For about 30 years (a decade under Spanier), Penn State women's basketball coach Rene Portland had a known policy of not recruiting lesbians and of forcing lesbians off the Penn State team. Perhaps Portland got away with it because she was so successful (over 600 career wins).
And when I say a "known policy," it was known nationally. In 1991, a large media story quoting Penn State players about Portland's "no lesbians" recruiting policy. There was uproar and the Penn State Faculty Senate adding a sexual-orientation clause to its anti-discrimination policy that year. But nothing was done about Portland or her policy.
It was only in 2005, when Jennifer Harris, Lisa Etienne and Amber Bland were dismissed by Portland from the team immediately after Penn State lost in the first round of the NCAA tournament that things went awry. Portland was weeding out the lesbians again. This time, however, Harris sued (and later settled out of court). Spanier finally acted.
So Spanier had no problem with a coach discriminating against lesbians for a decade at the same time he's accused of welcoming GLBTEIEIO, and it being know about nationally, as long as the school was winning basketball games and nobody sued.
If the rest of the Penn State Athletic Department displayed her admirable and practical principles, Penn State would not be suffering the ignominy in which it is immersed today.
Just as universities should not be allowed to have police departments of their own because of obvious conflicts of interest for sworn officers, so the faculty of a university would best mind its academic business and try to convey advertised subject matter (hopefully consistent with Judaeo-Christian civilization) to students rather than posing as a politically correct "legislative body." That no one carried out their "policy" prohibiting "discrimination" on the basis of "sexual orientation" or recreational choice or whatever, is simply an indication that the faculty regards itself (themselves) as infinitely more important than more sensible folks regard them.
I think it would be a great idea if Portland were asked to return as university president, followed by resignation of the entire board of trustees and upper management, and let her choose all of their successors. Normal folks would then flock to Penn State once again. If any of the faculty don't like it, they should prove how much they truly care it by resigning and Rene Portland can screen applications for replacements.
I take it that the addition of EIEIO to GLBT is a humorous reference to Old MacDonald who had a farm?