WEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE are Pen State
WEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE are Penn State
I did read all and it brought to mind what a Penn State Alumnus has said about this problem. He feels that it is a Mafia problem. Well, you have described a board of trustees that runs things like the mafia...I guess that is what he was talking about!
How did you ever stick it out in that mess for so long?
Good luck in replacing them all, sincerely, good luck.
Nice try at explaining away the Sandusky child rape scandal, but as a PSU grad, I don’t buy it. Educators everywhere are well aware of the necessity to protect the students in their jurisdiction, every educator knows the responsibility to report child rape to the police. This was a cover up plain and simple. Joe Paterno either protected his own job by shutting up, or he was so uncaring that he was unworthy of the title of his position. Unless he was so senile that he didn’t care about that crap, as an old timer of a more innocent era might have looked at it, shove it under the rug and don’t bother him, he had a football franchise to run and nobody was going to tell him what to do by damn.
Great post - it explains a lot. They should fire all their sorry a&&’$ and start over
Portions of this were printed in the Pittsburgh Tribune Review recently. The new PSU Prez has been doing damage control at alumni meet and greets in Pittsburgh, Philly and elsewhere in the state.
Michael Mann being the poster boy.
Can you summarize it for us?
Typical mafia style hierarchy. Basically all conspirators, each having a hand in the operation. Only one needs to turn state’s evidence except the state is involved also. A Federal prosecutor would be the way to handle interstate commerce.
The school should be stripped of its charter and divided up into community colleges.
Penn State Ping.
must-read ping
I read it. I now understand why is was that the whole Sandusky thing died.
I have to wonder why he denigrated the board. That is, calling them “Power Group, the Praetorian Guard, the Emeritus Trustees, and the Sheep.” Of course a thirty-two members break up into factions. Of course successful businessmen end up having more influence (they didn’t get that money boxing kittens). Of course a core group of around five members forms. He obviously wants people to lose respect for the board.
There’s a problem with his argument. It’s not the individuals on the board that is the problem but the reliance of the system on the president to be the end all be all of decision making and information flow.
Maybe PSU needs a new governing structure. If so then he should just attack the governing structure. The “Power Group” will stay. They won’t be replaced but they could be put into a new governing structure and that might make a difference.
My guess is that the state legislature in 1970 wanted to limit the drama of a governing board and departments running autonomously by appointing a single, all powerful president. They can just deal with him rather than having to listen to thirty-two board members and numerous department heads whine and complain. It’s a patronage appointment, being on the board, and I doubt it was meant to be a position with any substance.
UN-EFFING BELIEVABLE!! If this is true, the entire board of trustees that covered up these rapes (including Paterno) should be proscecuted as a felony RICO case for gross obstruction of justice!!
JC