Tuesday

Happy fat Tuesday! Everyone's favorite I-have-no-idea-what-we're-celebrating-but-I-like-drinking-and-shiny-beads-so-let's-party holiday!

Weather: Cold(33), gray, and snowy. Well those snows days were fun, huh? Now where the hell is Spring?!

What's up at Temple:

College of engineering play day: It seems the college of engineering is having a bunch of stuff going on, including:

Terminator comes to campus: One lucky volunteer at the Engineering school will get to control a robotic arm that mimics their muscle movements. Next week: arm wrestling competition.

Making forts out of office supplies: One lucky volunteer will get to crawl inside a 3x5 fort made out of paper clips and have it collapse on them. Or something like that.

Penny car competition: students build cars out of pennies, toothpicks, gum, and one little bottle of spermicidal lube. Awards go for speed (most lube) and aesthetics (shiniest pennies)

Mardi gras luncheon at Ambler: in order to celebrate fat Tuesday, Ambler is serving up a cajun meal. Food is free upon flashing.

Or, go walk around.

Catch ya in the PM.

Monday Recap

Today's big story was..you guessed it..the return of the Cherry and What? Cheers.

Temple also made a few headlines today.

First, no, the snow tonight isn't doing anything. Peep this article about how the current snowfall will have minimal impact, much to the delight of senior Morgan Zalot who was quoted saying that the snow has been more of a pain in the ass than anything. In so many words.

Temple researchers wrote a new chapter in the book of "blatantly obvious ' scientific discoveries' that probably cost tens of thousands of research dollars." How do you keep your kids from getting fat? Eat family dinners, get more rest, and don't sit in front of the TV. Who knew?

Peep this article on the Temple University Choir's upcoming performance at the Kimmel Center. They're taking part in some kind of "all-Bach" program. If you want to play a drinking game with this article, take a swig every time it uses the name "Bach."

Check this story on the play 'Divine Words' which is currently playing at Tomlinson Theater through the weekend. Tickets are 5-20 bucks.

Chyea chyea that's all. Thanks for reading, catch ya in the a.m.

Men's B-ball: Temple v. Rhode Island Recap

Temple 78, Rhode Island 56. All pictures taken via my shitty camera phone.


Shwooping. That pretty much sums up Temple’s 78-56 victory over the Rhode Island Rams on Saturday. Ramone Moore got the start over a hurt(?) Juan Fernandez and dropped in 12, while Michael Eric (19), Ryan Brooks (18), and Lavoy Allen (17) also scored in double digits. This game was over before half time, as Eric slammed home a shit load of dunks, Ramone Moore had a nice one of his own, and even resident scrappy-short-white-kid T.J. Dileo took a Fernandez alley-oop to the rim and brought the Liacouras Center to its feet.

It was also Hooter’s birthday, and every mascot within a 20 mile radius showed up to celebrate. 10 cool points to the first person who can identify what the hell that penguin was? At a number of time-outs, the mascots all took to the floor and awkwardly danced around, at one point causing one of the referees to flashback to an acid trip and immediately run from the arena.

The Philly Phanatic was also on hand, as can be seen in this picture where he is pimping it with the cheerleaders and Diamond Gems. At one point he was booed by a Mets fan in the student section, who then remembered that the Phillies have been owning his team and STFUed.

Other notables: The Owls had their highest shooting percentage ever (68.6%)... Hooter’s birthday hat looked ridiculous… The victory gives Temple’s its third straight 20 win season. A few white Temple students in the bottom of the student section held up raised fists during the national anthem, exposing themselves as ignorant douchebags for the 12th straight home game.

Sounds like someone's got a case of the Mondays

Someone's got a case of the Monday's, but it's not the Cherry and What! Despite our college mentality, we actually did the most productive thing in two months on a Monday morning. Earnin' that diploma. In honor of our pluck, and to get your week going right, here is the classic damn the man clip from office space. Damn it feels good to be a gansta.


^^What the hell is that thing?? Anybody?^^

Weather: Sunny and hanging around in the low 30's all day, then dropping a little bit with some snow in the evening and night. Will we have off from classes tomorrow? No, we will not.

Temple stuff:

Are you a senior graduating in May? Did you register for graduation yet? Because if you didn't, uh, today is your last day. Yes, panicking is appropriate at this time.

"Spread the love week" kicks off at Temple Ambler with stuff-a-bear. If stuffing a bear is your idea of spreading the love, then man is this for you.


Like Jeopardy? How about black history? The TU Black Public Relations Society is putting on a little game show in the Underground this evening. Dust off those old IH and race studies books, there's prizes to be won. Alex Trebek will, in fact, be hosting.

Don't forget to look out for the latest men's basketball rankings. Temple was ranked #21/21 last week, and given their beat down of Rhode Island the other day and a few teams ahead of them losing, the Owls should be moving on up.

That's all for now, go do your Monday thang.

And we're back..

Welcome back to the Cherry and What, C&W readers.

"So uh, what the hell man, what's going on?"

So as you know we took a hiatus, but we've been busy hitting the 'ol drawing board and rethinking what we're gonna do with the site and content. It wouldn't have taken as long, except we've also been doing a whole lot of that school and partying stuff too. But we're back now, and we've got big things happening.

"Hey dude... your site looks exactly the same."

Yes, but not for long. We're currently about 63.4% done with the new site, and expect it to be up and running within a week. It's going to be an upgrade over this one, with room for multiple pages and photo slideshows and all sorts of fun, pseudo-journalistic stuff. You can see a little teaser here, featuring a completely random picture of pre-incarceration Dionte Christmas.

"I don't care about how your web page looks, I just want to read some good stuff."

Aw shucks, thanks for seeing the inner beauty, your mother must be proud. In addition to the new site, we're gonna do our best to bring you a lot of extra content, and more closely and expansively cover Temple. No, we're not gonna do what the Temple News does, because they're already good as shit at that, but Temple is certainly big and entertaining enough that we can let ya know about some things that might otherwise go unnoticed.

"Who are you Katie Couric? I'm just looking for some laughs."

Nah dude, we're just thinking big. The C&W is still gonna provide you with the same daily har-hars and news that we were before. See that comic snippet? That will be you. Creeping from behind the tree.

Thanks for checking back-in, enjoy.

Additional questions or concerns can be mailed via envelope to:

Ann Weaver Hart
E622
1940 Liacouras Walk
Philadelphia, PA 19122

WE'RE COMING BACK

Did you just do a triple-take??

FEBRUARY 15

Hiatus

Dear readers of Cherry and What,

We regret to inform you that this may be the last Cherry and What update for a while.

As much as we love our dysfunctional pseud0-journalistic humor website, other obligations have taken too much of our time and creative juices to put out what we feel is quality daily content.

In the words of many a rock star, it's better to burn out then fade away. However, like many a rap star, we're already planning our return to the game in the not too distant future.

We plan on having a fully revamped website up as soon as our other obligations allow us, and we would love to have your help. If you're an aspiring journalist or think you can write about daily college shit at Temple, we'd love to have you. Anyone who is interested simply needs to send a little something something about themselves to cherryandwhat@temple.edu and we'll be in contact before you can say "Saint Joe's Blows." We've got big plans in the future but we're gonna more sweet Temple student brain power to make them happen.

So that's all for now, we thank you all so very much for reading and commenting every day, and look forward to the day when the C&W is back to full ass-kicking mode. Go owls, go party, be safe, and god bless.

-Kyle Bagenstose
C&W editor-with-beef.


P.S. Go vote to bring Michael Cera to campus, because Drexel dorks don't deserve it.

News/Weekend

News update:

A few things going on over the past 24 hours.

First, more Temple Football. Damn, I guess winning 7 games gets your team just a little bit of media attention. This article is a bit different in the rest in that it focuses on Temple maintaining their drive and killer instinct despite the success they've been having, which Al Golden realizes isn't automatic.

Next, check out this piece on the new Hillel center at the corner of Norris and 15th. The center has been open for quite a while now, but this article covers exactly what Hillel is about, as well as some notes on Jewish life and culture.

So you all know the world is going to end in 2012 right? Peep this article on the upcoming disaster of a movie 2012, which quotes Temple prof Ronald Webb arguing why the whole thing is just damn preposterous, boy.

WEEKEND!













Friday:

1-6: Book and media swap in Tuttleman 201. Got lots of old books, videos, cds, and other shit you don't need? Bring them along to this swap, pay $5 bucks that goes to help youngsters publish "Treehouse books," and peruse other people's old junk.

1-2: Internationally known photographer Lonnie Graham shows off decades worth of his shit.

7: Women's basketball starts their season against Illinois in McGonigle Hall. The team projects to be pretty solid, as always.

7:30: Student dance concert, Conwell Dance Theater. Catch the best of the best dance performances of the students, by the students, and for the money.

8:00: The first performance of "Dreaming of Diamonds: The Conwell Project" in Tomlinson Theater. In honor of Temple's 125, the University is putting on a little play about the founding of Temple, starring founder Russell Conwell as himself.

8:30: Temple football at Akron. Yea it's away, but the game is on ESPNU. But seeing as how nobody in the world has ESPNU, the Draught Horse has you covered, as they'll have the game on in addition to handing out free Temple b-ball posters and of course, drink specials. All you underage kiddies are allowed in for the game, but word is they're kickin' ya out afterwards.

8-11: SHOT! heads into its final weekend, making this the last Friday night performance. If you haven't already checked it out, it comes highly recommended. It'll inspire you to do good things.

Saturday:

Temple rugby continues its successful season as they take on West Chester for the EPRU (Eastern Pennsylvania Rugby Union) championship. For deets contact Mike Rizzo at 908-907-0800.

2 p.m.: SHOT!....See above.

7: Flyers vs. Sabres at the Wachovia Center. Tickets start at $20.

7-9: Women's volleyball senior night against St Louis in McGonigle. It's also "dig for a cure" which means funds will go to fighting cancer.

8 p.m.: SHOT!...See above, again.

8:30: Brand New at the electric factory.

Anyone with additional listings, feel free to post them up, have a great one!

Thursty Thirsday

It's Thursday, November 12, and the C&W has your back.

Weather: High 40's and rainy, all day and all night. Well that sucks.

Good stuff from the Temple Today:

12-3: Who wants some more veggies? Temple community gardens will be selling some of that green stuff in the SAC today to help out a local non-profit. And, ya know, your health too. We heard asparagus goes great with beer.

1:30: Temple puts the "fun" into Umfundalai Dance Technique. Check out this presentation from the dance school chair in Rock Hall to learn all about this style of dancing.

2:30-3:30: For the criminal justice majors out there, boy is this a panel for you. Mayor John Street, Pennsylvania Superior Court Justice Ron Castille, and former police commie Sylvester "Stallone" Johnson will be sitting down to talk about crime n' stuff.

4-5: Also for all those criminal justice majors and lawyer wannabes, some dude named Ronald Jay Cohen will be in the Klein Law Building to give a speech called "For the Love of Lawyering." Okie dokie.

8-10: Afraid of getting mugged on the street and not knowing what to do? Learn the location of and proper way to deliver a kick to the male genitals at this TUPD self-defense demonstration in the IBC.

Other good stuff:

10-2: Phi Sig grilled cheese fundraiser, friggin' awesome! Stop by Phi sig sig's house right near 15th and Diamond to pick up $1 grilled cheeses all night. "Hey Jimmy, this keg is fuckin' kicked and now we gotta walk home in the rain." "Hey yea that sucks, but at least we can go get some hot grilled cheese." "Hey yea you're right..and then we can (Dave hits head on low basement ceiling, knocked unconscious)"

That's all for now, we'll catch ya later.

Hey humpday, we just kicked your ass

Later my man. Hellloooo Thursday.

The Temple news today is mostly about our profs kicking ass and making names.

First, professor Laurence Steinberg was awarded a whopping $1,000,000 from the Jacobs foundation, one of Europe's largest help-the-kids foundations. The millie must go to research that benefits adolescents, which Steingberg has a lot of experience in, being a national leader in development and juvenile justice. Atta boy Steinberg.

Former Business school chair William Dunkelberg is also a man getting some recognition. Peep this philly.com article about how Dunkelberg is a speed dial staple of some of Philadelphia's biggest business figure's phones...probably number 7. Dunkelberg has gained a lot of attention, including front page of the Wall Street Journal, for his economic analysis.

Finally, history prof Beth Bailey makes news for her upcoming presentation at the University of Tennessee. Bailey is speaking on her book "America's Army: Making the All-Volunteer Force," which covers the last 50 years of military activity by the United States. It's not a comedy.

As always, plenty of sports news to be found. Except today, Temple football makes the front-frigging-page of Philly.com! The headline links to this video, which showcases both Temple's excitement at our first football bowl game since we've been alive, and also our many different students. That's called "diversity," Villanova.

Not to leave out the other sports, Owlsports.com posted up two articles today, one on women's b-ball season opener against Illinois on Friday, and volleyball's senior day on Saturday.

That's all folks, catch ya in the morn.