The Horrors of Penn State

Penn State's own attorney has concluded that its most senior leaders systematically covered up Jerry Sandusky’s child rapes for over a decade. They covered it up, even though they had strong reason to believe that Sandusky was a serial sex criminal. They simply wouldn't intervene, even in the face of evidence that children were being raped.

Child rape!

“The most saddening finding by the Special Investigative Counsel is the total and consistent disregard by the most senior leaders at Penn State for the safety and welfare of Sandusky’s child victims,” the report said.

This school isn't good at running an hororable Division I football team. The program has plainly been out of administrative control for many years. It got too big and too powerful, and became as immune to questioning as an entity can be. Clearly, no one in State College could question Joe Paterno or his minions, they were just beyond that.

If it holds out any hope of regaining institutional respect, Penn State must terminate its football program. Maybe do something else, like focus on educating students, something it's traditionally been quite good at.
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Originally posted by: Chilcoot
Penn State's own attorney has concluded that its most senior leaders systematically covered up Jerry Sandusky’s child rapes for over a decade. They covered it up, even though they had strong reason to believe that Sandusky was a serial sex criminal. They simply wouldn't intervene, even in the face of evidence that children were being raped.

Child rape!

“The most saddening finding by the Special Investigative Counsel is the total and consistent disregard by the most senior leaders at Penn State for the safety and welfare of Sandusky’s child victims,” the report said.

This school isn't good at running an hororable Division I football team. The program has plainly been out of administrative control for many years. It got too big and too powerful, and became as immune to questioning as an entity can be. Clearly, no one in State College could question Joe Paterno or his minions, they were just beyond that.

If it holds out any hope of regaining institutional respect, Penn State must terminate its football program. Maybe do something else, like focus on educating students, something it's traditionally been quite good at.


This happens day in and day out in our public schools.
Committed by leftist teachers and

covered up by leftist teacher unions (CTA), the leftist media and the political party that survives on teacher union support.

"LOS ANGELES—A lawsuit claims Los Angeles Unified School District officials did nothing to protect students from a teacher who's charged with molesting 23 youngsters in his classroom.

The negligence suit filed Tuesday in Los Angeles contends that the current and former principals of Miramonte Elementary School and other district officials ignored complaints about Mark Berndt dating back a decade.

Berndt was arrested in January and has been fired. He's pleaded not guilty to committing lewd acts with 23 students. Prosecutors claim he blindfolded students, photographed them and fed them his semen.

The suit was filed on behalf of 14 mothers of alleged victims. Two previous lawsuits were filed on behalf of more than 30 former students."
Crimes against children are not the responsibility of PSU, nor the "leftist media," nor any particular political party, nor any particular labor union. This is the responsibility of our government, and these young people should be empowered to use that government to protect themselves.

Obviously, adults who become aware of such crimes should be obligated to report them, and should be punished for not reporting. But those individuals are not responsible for the abuse, nor are they responsible for legal process against the offenders.

In the PSU case, a police report was filed in 1998. At that point, a criminal investigation was initiated, and Mr. Sandusky should have remained subject to scrutiny by governmental agencies with specific responsibility for such crimes.
From Penn State to State Pen

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Originally posted by: Chilcoot

If it holds out any hope of regaining institutional respect, Penn State must terminate its football program. Maybe do something else, like focus on educating students, something it's traditionally been quite good at.


This is a horrible idea. Cancelling football would require all sports to be suspended because the football program funds all of the other sports.
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Originally posted by: DRich2
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Originally posted by: Chilcoot

If it holds out any hope of regaining institutional respect, Penn State must terminate its football program. Maybe do something else, like focus on educating students, something it's traditionally been quite good at.


This is a horrible idea. Cancelling football would require all sports to be suspended because the football program funds all of the other sports.


That is probably true. I don't think their basketball program brings in much revenue.

I think heads should roll all the way up to the president of the university, if they were involved in keeping any of this hush hush. I don't think the football program should be cancelled, although with a new coach and sanctions being threatened, what prospect is really going to want to commit to go there?
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Originally posted by: DRich2
Cancelling football would require all sports to be suspended because the football program funds all of the other sports.
Penn State is a college. Yes, it's traditionally offered sporting activities to augment student life. But no one sport is so crucial to the school's educational mission that the school cannot serve its fundamental educational purpose without it.

Lots of top schools manage to serve their education mission just fine without big-time FBS football. Yale, Harvard, Princeton, Dartmouth, University of Delaware, Cornell, Penn, University of California Davis, Columbia, NYU, University of Chicago, UC Santa Barbara, California Institute of Technology, need I continue?

Penn State needs to dismantle its football program because it has proven that itself so incompetent at running the program that its top officials knowingly let a child rapist continue to use the school to gain access to children to rape. And then lied about it! Is there anything more outrageous that an institution could possibly do?

Someday, perhaps a time will come for Penn State to be trusted with a football program again. That time is not in the near future. Tear it down.
Your post is kind of disingenuous. Ivy League schools don't give athletic scholarships and their academic scholarships are based upon financial need. While Cal-Tech just got in trouble with the NCAA, they have never had any athletic programs with any stature.

Big colleges with big college athletic programs bring in a lot of money, both from sharing conference money and from their alumni. You are telling people who are on athletic scholarship "tought shit" about them losing their scholarship and maybe not being able to attend the college.

Penn State has a $1.8 billion dollar endowment. If it wanted, it could easily pay its current scholarship athletes' school expenses for the remainer of their college careers, and still have $1.8 billion left over.

Institutional child rape needs to have consequences. Fortunately, Penn State has the financial means to bear the small expense of cushioning the impact of those consequences on its student athletes.
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Originally posted by: Roulette Man
Your post is kind of disingenuous. Ivy League schools don't give athletic scholarships and their academic scholarships are based upon financial need. While Cal-Tech just got in trouble with the NCAA, they have never had any athletic programs with any stature.

Big colleges with big college athletic programs bring in a lot of money, both from sharing conference money and from their alumni. You are telling people who are on athletic scholarship "tought shit" about them losing their scholarship and maybe not being able to attend the college.


Exactly! It is disngenuous along with being irrelevant. Barring NCAA sanctions, this decision should come from within the Penn State family and possibly the Big Ten. The financially contributing alumni should have major influence in the decision. They may lose major support from the large contributors if they ditch football. While Chilcoot is correct about those other programs, they have an established tradition of non-athletics. That is completely different than shutting down a major football program. I have no opinion on what they should do since my opinion would be worthless. I will gladly retract my "irrelevant" comment from above if Chilcoot is an alumnus of Penn State and financially contributes to the school.

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