“It’s really a policing of certain bodies,” said Katie Sveinson, an assistant professor in the School of Sport, Tourism, and Hospitality Management at Temple University.

Professor Nora Newcombe, of Temple University, studies the psychology of sense of direction. "All of our senses are involved together in forming this sense of place," she said.

“Most people don’t have a problem with it,” said Robin Kolodny, chair of the political science department at Temple University.

The zeal of politicians to push ahead with the Olympics in a nation still gripped by the pandemic obscured larger questions about diversity, said Jeff Kingston, professor of modern Japanese history at Temple University in Tokyo.

Miles Orvell, a professor of English in the College of Liberal Arts, writes “At the heart of America’s future is the need to accept our dual citizenship—private and public—and our failure to do so may well doom us.”

"The nail grows from the base (cuticle area) forward, so cutting a 'v' in the tip of the nail has no impact on growth," says Tracey C. Vlahovic, DPM, clinical professor at the Temple University School of Podiatric Medicine.