Temple University - Templar Yearbook (Philadelphia, PA)

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BIKE FORREST, BIKE! THE NUMBER OF CYCLISTS RISE AS PROCRAMS AND A STRONG BIKE CULTURE TAKE PLACE ON CAMPUS Bicycles stand out o» Temple. Students zip to classes and bike racks line campus buildings. Director of Sustainability Kathleen Grady, said the number of bikes on campus have increased. The league of American Bicyclists certified Temple os bike-friendly in 2014. This achievement was largely due to the efforts of 'Bike Temple.' run through the Office of Sustainability, which promotes bike use. education and safety on campus. college students, but it is also a new way to explore Philadelphia. 'When you're biking, you see a different part of the city that you wouldn't usually see because you're moving at a different scale since the speed is o little bit slower, and I think that's really awesome.' Grody said. Sophomore Jared Johnson uses his bike os his mode of transportation. 'There could definitely be more bike lanes on the streets, but there's still a lot of interesting places to go to ride your bike, Johnson said. 'lost year we added a ton of bike rocks and this year we’re adding covered bike parking and secure bike parking on campus,' Grady said. 'So if you want to be able to lock your bike up in some type of internal facility, you're going to have that option.' The Bike Temple program also focuses on adding more and protected bike lanes. But the process is more complicated than other improvements since it requires collaboration with the City of Philadelphia. Bike Temple also brought the public bike sharing program Indego on campus two years ago. For routine and maintenance, the Breakaway Bikes repair trailer on campus is opened three days a week and is on accessible resource at the courtyard between Peabody and Annenberg. With Indego, students and Philadelphia residents are able to find an alternative to public transportation on and near campus. ‘We negotiated with Indego to give temple students a discounted rate,' Blake larson, former coordinator for Bike Temple, said. 'It's an important step in continuing the intersection of bicyding and public transit.' Biking is not only on eco-friendly alternative and an easy exercise for busy Second Hand Cycles, a bike-friendly section of Bike Temple, was created in 2014 os a way to recycle bikes left on rocks. Abandoned bikes ore collected, held for a year for owners to claim them, then fixed and sold bock at low prices to students in soles that take place two to three times a year The Second Hond Cycles also aims to get more students biking and combat bike theft which has decreased on campus in recent years As more bike-friendly initiatives take place, the number of bike racks grow and the number of cyclists follow right behind it. Every year the bike rocks are fuller and fuller,' larson said. 'We’re always hoving to put more ot Tyler because Tyler is like the heart of bicyding on compus.' WRITTEN BY MORGAN SlUTZtCY PHOTOGRAPHED BY ANDRE A ECASSiS 9

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I GUINNESS WORLD RECORD HOLDERS TEMPLE SMASHES WORLD RECORD WHILE GIVING BACK TO THE COMMUNITY Over o thousand Temple students stood at Itocouras Center on Sept. 19, frantically making sandwiches. It wasn't because they were hungry. They were trying to break the record for most peanut butler and jelly sandwiches mode in an hour— and they succeeded. MCPB (Main Campus Program Board! set a goal to surpass a Guinness World Record of 39,303 sandwiches held by Which Wichs Project PBJ in Texas. The goal was to make 40,000 sandwiches to donate to local food banks. Instead, they mode 49,100. MCPB's Secretary and Director of Community Service Events, Trina Van, become inspired by a smaller event held at her middle school where students made sondwiches to donate After she organized a PB J day last year that yielded 3,000 sandwiches, her advisor suggested to set a world record. ‘I was like. You're crazy,'' Van said. Still, she agreed and began planning in April. At the time, the world record was 26,000 but Which Wichs was set at 39,303 in June. Van wosn't discouraged. Even when people told her she wouldn't be oble to gather at least 1,000 volunteers, she remained optimistic, and rightly so. The line ot liacouras Center wrapped around the building the night of the event. More than 1,300 staff, students, alumni, even local community members participated, making sandwiches in fables of 18 people while the timer counted down the hour for the record. Sophomore Julia Dugan said that once the timer started every table devised o unique system to get the job done. 'It definitely was exhilarating, Van said. 1 know a lot of people had a lot of fun in the last 30 seconds, just making os many sandwiches os possible, Dugan arrived to the event with two roommates. At the table, she did not know anyone else. However, they oil shared a goal, to break the record. The team created efficient ways of making PB J foster including appointing one person to hove the cons of jelly already opened. ‘They hod music playing the whole time ond everyone just worked as a team,' she said. 'Hooter was there and he was walking by. patting people on the beck. H was a good atmosphere.' Along the way. the grape jelly wouldn't spread. The timer ticked marking the time left ond the team quickly switched to the backup orange marmalode and raspberry preserves. Van mostly supervised ond restocked supplies including having to run to the grocery store because they had run out of plastic bags. But, even Van mode sandwiches to help break the record Before the result was announced. Van heard whispers that there were 90 boxes. 'I was like, What? We only needed 80.1 know we beat ill” she said, 'll was a complete surprise but I had to keep it hush. After volunteers celebrated their victory by eating a sandwich of their own, the boxes were then distributed to 15 Philodelphio-orea food banks. 'Having 50,000 sandwiches going out into the city mode me feel a bt better than having them go to waste. Vcn said. ‘It was really nice.' WRITTEN BY BRtANNA BAKER PHOTOGRAPHED BY THE TE VPlE NEWS