Joe Paterno to resign at end of season

[Lamplighter]

tw, I'm thinking your Fourth item above, particularly about the graduate assistant, is a bit over the top.

According to the Grand Jury Report, it was this young man's report
to Parterno that started the investigation of Victim#2,
his report to Curley and Shultz that initiated the administration's actions,
and his testimony to the Grand Jury that was persuasive (i.e., "extremely creditable")

He did not "wait a full day to report it to anyone".
The incident was at 9:30 pm on a Friday
He immediately called his father from his office phone, asking his advise.
He met with and reported the incident to Paterno the next morning, Saturday.

Maybe other testimony shows/says something else, but this was the Grand Jury's report.

Some in the news media are vehement this young man, now 28,
should have physically intervened in the incident.
To my mind that is asking an awful lot from an emotionally stricken
18 year-old confronted with such a situation.

I'd suggest the Trustees accepted this Grand Jury's findings, and so had no reason to fire him.