"The Board finds the punitive sanctions
difficult and the process with the NCAA unfortunate. But as we understand it, the alternatives were worse as confirmed by NCAA President Mark Emmert's recent statement that Penn State was likely
facing a multi-year death sentence. The University and Board resolve to move
forward together to recognize the historical excellence in Penn State's academic and athletic programs.
“We anticipate and look forward to demonstrating our outstanding performance in complying with the sanctions. We continue to recognize the important role that intercollegiate athletics provides for our student athletes and the wider University community as we strive to appropriately balance academic and athletic accomplishments.
“Penn State will remain a world-class educational institution of which our students, faculty, staff and alumni can be justifiably proud. The commitment demonstrated by our student athletes in recent days embodies all that is good about Penn State and we look forward to unprecedented support by the Nittany nation when we take the field this fall."
Read the full story on Live: http://live.psu.edu/story/60509#nw1
The above report comes from Penn State regarding the recent negative news about the institution. It is a sad day that the punitive actions appear to be more toward downgrading the entire institution rather than the perpetrators of the unfortunate event.
Although this is not something taking place in Chicagoland area, this information is of interest to the Town Crier. We spent ten years at Penn State main campus between 1988 -1998—first as a graduate student and then working for the Public Radio Station. There are probably others in the Chicagoland area with an interest in what takes place with Penn State. It is sad that academics must suffer when grownups become criminals.
We happened to have saved an AP story which appeared in November 2011 when the incidents were first made “public”. According to that report, Paterno reported the information given him by a Graduate Assistant Coach to the police and his immediate superiors. The case was also handled by the State’s Attorney at that time. Why it is now necessary to castigate the entire university is hard to understand.
“We anticipate and look forward to demonstrating our outstanding performance in complying with the sanctions. We continue to recognize the important role that intercollegiate athletics provides for our student athletes and the wider University community as we strive to appropriately balance academic and athletic accomplishments.
“Penn State will remain a world-class educational institution of which our students, faculty, staff and alumni can be justifiably proud. The commitment demonstrated by our student athletes in recent days embodies all that is good about Penn State and we look forward to unprecedented support by the Nittany nation when we take the field this fall."
Read the full story on Live: http://live.psu.edu/story/60509#nw1
The above report comes from Penn State regarding the recent negative news about the institution. It is a sad day that the punitive actions appear to be more toward downgrading the entire institution rather than the perpetrators of the unfortunate event.
Although this is not something taking place in Chicagoland area, this information is of interest to the Town Crier. We spent ten years at Penn State main campus between 1988 -1998—first as a graduate student and then working for the Public Radio Station. There are probably others in the Chicagoland area with an interest in what takes place with Penn State. It is sad that academics must suffer when grownups become criminals.
We happened to have saved an AP story which appeared in November 2011 when the incidents were first made “public”. According to that report, Paterno reported the information given him by a Graduate Assistant Coach to the police and his immediate superiors. The case was also handled by the State’s Attorney at that time. Why it is now necessary to castigate the entire university is hard to understand.
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