Penn State trustees fire football coach Joe Paterno and PSU president Spanier

AP/Newser.com ^ | Nov. 9, 2011 | Genaro C. Armas

[Colofornian]

Penn State trustees fired football coach Joe Paterno and university president Graham Spanier (SPAN-yer) amid the growing furor over how the school handled sex abuse allegations against an assistant coach.

The massive shakeup Wednesday night came hours after Paterno announced that he planned to retire at the end of his 46th season.

But the outcry following the arrest of former assistant coach Jerry Sandusky on molestation charges proved too much for the board to ignore.

One key question has been why Paterno and other top school officials didn't go to police in 2002 after being told a graduate assistant saw Sandusky assaulting a boy in a school shower...

[JennysCool]

A grand jury report is in no way equivalent to a conviction in a court of law. When you get right down to it, it’s pretty much just another complaint.
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[fortheDeclaration]

They didn't have to know the FULL EXTENT of Sandusky's pedophilia, they had to have the decency to SUSPECT it and followup on finding out was going on.

They couldn't be bothered with doing that.

[fortheDeclaration]

Paterno was told something 'going on' and that is a fact.

The Grad student witnessed it, that is a fact.

Neither of them reported what they knew to police, and that is a fact.

Those three facts should be enough for any rational man.

[fortheDeclaration]

He can't 'get it', he seems, like others defending Paterno, to be unable to make moral distinctions.

Everything is 'gray'

[fortheDeclaration]

You have no idea what you are talking about.

If you don't have intense emotions over this kind of crime, there is something wrong with you.

[Norm Lenhart]

From post 525

“So some little kid got sodomized... Penn State is playing this weekend and we’re having a party/BBQ at my place. Doesn’t hurt me...and besides, all those people are gonna be hurt just because of one little kid? Come on! we are talking hundreds of millions of dollars here, thousands of jobs and a Football Dynasty! You wanna put one little kid over all that????”

Any person with a gram of morality and decency would deck the idiot saying that but there are so many saying and thinking that exact thing right now, it shows you that America is pretty much toast. And we got that way because liberals incrementalized that very philosophy into mainstream consciousness.

[fortheDeclaration]

Yes, 'needless to say', so why are so many insistent that Paterno get some kind of pass for not knowing the details?

An older man in the shower with a young boy is enough-period!

[fortheDeclaration]

Due process is a legal issue, not a moral one.

Those under indictment will receive it.

Others, who could have acted, but didn't, will receive the just moral condemnation they deserve.

You have a very difficult time grasping distinctions between concepts.

[fortheDeclaration]

You are the Left.

[fortheDeclaration]

And who are those people that you claim are being unfairly treated?

[fortheDeclaration]

What part of 'due process' has been denied?

There are often moral clauses in contracts, in which the school has a right to fire someone who brings the school's reputation into question.

Stop defending the monsters under the guise of 'fairness', no one was fair to those children.

[fortheDeclaration]

Yes, no one is making anything up, these are facts in the grand jury trial.

Patrano was so arrogant that he thought he could dictate when he was going to leave.

[bushpilot1]

Sadly you seem more concerned for the coach.

[fortheDeclaration]

A public employee’s liberty interest can be triggered by a discharge under certain publicly stigmatizing circumstances."

I hope you don't teach reading.

Note the word 'certain', not ALL.

No one has been denied any due process.

No go back to the ACLU, where you came from.

[fortheDeclaration]

Why don’t you show where due process was denied to anyone?

[fortheDeclaration]

He is more concerned about 'due process' then the facts and the truth.

Typical ACLU doubletalk.

[fortheDeclaration]

And this hasn’t?

[bushpilot1]

Another big question when are they going to remove the NCAA championships if Sandusky was a part of the football program.

When are they going to bulldoze the showers.

This poster hopes the attorneys bankrupt Pedophile State.

[fortheDeclaration]

Because Sandusky is going through ‘due process’!

[fortheDeclaration]

The reading states 'certain' not ALL.

Paterno has nothing due to him, but to go in disgrace.