When re-purposing technology tools as  solutions, the core problem and end user are often ignored and so little will be accomplished. Back in March, I was on a panel of judges for Temple University’s Center for Design and Innovation NorthBroadband DesignWeek competition. In short, nearly 100 Temple students from six different schools were broken into [...]

Story Shuffle 6, with a theme of  Rebirth, I remembered a lesson I learned from an old neighbor: If I don’t clean it up, someone might notice. Find all the stories here. Listen to mine here or below. Listen here. Number of Views:182

Universities should host the newsrooms of their neighborhoods, towns and counties. If a university has a journalism department, college media and audience, this seems like a foregone conclusion. Picture Temple University. It is a big, diverse, robust, public research university with a clutch of respected professional schools and an expansive undergraduate population that has been [...]

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 | May 9, 2007 | Philadelphia Stories submission Larry Rosenthal is an old man. Tired hands and worried eyes. Worried eyes and a wrinkled forehead. He was once young and awfully worried. He wasn’t worried anymore, but his forehead, his eyes, they only knew how it was. He had been inside for [...]