Daily News | Temple limits public access to campus food court amid growing safety concerns
for president Jason Wingard in part over safety concerns. The move has left students wondering if there’s a way to improve campus safety without vilifying and extracting from the surrounding North Philadelphia community.“It feels like everything [put forth by Temple administration] is just a placeholder for them to figure out something better,” said Rachel Kim, a sophomore public relations major from Montgomery County whose off-campus apartment is feet away from where Fitzgerald was shot.
Orbanek said the administration hopes the food court can “eventually resume normal operations” and that Morgan Hall dining workers were supportive of the decision. He also noted that Temple plans to increase police presence around the food court indefinitely. Six Temple students The Inquirer spoke with said they believe the decision doesn’t address the overarching safety issues and“I don’t think closing the dining hall for a few hours is going to solve the problem of violence. It’s going to solve the problems of violence in Temple buildings and bad PR,” said sophomore political science major Nate Weinberg, who is the social media manager for, a student organization that advocates for campus safety measures.
Weinberg’s group posted the video of the fight at the Morgan Hall food court to their Instagram, alongside dispatches from local news and police reports about violent incidents near campus, from
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