Temple University - Templar Yearbook (Philadelphia, PA)

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TALES FROM BROAD STREET believe it or not, we saw it! In Temple’s newly built Morgan Mall North tower, students stand up to 26 stories above the city of Philadelphia. Those who face south are awarded with an expansive view of Center City every time they look through their windows, while those who face north get a view of the neighborhood of North Philly. But students who face North Philly arc not that unlucky, because they get a full view of Broad vStrect and the entertaining and bizarre tilings that arc prone to hap| cn there. Irooking through die window is like watching TV sometimes. Here’s a compilation of crazy Broad Street sights as spotted from one of the uppermost floors of Morgan 11 all: • August 18: Several cop cars spotted doing U-turns on (’ceil B. Moore Ave. U-turns are illegal in Philadelphia, but it’s no big deal. Got to get it out of their system before move-in day. • August 25: It’s move-in day for die students of Morgan I lall North! North Philly welcomes students back with a celebratory trash fire large enough to be easily mistaken for a burning factor)'. • September 1: Temple freshmen hesitate before crossing the street, letting cars pass first. They have a lot to learn about how walking in Philadelphia works. • September 13: It’s the night of the Insidious: Chapter 2 premiere. Five or six Philadelphia police cars and at least fifteen officers are gathered on the street outside of the Pearl Theater on the comer of Broad and Cecil at around 8:15 p.m. The theater was shut down for the remainder of the night, apparently due to some sort of fight that happened on the premises. No official word was ever released. • September 18: It’s sunny and quiet. Suddenly, a streak of black blasting up Broad Street interrupts the peace. It’s going so fast that it’s hard to make out, but it appears to lie a man in baggy sweatpants riding a pitch-black horse at full force up Broad Street. Pedestrians nervously dodge the beast. His destination is unknown, but he is headed somewhere in North Philly with apparent haste. No sightings have been made since. • September 22: Batman rides his motorcycle toward Center City A woman not dressed as Catwoman is his passenger. It was so uninteresting compared to the horse. • October 1: Traffic outside of Morgan Hall increases as freshmen adapt a complete lack of empathy toward drivers and begin crossing the street without looking, thus becoming fully-fledged Philly walkers. They’re learning • October 4: A melodramatic scream echoes through the air at 2 a.m.! There’s a fight between two juveniles at the Broad and Cecil I intersection. A crowd roughly the size of a dozen gathers in a semi-JJ circle formation to watch. Police quickly show up as the fist light I grows heated first one car, then two, then three and four. 'These arejl actual Philly officere, not just Temple police. The entire crowd of completely i innocent bystanders flees at the sight of the officers for no apparent I reason, scattering in four different directions. Unsure of who to follow I the cops separate 'They fail to follow the two actually involved in the fight.’ Of course, this list does not account for all the common sights seen on a daily basis, such as drunkards stumbling out of the subway station I and human-sized squirrels attacking people for food. Students who I face North Philly definitely get their money’s worth for this view. I hear students who face south get a really awesome view of the su set- LOGAN KRL'M 1