Starting last month with comments by Lt. Gov. Andre Bauer of South Carolina, disparaging remarks about the poor have been making headlines. Experts suspect that the economic downturn is making the middle class less generous. "Hatred of the poor is fueled by the middle class's fear of falling during hard times," said Matt Wray, a sociologist at Temple University.

February 15, 2010 | KYW News Radio

Use a common sense approach to parenting and you can keep your kids from getting fat, according to a new study by Robert Whitaker, professor of public health and pediatrics at Temple University: "Children who lived in households in which they were engaged in one or more of three routines were at much lower risk of obesity, those routines were regularly eating dinners with family, getting adequate sleep, and limiting their TV viewing during the weekday."

February 13, 2010 | Philadelphia Inquirer

Can you assume that your cell phone records are private? That question was argued yesterday in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit in Philadelphia in a closely watched drug-trafficking case with broad implications for the emerging law of digital privacy. "The way the Constitution was framed, when it came down to information as basic and personal as where you are, at what time, who you visit, and where, the framers thought the government should only have access to that if there is probable cause to think a crime was committed," said David Kairys, professor of constitutional law at Temple’s Beasley School of Law. Presiding Judge Dolores Sloviter, an adjunct law professor at Temple’s Beasley School, said that cell-site location data, obtained without a court's review, could be used by an unscrupulous government to track dissidents.

February 13, 2010 | CSPAN 3
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Temple historian Richard Immerman could be seen on CSPAN’s American History Television giving his presidential address to the Society for American Historians of Foreign Relations. Immerman is Professor and Edward J. Buthusium Family Distinguished Faculty Fellow in the Department of History at Temple University and the Marvin Walkman Director of Temple’s Center for the Study of Force and Diplomacy. In his address, Immerman discussed the politicization of classified intelligence. Using the U.S. Invasion of Iraq in 2003, Immerman argues that modern day U.S. Presidents use personal beliefs rather than classified intelligence to formulate foreign policy.