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Author's program note. This is a letter long in the making. It is being written for and will be sent to the man in the arena; we hope a man of vision, fortitude, courage and honor, charged with bringing out of hubris and shame a great institution that lost its way and so aided, abetted, permitted and tolerated disgraceful acts which should never have been allowed, much less abided and eased.
The focus so far has been on the events themselves, their perpetration, extent, duration... on the people who did them... and the people who knew and permitted them. And this is natural. The facts must be known and laid before the community and the nation so that we are all clear on what happened.
But we must then proceed apace and with full determination to an analysis of those facts... why had these squalid events taken place and what do they mean? Why had so many of your students, each bright and privileged, come down so firmly on the side of abuse perpetrators instead of innocent victims? Why, too, and shocking, had so many administrators and trustees done the same, devaluing their high offices? All this, too, is important to discover and necessary.
However, all the fact finding in the world, all the erudite deductions, theories, suppositions, conjectures and accurate histories will be meaningless and futile if we do not vow change, revolutionary change, thorough, swift and sweeping. And that is why I am writing to you today, one student of the great Liberal Arts to another, both members of the Community of Educated Men and Women, charged with upholding its high and often inconvenient standards, for they are the best of us.
Now, before I go further, I wish to set the tone by recommending music you will know, a suite of promise, optimism, decency and good sense... set to a transcendent American sound, "Appalachian spring" by Aaron Copland (1944). This music, which speaks to and helps define the essence of a great nation, its great peoples, its great ideals, and the eternal verities on which we built this House, arises from the ancient soil of Pennsylvania, tamed by people of God, of vision, community, determination and insight into how man should live to best advantage. These notable peoples have felt shame amidst these abashing events... and part of your great charge is uplifting them... and rebuilding, reminding, rekindling and resurrecting.
Great wrongs perpetrated, great abuses allowed, great changes required.
What brought one of the nation's great institutions to fall under the control of men who scorned the core values of that institution; men who stood for victory above all regardless of cost when the humane values of the Academy are so very different? Why had these people with their twisted visions, debasing attitudes, and sneering behaviors been allowed to triumph until it was thought normal, acceptable and unexceptional to permit the abuse and violation of the most vulnerable so long as the power of the patriarch was not challenged and his henchmen, sordid and despicable, remained in place, to do his bidding and extend his control?
Many knew and privately deplored but collective silence was the order of the day and so the cancer spread....
Now it is your charge to eradicate this cancer and restore the body politic for its great work for there is everything at stake... and the need to move resolutely now. Here then are my recommendations for the great work at hand:
1) Vow to do whatever necessary so that the facts, all the facts, are brought forth as swiftly and completely as humanly possible. There can be no echo of the dark regime now overturned. It is your job to help pick up every rock and show the world what was allowed to flourish there.
2) Acknowledge, honor and assist the victims, all abused so very young, each of whom now requires the support of all. This scandal will end for your institution, but it will reverberate through the lives of every victim, until the very end. No one must ever forget this...
3) Never regard this problem as a problem of your institution alone, for it is a problem of many great institutions which transferred power to those least able to use it responsibly, everything, absolutely everything, tolerated so long as there was victory, for all that that victory was cheap and meretricious, debased and debilitating.
Your job, sir, is not only to resurrect Penn State... but more importantly to lead the movement to cleanse all the collegiate institutions that chose the dishonorable and sordid, supporting the false god and belief that victory justified every outrage.
There will be those who tell you that being a mere "interim" president you should do as little as possible to rock the boat. I tell you the reverse. You must lead... because you are there and there is much to do. For your crucial work, I offer this model: Dr. James Bryant Conant, a man you might know and must emulate.
Conant.
Born in Dorchester, Massachusetts in 1893, he came to study chemistry at Harvard College, from which he received his B.A. (1914) and his Ph.D. (1917). Professor of physical and organic chemistry, he became President of Harvard in 1933. He intended to use the most bully pulpit in the nation... to change, improve, inspire, support. And he did it in the Grand Manner, changing Harvard from a provincial institution for the previously little challenged sons of socially acceptable families; men who knew little, did little, and contributed little. All this was unacceptable to Conant who believed in merit, discovering it, bolstering it, celebrating it. And other colleges, which might have lead, tardily followed. And so little colleges and backwater universities became the great institutions that fueled America's prosperity and the advancement of the world, part of the great legacy of one man of vision and determination.
Conant, hard-working, austere, a man who sought and met the great challenges, went on, as U.S. High Commissioner to Germany (1953-1957) and U.S. Ambassador to Germany (1955-1957), to rebuild our former enemy and make her our firm friend, the anchor for a Europe at peace since then.
And, then, he tackled the ramshackle structure that was American education, advancing one overdue reform after another... and again galvanizing a nation that only needed such vision and leadership to make the necessary changes.
Thus we come to you and your mission. Resolve to right the imbalance which brought so much mayhem and dishonor to your institution. As you do, move heaven and earth to convene a great commission to reshape collegiate athletics and stop the inequitable system where the health needs, instruction, and activities of so many are sacrificed to and because of the selfish insistence of a few, collegiate grid iron aristocracy whose time has surely gone. Our future leaders, your students, need health maintenance, not inertia, sloth, sedentary enthusiasms, and premature decay. We have sacrificed their health and well-being and this -- along with our priorities -- must be changed.
And one more thing, sir, when you are assailed by lesser folk who do not understand the need for changes, rethinking, reshaping and for great visions (and assailed by them you assuredly will be), remember this: you have adherents around the nation who support you in your strenuous efforts to return your institution and every institution to your glorious motto: "Success with Honor."
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Harvard-educated Dr. Jeffrey Lant is CEO of Worldprofit, Inc., providing a wide range of online services for small and-home based businesses.
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