Posted on 07/13/2012 5:52:21 PM PDT by hole_n_one
Penn State plans to renovate the building where Jerry Sandusky sexually molested boys.
University spokesman David La Torre said today that Penn State plans to remodel the football shower and locker room area as a direct result of Sandusky’s crimes. The former defensive coordinator was convicted of assaulting some of his victims in the team shower.
La Torre said renovation plans to the Lasch Football Building were drawn up shortly after Sandusky’s arrest in November.
Reminders of the Sandusky child sex abuse scandal — and the senior school officials accused of covering it up — are all over Penn State’s campus and State College. School officials say they are still weighing how to deal with the other imagery associated with the scandal.
A statue outside Beaver Stadium served as a focal point for mourners of late coach Joe Paterno, but it has turned into a target for critics angered by former FBI director Louis Freeh’s findings that Paterno and other university administrators concealed allegations against Sandusky in 1998 and 2001 to avoid bad publicity.
“You go to a Penn State football game and there’s 100,000 people down there and they got that statute and you know doggone well they’ll start talking about Sandusky,” Bowden told The Associated Press. “If it was me, I wouldn’t want to have it brought up every time I walked out on the field.”
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new location of JoPa’s statue?
But they are keeping Jerry’s favorite stall and encasing it in glass as a shrine. A nice plaque with his picture will be next to it along with his motto, “Beware all ye who enter here.”
Right. The design of the showers was the problem.
How about teaching big, strapping asst coaches to rescue boys who are being raped by predators in showers?
How about returning to a day when such a physical rescue would have been automatic, and the perp beaten to a pulp, no matter who the hell he was?
Yeah, exactly. See above. Is our kind obsolete? If so, stop the planet, I want to get off.
Problem solved. Let’s get back to football!
Yeah, this is just one team. What do you think is going on over in Wisconsin?
Why do you think they call them "The Packers"?
it’s why it’s called a “sexual inn-u-endo”
Let me guess - they’re installing safety handholds on the wall?
It’s all thinly veiled:
A “tight end”, “the receiver”...
LOLOLOL...!!! what do they call women that go after boys? Cougars what do they call men that go after boys? Nittany Lions...
No more bars of soap...?
It is curious that a defensive coordinator of a football program from a major Div 1 university that was universally thought of within the college football community as highly capable and competent would not be actively and enthusiastically sought after by other programs.
He was basically shunned once his tenure at Penn State ended.
Which begs the question.......
What did those outside of Happy Valley know about Sandusky?
Remodel? Install glass walls and theater seats?
If the NCAA does what it should do and gives Pedophile State’s football program the death penalty they should have about 5 years to complete the remodel.
What disgusting idiots came up with THAT excuse? IT WAS NOT THE SHOWER STALLS. IT was the perverts and the creeps who covered for them.
It was the damn school elites looking the other way. That's what caused the rapes to continue.
NOT the shower stalls.
Fire these people - keep them and their ideas away from our children.
If the NCAA has any nuts there won’t be a Penn State football program any more.
That seems to be Penn St. answer to everything, just cover it up.
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