A light aircraft warns authorities against inertia as it flies across the skies above Penn State University yesterday. REUTERS/Nabil K. Mark/Centre Daily Times.

Discussions about whether a statue of former football coach Joe Paterno should remain outside Penn State’s Beaver Stadium have apparently reached an impasse.

The FBI announced last week that they believed Paterno knew about incidents of child abuse perpetrated by his former colleague Jerry Sandusky, who is now in jail for his crimes.