From the WILLIAMSPORT MORNING CALL:
The governor, guaranteed a seat on Penn State’s board of trustees, is one of only a few governors in history to be active participant.
A year into his term, Corbett already has attended two meetings and is an active participant in discussions, questioning university expenditures and policy. In doing so, he’s revealed the peculiarities of his position, acting as both the chief executive of a state that gives the college money and a university representative who decides how to spend it…
At the same time, Corbett wants to cut 30 percent from Penn State’s appropriation and freeze $11 million promised for this school year. He has said public colleges in Pennsylvania need to shrink the way all governments should…
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EDITOR: What an incredible situation. The board is duty bound to represent the interest of the university vis a vis others. The governor is a de facto member which never was intended to make him the boss of the board. Instead Corbett, who has the prestige of being governor and holds the purse strings, takes de facto charge. In the 1930s there was a word for such authoritarian forms of government… fascism.
