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Sources: PSU trustees left furious
"But behind closed doors, in private committee meetings and during several meals, the trustees
expressed fury at the way they were portrayed in the report: as passive, ill-prepared or uninformed bystanders while then-university president Graham Spanier and then-general counsel Cynthia Baldwin downplayed the potential threat of the Sandusky investigation to Penn State.
The Freeh report criticizes trustees for failing to grasp the significance of the state attorney general's criminal inquiry of Sandusky and the grand jury appearances of Paterno, athletics director Tim Curley and vice president Gary Schultz. Freeh's investigators blamed the trustees' culture of secrecy and deference for university leaders to allow the crisis to do more to harm Penn State's reputation than any other event in its 156-year history.
Several alumni groups have called for some or all of the
32 trustees to resign, but they have all steadfastly refused. Instead, the board and university leaders pledged last week to
adapt many, if not all, of the 119 recommendations for reform made by the Freeh report. "
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Two trustees said the board was most angry at Steve Garban, the then-board chairman who was informed by Spanier in April 2011 of the Sandusky investigation but
failed to notify his fellow trustees, according to the Freeh report.
In late October 2011, Garban was also told by Spanier that Schultz and Curley would soon be indicted, the Freeh report states.
Garban alerted two trustees -- John Surma and Jim Broadhurst -- to the imminent charges but failed to tell anyone else on the Board of Trustees, the Freeh report states. Spanier had told Freeh's investigators that he assumed Garban would inform the full board.
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A lot of this mess could have been avoided if Garban had just told everyone else," a trustee told "Outside the Lines." "
Most of us didn't know what was going on. If we had a week's heads-up, we could have gone to (Paterno) and tried to sort this out. We were blindsided."
Another trustee said: "It was his job to keep everyone in the loop. It's outrageous. He should do the honorable thing and resign."
In fact, the two trustees said Garban was confronted on Friday before the public session of the board meeting and was urged to resign for "the good of the board." Garban declined, the trustees said.
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He's going to try to ride it out," one trustee said. "
He thinks he'll survive this.""
