SPANIER HEADED TO JAIL

He’s been successful at delaying it for a long time, but now it appears inevitable… former Penn State president Graham Spanier will soon have to report to jail. Spanier was forced out as the school’s top administrator when Jerry Sandusky was arrested. That was now a decade ago. He has been in a legal fight for his freedom for the past ten years, but on Wednesday a judge upheld his sentence that was first handed down about four years ago, meaning Spanier will now head behind bars. The judge yesterday, ordered Graham Spanier to begin serving at least two months at the county jail that sits just a few miles from the Penn State campus he once ran, on July 9th. When he is released from jail, Spanier will then have to serve two months of house arrest on electronic monitoring after he was convicted back in 2017 by a jury of endangering the welfare of children. That conviction came following an investigation that led to him being charged back in 2012 in response to reports from his aides that a graduate assistant football coach had complained after catching Sandusky showering alone with a boy in a team locker room in 2001. The now 72 year old Spanier remains a tenured faculty member at Penn State. he is currently listed as being on administrative leave and not teaching classes.