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Eli, as some have noted, is an ancient professor, an academic if you will. He has followed the collapse of governance at Penn State with the interest of a bunny watching a disaster unveiled, and recently saw much back and forth about the NCAA (the folks who profit from and do the pompous on intercollegiate athletics in the US) imposing the death penalty on football at PSU. Folks, that ain’t the death penalty Penn State has to worry about. Accreditation at US institutions of higher learning runs through cooperative associations of colleges and universities, who certify to the US Department of Education. That ain’t whiffle ball because all federal funding, student loans, research grants and more depend on that certification
Tom Curtis at 07:30 AM on 20 July, 2012 That claim is simply absurd.