At a board of trustees news conference Friday, Karen B. Peetz, the board's chairwoman, made clear that the issue would not be revisited.
Mr. Silberman was on the national board of trustees of the Conference of Christians and Jews and a chairman of the Association of Governing Boards of Universities and Colleges.
The trustees on the conference call who had read the details of the charges against Sandusky and the two senior university officials felt a distinct lack of urgency by the university.
Questions from the audience suggested that at least some trustees at the conference disagreed with Mr. Levitt's contention that pension trustees had no business identifying rogue states and trying to steer money away from them.
This week sees Patten's first trust meeting as chairman and one of the twice-yearly conferences where trustees and management get together.
The trustees gathered in a conference room at the Penn Stater at 7 p.m.
There are no minutes recorded of any comments made by the nine trustees on the 8.45pm conference call, aside from Patten, or the four members from the BBC Trust unit also on the call.
"This kind of relationship is at the heart of what Long Wharf is all about," said Mary Pepe, chairwoman of the theater's board of trustees, at a press conference on the theater's main stage.
The museum's board of trustees called a news conference of their own on Tuesday and fired back at Mr. Parola, saying they were "outraged" by the comptroller's "reckless charges".
Many consultants hold educational conferences for pension trustees.
