Penn State's Culture of Secrecy

This from a piece on the child molestation scandal that brought down the University President:

In his 16 years as president, Spanier and his administration had a history of circling the wagons in the face of criticism or scrutiny, fitting into what many say was an insular Penn State culture that preceded his tenure. It occurred when high-profile Penn State employees came under fire, when student actions threatened to embarrass the university, and when people sought to obtain information that almost any other public institution would be required to release.

Alas, that seems to fit the pattern of behavior we noted previously when an outside Chair of the Philosophy Department came in and tried to do something about sexual harassment in the department, only to be fired.