Anthony Coccerino, a third-year student at Temple's Beasley School of Law, was one of 41 interns who visited crime scenes, rode with police and attended autopsies as part of the summer intern program in the Montgomery County District Attorney's Office. He was also named as a winner of the summer intern trial competition, during which the finalists prosecuted a hypothetical car-bombing murder case. "I love being in court and I love fighting for the victims…that's why it's really been an honor to be a part of [the intern program]," Coccerino said.

With schools under pressure to meet standardized testing goals, recess has been cut back and unstructured play time for kids is vanishing. The result is that many kids don't know how to play. These kids may struggle with the give-and-take of playground games, said Kathy Hirsh-Pasek, a psychologist at Temple, who specializes in child development." If kids were left to have some time on their own, they would in fact develop play," Hirsh-Pasek said. "Now what we do is, we endanger the species by taking play opportunities away from them."

Next month, the city of Baltimore will have its primary elections, and a key focus of all of the mayoral candidates has been to reduce crime. Ralph Taylor, a criminal justice professor at Temple, offered some context on the evolution of crime fighting in Baltimore over the last 30 years. "Police have innovated in a lot of different ways over the past three decades, and they will continue to do so, because they are in a situation with fewer resources and more difficult challenges," he said.

Temple MFA student Sara Suleman is currently showing her video projects at the Aicon Gallery in Manhattan, as part of a larger exhibition entitled, "Erasing Borders: Exhibition of Contemporary Indian Art of the Diaspora." One of her pieces, "Converge," was inspired by a recent trip to Karachi, where she encountered a flock of birds that would appear at dusk almost every day. "The birds represented that in between time, when day turns into evening. As a foreigner [in the US], I'm very interested in that in between space.