Posted on 07/22/2012 8:32:31 AM PDT by John W
Tomorrow morning at 9:00 a.m. in Indianapolis, the NCAA will reportedly announce how it intends to punish Penn State following its handling of the the Jerry Sandusky scandal. The penalties have been termed "unprecedented" and will be leveled at both the school itself and the football program.
According to Armen Keteyian, a source had "never seen anything like it."
Things are happening quickly, now.
Tell that to Matt Barkley. He was in the 7th grade when Reggie Bush committed his minor compared to PSU infraction. Because of what happened with Bush, he cannot play in a bowl game.
I never said that. NCAA violations are meant to ensure schools don't cheat and get a competitive advantage. If PSU violated NCAA rules then the NCAA should go after them. This is an attempt to take people guilty of criminal activity and put on the level of recruiting violations and punish people in the program and the school who are completely innocent. This is an attempt to say it is not the homosexuals who are responsible it is people in the University who had nothing to do with it.
It is an attempt to get people angry at the wrong people. It is an attempt to let the homosexuals off the hook.
Go after the people involved.
Over 90% of the people who will be affected by bringing down Penn State athletics had nothing with Jerry Sandusky and didn’t even know Jerry Sandusky.
If they institute a death penalty, it will be more about making a graphic example of PSU (to discourage other schools) vs. punishing the guilty.
balderdash
“they” (students) will just find or transfer to other party schools where they can enjoy football and sex with drunken underage co-eds
the deviants will still find their child victims, off campus, more discreetly (school, boy scouts, church groups,etc) ..maybe they can even find teaching posts at all-boy schools ...yummy
But people will “feel good” about imploding Penn State football for years ahead- like they “did something”.... and surely Penn States example will ensure that tolerated and unreported homosexual deviancy in a youth program will “never” happen again (sarc)
Hey tell me which “players” at USC were getting paid
Reggie’s step-father had a deal brewing on the side but he nor any other player at USC has or was getting paid
Unless you have proof and not just something you read then pull your post
exactly
If Jerry Sandusky had only focused on ages 18 and above, and become a gay marriage activist, he’d still be in business, maybe even a guest at the White House
Interesting. I think it is somewhat of a stretch, but not really soemthing I had considered. I just think folks are now really soiling a great man, Joe Pa. FTR, I am NOT a PSU fan of any sort.
The NFL must be a tad upset about what is happening these days as one of their prime “minor” league football factories is under fire at the same time the retired players are eating at it from the other end due to the concussion controversy and the pension issues.
Ain't gonna happen. Ever. And here's why ...
Go to Penn State's online catalog of classes and enter the words "gender" or "gay" or "lesbian" or "transgender" and similar terms. You'll find scores, perhaps hundreds (I got sick before counting) of courses with descriptions such as those copied below.
When Penn State administrators and professors carefully create a culture in which their own sexual deviance is protected, promoted, and professed (as these copious course offerings demonstrate), can we be surprised that Jerry Sandusky can roam those revered halls and hallowed locker rooms for decades sodomizing 9 year-old boys?
For many--certainly not for all, but for many--Jerry Sandusky is the embodiment of their very own lectures.
This is why there will be no "proactive" policies aimed at preventing pedophiliacs from pursuing their perversions at Penn State.
How many Sanduskys are still roaming those halls, undetected? Or, if detected, protected as Sandusky was?
ENGL 245(GH;US) (WMNST 245) Introduction to Lesbian and Gay Studies (3) An introduction to the study of homosexual identities across a wide range of disciplines and methodologies.
An introduction to the study of homosexual identities across a wide range of disciplines and methodologies, this course explores the history of modern, “western” ideas about sexual identity as manifested in both writing and images. The class examines sexuality not as a “natural” or consistent phenomenon, but as a set of beliefs that have changed over time and manifest themselves differently in different cultural and historical contexts.
Starting in the late nineteenth century, scientific and medical authorities began categorizing individuals into sexual types based on their manifestations of gendered characteristics and their erotic attractions and practices. This medical typing corresponded with the development of subcultures associated with deviance from sexual norms; these subcultures produced a rich variety of texts, images, performances, and social forms, many of which are now considered central to both vernacular and high culture.
This course explores this rich archive. It investigates constructions of sexual conformity and how sexual nonconformists positioned themselves as a shared group identity. It examines how sexual distinctions between gendered, raced, and classed bodies were historically produced and culturally contested. It considers what commonalities gay identities may – or may not – share with lesbian identities and how the increasing visibility of bisexuality, transgender, and transsexuality has altered perceptions of sexual identity. The course explores the relationship of the avant-garde to mass-mediated politics of GLBTQ subcultures and the impetus to “normalcy.” Comparative study of issues of sexual mobility beyond and between the borders of the United States expands the course’s critical scope beyond dominant forms of western culture.
This course does not propose definitive answers to the questions of identity it addresses. Instead it negotiates the ways sexualities have enabled individuals to articulate – and disarticulate – themselves within social bodies past and present. This course, therefore, has wide relevance for students interested in how group identities come into being and transform over time in dynamic relation to other historical forces. Exploring a wide variety of texts and images associated with the history of sexual identity as well as a variety of interpretations of that history, this course opens students to an archive with the potential to inform and enrich their understandings of many kinds of challenges to regimes of normativity today.
BB H 251(US) Straight Talks I: Advanced Sexual Orientation/Gender Identity Peer Education (3) Exploration of social justice issues, diversity leadership, and group facilitation skills related to lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and ally issues.
Straight Talks I provides students an opportunity to explore various lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and allies (LGBTA) issues from an educational perspective. Students will be exposed to theories, terminology, and various speakers who will approach topics such as LGBTA history and multicultural issues. The course projects are designed to enhance both written and oral skills, and provide students an opportunity to work together. Finally, the course challenges students to think critically about the social, economic, and political cultures around them and how these cultures affect sexual and gender orientation issues.
Course Objectives:
Philosophical
1. To think critically about your spiritual, social, economic, political and cultural existences and their relationship to your understanding of sexual and gender orientation issues.
2. To develop a critical consciousness that will bring awareness of the ways custom, ritual and tradition helped shape and continue to shape our daily lives.
3. To develop a fuller understanding of the way gender and sexual orientation are conceived of by other people and the ways in which these conceptions link with other elements of identity including ethnicity, class, gender, ability etc.
4. To challenge you to consider the following questions: a) What does it mean to provide educational programming? b) What does it mean to be a peer educator? c) How do I influence others by my involvement in this program? d) How do I what to influence others by my involvement in this program? e) How do I change the world so that it is a better place when I leave it?
Praxis
1. Develop facilitation and presentation skills
2. Obtain knowledge about LGBTA history and current issues and concerns.
3. Conceive of and articulate what it means to 'come out'.
4. Acquire information on sexual orientation, identity development and queer history.
5. Refine your ability to provide programming activities in the form of facilitation, discussion, skits, and exercises.
6. Develop a sense of community and rapport with other panelists through class discussions and projects.
ART H 225(GA;GH) (ENGL 225, WMNST 225) Sexuality and Modern Visual Culture (3) An examination of the visual expression of gender and sexual identities in English-speaking cultures since the late nineteenth century.
The terms "feminist" and "homosexual" were invented by the Victorians and reflect profound shifts in conceptions of identity. Another invention of the nineteenth century was the idea of the literary and artistic "avant-garde," a minority contingent with politically and/or aesthetically advanced views. These ideas of minority culture were deeply enmeshed with one another, and have exerted profound influence ever since. This course explores that history with the objective of developing a more sophisticated understanding of how the history of ideas affects our sense of who we are and how we read both texts and images. The course will be relevant to students of American and English studies, art, art history, and women's and sexuality studies.
Great men do not act the way JoePa did. He deserves all the soiling he can get. What he did is lower than whale s**t on the bottom of the ocean. Great men do not do such things.
Sorry but JoePa is no longer a great man if you read the Freeh report. Making the trains run on time while covering up a pedophile on your staff disqualifies that.
This is as much about a salvo on ALL universities, giving whistle blowers plenty of encouragement to blow the whistle on any nefarious activities going on anywhere and everywhere.
Bound by law to report, beyond the campus, will will be imperative and penalties on those in the know who fail to do so will be made greater than the reluctance to do so.
It is so upsetting that innocent athletes have to pay a price for evil, but you know, as in a family when one does something awful or stupid, the entire family is embarrassed, or shamed, or stigmatized.
What to do?
I have been for the death penalty ever since the allegations surfaced, but now I’m not so sure. A five year ban from all bowl games and no new scholarships during that timeframe would be very effective.
All current players could play out their scholarships (I would also support penalty-free transfers) and the program would have to “restart” with what are essentially walk ons. It would allow students to cheer on a team completely untainted by scandal and force the administration to foster a toned-down environment in which athletics are an ancillary experience of higher education, not its raison de etre.
Maybe Penn State should be sold off to the University of Phoenix as a new satellite campus. :)
5 year death penalty.
The administration, head coach, and other coaches hid child RAPE.
They chose the football program over these children.
Yes, many will suffer. That’s how penalties work against an organization.
Send the message this isn’t behavior any program or any organization should tolerate.
“It is really time to bring an end to intercollegiate athletics.”
Oh, my...the Pros will have to recruit all their new guys out of high school...and we all know that high school players aren’t ready for the Pro’s...example, LeBron James, will he ever make it?... /sarc
Love it!! It will also be GREAT cover for B. H. Obama
Really??
Reggie Bush got paid through his dad.
USC had its national championships yanked for cheating. Deal with it.
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