Civil rights and immigrant support groups have filed an appeal against a federal judge's refusal to block key parts of Alabama's tough new immigration law, regarded as the most draconian in the country. "The bottom line is it [the ruling] effectively criminalizes undocumented illegal persons in the U.S.," said Peter Spiro, an immigration law expert at Temple's Beasley School of Law. "If they start enforcing this, the consequences would be dramatic; there would be a mass exodus in Alabama of undocumented aliens.

Temple senior Brittany Rogers will make history tonight at the Pennsylvania National Guard Armory in Northeast Philadelphia when she becomes the youngest female boxing promoter in the country. "I got interested in it because my father was an amateur fighter, and it was just always in my bloodline. The fights were always on at my house." Rogers, who majors in sports and recreational management, said school has helped her a lot. Her big assignment this semester is to create a marketing plan for her company, Bam Boxing Promotions.

Computer data can last forever. Every hard drive contains every site visited, every photo and article downloaded — and erasing it is a lot harder than most people think. There is substantial job growth in digital forensics, an umbrella term that includes cyber security and information system auditing. That involves assessing whether computer systems safeguard assets and protect data integrity, said Richard Flanagan, director of IT auditing and cyber-security programs at Temple's Fox School of Business.

A federal judge on Wednesday upheld most of the sections of Alabama’s far-reaching immigration law. The judge upheld a section that requires state and local law enforcement officials to try to verify a person’s immigration status during routine traffic stops or arrests, if "a reasonable suspicion" exists that the person is in the country illegally. Peter J. Spiro, a professor at Temple's Beasley School of Law, said: "This decision really gives the anti-immigration folks more of a victory than they've been getting in other courts.