Temple is holding a contest, called Flat Hooter, for
the most creative and interesting photos capturing school spirit. Ingrid Heim, assistant vice president for Advancement Communications, says Flat Hooter owes a lot
to Flat Stanley: "Primary school classrooms encourage students to send a Flat
Stanley around the country and take pictures of him in front of various landmarks,
and universities have been picking up on this idea as just sort of a fun,
affinity-building, goofy activity."

The Phanatic's new hot dog launcher propels
franks with a tank of compressed nitrogen. The old launcher used carbon dioxide.
Robert Levis, chairman of Temple University's chemistry department, said the change
from carbon dioxide shouldn't make much difference in firing just one shot. It's the
pressure that matters. But for repeated firing, he said, nitrogen has the edge.
"You're just not going to get that many rapid-fire shots with the CO2 in comparison
with the same amount of nitrogen," Levis said.

The Securities and Exchange Commission's case
against Goldman Sachs Group largely comes down to a single word central to
securities law: material. Goldman will be judged on whether the information it
failed to tell its clients was material, meaning important or relevant, something a
buyer would want to know before buying. Peter Huang, a securities law professor at
Temple’s Beasley School of Law, agreed. "If you were buying something, you should