By Elmer Smith - Philadelphia Daily News
YOU COULD always tell when the VIPS were on campus. They drove newer cars, wore softer clothes.
It was easy to spot them among the denim-clad, recent high-school grads who made up most of the male student population on Temple's main campus in the '70s.
Veterans in Public Service or Veterans in Public Schools, to name their program for its mission, offered former Vietnam-era veterans a substantial stipend, free tuition and a generous book allowance.