At the sink, hot is to the right and cold left, the opposite of standard, and in the shower the rotating handle starts at scalding and gets colder from there, again the opposite.
The messages read to CNN indicate Spanier and two other former university officials knew they had a problem with Sandusky after the 2001 shower incident, but apparently decided to handle it first by using a "humane" approach before contacting outside authorities whose job it is to investigate suspected abuse.