LEHIGH VALLEY MORNING CALL: They’re the Penn Staters we haven’t heard from amid the din from students and alumni. But their time has come.
As mourners pay their final respects to former head football coach Joe Paterno on Tuesday, Penn State‘s faculty is set to meet and consider a motion already stamped as truth in the minds of many — a vote of no confidence in the university’s beleaguered board of trustees, who fired Paterno by phone and still maintain they never knew of the allegations of abuse against disgraced former assistant coach Jerry Sandusky.
It would be the most provocative statement yet from faculty, who until now have largely remained neutral. It comes as the trustees are expected to hold their first of several town hall meetings Tuesday, this one focusing on the very constituency that may vote to support throwing them out…
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EDITOR: Since former attorney general and now governor Tom Corbett was the ring leader of the board in the firing of Joe Paterno as well as responsible for the delay in the prosecution of Jerry Sandusky, such a vote would especially be an expression of no confidence in him.
