 24, 2013
Those Who Made the Cut The number of students local universities have admitted off their wait lists over the last five years. Not all the admitted students chose to enroll. University of Pennsylvania 2012 . . . 87 2011 . . . 56 2010 . . . 55 2009 . . . 98 2008 . . . 174 Princeton 2012 . . . zero 2011 . . . 19 2010 . . . 164 2009 . . . 60 2008 . . . 148 Swarthmore 2012 . . . 8 2011 . . . 10 2010 . . . 7 2009 . . . 12 2008 . . . 34 Haverford 2012 . . . 3 2011 . . . 0 2010 . . . 1 2009 . . . 13 2008 . . . 3 University of Delaware 2012 . . . 640 2011 . . . 285 2010 . . . 591 2009 . . . 196 2008 . . . 288 Bucknell University 2012 . . . 3 2011 . . . 19 2010 . . . 79 2009 . . . 23 2008 . . . 9 Villanova 2012 . . . 598 2011 . . . 206 2010 . . . 675 2009 . . . 71 2008 . . . 202
NEWS
April 24, 2013
HERE ARE SOME highlights of what local universities are doing for schools in their neighborhoods: Temple University: * The College of Education has a partnership with Dunbar Elementary School. Each semester, six to 10 interns in counseling, psychology and teaching are placed at the school. La Salle University: * The Writing Matters program is offered to seven district schools and one Catholic school. * Books have been given to Logan Elementary School.
NEWS
April 23, 2013 | BY JOHN F. MORRISON, Daily News Staff Writer morrisj@phillynews.com, 215-854-5573
GROWING UP IN Philadelphia during the Great Depression, Robert Perloff knew what it was like to hustle for a buck. He peddled newspapers, worked as a soda jerk and movie usher and took other menial jobs to help his family get through the desperate financial times. When he was 12, his father, Meyer Perloff, committed suicide. It was a wrenching loss that he later described in a touching newspaper essay after he had become a distinguished professor of business administration and psychology at the University of Pittsburgh.
NEWS
April 19, 2013 | By Jonathan Lai, Inquirer Staff Writer
Francis L. Lawrence, 75, who served as president of Rutgers University from 1990 to 2002, died Tuesday, April 16, in his Mount Laurel home, the university said Wednesday. A cause of death was not disclosed. Dr. Lawrence oversaw a period of sweeping changes at the state's flagship public university, including the implementation of the school's first long-term strategic plan, "A New Vision for Excellence," and the establishment of more than 50 new undergraduate and graduate degree programs and more than 45 research centers and institutes, the school said.
NEWS
April 19, 2013 | BY MORGAN ZALOT, Daily News Staff Writer zalotm@phillynews.com, 215-854-5928
UPDATED: The young woman who fell to her death from a rooftop booze party near Temple University was a Lancaster native and West Chester University student. Ali Fausnaught, 19, was socializing with friends on the roof of a house on 18th Street near Arlington about 5 p.m. when she somehow fell over a 10-inch ledge on the roof and plummeted nearly 40 feet onto the concrete in a narrow alley between buildings. She died at Temple University Hospital at 5:51 p.m. Dr. Matthew J. Bricketto, West Chester University's vice president for student affairs, released this statement today: "We were very saddened to learn last evening that one of our students, Ms. Ali Fausnaught, was tragically killed after an accidental fall from a third-story roof top while visiting friends at Temple University.
NEWS
April 16, 2013 | BY JOHN F. MORRISON, Daily News Staff Writer morrisj@phillynews.com, 215-854-5573
JEFFREY DEITCH majored in psychology, but eventually became more fascinated by what goes on inside the brain than its emotional reactions. He was intrigued by the "miracle of this extraordinarily well-oiled machine - our brains," said his son, Caleb Deitch. This fascination led him to the main thrust of his scientific work, the study of the crippling disease amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), commonly known as Lou Gehrig's disease, and the search for a cause and cure. "He found his life's professional path and passion," his son said.