From the PHILADELPHIA INQUIRER:
Hundreds of Pennsylvania State University alumni packed the Radisson Hotel in King of Prussia on Thursday night, many proudly wearing blue-and-white jerseys and brimming with criticism of the university’s handling of the child sex-abuse scandal that has gripped the university for more than two months.
Many demanded answers on why famed football coach Joe Paterno was fired by the trustees before an internal investigation, and several called for the removal of the trustees for taking that action and failing to protect the university from such a scandal. The large majority of the comments and questions centered on those issues.
Taking the brunt of the anger was Penn State’s new president, Rodney Erickson.
“It feels like the board of trustees, you, everyone just bowed to this media firestorm,” a 1973 graduate said. “It was just so disturbing with how we were perceived and what we did in response to that.”
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EDITOR: A fire storm is brewing. Just wait until the Penn State alumni figure out that Governor Tom Corbett is a Penn State trustee and that he was the one heading the lynch mob. Furthermore, sooner or later it will become widely evident that Corbett delayed and likely obstructed the investigation.
Yet Corbett signaled yesterday that he would seek a second term. We think he’ll be lucky to finish the first one.
