Temple is determined to prove that its football team can fill a gap in Philadelphia's sports landscape. "If you look at Philadelphia, we have the best college basketball with the Big Five," said Temple Athletic Director Bill Bradshaw. "The pro sports are great.

In an Inquirer column, Eva Monheim of Temple's Department of Landscape Architecture and Horticulture offered seasonal gardening tips. For autumn, Monheim advised readers to remove dead leaves and stalks from daylilies, look for fall-blooming plants at garden centers, bag seed heads, repot house plants, gather herbs for drying and plant annual rye and garlic. There's fun to be had indoors as well. Her advice: Cut flower stems early in the morning (when plants are least stressed) and indulge your passion for flower arranging.

Robert Blackson, the new head of the Tyler School of Art's Temple Gallery, is one of two new curators at "iconic" local university galleries who are "giving us all a reason to go back to school." PW wrote that Blackson has "thrown a wrench into the traditional, top-down model of exhibition-making" and is shifting Temple Gallery's focus from the gallery to the community.

Temple today launched a program aimed at cutting down on wasted food and, perhaps, helping to prevent the "freshman fifteen." With so many cafeteria choices in so much abundance, it's hard for college students not to load up on the eats. But most students can't, and don't, eat it all. Dietician Julie Rhule says that's where Temple's "Waste Not" Project comes in. "Today we're having a 'Weigh Your Waste' project to educate students about how much waste they produce daily and encourage them to be aware of this due to the environmental impact that it can have."