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• A big loss for Temple: Staley quits for S.C.

  - 2008-05-08

  Dawn Staley, who carried the American flag at the 2004 Olympics and proudly bore the banner of Philadelphia sports as a socially conscious women's basketball legend, left Temple University for South Carolina yesterday, in the process leaving an enormous hole in both her hometown and the university. The North Philadelphia-born...

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• Medical worker jailed for assaults

  - 2008-04-17

  A medical technician was sentenced yesterday to 111/2 months in prison after he pleaded no contest to indecent assault on four women at Temple University Hospital and Temple Children's Medical Center. Mathew Philip, 54, a married father of two, quietly accepted the sentence handed down by Municipal Court Judge Marsha...

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• Med aide gets jail term for indecent assault on mom

  - 2008-04-17

  Last year, Brenda Closel stayed at a North Philadelphia children's hospital with her toddler son, who had a sleeping problem.She shared a bed with her then- 20-month-old, who was being observed by a sleep technician. Yesterday, Closel, 38, told reporters outside the Criminal Justice Center that when she went to...

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• $4 million anonymous donation to endow scholarships for women, minorities at Temple

  - 2008-03-06

  Temple University officials were surprised when they received two anonymous donations totaling $5 million in nondescript envelopes sent via U.S. mail. One envelope contained a $1 million check to be used as the university sees fit, and the other had a $4 million check to endow a scholarship fund for...

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• Harvard University

  - 2007-08-23

  TRACI GREEN has been named head coach of the women's tennis program at Harvard University (Mass.). She had previously been head coach at Temple University. Green earned a bachelor's from the University of Florida, where she was a member of the 1998 NCAA championship women's tennis team.

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• Doctorate degrees: 2006-2007

  - 2007-07-12

  DOCTORATE DEGREES 2006-2007 All Disciplines Combined AFRICAN-AMERICAN DOCTORATE--HBCUs vs. TWIs 2006 Rank Institution State ...

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• First professional degrees: 2005-2006

  - 2007-07-12

  FIRST PROFESSIONAL DEGREES 2005-2006 All Disciplines Combined AFRICAN-AMERICAN FIRST PROFESSIONAL--HBCUs vs. TWIs 2006 Rank Institution State ...

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• Tennis coach Traci Green is 1st Black female to head a sports team at Harvard

  - 2007-07-09

  Former University of Florida UF tennis champion Traci Green was recently hired as the head coach of Harvard University's women's tennis team. Green, 28, who was mentored by Arthur Ashe, is the first Black woman to head any coaching staff for any Harvard University sport. The Philadelphia native...

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• Del. man guilty in sex attacks on 2 women

  - 2007-07-03

  A Common Pleas jury yesterday found a Wilmington man guilty of rape and related offenses during a home invasion in Port Richmond last summer in which two roommates were raped and the boyfriend of one was pistol-whipped.As the jury foreman read the verdicts, defendant Jacoby Robinson, 21, showed no emotion....

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• 2 women tell jury harrowing tale of rape

  - 2007-06-28

  Last summer, in their Port Richmond home, two young women were brutally raped during a home invasion and robbery, and the boyfriend of one was severely pistol-whipped, authorities said.The women - one a Temple University graduate, now 25, and her then-roommate, a Temple student, now 22 - told a Common...

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