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Corbett Asks Court to Overturn Penn State’s NCAA Sanctions
By Joel Mathis 5/20/2013
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In a move that has nothing at all to do with the fact that Pennsylvania Gov. Tom Corbett is deeply unpopular heading into next year's re-election campaign, the governor's attorneys will appear in court today asking a judge to overrule the NCAA's hefty sanctions against Penn State football stemming from the Jerry Sandusky case.
State College News reports:
Corbett filed the antitrust lawsuit against the NCAA on Jan. 2. That was five months after Penn State President Rodney Erickson signed a consent decree agreeing to the NCAA's sweeping sanctions.
Those penalties included a $60 million fine, a reduction in scholarships and a four-year
Penn State Officially Has a Bed Bug Problem
By Simon van Zuylen-Wood 5/16/2013
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Just in time to greet a busload full of high school students, an army of bed bugs has invaded Penn State.
Hundreds of kids flock to Penn State's main campus every summer for science camp, but this year some of those children got an extra lesson on entomology after they found bed bugs crawling around their sheets.
Not bad, writer of the article. Not bad. The bed bugs in question, PSU confirms, have infested three dorm rooms in Curtin Hall, in the East Hall complex of the University Park campus. Not surprisingly, several students reported bites. Thank heavens our friend the Nittany
Oh Look. Penn State Fans Are Bashing A Journalist. There’s A Surprise.
By Joel Mathis 5/15/2013
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Believe it or not, here's a story about sports journalism and Penn State football fans that has nothing to do with Joe Paterno and Jerry Sandusky. Doesn't matter. There's still obnoxiousness involved.
Sports Illustrated writer David Epstein has written a story questioning whether Penn State athletics still have too much power at the university. The focus this time isn't Sandusky's problems, but rather—as PennLive.com notes—"takes a critical look at the medical care operation of the PSU football program, the recent reshuffling of the medical staff and head trainer Tim Bream, who was investigated by an outside law firm in January."
Epstein's story
Joe Paterno Is Alive and Lunching With Elvis*
By Joel Mathis 5/14/2013
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* Editor's note: Joe Paterno is not alive.
There have been a number of conspiracy theories surrounding the ouster of Joe Paterno from the Penn State football program in the wake of the Jerry Sandusky scandal, but this letter Tweeted by ESPN's Bob Ley today takes the cake:
The answer to your question, Doug, is: No.
[Hat tip: Crossing Broad]
High-Paid, Winning College Football Coaches Are Worth Every Million
By Michael Bradley 5/14/2013
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Last week, Deadspin published an infographic revealing that the highest-paid state employees in 80 percent of the U.S. are college football and basketball coaches. That includes Penn State football boss Bill O’Brien.
Cue the hysteria.
Last Year, Graham Spanier Was the Best-Paid Public University Prez in the Country
By Simon van Zuylen-Wood 5/13/2013
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Penn State President Graham Spanier was fired halfway into the 2011-2012 academic year amid the Jerry Sandusky scandal. And yet, he was still the best-compensated public university executive in the country during that time.*
With compensation that totaled $2,906,721, Spanier clinched the No. 1 spot in the Chronicle of Higher Education’s Executive Compensation Survey of Public Colleges and Universities released today. He received $350,959 in base salary for the five months he served as president in the 2011-12 academic year. And Spanier received a $1.2 million severance payment and $1.2 million in deferred compensation paid out that year, as per Internal Revenue
Adidas and Penn State Settle That Whole Sweatshop Labor Thing
By Simon van Zuylen-Wood 5/09/2013
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Two months ago, Penn State suspended its relationship with Adidas, which makes school apparel, for its failure to provide $1.8 million in severance pay to workers after a factory closed in Indonesia. Each of the 2,600 workers laid off, in other words, was owed $692. Assuming each makes about $2 per day, a common sweatshop estimate, that's the equivalent of about two years in wages. University President Rodney Erickson threatened that the school would terminate their contract if Adidas didn't settle up in 60 days.
Adidas has now complied, reaching an undisclosed settlement with the workers. Though no one seems to
Corbett Loses Voting Power as Pro-Paterno Candidates Sweep Trustee Elections
By Simon van Zuylen-Wood 5/06/2013
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The backlash to the Paterno backlash continues at Penn State, where pro-JoePa candidates swept elections for the Board of Trustees on Friday. Not at all coincidentally, the three winners--Edward Brown III, Barbara Doran, and William Oldsey--were all endorsed by the Paterno family. Several incumbents, who were on the board when Paterno was fired, lost in a landslide. Oldsey, an education publishing consultant, feels "very strongly that the Paterno legacy has to be resurrected . . . in order for us to truly move forward in the right direction."
The Board also approved a sweeping list of changes to the way it
Buzzfeed: Penn University: Sexy And Smart. Temple? Halfway There.
By Joel Mathis 5/01/2013
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Buzzfeed is awesome at making lists, and the site's latest list is especially flattering locally: The University of Pennsylvania comes in fourth in Buzzfeed's rankings of universities that combine sexy hotness with intellectual achievements. (Does this have anything to do with Business Nude? Who cares!) Princeton, Dartmouth, and Brown rank right ahead of the Quakers.
Says Buzzfeed: "Coming in 17th in academics and 33rd in hotness, Penn beats out several of its Ivy brethren. John Legend enrolled at 16 and studied English and African-American literature."
The bad news? Though it's not ranked, Temple University came in well-represented on "most-sexy" among the schools…but
Penn State’s Popularity Continues to Plummet as Applications Fall by 9 Percent
By Simon van Zuylen-Wood 4/25/2013
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Penn State University received nine percent fewer applicants this year than they did in 2012, fielding about five thousand fewer applications than the 59,000 it considered last year. A survey of the New York Times's college admissions datasets from the last three years suggests this runs counter to the prevailing trend, in which applications are increasing, and schools are becoming (necessarily) more selective. Penn, meanwhile, received .21 percent more applications in 2013 than it did in 2012. [AP]
