PSU to post fees for crisis-related hirings online

STATE COLLEGE, Pa. (AP) — Penn State University plans to post online the compensation for a Washington attorney serving as a legal adviser to the university’s president, along with fees for others hired to help with crisis management at the school.

Former White House counsel Lanny Davis was hired last month to advise university President Rodney Erickson. Davis now heads a law and crisis management firm.

A university spokeswoman said today compensation would be posted online in the near future and updated regularly. She noted that Erickson told alumni last week that money coming from donations, taxpayers or tuition would not be used to pay for such compensation.

Davis and others have been hired by Penn State in the aftermath of child sex-abuse charges against retired assistant football coach Jerry Sandusky.