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Little league’s big headaches: helicopter coaches

Posted Apr 29, 2013
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TIME

Little League’s Big Headaches: Helicopter Coaches

“Helicopter parents,” who are obsessed with their children’s sports teams winning are now joining the coaching staffs for those teams, becoming “helicopter coaches.” Says Lois Butcher-Poffley, a Temple sports psychologist and a member of the U.S. Olympic Committee’s sports psychology registry, “This is a way for the helicopter parent to gain access where they were banned before.”

College of Public Health
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Urban farming company wins Temple competition

Posted Apr 29, 2013
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Philadelphia Business Journal

Urban farming company wins Temple competition

Neighborhood Foods, a West Philadelphia-based urban-farming business, won the grand prize at Temple University’s Be Your Own Boss Bowl last week. The company, which was founded by Dylan Baird, a graduate of Temple’s Fox School of Business, garnered more than $125,000 in cash, professional services and prizes.

Fox School of Business
Be Your Own Boss Bowl
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New Temple president Neil Theobald has high hopes for the university

Posted Apr 30, 2013
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Metro

New Temple president Neil Theobald has high hopes for the university

Temple’s new president Neil Theobald, recently hosted a barbecue for students. Among his top priorities are new plans for the  physical campus. “We’re really trying to visualize, not just building by building,” like the 20/20 plan, he said. That means more housing on campus, a more vibrant campus and more research labs.

President Theobald
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At librarians' meeting, information Is championed—but not always books

Posted Apr 15, 2013
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Chronicle of Higher Education

At Librarians' Meeting, Information Is Championed—but Not Always Books

The Association of College and Research Libraries' biennial meeting offered attendees many ways to think and talk about their roles not just as providers of information but as collaborators in the research-and-teaching enterprise. Academic librarians want to be regarded not just as gatekeepers of information but as "gate openers," according to the association's president, Steven J. Bell, associate university librarian at Temple. 

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