Entries Tagged as 'TTN History'

Monday, March 3rd, 2008

Remember the Palestra?

With yesterday’s enormous victory over St. Joseph’s at the most hallowed of collegiate basketball halls, the Palestra, it got me thinking. Do any of you remember past Palestra days!? Yesterday was a triumph, but the Owls have seen plenty of heartbreak. Was anyone there in 1998 when then-No. 6 Temple, who eventually lost in the [...]

Tuesday, February 26th, 2008

The Temple News loves Creed!

Remember Creed? Of course you do. Well, in 1998, while Creed was at its peak, the band came to Philadelphia and TTN was there, with a review, interview and plenty of love. Rock it out, my friend. Yes you read that headline right, ‘Creed continues to rise!’ That’s a byline for Michael Christopher, then Managing [...]

Thursday, February 14th, 2008

Photographs, calling all photographs

Another email from a former TTN staffer has brought up another issue we need to address.Photographs!We’ve done a poor job in the past of holding onto staff photographs. Believe me, we have hundreds of pictures taken of campus, administrators and news stories (thank you staffs of the 1990s for leaving us boxes and boxes to [...]

Wednesday, February 13th, 2008

What do you miss most?

           The opening day of this alumni blog brought a whole lot of traffic to this site and more than ten new emails to my address book. Something that Andrew Goldstein, Class of 1999 and former Editor in Chief, mentioned got me thinking. Goldstein, who is now a New York City-based television writer, wrote me a quick note [...]

Saturday, December 8th, 2007

Winter Break

Well, it is finals week here at Temple University. What that means is production has finished. The semester’s last printed edition of The Temple News came out last Tuesday. Still, there is plenty of newsroom activity, as staff members are applying for internships, scholarships and several collegiate journalism competitions. What is more, a couple staff [...]