FURMAN BISHER COLUMN: Remembering Joe Paterno

If life had taken a right turn, Joe Paterno would still be enjoying the pleasures of living. Jerry Sandusky would be behind bars.

State College, Pa., would still be Happy Valley, and somebody would have made a movie of what a college haven should be. Never, though, has one pictorial American campus fallen from its pedestal with such a plunge, and with such finality.

Joe Paterno was its father figure. This campus town seemed to have revolved around this singular man, the football coach. Not the president, or a Mr. Chips of this revered institution that lived within itself, and invited the world to drop in and have a visit. To get an eyeful of how it