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Penn State’s Faculty Senate Calls for Independent Investigation of Scandal

November 18, 2011, 3:41 pm

The Faculty Senate of Pennsylvania State University today requested an independent investigation of the alleged sex-abuse crimes at the university. During an emergency meeting, Senate members called for the investigation to be conducted by an independent committee that would not include people with ties to Penn State. According to StateCollege.com, a local news Web site, one member said many faculty senators were concerned that such a committee would be led by a trustee, Kenneth Frazier, who has been affiliated with the university for a long time. Penn State’s student newspaper, The Daily Collegian, reported that a resolution approved by the Senate calls for support for the university’s president and expresses sympathy for the alleged victims of sex abuse.

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  • Guest

    Great! This is exactly what college faculty need to busy themselves with–gossip.

    Can we please please please get past the Penn State rape scandal in the Chronicle? I am truly burnt out on reading about prepubescent boys, showers, and Jerry Sandusky’s lecherous homosexual adventures. Why not talk about the student debt crisis?

  • profmomof1

    I don’t think the many young boys who were raped are going to “get past” this for years. Especially with so many who were responsible denying their responsibility, and so many students whining about how this negatively affects their football. And kudos to the Penn State faculty senate for realizing that no one out there is going to believe or have trust in an “investigation” led by some of those responsible for covering up things (and therefore allowing them to continue) for so long. The Chronicle should KEEP talking  about this RELENTLESSLY until there is evidence of change taking place at that instititution so that something like this can’t happen again. If my son were one of the victims I’d expect no less from my colleagues.

  • joelcairo

    ROP Lopez, you need to stop right now.  You are way out of line.  Put yourself in the shoes of the parents of the boys raped or sexually molested.  Would you want people to just shut up about it before anything has been done that sends a clear message of institutional change that will better protect children who are entrusted in the care of adults?  CHE reports on many stories besides this one, and you are free to read these other stories if you are so “burnt out” on this particular story.  The fact that you are asking the CHE to stop its reportage of this huge story sends the message that you simply don’t care about children being put in harm’s way. 

  • nyceducator

    ROP Lopez
    This Penn State scandal is part of the Higher Education landscape. Hopefully, this tragedy can change laws in the ENTIRE country. My hope is- a law will soon be passed to make it crimminally negligent if one witnesses child abuse or anything detrimental to a child (i.e sanduskism) and not report it. Apparently, common sense is NOT that common at Penn State!
    I think too often in Administration, too many people are more worried about legal ramifications than the ethical ones. Even the janitors who witnessed the atrocities said NOTHING for fear of retribution. I am still asking…How can can one sleep at night knowing that CHILDREN were violated? Where are the children rights groups? Where is our humanity?     

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Jason-Harvey/1305942032 Jason Harvey

    I’m extremely pleased that somebody understands that to get a truly impartial investigation, they need to let people with no ties to Penn State (or Second Mile, for that matter) conduct the inquiry.  I wrote a letter to the Office of the Attorney General of Pennsylvania after it was announced that the Special Investigative Committee would be primarily composed of current members of the Board of Trustees – these are the same people whose close ties with Sandusky, Schultz, Spanier, Curley, and Paterno made them willfully blind to the atrocities that were reported to have been committed on campus.

    I was pleased to learn that Louis Freeh (and his consulting & investigation firm) will be spearheading the investigation, and that Board of Trustees members are subject to the same scrutiny as anyone else, but I am reserving my full approval until I see evidence that the investigation is truly happening without interference from the Board of Trustees or University administration.

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