The Daily Collegian ran an editorial yesterday vilifying those calling for the Board of Trustees to review the Freeh Report and urging the board to simply move forward and enact the recommendations for the university that were laid out in the report. I took issue with the editorial's assertion -- not because it went in complete circles and not because each sentence got its own paragraph -- but because of the flawed premise that the writer based his or her argument on.
This winter may feature not one, but two trials involving former Penn State officials.
On Monday afternoon, the attorney for former vice-president Gary Schultz motioned to have his client's trial severed from Tim Curley. A court spokeswoman that a similar motion is expected to be filed by Curley.
John Ziegler has been a very well-known critic of the Freeh Report. He's pointed out its flaws, he's made a video about what a Freeh-proclaimed Penn State cover-up would've looked like, and now he wants Penn State's media critics to put their money where their mouth is.
Following the severe sanctions announced by NCAA president Mark Emmert this morning, the Big Ten council of presidents and chancellors have released a statement. They supported the NCAA's decisions and also ruled that Penn State will be ineligible to receive its share of conference bowl revenue during the four year postseason ban. Instead, the money, which is projected to be $ 13 million, will go to charitable organizations that work to protect children. The full statement can be found below:
NCAA President Mark Emmert held a press conferences minutes ago to announce severe sanctions for Penn State including...
Since the release of Former FBI director Louis Freeh's report last Thursday, one of the most discussed phrases has been "death penalty." If anything has been more disappointing than the extent to which this topic has been exhausted, it is the way it has been discussed with national columnists and broadcasters attempting to play moral police and make up non-existent rules that are convenient for their arguments.