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A LOOK AT THE WEEK AHEAD March 10 - March 17, 2000
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IF YOU HAVE TO ASK HOW MUCH IT COSTS...MAYBE YOU SHOULD:
With no site chosen, no specific blueprints or cost estimates, the City of Philadelphia has in effect left itself vulnerable to spiraling costs by committing itself to building two new stadiums for the Eagles and the Phillies, says Temple's Michael Leeds, who teaches a course in The Economics of Sports.
"The biggest worry that I have right now is that the city has given a huge amount of bargaining power to the two teams," says Leeds. "No stadium in my memory has come in under budget. Would you commit yourself to buying a house when the builder has not told you where it would be built or how much it would cost? The city may be vulnerable to the escalating costs that have struck so many other projects--Colorado, Cleveland and St. Louis."
Reach Professor Leeds at his office, 215-204-8030, or through the Office of News and Media Relations.
AN ELEMENTARY APPROACH TO STUDYING WOMEN'S HISTORY
Your kids may be working on projects for Women's History Month, but if they're like students in most K-6 schools, they're probably only studying the very famous of the famous women in history, says Temple education professor Christine Woyshner, a social studies specialist who studies how women's history is taught in schools.
"From what I've seen in curriculum guidelines and textbooks, in K-6 they're still just studying the famous firsts. Most schools are at the point where they're adding in famous women. They're studying great individual women."
Teaching history in schools shouldn't be about history or even herstory, says Woyshner, who developed an elementary school curriculum--and accompanying TV show--for teaching women's history while a Harvard doctoral student. "We need many histories, many multiple voices. We do best when we have a choral history." Reach Dr. Woyshner through the Office of News and Media Relations.
This Week at Temple --
Monday, March 13, 1-3:30 p.m.: MYTH OF THE FIRST THREE YEARS -- Four Temple faculty members, all nationally prominent for their work in cognitive development and child care, will join with Myth of the First Three Years author John Bruer in a symposium to address the implications his controversial new book could have on child development and public policy. Bruer's book debunks the wildly popular "zero to three" theory of child development. (Room 101, Tuttleman Learning Center, 13th St. and Montgomery Ave.)
Monday, March 13, 3:30 p.m.: NCAA TICKET RAFFLE -- Hundreds of students are expected to take part in a raffle to see who will be the lucky ones picked for a trip to watch the Temple Owls men's basketball team play in the first round of the NCAA Tournament. (Liacouras Center, Broad St. and Montgomery Ave.)
Monday, March 13, 6:30 p.m.: SONIA SANCHEZ AND BOBBY SEALE RAP ON MALCOLM X -- Esteemed poet Sonia Sanchez, a former Temple English professor, and ex-Black Panther Bobby Seale will give a talk on the life and times of Malcolm X in celebration of the 25th anniversary of Temple's Pan-African Studies Community Education Program (PASCEP), a community outreach project. (Room 14, Anderson Hall, Berks Mall between 11th and 12th Sts.)
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