It isn’t just what wasn’t done that night.
How many times did Sandusky show up at the facilities after that? With a boy?
So let me get this right....a bunch of guys hold meetings discussing unspeakable depravity in 2002.
Day after day, week after week, month after month, year after year, that same monster showed up on campus in the company of boys.
Did no one feel uncomfortable about that?
Heck, the monster showed up last week! Even after everyone knew about the investigation. Even after they had given sworn testimony against him.
Did they wave at him in the parking lot?
This is really the crux of it. Along with the fact that there was enough evidence to indicate Sandusky was a potential problem. The University was not beholden to continue the man’s asso. with the University.
All of this stems from basic moral defect and arrogance. The University actually believed it was protecting the “institution” by covering up and/or turning a blind eye. Rather than being upfront and deal with Sandusky immediately it knew of his shower room assault it went into “protect the institution mode”. It did not give a fig for the assaulted boy—or future Sandusky assaulted boys. PSU is reaping the cost of that immorality. Like the “prevent defense” it mostly fails.
I’m a PSU alum, 1961-65. I’ve watched a University I was proud to have graduated from turn hard left. Even in the sciences. Penn State professors have been in the forefront of the bogus global warming campaign and have been caught cooking their science.
In the mid 70’s I returned to PSU for homecoming. I was a journalism major and visited the journalism school building. A man approached and asked what class I was in and what I did after graduation. I told him I had been in the US Army for 5 years after graduation. He said “f*** you” and walked away. I later found out the man was dean of the Journalism School. In the late 60’s students tried to set fire to the Wagner Bldg. This building was used by Army, Navy and Air Force ROTC programs.
Presently a student mob is rioting in downtown State College destroying private property. This is what Marxist mobs excell at. The students are “protesting” Paterno’s dismissal.
Two years ago I returned to PSU for my 45th reunion. While walking about canpas I came upon the Student Union building. On a bench outside was a blind (why are so many of them blind?) obviously Muslin man with a Koran in his lap. He was conversing with a group of students in a low voice. Couldn’t hear what he was saying, but I bet I can guess.
The Penn State Board of Trustees has an opportunity to fix Penn State. But it must go much deeper than Firing Paterno and PSU Pres. Spanier. I wonder what it will do.