A group of U.S. lawmakers wants stricter rules for dissolvable tobacco products. Other advocates say smokeless products can lessen the disease, death and disability caused by smoking. Jennifer Ibrahim, associate professor of public health at Temple, says that if done properly harm reduction is a good idea. "I think that everyone in the business of smoking cessation is realistic, that people can't quit cold turkey, but you don't want to send the wrong message: that nicotine is safe at any level, because it's not," she said.

Hell and Back Again, a film edited by Temple grad student Fiona Otway, is up for an Oscar. The documentary is about soldiers in the Afghanistan war, and their struggles to return to domestic life. Otway's job was to edit between footage of Afghanistan and the U.S. By moving back and forth in time, Otway evokes some of the feeling of post-traumatic stress disorder. "There's the physical side of it, but then there's also the mental adjustment he's going through, which is harder to see. It's all in his head," said Otway.

The passing of former Penn State football coach Joe Paterno could streamline criminal prosecutions in the Jerry Sandusky scandal, legal experts said as the campus mourned the legend. Former Penn State assistant coach Mike McQueary "can testify about what he told Paterno [without the distraction of having Paterno himself on the stand]," said Louis Natali of Temple's Beasley School of Law.