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Graham Spanier Not Allowed to Attend Wedding in Slovakia

Ex-Penn State President Graham Spanier has been defiantly denying Sandusky-related accusations against him and his university for months now, so it wasn't exactly surprising when he asked for a little casual reprieve from the terms of his bail last month. A month after being charged in November with endangering the welfare of children, among other things, Spanier asked the state to let him travel to Germany to visit a Holocaust memorial, to Slovakia for a wedding, and to the U.K., where he apparently has some business with the State Department. This after accusing Gov. Corbett of prosecuting him out of personal

Penn State President Gets $85K Raise

A year after taking the helm in embattled Happy Valley, Penn State President Rodney Erickson president has seen his salary rise from $515,000 to $600,000, essentially for not being Graham Spanier. PSU, which picked up Spanier's $2.5 million in Sandusy-related legal fees, paid the former president $700,000 last year. Among those likely unhappy with the raise: the Penn State student body, which booed Erickson for removing JoePa's statue from Beaver Stadium. [Centre Daily Times]