Penn State University faculty flunk Freeh Report in first Faculty Senate meeting since NCAA sanctions

From the HARRISBURG PATRIOT-NEWS:

…Senate members applauded two motions Tuesday containing withering criticism of the public condemnations Penn State received this summer from former FBI Director Louis Freeh and NCAA President Mark Emmert.

The sponsor of one of the motions, psychology professor Keith Nelson, argued the NCAA has penalized Penn State “as if its had repeated violations here,” and said the Senate needs to act to help Penn State move forward “in a better way.”

Nelson wants the Senate to ask the NCAA to reconsider the four-year bowl ban, scholarship reductions and other punishments it levied against the football program last month in the wake of Freeh’s report on the university’s handling of the Sandusky scandal…

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EDITOR: Finally Penn State is coming to its senses!    Look how timid the current faculty is…so afraid that by criticizing they might impact their jobs.   As for the hundred of thousands of alumni, didn’t they learn anything at college?

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