You must totally think Room 243 has died.

No, don’t worry. I assure you it hasn’t.  We are simply shuffling things around here at the end of the year and make lots of changes, to staff, to the office and to our online product.

We are printing one last print edition – a summer edition – to come out on Tuesday and by then, Room 243 will have a more permanent reality, and you’ll finally have a constant source for news of The Temple News.

Photo credit. 

I’ll happily post 7 sites that I think are doing good things online without ranking them. Here ya go:

Connect2Mason

InsideVandy

SFSU Xpress

UNC Daily Tar Heel

Temple News

Nevada Sagebrush

Kent State NewsNet

In a continued pursuit of finding all the great people that came out of The Temple News, the word has come in that a Neal Ungerleider, Class of 2005 and former Opinion Editor, is one of our own.

He’s written for Slate and Wired, in addition to a slew of popular blogs, including Media Bistro, Gridskipper, and, though he kicks it on the New York City scene mostly, he’s editor of Philadelphia’s MenuPages, which offers listings on food places in the region. Ungerleider just finished an eight month stint editing FishbowlNY for Mediabistro.com.

He still freelances.

He shared some thoughts about what he misses most.

Let’s see… memories of the Temple News: Those lovable broken down ol’ Macs in the editorial room, amazingly crowded editorial meetings with the photogs sitting on the fold-out tables, late runs to the Anderson pads or the SAC cafeteria for pre-deadline protein and hanging out with… the rest of the TN crew during my time there…

Oh, and for any inquiring minds who might Google him, “Neil Ungerleider” at WCVB in Boston a distant relative of our Neal. Seriously, it’s reported here first.

Well, more news on Silva. He is quickly becoming a cornerstone of Motor City basketball coverage. Today, he has a special on ESPN.com. See it here.

But the simple fact that the Pistons dropped their playoff opener gave reason to question their mind-set, which has cost them in the past. As talented and successful as the Pistons have been, you still don’t know what you’ll get from them on a given night.

Congratulations to him. Show him some love here.

Poster courtesy of Allposters.com. 

This is why photographers need cutlines. Sloppy student journalists.

This photographer is undated, without a cutline and even without the name of the photographer.

It is, undoubtedly, Geasy Field, at 15th and Diamond, or so I think. Those spot lights, late nights, friends, delusions of being able to play football.

Anyone have any intramural memories?

The Temple News has taken to annually partaking in the college’s softball league. Noncompetitive. Co-ed. We still lose.

Photographer Jen DePeppe took this man on the street for The Temple News in the 1990s, though it remains undated.

This Muti Sufi, then a junior international business manager, was asked “Do you think life exists on other planets or galaxies and what do you think it’s like?”

He responded thusly:

It probably does exists, but if it does, it may be the kind of life we don’t recognize or understand.

Anyone know Jen or even Muti?

One launched last month with Travis McCoy of Gym Class Heroes made its way onto Youtube, including the building process of their version of TSOP staple “Wake Up Everybody” Check it out, and holler at our man Daryl Hall, who left Temple in the 1960s.

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Watch the two and others jam on the Gym Class Heroes jawn “Queen and I” below.

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And, their best collaboration, a cover of the Animals hit “Don’t let me be misunderstood.”

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Check out Live From Daryl’s House here.

Quenching your thirst for photographs from The Temple News archives, here we are, an undated photograph that was left unorganized in a pile in the back of our morgue. We do know it was a Tuesday afternoon, though.

Photograph by Pete Bannan for The Temple News. Anyone know when he graduated or what he’s doing now?

His cutline reads that we’re looking at Rick Massott in the foreground and Rich Plata farther away on the scaffolding, both cracking some failing portions of Gladfelter Hall, one half of Temple’s noted academic skyscraper – its sister being Anderson Hall.

Massott and Plata were both of the Northeast and employees of P & R Masonry and Restoration, which still exists in Folcroft in Delaware County.

Note the Architecture and Engineering Building (the brick wall behind them) that still stands and looks just as it does then. Behind that is a parking lot, that now, of course, is grounds for the rapidly completing grounds of the Tyler School of Art, which is moving from Elkins Park. Still, it doesn’t help date the photograph much, considering that that was parking lot as recent as my first year at Temple, in 2004.

Any other notes?

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Shout out to Joby Warrick, Class of 1982 and former sports writer. The Pulitzer Prize-winner writers about intelligence for the Post.

Also, hat tip, as always, to Howard Owens for the video spot. 

Erica Palan, Class of 2007 and former Opinion writer, who is now Listings Editor at PW, wrote last week’s cover story on a Philly designer who is apparently making “vintage cool again.”

Check it here.

And for Erica, why not recall the last commentary piece she wrote for The Temple News, on the bullying of gay and lesbian adolescents.