Protestors Shut Down Town Hall on Temple Stadium

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Temple may have created a template on how not to sell a stadium project to a community. After promising for months to hold a public forum on its proposed $130 million football stadium in the North Philadelphia neighborhood that has watched the university's footprint expand, Temple finally held a town hall Tuesday with disastrous results.

According to Philly.com, it went something like this. Temple president Richard Englert got about one page into his five pages of prepared remarks, mentioning that no one would be displaced by a two-block closure of 15th Street. A protester then shouted, "Liar!" and the 100 or more in attendance began chanting, "No new stadium! No new stadium!" Englert, whose remarks were supposed to be followed by architects' presentation of schematics and then a Q&A, was promptly escorted to safety by police. Rev. William Moore, a stadium opponent, then tried to calm the crowd by stating, "We're not going to make any progress behaving like this."

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