Penn State finally, totally obliterates Sandusky in mural

Jerry Sandusky's image was blotted out of a mural depicting local heroes at the Penn State Student Book Store in November. Since then, a blue ribbon denoting child-sexual-abuse awareness has occupied his empty chair. But "with just the blue ribbon there, you still saw Sandusky," mural creator Michael Pilato says. Now he's filling that seat with a far more worthy occupant: Dora E. McQuaid, a poet, activist and Penn State alum who's won awards for her work on behalf of victims of domestic and sexual violence. Pilato has also added a blue ribbon around the neck of the Nittany Lion, the school's mascot, featured at the bottom of the mural.