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Reflections of a Former Trustee: How the Penn State Board of Trustees Really Works
bennovak.net ^ | 1/7/2012 | Ben Novak

Posted on 01/14/2012 6:21:39 PM PST by WPaCon

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This is a long read but worth it if you want to better understand the handling of the Sandusky sex abuse scandal.
1 posted on 01/14/2012 6:21:46 PM PST by WPaCon
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WEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE are Pen State


2 posted on 01/14/2012 6:31:01 PM PST by mortal19440
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To: WPaCon

WEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE are Penn State


3 posted on 01/14/2012 6:31:31 PM PST by mortal19440
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sounds like the Penn State crowd is a bunch of homos


4 posted on 01/14/2012 6:38:31 PM PST by ConservativeDude
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To: WPaCon

I did read all and it brought to mind what a Penn State Alumnus has said about this problem. He feels that it is a Mafia problem. Well, you have described a board of trustees that runs things like the mafia...I guess that is what he was talking about!

How did you ever stick it out in that mess for so long?

Good luck in replacing them all, sincerely, good luck.


5 posted on 01/14/2012 6:57:43 PM PST by BatGuano (You don't think I'd go into combat with loose change in my pocket, do ya?)
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Just to be clear, I’m not Ben Novak.


6 posted on 01/14/2012 7:05:08 PM PST by WPaCon
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Nice try at explaining away the Sandusky child rape scandal, but as a PSU grad, I don’t buy it. Educators everywhere are well aware of the necessity to protect the students in their jurisdiction, every educator knows the responsibility to report child rape to the police. This was a cover up plain and simple. Joe Paterno either protected his own job by shutting up, or he was so uncaring that he was unworthy of the title of his position. Unless he was so senile that he didn’t care about that crap, as an old timer of a more innocent era might have looked at it, shove it under the rug and don’t bother him, he had a football franchise to run and nobody was going to tell him what to do by damn.


7 posted on 01/14/2012 7:07:05 PM PST by Ciexyz
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To: WPaCon

Thanks for posting the piece! Can you ask Ben Novak how he stuck with it?


8 posted on 01/14/2012 7:10:23 PM PST by BatGuano (You don't think I'd go into combat with loose change in my pocket, do ya?)
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To: WPaCon

Great post - it explains a lot. They should fire all their sorry a&&’$ and start over


9 posted on 01/14/2012 7:13:45 PM PST by aMorePerfectUnion (You know, 99.99999965% of the lawyers give all of them a bad name)
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Portions of this were printed in the Pittsburgh Tribune Review recently. The new PSU Prez has been doing damage control at alumni meet and greets in Pittsburgh, Philly and elsewhere in the state.


10 posted on 01/14/2012 7:14:14 PM PST by Ciexyz
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The president certainly was a homosexual. He was probably in on the boy/sex ring. The core group probably is, too—Birds of a feather flock together!

It reminds me of the “educated” elitist John Maynard Keynes-—who had his little homosexual orgies and passed the boys around (like the Hollywood producers who raped the two Coreys) and was glorified and protected by University faculty and praised and glorified by Foundations and publishers-—the same people forcing anal sex into the minds of children and glorifying sodomy in Glee and all media and school text books.

This worldview was prevalent in pagan societies and muslim ones——and regularly practiced Satanic use of boys——like in the Franklin Cover-Up. The homosexual mafia controls Wash. DC and Chicago and has for years. They want God OUT, so they can redesign nature and make the unnatural normal-—to establish their new world order where all their fantasies can be realized—at least for the anointed few. Zero is one of them.


11 posted on 01/14/2012 7:28:07 PM PST by savagesusie (Right Reason According to Nature = Just Law.)
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You’re welcome!


12 posted on 01/14/2012 7:36:57 PM PST by WPaCon
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It makes sense that the trustees selected a Wife Swapping Studies Scholar as Prez and things deteriorated from there.

Michael Mann being the poster boy.

13 posted on 01/14/2012 7:38:12 PM PST by Paladin2
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Never neglect that Joe Pa had his college expenses paid for by a bon viviant, “Busy” Arnold, who was know for hanging out with youts of both sexes.


14 posted on 01/14/2012 7:44:45 PM PST by Paladin2
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The new PSU Prez has been doing damage control at alumni meet and greets in Pittsburgh, Philly and elsewhere in the state.

Penn State's leadership is corrupt, and I'm glad people are starting to realize that. I was great to hear about the standing ovation given at the Pittsburgh meeting after one of the alumni suggested that the board should step down.

15 posted on 01/14/2012 7:46:58 PM PST by WPaCon
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I agree with those who believe that the board and the administration should be remanded to the State Penn.


16 posted on 01/14/2012 7:49:01 PM PST by Paladin2
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To: WPaCon

Can you summarize it for us?


17 posted on 01/14/2012 7:55:13 PM PST by Paradox (I want Obama defeated. Period.)
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To: savagesusie

Spot on, especially the point on zero.

Another reason why he has to be defeated. (For all his shortcomings, I don’t think Romney is part of that particular perversion....)


18 posted on 01/14/2012 7:55:23 PM PST by ConservativeDude
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“. . .doing damage control” will be difficult. Once a scandal hits the news, the next group of studemts applying for entry will not be the cream of the crop. The parents will see to that.

Many years ago when our oldest son was accepted by MIT, we persuaded him to decline and go to the next college on the list, because we considered MIT officials to be criminally negligent. They had put a brilliant student on the plane for home when he was high as a kite. He got off the plane in Spokone, Washington, went to a church with a gun, shot up the place, and was eventually shot and killed by the police.

Thus did those university officials neglect their responsibilities and destroy a young man who had received a perfect score on the SAT -— the only one ever to do so. How many other parents felt as we did and ostracized their school for years to come?


19 posted on 01/14/2012 7:59:39 PM PST by Liberty Wins
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Basically, there is a small corrupt clique within the Board of Trustees that, along with the president it chose, wields way too much power.


20 posted on 01/14/2012 8:07:15 PM PST by WPaCon
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