Response to Penn State sex-abuse case came from far and wide:
From THE REPUBLIC: “Branstetter, also Corbett’s nonvoting representative on the Penn State board, often served as a conduit for university officials to the governor’s office as they attempted to control the fallout…”
“David Saxe, an education professor at Penn State, wrote the governor to criticize a lack of transparency on the campus. ’Every dean, every department head, every administrator . . . was forced to swear fidelity or be silenced,’ he wrote. ‘I urge you to do anything to change this culture . . . that has become Penn State.’”
“Their correspondences were met with a curt form response urging their authors to contact Penn State: ‘Gov. Corbett does not have authority over the university’s internal personnel decisions.’”
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Corbett: Paterno Had to Go
From FOX NEWS: (Nov. 11, 2011) Pennsylvania Gov. Tom Corbett defended his decision to vote to fire Penn State University head football coach Joe Paterno while predicting Sunday that more young victims of ex-defensive coordinator Joe Sandusky will come forward.
Corbett, who as governor is on the university’s board of trustees, told “Fox News Sunday” that even though a grand jury determined Paterno did nothing criminal by not taking further action than reporting to his boss that he heard Sandusky had raped a child in the football team’s locker room, that wasn’t good enough…
Corbett added that while being cautious about discussing a case still under investigation, he saw in Paterno — and University President Graham Spanier, who was also fired — “a failure to act.”
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