Posted on 09/16/2013 7:01:46 PM PDT by FlJoePa
STATE COLLEGE, Pa. — ...John Nichols sat in his office in the old wing of the Willard Building, across the lawn from Old Main, fuming about what people have been saying, for two years now, about the university he loves.
John Nichols, a professor emeritus, contends that a child sexual abuse scandal has unfairly defined Penn State.
The campus was bustling. The students had returned. This bucolic town’s main drag, College Avenue, had come alive. Stores sold shirts that read, “Billieve” and “O’Brien’s Lions.” Football season was close, and almost everyone seemed excited for Coach Bill O’Brien’s second year.
Nichols sat behind his large wooden desk, surrounded by four full bookshelves. He has spent 36 years at Penn State. He raised his children here. He is a professor emeritus and a former chairman of the faculty senate. Now he was talking about Jerry Sandusky and Joe Paterno and he was getting angry. He sat up straighter. His eyes bulged. He threw his hands up.
“Just this last weekend, I was with some of my closest friends in another state,” he said. “Of course the subject always comes up — always comes up. It’s like a scarlet letter. And when I say that most of what you’ve read is not true, they look at you like — even close friends — they look at you like: ‘Are you a Holocaust denier? You’ve drunk the Penn State Kool-Aid. What other conspiracy theory do you have?’
“Can you imagine the frustration when you know that there’s been a gross mischaracterization of what has happened at Penn State? And that I and my kids who graduated from Penn State, my friends and colleagues here, are going to have to live with being guilty for crimes we did not commit?”
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Charles Manson and Sirhan Sirhan want their lives back, too.
You know next to nothing about this case, and yet you commented 30 seconds after initial posting without even reading the article. That says a lot about you.
Joe Paterno was my hero. He will be remembered same as Duke Cunningham.
Rumor has it they are considering rebranding as State Penn!
We are about at the point a little Charles Manson wouldn’t hurt.
Hit a nerve, did I?
There isn’t enough soap in the world.
I have completely disavowed Penn State and it will stay that way until the weak cowards put back the statue of Joe Paterno right where it was, and finally get the spine to fight the scumbag NCAA. I don’t even take calls from Penn State anymore. (spit)
Go, Owls.
You don’t know jack squat about the Sandusky case and the lynching of Joe Paterno’s reputation or you wouldn’t have posted your ludicrous comment.
KETEYIAN: Do you believe that Coach Paterno was a part of the conspiracy to conceal — to cover up the crimes at Penn State by Jerry Sandusky?
[lead js prosecutor] FINA: I do not. And — and I — I’m viewing this strictly on the evidence, not any kind of fealty to anybody. I did not find that evidence.
Also some interesting tweets from FBI Profiler Jim Clemente on this subject tonight.
While at it, maybe somebody can rename drug junkies Elbis Priestley, Jane Joplin and Jimmy Hendricks!
Still later, Congressman Cunningham talked about his dogfight on the Discovery Channel...
Jane Fonda, Mao TseTung and Gerry Sandusky were kinda OK in your book?
If he wasn’t involved, why all the stink and taking down his statue, etc? You’re right, I’m not from Pennsylvania, have only been there once for a couple of hours and get all my information on that subject online. Like most people.
Fire the imam of the Church of the Burning Planet housed there, Mikey Mann.
But I thought C*ntFest was a resounding success!
Penn St has beaten quite a few #1 teams in bowl games. Sour grapes from big bets lost. Their #1 was all hot air.
Having gay anal sex with a young boy in the showers and getting caught is kinda hard to erase. Penn must be full of homos.
lol
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