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Posted: 11:01 a.m. Friday, Sept. 14, 2012

Penn State trustees to hear update on Freeh report recommendations

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By The Associated Press

STATE COLLEGE, Pa. —

Penn State's trustees are to receive an update on the status of changes prompted by the Jerry Sandusky child molestation scandal as they meet at a hotel in State College.

 

 

The board's Friday agenda includes a report on recommendations from a group led by Louis Freeh. He's the former FBI director and federal judge hired by the university to examine how top officials responded to complaints about Sandusky showering with boys in 1998 and 2001.

 

 

The Freeh group's recommendations pertain to the school's culture, administration, legal services, reporting of criminal acts, athletic department, campus police, child safety and even the trustees themselves.

 

 

The meeting comes nearly three months since jurors convicted Sandusky of 45 counts of child sexual abuse.

 

In the meantime, a group of alumni and others with ties to Penn State is finding a lot to criticize in the Freeh report that detailed the university's response to reports that Sandusky was behaving inappropriately with children.

 

 

Penn Staters for Responsible Stewardship said its review of the report turned up "failures" involving lack of disclosure, witnesses who were not interviewed and a supposed lack of evidence to back up conclusions about senior university administrators.

 

 

The 57-page report said the university should have examined the role of state and local government officials and Sandusky's charity, The Second Mile.

 

 

Penn Staters for Responsible Stewardship calls itself an organization of alumni, students, supporters and friends of the university.

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