If the sequester happens, civilian employees will be the first to feel its impact locally. However, they aren't the only ones. “Lower income families would be impacted because they rely on federal programs,” said Moritz Ritter, associate professor of economics at Temple. “…the ‘No Child Left Behind’ funds are allocated based on the number of poor children in a school district. Since the sequester is an across the board cut, the poorest districts will be cut the most."

In an effort to provide preventative dental care, Temple University’s Kornberg School of Dentistry has partnered with United Healthcare to roll out an oral health project for children in North Philadelphia. “Project ENGAGE is an example of a new health promotion system that will reach out to children and families to assist them to get dental care and remove barriers that prevent them from having a dental home,” said Amid Ismail, dean of the School of Dentistry.

We often seek escape at the movies, but we don’t have to shut off our brains when we visit the cinema. Some films, such as 1999’s The Fight Club, actually encourage us to think. The film becomes “a metaphor for larger issues in our society and that is not only of lost masculinity but sort of a frustration with modern world,” said Barry Vacker, a faculty member at Temple’s School of Media and Communication, who wrote the book, "Slugging Nothing - Fighting the future in Fight Club.”