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Send this to a friend Your email Recipient email Send Cancel. But within one hour of the statue being removed Sunday morning the NCAA released its statement, at 9 a. Some critics had also called for the Paterno family name to be removed from the library. But Erickson said no. Thus I feel strongly that the library's name should remain unchanged. The issue of the appropriateness of the Paterno name on the library has received far less attention as the future of the statue, which was paid for by a group of about 35 alumni and their spouses in the late s.
The issue quickly divided the country and the Penn State community. Commentators argued about the symbolism of the statue, from college coaching legends like Bobby Bowden to iconic stars of the football team like Franco Harris. For three days last week, a small plane pulled a banner over State College that read, "Take the statue down or we will.
On some days, a campus auxiliary police officer guarded the statue. The bronze statue of Paterno has been a place for supporters to rally and pray since the coach's death on Jan.
One late night after Paterno died, one of his sons, Jay Paterno, visited the statue and had his photograph taken with fans. Supporters have placed flowers and signs at the statue's foot, most supportive of Paterno. The Paternos took pictures of the statue. Late last week, the trustees and Erickson decided whether to remove statue should be an administration decision.
As recently as Friday, some trustees expressed fury that the statue might be taken down. What made the decision especially difficult for university officials was the Paternos' philanthropy to Penn State. The Freeh report found that Paterno, ousted longtime university president Graham Spanier, athletic director Tim Curley and vice president Gary Schultz worked to keep the Sandusky child sexual abuse allegations from becoming public across a period of 14 years.
Paterno and Spanier were fired in November by the Board of Trustees. Erickson said the decision to remove the statute but keep the Paterno name on the library is one that "both recognizes the many contributions that Joe Paterno made to the academic life of our university while taking seriously the conclusions of the Freeh Report and the national issue of child sexual abuse.
Today, as every day, our hearts go out to the victims. Many of those watching the removal stared in disbelief and at least one woman wept, while others expressed anger at the decision. She said she felt betrayed by university officials, saying they promised openness but said nothing about the decision until just before the removal work began.
Dozens later gathered to watch and listen to the sound of sawing, scraping and shoveling as white-helmeted workers behind tarpaulins removed Paterno's name and various plaques from the walls behind where the statue had stood. Shortly before midday, all that appeared to remain was the bare concrete and stone. Much of the work was hidden by blue tarps strung across temporary chain link fences while barricades kept observers on the other side of the street.
Few watching said they understood the decision and feared what kind of punishment the NCAA would pile on. Derek Leonard, 31, a university construction project coordinator who grew up in the area, said the construction workers on the project told him it was like watching a funeral when the statue was lowered onto the truck and then rolled away. He didn't completely agree with the decision but worried more that the NCAA would shut down the football program. Richard Hill, 67, West Chester, a Penn State alumnus, said, "If you punish the football program or Joe Paterno -- they're tied together -- this town is going to suffer.
Penn State fans and the late coach's family may soon be able to see new replica statues that look nearly identical to the original.
Paterno's upraised right hand, originally cast in a "Number One" gesture, will now be a defiantly clenched fist. Yesid Gomez and Wilfer Buitrago, two cousins who did the casting work on the original Paterno statue based on a sculpture by Reading artist Angelo Di Maria, said Sunday they are hard at work in a secret location in the Lancaster County borough of Ephrata, creating two brand-new statues - this time with no approval from Penn State, the Paterno family or Di Maria.
One of the replicas will be donated to the Paterno family and the other will be displayed for Penn State faithful at various locations. The original statue, 7-feet tall and weighing nearly 1, pounds, was commissioned by Paterno friends in his honor. It was installed outside the stadium in with bas-relief sculptures of football players mounted to the wall behind the statue, also designed by Di Maria.
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