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It's amazing how such a bunch of clowns who slandered Paterno and continues that bloodline are so worried about the stadium, naming and other stupid garbage.
“Spokespeople for Penn State and Elevate did not respond to requests for comment.”
I’m sure it’s all fine.
The issue is there are like 40 or so people that actually care about this - many of them on this Board, but they couldn't give two ***** about us because we don't have big donor pockets and the rest of the world has moved on. We have no real say. They know it. And nothing will ever change.
The bother of the effort to oversee an actual institution of higher learning is the tax the board has to deal with in order to really focus on their primary concern which is research. Penn State is a research institution hidden within the camouflage of an undergraduate institution
That feeling may very well persist among most Deans, Department Heads and the like. I imagine they frequently have those types of conversations among themselves, and in various faculty groups.
Among the highest levels of University leadership though, it could not be more clearly the opposite. 180 degrees so.
(IIRC, your background has roots in the academic side of things - so I expect that is where those observations take root)
There was certainly a time when "University Leadership" percolated up from the academic side of the institutions. Those days are long gone.
The "business" is now run largely by folks who neither care nor - in many cases - understand that.
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Penn State is an athletic institution hidden within the camouflage of an academic institution.
