Quote Originally Posted by Go...gate View Post
In Paterno's books (I believe there are three), he recounts bad experiences at Brown because of his Italian heritage.
This is correct, and perhaps he was holding on to decades old animosity.

Funny, is that Joe tried to portray his program as an academically superior among the power programs. In some ways, I think he achieved that over the first 15 years or so of his tenure, and had some really amazing students come through the program. By the 90’s, PSU maintained better than average grad rates, but were mostly indiscernible from other major programs. PSU had plenty of dummies who didn’t care much about school come through the program.