An egregious crime took place many years ago that threatened to shatter the very foundation of The Pennsylvania State University and its home town of State College—known to the world as Happy Valley. Once publicized, the notorious case swept across America with almost instant rapidity. The "happening" left a mysterious and complex trail of rumors, false testimony, and a "conspiracy of silence."

For more than nine years the matter was unsolved and the perpetrator unpunished. Countless high-ranking officials—accused of a conspiracy of silence—known as a "cover-up" were "punished" or given "sanctions."

After massive publicity and several court hearings, the final truth has yet to be found. The borough of State College has suffered a great deal of economic. cultural, and psychological fallout from the scandal consuming its sister, Penn State, but is making great strides in recovering her pride and stature. Happy Valley may well believe the following:

THIS TOO SHALL PASS!

About the Author
Audrey Rodgers retired as Professor Emerita after 38 years in the English Department of Pennsylvania State University. Her specialty was modern American poets. Prof. Rodgers was also the first Women Studies Director and was instrumental in formulating the program. She is the author of The Universal Drum, The Poetry of T.S. Eliot, Hart Crane, William Carlos Williams, and Theodore Roethke; Virgin and Whore, The Image of Women in the Poetry of William Carlos Williams; Denise Levertov, The Poetry of Engagement, and several journal essays on women's poets, Emily Dickinson, and T.S.Eliot.

From the preface
On a warm Autumn morning The Pennsylvania State University fell from Grace. Long heralded as a champion of college football, a promoter of Academic standards. a model for students, faculty, and retirees, Penn State boasted a stellar position in the hierarchy of advanced institutions. Then, the scandal that threatened the University and shocked the country from coast to coast left an unbelieving State College population stunned by the unfolding "revelations" that would come to be known as the "Sandusky Scandal". It had all the trappings of a Greek tragedy. In recent times, no crime has shaken the American heartland as this.

My purpose here is not to seek blame, nor to cite all state universities as breeding grounds for aberrational behavior. Rather I aim to reach the State University world—the "hallowed" ground that boasts good and harbors evil.

My aim, first and foremost, is to anatomize the national State college internal structures— surprisingly similar countrywide—despite variations we can ascribe to historical events.

As we penetrate college after college, there was little to differentiate one from another. Instead both in academics and organizational hierarchy there was a remarkable similarity.

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Perhaps because I fervently believe in Continuity opposed to fragmentation and Order opposed to isolation and chaos, I can accept without question John Donne's truth: "No man is an island, entire of itself. Each is a piece of the continent, a part of the main..." Thus I perceive in human experience, as in Alan's, both tears and laughter. We are one with nature—generation to generation—and so we share the grief and the happiness.

Alan's gift was his three sons and their sons to keep the mystery alive, and his brief sojourn enhances our understanding of the enigma we call Life.

So I drive backward in time—from miraculous birth to fulfilling maturity—seeking to capture the memories that gave his life significance. It is a voyage not to be missed. On a personal level, this is a celebration. a happening of joy, a richness of life well-lived.

About the Author
Audrey Rodgers retired as Professor Emerita after 38 years in the English Department of Pennsylvania State University. Her specialty was modern American poets. Prof. Rodgers was also the first Women Studies Director and was instrumental in formulating the program. She is the author of The Universal Drum, The Poetry of T.S. Eliot, Hart Crane, William Carlos Williams, and Theodore Roethke; Virgin and Whore, The Image of Women in the Poetry of William Carlos Williams; Denise Levertov, The Poetry of Engagement, and several journal essays on women's poets, Emily Dickinson, and T.S.Eliot.

From the preface
The name "Tropauer" was saved for yet another generation and the golden-haired infant with green eyes, a chubby pink face, and a bewitching smile would become the star of the family. And so Alan took his destined place as the Pride of the Tropauer heritage. No baby in our time received so much love, so much attention, so much promise.

Seventy-six years go by quickly….Only yesterday I followed the procession to the grave where Alan was laid to rest. Even now, numbness overcomes me and my eyes blur with tears. Images tumble through my mind—disjointed, fragmentary, random. Alan's mop of blonde baby curls, Alan sipping cocoa with me on frosty winter mornings before school, Alan standing tall at Bellevue's Medical School graduation, Alan with his first son in his arms. 3 I whisper, "Alan is gone and leaves a richness and humor and vitality, but my world is diminished by his absence."

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Whether you're a working parent trying to juggle child care, your job, and time for yourself, or a young professional with confusing career and personal options, Stop It! You're Too Smart to Keep Making Dumb Decisions is for you.

Your entire life is shaped by the many decisions you make. Some choices are small, like what shall I have for dinner, while others involve personal, financial or medical risk. The smart decision-making plan called D.A.I.S.E. shared in this book provides a new beginning for you.

Dr. Lonnie Carton is a former CBS broadcast journalist known for her nationwide program, "In The Learning Center"; and a distinguished author of many works including the popular book, No Is A Love Word. She has received many awards including:

The National Media Award of The American Psychological Association.

The Margaret Sanger Award for informational programs dealing with human sexuality.

The Gabriel Award for T.V. Informational Programming>/

The San Francisco State Media Award for Best Home/School Radio Instruction.

A University professor and long time consultant to numerous school systems around the country, Dr. Carton continues to provide practical strategies and simple effective tools for audiences of all ages.

From the preface
Every day people of all ages have decisions to make. Too often, the important ones are not well thought out...

...Or think of Tiger Woods whose altercations with his wife seriously blemished not only his reputation as a model athlete, but also negatively impacted his golf game. Add to these Lance Armstrong, multi medal winning bicyclist accused of using ability enhancing drugs to win his races. More additions to this list include Charlie Sheen, Lindsey Lohan, the rapper Tupac and so many other celebs and news makers whose personal and professional lives hit bottom because they made bad decisions. Closer to home some of our own local, state and national politicians have caused their families, friends, and themselves great suffering in exchange for some instant gratification. All these supposedly smart people made dumb decisions. But they are not alone, not by a long shot! Chances are, there are large numbers of not so famous people you know who get trapped in making stupid choices. Your best friend in a divorce proceeding may bad mouth her ex to their daughter, or your colleague teaching at a community college may keep pressing a coed to have a few drinks with him, or your co-worker may call in sick many times and is ultimately seen by the boss at a daytime ballgame.

Being human, it's likely even you have made some bad choices you wish you could change. While it's impossible to go back, you can move forward. The smart decision-making plan called D.A.I.S.E. shared in this book provides a new beginning for you. Plant it firmly into the soil of your strategies for making sound, sensible, successful choices and WATCH IT GROW. GOOD LUCK.

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In 1969, two pretty girls graduated from college and set out on an improbable journey: they drove from Fort Lauderdale, Florida to Santiago, Chile to get to a New Year's party. They travelled along 12,000 miles of roads and were three months late. Along the way, they met dictators and revolutionaries, generals and peasants. One of them, Hope Boylston, retells her experiences in Hay Locos. What began as pure adventure gradually became a voyage of love, danger and self-exploration that challenged everything she thought she knew about the world.

Boylston settled in Chile where she worked on an adaptation of Our Bodies, Ourselves for a women's magazine published by the socialist government of Salvador Allende. She lived in Washington, D.C. in the first few years following the military coup that overthrew him and then returned to Chile in 1977, where she worked for CARE and joined in the Resistance movement against the dictatorship. She was forced to leave in 1981 when she learned that the secret police were going to come after her. Her essays record these extraordinary experiences with passion, humor and a fine sense of the absurd.

From the preface
My friend Toody and I lived in our car from September of 1969, when we left Florida, until late March of 1970, when we reached Santiago, Chile. We came up with the idea for the trip during our last year of college when we realized that, after sixteen years of schooling, the only question we could imagine relevant to getting a job was, "Can you type?" Yes, we could. But we didn't want to: we wanted adventure. When people asked us why we were doing it, we'd tell them we were simply following the orders on the billboards all over the South: "America: Love it or Leave It."

Though Toody lived in Spain and I spent a semester in Ecuador, we had, I believe, not the slightest idea of how the journey would alter our lives. I have often wondered how our parents agreed to such an obviously risky venture. Why did they not succeed in dissuading us or simply forbidding us from traveling? I assumed then that they never expected we would get farther than Mexico. I imagine now that they understood even less than we did about what could and did happen when traveling through the Third World by land.

Our nearly total lack of seriousness was made embarrassingly clear in an interview for the Fort Lauderdale News, published, no doubt, on the society page a few days before we left. There we were: Toody, then a busty blond, the wet dream gringa of every corrupt machista official on the continent, and I, thankfully too tall, too angular for their taste and with long braids, standing in my father's driveway. Our stated goal was to get to Chile for a New Year's Eve Party which, in the end, we missed by more than three months.

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My name is Honi Tropau and these are my memories... I am seventy-nine years old and in six months I will be totally blind. Because each day the light imperceptibly flickers into shadows, there is some urgency in writing all this down. I do this for myself—not to be read by others, not to seek explanation for the past—only for the simple reason of knowing that I happened, that I know who I am, that I lived. Small importance to the few remaining "friends"—strangers mostly—who will survive me. Most of those I loved who were part of the "pattern" of my life are already gone. But because, as events, years, faces tumble through my mind—pushing and shoving each other aside—no pattern seems to exist and yet it is there. There's a coherence that calls me to discovery, that I was not merely chaos in a chaotic and mindless world but an order, a reason for being, and then I will be at peace...and that will be enough.

It was William Faulkner who, many years ago, wrote words that still echo in my mind: "Memory believes before knowing remembers. Believes longer than recollects, longer than knowledge even wonders." And now memory leads me back through my past—evanescent-reappearing—merging in my consciousness, a kaleidoscope of sensuous images. The earliest are often a helter-skelter of taste, touch, sound, and sight: the taste of warm milk from a soft breast, the echo of a lullaby—"Schluf mein fagela," the cry of an infant in pain, my cry, the blurred sight of bars on a tiny crib. So it was that my earliest echoes sometimes rise to the surface, then disappear, telling no story, "disconnects"—persistent and impenetrable, painful and pleasurable, ever-changing but always there—like gentle, whispering voices. It was not until I was in my teens that I consciously remembered the first traumatic event of my life: a mystery of broken fragments that shattered my innocence when I was barely four. It haunts me even now...reminding me of the enigma of a life often touched by beauty and wonder, and as often by nightmare and fear. My hope is that they will all coalesce into a meaningful whole, hinting that I did not merely survive but that I prevailed and that I will be aware of this miracle of life until my world sinks into oblivion.

About the Author
Audrey Rodgers (aka Honi Tropau) was born in New York in 1923, the daughter of David and Rebecca Tropauer. She attended Walton High School and received a B.A. degree from Hunter College in the City of New York with a Major in English. After her marriage to Allan Rodgers in 1944, they moved to Madison, Wisconsin where she taught English for three years at the University of Wisconsin. A further move brought them to the Pennsylvania State University where she taught in the English Department and earned a Ph.D. in English. Prof. Rodgers taught at Penn State for 38 years, retiring as Professor Emerita in 1994. Her specialty was modern American poets. Prof. Rodgers was also the first Women Studies Director and was instrumental in formulating the program, so that today Women Studies offers a Ph.D. and enjoys a faculty of women with Ph.D. degrees. Among Prof. publications, she is the author of The Universal Drum, The Poetry of T.S. Eliot, Hart Crane, William Carlos Williams, and Theodore Roethke; Virgin and Whore, The Image of Women in the Poetry of William Carlos Williams; Denise Levertov, The Poetry of Engagement, and several journal essays on women's poets, Emily Dickinson, and T.S. Eliot.

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