Temple University is responding to a letter from its students urging the school to confront rising crime plaguing the North Philadelphia campus.
The letter, posted to the Instagram page ‘Keep_Us_Safe_TU,’ called out university president Jason Wingard, accusing him of being a silent leader.
"We don't want him to come out and address our account, it's not about us, we want him to come out and address the community and tell us what we need to hear," John Mangan said. Mangan, a Temple senior, created the Instagram account this semester as a way to alert students and their families about crimes happening in real-time, while pushing for transparency from school leaders.
"We're at a tipping point where everyone is just wondering what the hell is going on," Mangan said. "It's really getting out of hand." Temple students fed up with crime on and around campus penned a letter to school leadership urging them to do more.
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