January 1, 2012

Penn State Scandal Encompasses Professors, Too

Faculty members demand greater role in university affairs

Penn State Scandal Encompasses Professors, Too 1

Nabil K. Mark for The Chronicle

Debra Hawhee, a professor of English at Penn State, stands in front of the Gary Schultz child-care center on the University Park campus. After revelations of Mr. Schultz's involvement in the scandal, she says she struggled to drop off her 2-year-old daughter at the center.

By Robin Wilson

On game days you won't find Robert C. Marshall at the football stadium with the fans flaunting Pennsylvania State University blue and white. Mr. Marshall, chairman of the university's economics department, doesn't like crowds and prefers to spend his Saturdays playing golf or revising a research paper.

So it was unusual for Mr. Marshall, after the Penn State child-abuse scandal broke last fall, to go out and buy both a Nittany Lion ring and a lapel pin. He also fished around in a