A new dual-campus plan offered by Penn State to the Dickinson School of Law was leaked yesterday to several media outlets, including The Associated Press, Harrisburg Patriot-News and the Carlisle Sentinel.

The proposed plan would ensure the Carlisle campus would stay open for 10 years if a dual-campus plan was adopted, but its future beyond that was uncertain.

Elizabeth Gibson, a Patriot-News reporter, said the information came from a "memorandum of understanding" that was marked confidential but was leaked to the media by an unnamed source in Carlisle.

"It has been widely distributed in Carlisle," she said. "However, its contents are not vastly different than proposals that have been made in the past," she said.

The memo was displayed on the Sentinel's Web site Tuesday but was removed yesterday.

Penn State spokesman Bill Mahon said the memorandum was not released by the university, and he would not know details until after Saturday's meeting of the Dickinson Board of Governors.

Board of Governors Chairman H. Laddie Montague said the memorandum was a summary of negotiations between representatives of the law school and the university in preparation for Saturday's Board of Governor's meeting, and its details were not supposed to be released until after the meeting had concluded.

Montague declined to make a further comment on the issue until after the meeting.

Collegian Staff Writer Devon Lash contributed to this report.