I have been cleaning, organizing and scanning many of the 86-years of archives of The Temple News, the college newspaper for which I work, and every once in a while you come across a gem. Remember Creed? Of course you do. Well, in 1998, while Creed was at its peak, the band came to Philadelphia [...]

The winners of the Keystone Press Awards for 2007 were announced recently, both professional, academic and collegiate levels. The prizes are awarded by the Pennsylvania Newspaper Association. I will be sharing first place in the personality profile category with Tyson McCloud for a feature we wrote for The Temple News on a Temple University alumni [...]

By Christopher Wink | Feb. 5, 2008 | The Temple News She was young and energetic and fun. And then she was dead. Ejected through a windshield and pronounced dead on the pavement of the Benjamin Franklin Bridge, amid broken glass and unlived expectations. It is so rare that we are affected by what we [...]

By Christopher Wink | Feb. 5, 2008 | The Temple News She was young and energetic and fun. And then she was dead. Ejected through a windshield and pronounced dead on the pavement of the Benjamin Franklin Bridge, amid broken glass and unlived expectations. It is so rare that we are affected by what we [...]

By Christopher Wink | Jan. 22, 2008 | The Temple News Bruce Stronach was named the next dean of Temple University-Japan on Jan. 10, to replace the retiring dean, Kirk R. Patterson. Stronach will officially join TUJ on Feb. 1 but will not assume the role of dean until April 1. An interim dean has [...]

By Christopher Wink | Sept. 25, 2007 | The Temple News In June 1968, two months after his death, the Francisville community of North Philadelphia named what they boast to be the world’s first monument for Martin Luther King, Jr. In June 1968, Fred Sneed, who now works for Temple University’s facilities management, was a [...]

By Christopher Wink | Oct. 16, 2007 | The Temple News Marvis Frazier has always had to live up to expectations. He was the boxing son of a boxing legend. Names carry a lot of weight. Sometimes even enough to crush a heavyweight boxer with big hands and big plans. It might have been nothing [...]

By Christopher Wink | Nov. 27, 2007 | The Temple News Matthew J. Wilson thought it was strange that Ann Weaver Hart was born and raised in Salt Lake City when he first heard nearly two years ago that she was a top candidate to become Temple University’s ninth president. Wilson, 37, the associate dean [...]

By Christopher Wink | Dec. 4, 2007 | The Temple News Kirk Patterson wants to sail the world. The current dean of Temple University Japan, who announced his retirement at a campus-wide meeting on Aug. 27, is looking beyond his departure at the end of this month. It was a dream of his from a [...]