Posted on 11/10/2011 1:12:59 PM PST by Colofornian
We forget sometimes how insular the world of a college campus can be, how the social and ethical culture of the place often has little relationship to what goes on outside those gates.
...Penn State’s board of trustees should be applauded for making this move now and not at the end of the season...
...it was clear from the bizarre tone of the news conference with board of trustees vice chairman John Surma and the ensuing mayhem on campus that the provincial Penn State community doesn’t understand why Paterno had to go.
...this is what happens when football defines a place the way it defines State College, Pa. In a larger sense, this is what happens when you attach the billion-dollar enterprise of amateur athletics to institutions of higher learning. At Penn State, football overwhelmed the culture of everything it bumped up against and might have enabled the alleged abuse of children to continue for nearly a decade. Wednesday night, it led to thousands of students marching the streets in protest, going so far as to flip over a satellite television truck. These images were broadcast live and sent around the world, the portrait of a campus in chaos and disgrace.
It’s enough to spark a legitimate debate about whether Penn State should even play a football game on its campus Saturday. The atmosphere might just be too emotionally charged to guarantee that 100,000-plus fans can safely attend and the teams can play without incident. School officials need to give careful consideration to all possibilities before making that call.
...the Penn State community is too shortsighted to see it would’ve been far worse to show up for the Nebraska game with Paterno as head coach and pretend like everything was all right...
(Excerpt) Read more at msn.foxsports.com ...
From the article: Wednesday night, it led to thousands of students marching the streets in protest, going so far as to flip over a satellite television truck. These images were broadcast live and sent around the world, the portrait of a campus in chaos and disgrace. It’s enough to spark a legitimate debate about whether Penn State should even play a football game on its campus Saturday. The atmosphere might just be too emotionally charged to guarantee that 100,000-plus fans can safely attend and the teams can play without incident. School officials need to give careful consideration to all possibilities before making that call.
AP reports: Neb regent fears for player, fan safety at PSU
The game needs to be called OFF.
If it is not called there will be one hell of a riot. I hope I am wrong. The students at PS seem to be in the mood for total disruption.
Can Penn State now properly address Michael Mann’s transgressions against Society and Science?
I can’t wait for the PSU game this week and the opposing team starts chanting...
We Are...Pedo Philes
We Are...Pedo Philes
Mocking them.
Give them a surprise test in all of their subjects at 12 noon.
Or a politican
Or a “civil rights leader”
Riot because your team wins something or your team losses something or it snows or there's a Who concert or a soccer game or a cheating scandal or for any normal reason.
Don't riot in favor of child molestation. It reflects poorly on you and your parents.
I’ve been thinking for a while that sports have eclipsed the intent of higher education in many of our colleges and universities. My family would disown me for that sentiment, but that’s how I feel.
These kids are rioting because they have been raised to trust certain authority figures, and unquestioningly follow the lead of these authorities. They are now, totally disillusioned. I hope that a lot of these kids go home a begin questioning a lot of things that they have trusted to be true and start thinking for themselves.
Homo Pervs. Not pedophiles. That is an insult to peophiles to call the Homo Pervs by the same name.
I lived in a college town with a winning team for a few years. I think half of the parents there would have given their children personally to the coach for whatever he wanted to do with them.
The fanatical devotion was just something I never managed to understand.
I wouldn’t necessarily blame the football culture. What if it was at Harvard and the one committing the acts was a nobel prize researcher that brings in $Millions per year in grants?
...or ANY form of ‘hero worship’...
Ouch!
But appropriate.
“E.J. remembers the kickball games his father organized in the backyard. “Dad would get every single kid involved,” says E.J. “We had the largest kickball games in the United States, kickball games with 40 kids.”
http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/vault/article/magazine/MAG1017979/2/index.htm
Joe Pa was turned into a fall guy because Graham Spanier needed company to take the heat off his politically correct effeminate ass. That's all.
If interested, you can read my supporting evidence for this opinion here.
Joe Pa was turned into a fall guy because Graham Spanier needed company to take the heat off his politically correct effeminate ass. That's all.
If interested, you can read my supporting evidence for this opinion here.
Pedo Philes is closer to the “We Are...Penn State” chant sound wise. That is why I went with that.
I really doubt that the students were protesting in favor of homosexual (the word the media refuses to use) child abuse. From what I’ve gathered today (whether right or wrong), the students feel like the Coach was unjustly blamed for some terrible alleged actions.
I still don’t know all the facts and suspect there is more to come in the weeks ahead. But, the very reaction of the students is reflecting the extremely poor manner in which the Board of Trustees handled the matter.
The game on Saturday? This Board is continuing to set a bad example on priorities, aside from asking for trouble.
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