Give the info that the executive board keeps info from the rest of the members maybe it's not such a bad idea. I read the book I felt it was mostly was positive about PSU but didn't pretend that a perfect idealic place exists in Happy Valley like some Alumni and fans project. If you want to fix things one has to be realistic about what is reality.
Depending on the context around it being distributed, it may be a good or a bad idea. If Lubrano had distributed them, we would most likely perceive the purpose was to bolster the fight against the ongoing negative perceptions about Joe and PSU athletics, as the title of the book screams out. When Silvas does so, we perceive something else (and if he was acknowledged in the credits, even more reason to perceive that).
But I'm an alum, lived in the same fraternity with about 2 dozen or more varsity athletes, am an acknowledged Joe-bot, anti-OG BOT, pro-Alumni Trustees, and never wavered about my loyalty to PSU. But I do not, and I don't know anyone who would, describe themselves in the manner you state. No adult with any degree of emotional intelligence thought Happy Valley was a "perfect ideal place". We all know there were flaws - even Joe acknowledged that countless times - but when compared to other schools with big-time athletic programs, we know PSU was better than almost any other school / program combination. Success With Honor carried the day. Others may have had better academics, many others better athletic success, but it is hard to think of any schools who had the combined academic/athletic success on such a sustained level as PSU has for the past 50 years.
Yes, all organizations should continually strive to improve, to find better ways to do things, to adapt, to grow, etc. And we all want PSU to lead in that effort to whatever degree we can. So let's make sure we are fixing things that actually need to be fixed, and changing things that really need to be changed, and making true, sustainable, evolutionary progress.... and not simply making cosmetic changes to inconsequential stuff and calling them real changes.
I have not read the book, but I would go into it with a real bias against it being able to make a compelling argument to convince me that any issues cited were either real, or were not imaginary mountains that were really molehills, or out of the realm of what a rational person would believe to be a reasonable margin of error at a school that truly tried to do all athletic things the right way.
Just this Joe-bot's opinion.
