Thoughts on Joe Paterno One Year Later

by Richard Kostelanetz (April 2013)

Given how universities are structured, Paterno was scarcely the first campus celebrity to insist on perks and dispensations, not only for himself but for his favorite students, while doing his basic job. Nor will Paterno be the last. Commentators who pretend otherwise are dumb, dumb, dumb.

Early in April 2012, ESPN released a statement that Paterno reportedly prepared but, as he died, never got to read. Here is his summary:

that he did not know what to do next.

NNDB.com, Wikipedia.com, and Britannica.com, among other distinguished directories. Otherwise, he survives in New York, where he was born, unemployed and thus overworked.

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