People saw.
People knew.
A few people even talked.
But ultimately it got swept under the rug for years because of the rush to Saturday, those autumn game days when people funnel MONEY into Happy Valley for the biggest thing in the state.
Spanier, like many other big-time college Presidents is/was so much like a KING in his domain. No one DARES to question him, and EVERYONE sucks up to him.
His word is law on Campus, and especially in the town around. You don’t want to have your biz, or your campaign for local office BLACK-LISTED by the liberals running the school, do you?
Your sister needs a job? We might have something in Administration for her, IF you play along...
This is as much a problem of the Culture that allowed it, as it is the scandal itself.
I disagree. Jerry Sandusky was just an assistant coach. If Sandusky was caught screwing a 13 year old girl, he would have been in jail within hours, or at least escorted off the campus never to return.
The key issue here was that Sandusky is a homosexual. Terminating Sandusky BECAUSE of a homosexual incident would have caused the campus Velvet Mafia to target Spanier in a thousand ways until he was gone. Look at what happened to people identified as supporting anti-gay-marriage legislation.