A university president gave up $90,000 to give his minimum wage workers a raise

The interim president of Kentucky State University is giving up $90,000 of his $350,000 annual salary to give minimum wage workers on campus a raise, the Lexington Herald-Leader reports.

The lowest paid workers on campus currently make $7.25 per hour, the federal minimum wage. They'll now make $10.25 per hour, an increase that will stay in effect even after the university hires a new full-time president.

The interim president, Raymond Burse, was president of Kentucky State in the 1980s before working for General Electric as a senior executive and retiring in 2012. "This is not a publicity stunt," Burse said, according to the Herald-Leader. "You don't give up $90,000 for publicity. I did this for the people."

Kentucky's state legislature considered a bill this year that would have increased the state's minimum wage to $10.10 — the minimum wage President Obama would like to see instituted nationwide — but the measure failed in the state senate. A living wage for a single adult in Frankfort, where Kentucky State is located, is $8.29 per hour, according to MIT; for an adult with a child, it's $17.37 per hour.

Other college presidents have taken similar actions, according to the Chronicle of Higher Education. The president of Hampton University donated more than $100,000 to give low-wage workers a raise to $9 per hour. After Obama called for a $10.10 minimum wage, the president of Centenary College in Louisiana raised the pay of the 25 employees who were making less than that.

Penn States imprisioned coordinator Jerry Sandusky's adopted son opens up too Oprah about sexual abuse for first time

Years of silence, Matthew Sandusky, the adopted son of imprisoned former Penn State defensive coordinator Jerry Sandusky, is opening up about his suffering as the victim of repeated sexual abuse.

On Thursday, July 17, Sandusky's first public interview will air as he answers questions from Oprah Winfrey on the Oprah Winfrey Network (OWN) at 9 p.m. ET, according to the Huffington Post.

Matthew, currently married and a father himself, will describe the grooming patterns and routines he endured while being raised by Jerry and Dottie Sandusky.

The Post says Matthew will respond to Dottie Sandusky's accustions against her husband's victims and share details on Jerry Sandusky's nightly ritual. He is one of six children Jerry and Dottie Sandusky adopted.

Jerry Sandusky was convicted in June 2012 on 45 counts of child sexual abuse, found guilty of raping or fondling 10 boys he had met through the acclaimed youth charity he founded, The Second Mile.

Matthew had originally been expected to be a defense witness for his father until the trial, when he told investigators that he also had been abused by Jerry Sandusky. At the time of the trial, Matt Sandusky claimed the abuse started when he was 8 years old. He recalled in a police interview that he would pretend to be asleep to avoid being touched.

He since petitioned for a legal name change for himself and his family and was one of 26 people who won a monetary settlement based on the abuse.