PNA response to Graham Spanier’s editorial
Jun 18th, 2007 by dani_k
On June 10, The Patriot-News ran an editorial by Graham Spanier where he expounded on his beliefs that Penn State should be exempt from open records legislation.
Yesterday, the paper ran an editorial from PNA President Tim Williams in response. It’s a good read. Here’s my favorite nugget of info from Tim’s editorial:
There are many colleges and universities in Pennsylvania and across the country that operate quite successfully as open, accountable institutions. In Pennsylvania, universities within the State System of Higher Education such as Kutztown, Shippensburg and IUP are subject to the Right to Know Law — their records are open to the public and accessible. Universities such as the University of Texas, the University of California, Ohio State, Oklahoma State, the University of Missouri and Kansas State, to name just a few, are subject to their states’ open records laws and function outstandingly as leaders in the academic world.
Today’s Beaver County Times editorial points out, “It’s now up to Pennsylvania residents to insist that their lawmakers kick the door open the rest of the way and let them in.”
Have any you readers contacted their legislators? If you have, we’d appreciate if you’d share the response here.