STATE COLLEGE, Pa.--The Penn State Board of Trustees, still sanctimonious in its public moral outrage, continues to violate state law. The Board held a private three hour meeting, Wednesday evening to discuss the NCAA sanctions and the role university president Dr. Rodney Erickson played in accepting the sanctions.
Erickson, according ...
BREAKING–Penn State Trustees Violate State Law (again)
Posted On Thursday, July 26, 2012 By Walter M. Brasch. Under Education, Sports and Games Tags: Penn State, Penn State Trustees
STATE COLLEGE, Pa.--The Penn State Board of Trustees, still sanctimonious in its public moral outrage, continues to violate state law. The Board held a private three hour meeting, Wednesday evening to discuss the NCAA sanctions and the role university president Dr. Rodney Erickson played in accepting the sanctions.
Erickson, according ...
Henry Giroux on Penn State, College Athletics, and Capitalism: Solidarity “impossible when sports are driven by market values”
Posted On Thursday, July 19, 2012 By Matt J. Stannard. Under Education, Interviews, Sports and Games Tags: Capitalism, Henry Giroux, Penn State
Although the circumstances that occasioned it were troubling, it was an honor to finally get to speak with Henry A, Giroux, who currently holds the Global TV Network Chair Professorship at McMaster University in the English and Cultural Studies Department. A prolific author on the intersections of capitalism and education, ...
Whenever I need a couple of laughs, I turn to the bumbling self-aggrandizing antics of the Pennsylvania legislature.
However, in the past few months, the Penn State Board of Trustees has done the near-impossible; they have provided more laughs than the menagerie in Harrisburg.
To call either the Legislators or the Trustees ...
Penn State Trustees Violated State Law
Posted On Monday, November 21, 2011 By Walter M. Brasch. Under Arts & Culture Tags: child molestation, football, Jerry Sandusky, Joe Paterno, Penn State, Penn State Trustees, Pennsylvania, Right-to-Know law, Sunshine Act
The Penn State Board of Trustees may have several times violated state law for its failure to publicly announce meetings and how it handled the firing of Coach Joe Paterno. However, these violations may be the least of the Board’s worries, as it scrambles to reduce fall-out from the scandal ...
The Sanctimonious Scavengers of the Penn State Scandal
Posted On Friday, November 18, 2011 By Walter M. Brasch. Under Arts & Culture, Editorial, Law Tags: celebrity news, child molesting, football, Jerry Sandusky, Joe Paterno, mass media, media ethics, media reporting, Mike McQueary, Nittany Lions, pedophiles, Penn State, reporters, scandal, Walter Brasch
There is nothing the media love more than a good celebrity sex scandal.
Since the story of Scarlett Johansson’s purloined nude pictures had run its course, and the media squeezed every drop of ink it could from the Kim Kardashian/Kris Humphries engagement/wedding/marriage/divorce, they had to find something else to feed the ...







