Penn State President Graham Spanier will quit or be fired today

[alcibiades_mystery]

Source: Lehigh Valley Live (Express Times)

Penn State University President Graham Spanier will either resign or be voted out by the end of today, a source close to the board of trustees told The Express-Times.

An interim president, most likely Executive Vice President and Provost Rodney A. Erickson, will be appointed and a nationwide search for a permanent replacement will begin, according to the source who requested anonymity.

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Read more: http://www.lehighvalleylive.com/breaking-news/index.ssf/2011/11/penn_state_president_graham_sp.html

[Raven]

1. But Joe P. gets to hang around??? n/t

[Journeyman]

5. Spanier isn't 8 & 1 with a bowl game in the offing . . .

but with all the pressure that's mounting, I suspect Paterno is in his final hours as well. . .

[roguevalley]

17. the old bastard is giving orders and they are taking them. The

school deserves what it gets if they keep fucking this up.

[msanthrope]

2. He should be leaving in cuffs. I hope they take his pension.

And I hope they revisit giving pensions to all these fuckers.

[Freddie Stubbs]

3. Prosecutors have hinted that he may still be under invstigation

[Divernan]

14. The victims can sue him in civil court for every damn dollar of that pension.

There's still a possibility of criminal prosecution. Even if Corbett's AG wimps out on that criminal action, every one of the victims can sue him in civil court, with Penn State as co-defendant, for allowing the pedophile to continue operating under the aegis of Penn State since the first report to campus police back in 1998.

[Botany]

4. And Joe Pa should follow him too

The President of PSU knew, Joe Pa knew, and the A.D. knew about "it" from as far back as 1998 and their in action let more little
boys be raped by a serial child a serial child molester. Why the President of PSU and Coach Paterno still have jobs at the University
is beyond me.

[SomeGuyInEagan]

16. In cuffs, along with the A.D. and the grad assistant (now asst. coach) ...

... along with anyone else involved in this coverup.

[Fuddnik]

6. Give them both severance packages.

French Revolution Severance Packages.

[Ruby the Liberal]

7. Penn State president Graham Spanier told by board of trustees: quit or be fired

Source: NY Daily News

STATE COLLEGE, Pa. - Penn State's trustees have reportedly given university president Graham Spanier two options: quit or be fired.

The Patriot-News of Harrisburg is reporting that the trustees have told Spanier that he must resign Wednesday, or he will be ousted at an emergency meeting scheduled for Wednesday night.

The grand jury report that detailed the allegations against former Penn State defensive coordinator Jerry Sandusky said Spanier was told that Mike McQueary, then a graduate assistant and now the Nittany Lions' receivers coach and recruiting coordinator, had seen Sandusky with a boy in a Penn State shower in 2002.


Read more: http://www.nydailynews.com/sports/college/penn-state-president-graham-spanier-told-board-trustees-quit-fired-article-1.975111

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Two down, McQ to go. Make it happen.

More:

http://abcnews.go.com/US/joe-paterno-penn-state-president-graham-spanier-sex/story?id=14913848#.TrriY0Mg_UA

http://www.lehighvalleylive.com/breaking-news/index.ssf/2011/11/penn_state_president_graham_sp.html

[Vincardog]

8. had seen Sandusky with a boy in a Penn State shower CORRECTION had seen Sandusky RAPING a 10 yr boy

[ScreamingMeemie]

9. One down... Paterno retiring at the end of the season isn't good enough.

[Ruby the Liberal]

10. You got that right

I hope the trustees see the outrage and can him NOW. Letting him leave on his own terms is only going to fuel anger.

[d_r]

11. I don't have any sympathy for McQueary

He said that he saw a 10-year-old boy being molested in a shower, and not only did he not report it immediately to the proper authorities, but he did nothing to stop it. Absolutely disgusting.

[Lugnut]

13. He needs to go too.

All he had to do was make one phone call after he helped that child. How does he look at himself in the mirror?

[Divernan]

12. Penn State rakes in $70 million a year from its football program.

Maureen Dowd's column today lays out all the facts and paints a picture of cowardly men who didn't give a shit about the child victim or any past or future victims, but only their own job prospects/earning potential. The "grad student" was 28 years old at the time and is now an assistant coach for the Penn state team. And while Sanduskey was told to stay out of the showers on the main campus, he continued to run his football camps for young boys on a branch Penn State campus. Paterno could have and should have stopped this pervert cold by going directly to the cops.

Op-Ed Columnist
Personal Foul at Penn State
By MAUREEN DOWD
Published: November 8, 2011
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Paterno was told about it the day after it happened by Mike McQueary, a graduate assistant coach who testified that he went into the locker room one Friday night and heard rhythmic slapping noises. He looked into the showers and saw a naked boy about 10 years old “with his hands up against the wall, being subjected to anal intercourse by a naked Sandusky,” according to the grand jury report.

It would appear to be the rare case of a pedophile caught in the act, and you’d think a graduate student would know enough to stop the rape and call the police. But McQueary, who was 28 years old at the time, was a serf in the powerfully paternal Paternoland. According to the report, he called his dad, went home and then the next day went to the coach’s house to tell him.

Curley did not call the university police, who had investigated an episode in 1998 in which Sandusky admitted he was wrong to shower with an 11-year-old boy and promised not to do it again. (Two years later, according to the grand jury report, a janitor saw Sandusky performing oral sex on a boy in the showers and told his supervisor, who did not report it.)

Like the Roman Catholic Church, Penn State is an arrogant institution hiding behind its mystique. And sports, as my former fellow sports columnist at The Washington Star, David Israel, says, is “an insular world that protects its own, and operates outside of societal norms as long as victories and cash continue to flow bountifully.” Penn State rakes in $70 million a year from its football program.

www.nytimes.com/2011/11/09/opinion/dowd-personal-foul-at-penn.html

[Botany]

18. Joe needs gone right now

I could not read the grand jury testimony because as the father of a teen age boy I found it just too sickening. Maureen Dowd's op-ed
in the NY Times should be nailed to Jo Pa's front door along with a note telling him that all his personal belongings @ the football offices will be packed
up and will be shipped to his home tomorrow. Penn State should cancel and forfeit the remaining games for this year out of respect to all the victims
of this unspeakable horror.

I have a good friend who works in the mental health and addiction field and I asked him about what happens to the victims of child sexual abuse and
what he told me was chilling. Suicides, depression, addictions, and many other problems haunt the victims for many yearsif not their lifetimes. Often
abused kids grow up to become a abusive as adults and the whole cycle just keeps going.

With all this garbage coming to light how can Penn State have Joe Paterno on the sidelines durning Saturday's game or even at a practice tomorrow?

[Divernan]

15. From another lehigh valley live article: Joe Pa becomes No Pa.

Joe Paterno, Penn State officials keep quiet in desperate attempt to save themselves.
(It's the third article down in the OP's link.)
(Snips)

Paterno may fight with the same ferocity he showed in 2008, when he scoffed at claims that his program--which had seen 46 players face criminal charges over a period of five-plus years--was out of control. He bared his teeth at reporters who questioned him then. He called it a "witch hunt." And, indeed, it all soon blew over and everyone loved JoePa again.

He may fight like he did in 2004, when the Nittany Lions were struggling and university officials including Spanier and athletic director Tim Curley went to his house and encouraged him to step down. Paterno defiantly stood up to them all--one of the stories that made so many folks love and admire JoePa.

But it's really not entirely charming. When criticized or challenged, even for something inarguably legitimate (see: 2008), Paterno doesn't like to look inward. He scoffs. He mocks. Most recently, he hides behind official statements.

He becomes NoPa.

[applegrove]

19. Good.