![]() ![]() For me, it’s my training to let the process play itself out. I really have just tried to keep an even keel on it. Some of the alleged victims’ testimony last week was horrifying. I’m in contact daily with other board members through email, getting information on different articles, and I speak several times per week on the phone with other members. If it comes out that there was a cultural problem at Penn State, all we can do is train our people and make our people aware of these situations so that they don’t happen again. At our first meeting, that’s one of the things we need to talk about. She is really supposed to be the only one who is speaking. The communications are to go through our chairwoman. I think as board members, we should respect that. Since the beginning of this case, our spokesperson, Karen Peetz, said we’re going to withhold comment until the trial is gone and until the Freeh investigation is done. Keith Masser, vice chairman of the board, told reporters he thought there was a “cover-up” of the alleged allegations against Sandusky. I will only have to abstain when there’s a vote to hire my firm to do legal work. I wouldn’t have run if there was a conflict. I also spoke to the board of trustees members. You work for Duane Morris, a Philadelphia law firm that provides general counsel for Penn State. With Graham, with Coach Paterno, I’m not that type of person. There’s been an issue with people speculating. I want to see it myself and read it myself. I’m the type of person where I want to see it firsthand. Everything I’ve heard has been second hand or the media reporting. We will know a lot more over the next couple of months. For me, personally, I don’t know how that leak occurred. For him to have to go through all this in his last days was something that I hated to see.įormer President Graham Spanier’s emails-apparently part of the internal Penn State investigation-reveal that he called not reporting an alleged incident of sexual assault “humane.” Why were the emails leaked to NBC News?Ĭertainly with anything that’s confidential, you never want to see leaks. You hate to see anybody or anyone at Penn State or Coach Paterno go through anything like this. I think he deserved an opportunity to come in, and he deserved more than a phone call. I would not have fired him on the basis that they got rid of him. If you were on the board, would you have fired him?Ībsolutely not. ![]() Many alumni are upset that Joe Paterno was fired. ![]()
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