Let’s get some sanity into this discussion! We are talking about thousands, and tens of thousands, of people who are indirectly smeared in this process.When you get to talking about withdrawing accreditation, for pete’s sake, you are going to the jugular of the university.I remind you of the “Duke 88” professors who sought to throw the entire membership of the Duke Lacrosse Team under the bus - and some to prison - on the basis of non-credible, shifting, unsubstantiated charges by a person who had plenty of motive to lie and was in a “profession” not devoted to the highest values in society.
You knew, if you were sentient, that Nifong was railroading those young men - and yet 88 professors of Duke University were fully on board for a witch hunt. What have we heard about the accreditation of Duke in response to that! Penn State faculty has Michael Mann, he of the infamous Global Warming “Hockey Stick” graph, and no accreditation question attaches to that.
Yet in the case of Penn State football, sanctimony oozes from every pore of the politically correct, and even among many FReepers. It would make about as much sense to condemn the Duke Basketball Team for the abuses of the Duke Faculty as it does to withdraw accreditation from Peen State because of a rat in the football program.
Rush? Is that you? ;)
Seriously, it’s not that anyone is becoming sanctimonious. The university didn’t do due, or even decent, diligence.
Again, what if proctor & gamble let some kind of flaw fester rather than fix their product when they noticed it? Do you get how many innocent people would be hurt? The stock falls. 401ks are hurt. Products are discontinued. Low level employees laid off. Etc.
When you are the head of an organization, the buck better stop with you, or everyone goes down.