From the PHILADELPHIA INQUIRER:
As Pennsylvania State University began its three-day public mourning Tuesday of Joe Paterno’s death, elsewhere on campus an academic debate raged on for more than an hour over whether faculty would formally criticize the board of trustees for its handling of the child-sex-abuse scandal that ultimately cost Paterno his coaching job.
In the end, the university’s faculty senate by a large margin voted against taking a “no-confidence” vote against the trustees, after several professors said that such a move would only taint the university further at a time when the trustees were trying to make a new start.
But the wide-ranging debate left no doubt that the academic ranks at Pennsylvania’s flagship university has been shaken to its core, with many members having serious concerns about their employer and how it handled the child-sex-abuse scandal involving former assistant football coach Jerry Sandusky…
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