I attended Temple back in the 80s and this is old news. Temple always had plans to expand the campus. In fact, they had one plan where they would have extended the campus as far north as the Medical School, nearly two miles along North Broad Street. But the natives fought it with the same nonsense spewed in this article. Yep, 4 years at Temple. If it were not for the friendly Philly cops who looked after us whenever we left the campus, I am sure more of us would have been assaulted. I still tip my hat to officers who gave us ride back to campus after some hardy partying near the medical campus. I’ll never forget when they pulled up next to us-as it was 2 AM and a group of us were walking south on Broad Street back to the main campus-”What are you guys doing out here? Don’t you know what kind of neighborhood you are in?”
The writer is president of Black Men at Penn.
Ther is a competition for top minority students at top rated universities. temple is not exactly top rated. It’s the low cost alternative to Apennines top minority students get scholarships to Penn, why would they go to Temple?
Students at Temple have not gentrified the neighborhood. Nort Philadelphia is not being remodeled for White families. Students don’t qualify as gentrified residents. What has changed is that student loans have enabled students to rent apartments close to the school rather than live at home with MoM and Dad. Temple used to be a commuter school.
Looks like to only racist are the race batters writting this article.