The piano player knows what kind of business he's working for. Out of the many thousands associated with Penn State only a handful knew or suspected what had happened.
Do you yourself know what's going on -- in secret -- at your alma mater? How would you know whether one person at that university is molesting children, and a few others not doing enough to stop it? To use a phrase applied earlier to Penn State, would that make your alma mater -- tens of thousands of persons who knew nothing about it -- "a house of perversion"?
I don't have the stats in front of me, but I'd assume that out of every diverse group of tens of thousands of persons there would be criminals of various types: a child molester, a rapist, a sadistic wife-beater, thieves in considerable numbers, and maybe even a murderer. That's no reason to blame the others.
Good analogy. There were many more people throughout the program who undoubtedly knew about Sandusky’s “proclivities.” the Romans had it right when they dealt with the perversions of Carthage.
“The piano player knows what kind of business he’s working for. “
Well, I graduated from the University of California at Berkeley many years ago, and I can tell you that I knew then just what a shit hole it was with the suborning of all the radicals, the ‘free speech movement,” the filthy speech movement, and all the bowel movements of the worthless turds who went there or hung out on Telegraph Avenue. It’s reputation then, as now as a premier institution of higher learning is undeserved. If I were to read that the whole place had burned to the ground, I would run back and dance around the ashes. An institution that I, as a native-born Californian should have revered, turned out to be a disgrace! So too should the decent students at Penn State demand that all those who ran the place and covered up manifold criminal and corrupt activities leave immediately and as they leave, offer an apologies to the students for their actions. As for the “athletic program,” tell me just what does it contribute to the learning process of higher education? You get a bunch of low lives who have to be propped up in their studies so they can learn what amounts to a trade ( a sport ). Collegiate athletics detract from the mission of a university, they don’t do one thing for the learning process. But I guess if you are a “frat boy,” they give you the “vehicle” to go get drunk at the stadium when there’s a home game, where the school has to shell out extra bucks for the campus cops to ride heard on the whole sorrid mess.