Shedding Light on Why Temple U. Tuitions Are So High!

THESE LIGHTS burn expensive electricity during daylight hours all year long.

Thomas H. Massaro is a man of many titles. He initiated and has taught classes to incoming Freshmen for City Council, well attended and well appreciated. Another of his titles was executive director of the Philadelphia Housing Authority and he knows about how to save energy costs, since he supervised hosts of highrises during his tenure.

He has been charging Temple University for its “colossal waste of exterior electric and expensive lightbulbs which continues all over Temple University and Temple Hospital campuses.”

He hasn’t come up with how many hundreds of thousands of dollars can be saved if the school’s Board of Directors paid attention to what he keeps suggesting: Turning off lights during the day.
He reports, “Every day when I walk eight or nine blocks through the Temple University and Temple Hospital campuses, I continue to find at least 250 high usage lots turned on. They burn wastefully through 24 hours, even on the sunniest of days.”

With bulbs that do respond to time circuits, he notes others stay on for one to two hours after dawn breaks and some come on one to three hours prior to sunset.

He also reports his letters “yield only sporadic hollow rhetoric; nothing gets done. I have never received a written response. Are they that indifferent to the waste of precious taxpayer funds burning up daily with 100% indifference by Temple’s execs?”

He added, “Five years ago, I visually located and precisely pinpointed over 100 … yes, 100 … Temple Police blue-light 911 emergency call poles that were inoperable, or unlit, in a three-page outline … nothing happened for 11 months until Fox 29 called.”

Massaro believes, “If Temple merely gave an ounce of concern about this colossal waste of taxpayer dollars, a squandering of precious tuition payments and the burden they have added to student loans, it would start conserving energy and stop wasting so much money on every bright sunny day.”

He says Temple University’s behavior is disgusting since Temple proves it would rather excessively fund the waste of electricity, than award more scholarships to bright, striving low- and moderate-income students and their parents.

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