Widener University in Wilmington plans to ban smoking on campus. Smokers and chewers will be restricted from using in University buildings—and on its grounds. Jennifer Ibrahim, a professor of public health at Temple University, says it's a positive step toward reducing smoking and chewing: "Here in Philadelphia, this is the first ban that I know of that's a complete ban. So there's no tobacco products, not just no smoking or a limitation from the entrance of a building, but no tobacco products at all, which is pretty significant."

January 6, 2010 | Toronto Star

The immediate future of Eric Tillman, the general manager of the Saskatchewan Roughriders, will be decided today when the Canadian football team’s directors meet to discuss his fate in the wake of a sexual assault case. "I think that any company is reticent to retain people convicted of one of the most socially unacceptable crimes that exist, especially when it involves a minor," said Aubrey Kent, a Canadian who is director of Temple University's Sport Industry Research Center. "Sports teams are much more publicly scrutinized than most, and therefore I would imagine their reticence to be even more magnified."

January 6, 2010 | Associated Press

Japan’s Finance Minister Hirohisa Fujii, 77, will be replaced by former Health Minister Naoto Kan. Fujii, who resigned for health reasons, spent several tough weeks late last year churning out a record 92.29 billion yen ($1 trillion) budget. Robert Dujarric, director of the Institute of Contemporary Japanese Studies at Temple University in Tokyo, said it was unclear whether Kan would inspire confidence in corporate and financial circles. "They liked Fujii because he had a good pedigree, and he could be trusted by the business and financial community,” he said, speaking of Japan’s business leaders. “The problem is that the Finance Ministry is different from the Health Ministry.”