New York Times
It was growing late on the night of Nov. 9, 2011. John P. Surma, the chief executive of U.S. Steel and the vice chairman of University’s board of trustees, sat at a rectangular table at the Penn Stater Hotel. Pennsylvania Gov. Tom Corbett was on the speaker phone. Other trustees were present, many emotionally spent.
The board, scrambling to address the child sex abuse scandal involving the university and its football program, had already decided to remove Graham B. Spanier as president. Then, many of those present recalled this week, the tension in the room mounted. ’s fate was next up. Surma announced that an agreement appeared to have been reached to fire Paterno, too —...
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