Still Life

With four guide ropes attached to it, the east-side clock face is raised into position. While it didn't seem that windy on the ground on Saturday, Jan. 28, winds higher up were strong, requiring extra guidance to bring the clock face safely to the Old Main bell tower.

Old Main clock faces installed

Ben White of New Vibrations Audio and Video works on a ledge of the Old Main bell tower, to remove the speakers from the old chime system. The company installed a new carillon system today (Jan. 27) that will play a digital recording made of the original Old Main bell that now sits adjacent to Old Main and other bells of comparable sizes.

New carillon, restored clocks being installed

The funeral procession for Joe Paterno made its way past Beaver Stadium and down Porter Road as crowds applauded on Jan. 25. Thousands lined the procession route through the University Park campus and downtown State College to bid a last farewell to Joe Paterno.

Joe Paterno's funeral procession

Coach Joe Paterno was on the field for the first half of the Nittany Lions' football game. Penn State beat the Iowa Hawkeyes 13-3 on Oct. 8, 2011, in front of an enthusiastic crowd at Beaver Stadium.

Joe Paterno through the years

Katie Knobloch and Andrew Adamietz, members of the a capella group Blue in the Face, shared a candle at the vigil held Sunday, Jan. 22, to mourn the death of Penn State football coach Joe Paterno, who passed away earlier in the day. Several thousand members of the Penn State and State College community came out to the Old Main lawn on Penn State's University Park campus for the vigil.

Thousands mourn Paterno's passing

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Big Ten Network's 'Expert Opinion' series addresses sports issues

Tuesday, June 30, 2009
Big Ten Commissioner Jim Delany is one of three panelists on the July 9 edition of 'Expert Opinion,' scheduled to air at 7 p.m. Eastern time on the Big Ten Network. Click on the image to view a trailer of the series' first show.
Big Ten Commissioner Jim Delany is one of three panelists on the July 9 edition of 'Expert Opinion,' scheduled to air at 7 p.m. Eastern time on the Big Ten Network. Click on the image to view a trailer of the series' first show.

Bigger, flashier, pricier sports venues. Skyrocketing coaches' salaries. Student-athletes juggling full-time classes and full-time practice schedules. "Expert Opinion with Graham Spanier," a new series debuting Thursday, July 9, on the Big Ten Network, examines these and other issues in American college sports.

Penn State President Graham Spanier hosts three hour-long shows in July that bring together the perspectives of university presidents, athletic directors, athletic conference commissioners and prominent sports journalists to discuss "The Arms Race in College Sports," "The Selling of College Sports" and "The College Student as Athlete."

"Expert Opinion" panelists on the July 9 show, the first in the series, tackle "The Arms Race in College Sports" -- the pressure schools race to add state-of-the-art facilities, increase their athletic budgets and recruit premium coaches. Spanier hosts Big Ten Commissioner Jim Delany, Northwestern University President Henry Bienen and Chicago Tribune Editorial Board Member Avani Patel.

On July 16 Spanier is joined by Malcolm Moran, Penn State's Knight Chair in Sports Journalism and Society and previously a sports journalist with USA Today, The New York Times, Newsday and the Chicago Tribune; along with Richard Herman, chancellor of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign; and Andy Geiger, former athletic director at Ohio State University, the University of Maryland and Stanford. The panel will discuss "The Selling of College Sports," including such topics as whether student-athletes should be compensated for the use of their names and likenesses in sports merchandise from jerseys to video games.

In the third show, scheduled to air on July 23, Spanier and his guests explore "The College Student as Athlete." Experts Brad Traviolia, deputy commissioner of the Big Ten; Melissa Isaacson, author and former Chicago Tribune reporter; and Morgan Burke, Purdue University athletic director, weigh student-athletes' pressures, both on and off the field, ranging from maintaining a minimum grade point average alongside a demanding practice schedule to receiving the same educational experience as non-athletes.

"Expert Opinion" is scheduled to air at 7 p.m. Eastern time on three consecutive Thursday nights in July on the Big Ten Network.

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