
Penn State's first president Evan Pugh was born in 1828 at Jordan Bank Farm, three miles south of the city center of Oxford, Pennsylvania, an hour west of Philadelphia in Chester County. One-hundred eighty-nine years later, an Oxford brewery is honoring one of the preeminent champions of "liberal and practical" higher education in the form of a delicious Porter.

Penn State has filed a countersuit against former President Graham Spanier, claiming he breached his employment contract and fiduciary duties and misled the university about the extent of his knowledge about the child sexual abuse investigation of Jerry Sandusky.

A Dauphin County judge last week dismissed all claims against Penn State and all but one against Kappa Delta Rho fraternity in a former student's lawsuit against the university and fraternity.