Graham Spanier

Four public university presidents make collective $9.2 million

2013-05-12 15:50:00

Four presidents at public research universities made a collective $9.2 million in fiscal year 2012, with the top earner of the group making much of his money because he was fired, according to a report released Sunday by the Chronicle of Higher Education....

Will Spanier be found guilty in PSU case?

2012-11-04 15:25:20

We don't have the facts David Wharton Los Angeles Times Former Penn State President Graham Spanier's indictment gets to the heart of what critics of big-time college sports have said for years: University presidents need to take more responsibility for...

Put the victims first

2012-10-18 08:41:00

It is coming up on one year since the Jerry Sandusky sexual abuse story broke and just about a week since his sentencing, and I am pondering what we have learned from it and where we are in relation to more open dialogue about sexual abuse. Here is...

Penn State must pay price for elevating game above lives

2012-07-16 12:39:00

They knew. Those are the two words that have been going through my mind since the release of the Freeh report. After months of examination of all of the facts surrounding the Jerry Sandusky sexual abuse case, the Freeh report proved that the top Penn...

No collective punishment for Penn State football sins

2012-07-16 12:39:00

Spare me. Spare me the calls to abolish Penn State's football program in the wake of findings by former FBI Chief Louis Freeh that Coach Joe Paterno and other men in power hid the crimes of child rapist/assistant football coach Jerry Sandusky. Spare me...

One reader's take on what happened at Penn State

2012-07-30 06:45:00

Here's what I think happened at Penn State: In 2001, Mike McQueary reported to Coach Joe Paterno that he witnessed a serious crime committed against a child by former assistant coach Jerry Sandusky in the football building at Penn State. Based on the...

For Harford's Penn State alums, the agony of a scandal and its aftermath

2012-07-24 13:50:00

Warren Hartenstine, a Havre de Grace resident who was a member of former Penn State head coach Joe Paterno's first varsity team in 1966, personally knows all the principals in the Jerry Sandusky sex scandal that led to unprecedented NCAA sanctions being...

NCAA sends wrong message with Penn State sanctions

2012-07-24 07:30:00

Penn State deserved to be punished. There is no questioning that. But the NCAA’s unprecedented sanctioning of the football team – doled out by president Mark Emmert himself – solves nothing. If anything, it reinforces the wrong message:...

Jerry Sandusky's final defense will sputter meekly

2012-06-18 13:10:00

As bad as last week was, this one will be worse. All the stories we heard of how former Penn State defensive coordinator Jerry Sandusky befriended young boys, made them aware of his vast power in the State College and then, when they were acutely aware...

Gerry Sandusky, Jerry Sandusky and PSU's scandal

2011-11-11 08:06:00

Gerry Sandusky has never met Jerry Sandusky. There is no relation. The sports director for WBAL and the radio voice of the Ravens has only been in State College, Pa., once in his life, and that was 24 years ago. But after the sex abuse scandal at Penn...

News anchor tells it like it is at Quinnipiac University's graduation

2013-05-20 04:54:02

The medical and communications fields are really different, but TV news anchor Josh Elliott told graduates at Quinnipiac University they have at least one thing in common: "You've all decided to go into the business of being right, all the time."...

Attorney general wants to throw out Curley, Schultz appeal

2013-05-16 07:24:02

The state attorney general wants a judge to throw out the appeal that lawyers for former Penn State officials Tim Curley and Gary Schultz are waging to prevent the grand jury presentment, which outlines the obstruction of justice allegations, from being...

Former Penn State president Graham Spanier arrives at his arraignment in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, Wednesday, November 7, 2012.

2013-05-13 00:00:00

Former Penn State University President Graham Spanier leaves his arraignment before District Justice William Wenner in Lower Paxton Township, Dauphin County on Wednesday.

2012-11-07 00:00:00

Former Penn State University President Graham Spanier arrives for his arraignment before District Justice William Wenner in Lower Paxton Township, Dauphin County on Wednesday.

2012-11-07 00:00:00