Posted on 07/16/2012 4:36:36 PM PDT by Third Person
(CNN) -- Vicky Triponey knows all too well the power Penn State's late football coach, Joe Paterno, held for more than half a century over the insular slice of central Pennsylvania that calls itself Happy Valley.
She 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."
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. For a while, it cost Triponey her peace of mind and her good name. It almost ended her 30-year academic career.
Another person might have felt vindicated, smug or self-righteous when former FBI Director Louis Freeh delivered the scathing report on his eight-month investigation of the Jerry Sandusky child abuse scandal.
The inquiry, commissioned by the board of trustees, exposed how the personal failings of Paterno and three other Penn State leaders -- along with the university's football-first culture -- empowered an assistant football coach who molested fatherless boys for more than a decade.
"There's no joy," Triponey told CNN as she sat down for an interview Friday, the day after the Freeh report was released. She said she found solace in the public recognition of Penn State's "culture of reverence for the football program," as the report phrased it, and that it is "ingrained at all levels of the campus community." Freeh found that the culture contributed to the Sandusky scandal.
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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.
Corrected in light of the conclusion made in the Freeh report.
We can only hope for some “jailhouse justice”.
“Accidents” happen.
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.
Am I being too lenient here?
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.
You're just an old softy ;-)
LOL, nice!
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.
Hoodat, that was too funny. “...lest someone might toss a diploma in your lap.” LOL.
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.
OMG, funniest thing I've read in a long time, thanks!
As we said at UF when I was there, "Let the Big Dawg Read."
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.
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