The woman who stood up to Joe Paterno

CNN ^ | July 15th, 2012 | Ann O'Neill

[Talisker]

Vicky Triponey experienced firsthand the clubby, jock-snapping culture, the sense of entitlement, the cloistered existence. It's what drove her five years ago from her job as the vice president who oversaw student discipline. She was told she was too aggressive, too confrontational, that she wasn't fitting in with "the Penn State way."

Great, now feminism is trying to get some mileage off of the Paterno scandal.

Listen, lady, it's not about you, okay? Jocks are jocks everywhere, and who's to say there weren't serious problems with your behavior, in addition to Paterno? Generalizing the Paterno story into an anti-jock screed IS abusing your power, but can you even see that anymore? Or are you too far gone?

Like all feminists, your problem is hating men. It's a mental illness you refuse to deal with, and instead choose to try to politicize and destroy millions of good people over, and enslave the rest.

You're sick. Get help before you hurt any more men with the lies and bureaucratic power you use as your weapon.

[Oztrich Boy]

F*** Joe Paterno. His lack of decisive action enabled a serial pedophile to rape children for decades.

Corrected in light of the conclusion made in the Freeh report.

[Jay Redhawk]

Maybe a rookie guard will give him his shoestrings back. Those things make a great noose.

[lightman]

We can only hope for some “jailhouse justice”.

“Accidents” happen.

[Hoodat]

Back then, you couldn't drive around Athens with your windows down, lest someone might toss a diploma in your lap.

Her name was indeed Jan Kemp. She sued UGA and won. Today, as a Ga Tech grad, I freely admit that UGA has become an outstanding academic school.

[Hoodat]

Before setting him on fire, they should figure out a way to clone him, and then kill his clones, set them on fire, and feed them to dogs, too. They also should raze the entire campus, bulldoze it over, and then use it as a nuclear waste dump site.

Am I being too lenient here?

[Hoodat]

She clashed often with Paterno over who should discipline football players when they got into trouble. The conflict with such an iconic figure made her very unpopular around campus.

This sickens me. For decades, Paterno was billed as this staunch by-the-rules disciplinarian who ran a clean program. We now find out that Paterno makes Jackie Sherrill look like Bear Bryant.

[mass55th]

"Am I being too lenient here?"

You're just an old softy ;-)

[mbennett203]

LOL, nice!

[FreedomPoster]

A deep look suggests that the president of the university at the time, Graham Spanier, who is a big LGBT promoter, likely gave the whole thing a wink and a nod, and swept it under the rug for another 10 years.

[Student0165]

Hoodat, that was too funny. “...lest someone might toss a diploma in your lap.” LOL.

[Lurker]

A deep look suggests that the president of the university at the time, Graham Spanier, who is a big LGBT promoter, likely gave the whole thing a wink and a nod, and swept it under the rug for another 10 years.

I sincerely hope there are multiple counts of aiding and abetting in his future. The thought of that creep spending the rest of his life doing hard time warms my black heart.

[WhyisaTexasgirlinPA]

Back then, you couldn't drive around Athens with your windows down, lest someone might toss a diploma in your lap.

OMG, funniest thing I've read in a long time, thanks!

[dfwgator]

Same thing happened to Jan Kemp (I think that was her name) when she blew the whistle on the athlete grade fixing priorities at UGA in the 1980’s. She was crucified.

As we said at UF when I was there, "Let the Big Dawg Read."

[Scoutmaster]

If you find and read any of the lengthy and detailed reports of Triponey’s run-ins with Paterno, you’ll know she had some specific issues with the football program and Paterno, and not jocks in general.