Your most recent editorial on the Anwar Phillips case ("PSU should have dealt with Phillips case already," April 30) makes several misstatements of fact.

With respect to the process involving student-athletes and Judicial Affairs, I would urge you to read Penn State President Graham Spanier's statement on April 10. In it, he announced that changes are being implemented.

In the future, the athletic director will be personally notified by Judicial Affairs when there are sanctions involving student-athletes, so that there can be no confusion or miscommunication, as there was in the Phillips case. In addition, any delayed suspension (which often happens at the end of a semester) will involve an immediate ban on involvement in extracurricular activities.

This will make it impossible for there to be a repeat of the situation that we saw in the Phillips case. Your assertion that "nearly nothing has been done" and that "no progress or changes have been announced" is simply wrong.

Further, Spanier made it clear that he felt it had been a mistake for Phillips to play in the bowl game. His exact statement, which was provided to the university community, including The Daily Collegian, nearly three weeks ago, is: "My own view is that students should not be allowed to participate in university activities in such circumstances." This is hardly, as the editorial asserts, a continuing "stance of silence."

To suggest that the university has not dealt with this or that some further outside investigation is now required is to ignore the facts of the case.