PLEASE ADD YOUR NAME TO THE LETTER TO PRESIDENT BARRON (below)
Dear President Barron,
On September 5, 2014, you issued an email and video
statement calling for civility and respect among the Penn State community. We truly appreciate your effort to reach out
and open this line of communication with the Penn State family. And, we absolutely embrace the chance for the
PSU community and PSU leadership to come together and demonstrate civility
toward one another.
Hopefully you agree that civility and respect are
to be mutual and reciprocal actions. Many of the alumni have felt the Administration
and Board's decisions and attitude toward us have been very disrespectful -- in
other words, not civil. But, President
Barron, you can change that today. You
are in a unique position with a perfect opportunity to reinstate civility
within our Penn State family.
In your video statement, it
appears that you and the PSU leadership are ready to sit down and talk with us:
“Here
at a university, our primary function is to be able to sit there and talk about
issues and delve into them and learn other people’s opinions and learn the
information that it takes for us to formulate our thoughts. And the only way we
can do that is if we can have a discourse that allows people to talk and to
discuss and not have it end up in something which is really a whole set of
unkind comments. You will never ever be able to reach a conclusion if we stand
apart that far.
If
you think about it, respect and that sense of community at Penn State is really
one of our core values. And so, I hope
you’ll join me and the entire leadership at Penn State University and help us
continue to maintain that very core value of respect for each another.”
Yes! Dr.
Barron we will join you and the entire leadership at PSU to sit down, delve
into, and discuss the issues that ail our community– and one issue in
particular – the Freeh Report.
Therefore, we, the undersigned Penn
State alumni and friends, request that the University Administration and its
Board of Trustees hold Louis Freeh to his pledge of coming to Penn State to discuss
his report. On July 12, 2012, Freeh stated:
We will make ourselves available to
the Task Force and Board to answer any questions they may have, but we will not
have an ongoing role with the University. We will also make ourselves available
to the students, faculty and staff of the University at the appropriate time at
State College.
We also ask that the alumni, who are
indeed part of the Penn State Community, be invited to join in the discussion.
We believe the appropriate time to have a civil and frank discussion about the
Freeh Report is long overdue.
Will you, President
Barron, maintain that core value of respect and grant our request?
For the Glory,
Penn State Friends of march4truth.com
YOUR SIGNATURES GO HERE! PLEASE VISIT http://www.march4truth.com/events.html to make your voice heard!
Although I think this is a great idea but because he was hired by the BoT I don't think he has the authority to change anyone on the Bs opinion. I feel he is more of a talking head expressing the ideas of the B and not his own. I am still looking for specifics as to what PSU is doing differently to eliminate some but not all the sanctions. Just a huge waste of money, but then again we wasted a lot on the Freeh report.
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