Onward State and our partner site, StateCollege.com, will have live coverage from today's Penn State Board of Trustees meeting. Watch the livestream and follow our aggregation of the best coverage of today's meeting after the jump.
The "Board of Trustees" has been thrown around in conversation very generally as if to explain an omnipotent identity when for the most part, its actual structure and power dynamics are overlooked. It is the purpose of this article to explain the bigger picture, to answer the questions "What is the Board of Trustees?" and "What makes one eligible to be on the board?".
Spray-painted graphics depicting the face of Joe Paterno appeared across campus Tuesday. The graphics also contained the word "remember," but is that the appropriate call to action?