<p>
</p>
<p>Right, but as I pointed out, that’s so unlikely a possibility that nobody turning him down as a client should lose sleep over it. Which is why the friend I mentioned doesn’t – and shouldn’t – feel the least bit guilty for not taking that kind of case. I wouldn’t either if I did criminal defense work.</p>
<p>What I wanna know is why places like MIT and Carnegie Mellon can be highly rated universities when they can’t field a winning football team.</p>
<p>Not sure if anyone has posted this yet, but apparently JoePa transferred ownership of his house to Sue for $1 in July. </p>
<p><a href=“http://www.nytimes.com/2011/11/16/sports/ncaafootball/in-july-paterno-transferred-ownership-of-home-to-his-wife-for-1.html[/url]”>http://www.nytimes.com/2011/11/16/sports/ncaafootball/in-july-paterno-transferred-ownership-of-home-to-his-wife-for-1.html</a></p>
<p>Why would there be any reason to do this other than to guard against any personal liability?</p>
<p>Well, Pitt and Carnegie Melon and UChicago attract a different kind of student. The average kid in America sees sporting events as a part of their college experience. A part of being an American college kid. It’s a collective experience and it creates school unity and school patriotism, so to speak.</p>
<p>As we can see with this case, it is possible for that to go too far. But, it is also possible to go too far in the other direction, as well, imho. What we really want, I thnk, is true amatuerism in sports, which seems more and more difficult to come by.</p>
<p>Coase, it seems to me that a number of posters are trying to stereotype the university or suggest that the emphasis on athletics at Penn State is the reason for the unfortunate actions of a few people. </p>
<p>Cardinal, it is problematic having universities operating semi-professional sports teams, but I don’t feel the issue is unique to Penn State nor is it the primary reason for these unfortunate events. It is an isolated incident that could have happened anywhere. How many local child welfare agencies have ignored reports of child abuse and are reprimanded after the child is found dead. Human beings are fallible and what happened at Penn State could have happened anywhere.</p>
<p>“Why would there be any reason to do this other than to guard against any personal liability?”</p>
<p>Said it a thousand posts back. I want to see JoePa’s bank records (both in and out).</p>
<p>
</p>
<p>I agree with this, actually.</p>
<p>The boy scouts
the Catholic church</p>
<p>Other organizations we aren’t aware of yet. </p>
<p>Making every adult who comes into contact, regardless of how or their profession, with allegations of child abuse and child sexual abuse, a mandatory reporter, and enforcing this law would go a long way to ending the tendency of some to want to pass the buck to the Next guy in line and then ignore it.</p>
<p>Joe Paterno is not naive. Even as he was turning a blind eye to all this, he was preparing himself for a calamity. He does not sound shocked/horrified in any of his statements or behavior. (or is that just being 84 years old and bumbling?)</p>
<p>We could see lot more charges in the coming months. </p>
<p>If Schulz was charged, maybe Thomas Harmon is not far behind (Schulz’s predecessor) What was uncovered (and then covered up) in the 1998 investigation, conducted by Detective Ronald Shreffler. Why did his supervisor Thomas Harmon order him to close the case. And were alterations made in the report?</p>
<p>The President of Second Mile and the Counsel. (all the names are a blur now)</p>
<p>I am not religious, but I always liked this quote from the bible:</p>
<p>“Let He Who Has Not Sinned Cast the First Stone”</p>
<p>I wonder how many people out there who have excoriated Paterno would have done all the things they are so certain he should have done. No way will we ever know, but I wonder.</p>
<p>
</p>
<p>Like this one</p>
<p><a href=“Military college "sorry" about sex abuse inaction - Parents Forum - College Confidential Forums”>Military college "sorry" about sex abuse inaction - Parents Forum - College Confidential Forums;
<p>“I wonder how many people out there who have excoriated Paterno would have done all the things they are so certain he should have done. No way will we ever know, but I wonder.”</p>
<p>You can wonder all you like. Some of us have experience…</p>
<p>But, to be honest, I am much more concerned about things Paterno might have DONE (and actually did), than those which he didn’t.</p>
<p>“Let He Who Has Not Sinned Cast the First Stone”</p>
<p>So parent57, where does that leave all us Myers-Briggs “J” types?</p>
<p>Why am I thinking hyenas?</p>
<p>^^ that is true…it could have happened anywhere and it does happen in far too many places
This is why we all need to focus on what we can do as a member of a civil society to prevent this horrendous act from happening to any other inncocent children</p>
<p>Not to say that it can’t happen at MIT , Carnegie Mellon,or any other prestigeous college , but if anything good can come out of this tragedy , I hope that people can take a hard look at what they can do to stop this kind of violent abuse against our most vulnerable asset</p>
<p>From the article about what the GA had to say:</p>
<p>
</p>
<p>I’ll be interested to hear from him what exactly it was that he did.</p>
<p>
</p>
<p>Didn’t they catch a UPenn Professor dealing with porno or something a few years ago?</p>
<p>DIII athletics is true amaturism - no scholarships. You play for the love of the sport. You can still have need based scholarships for poor student athletes, but no one goes to school for athletic ability alone. In some sports, DIII is played at a very high level - soccer and tennis come to mind.</p>
<p>Ivy league cshools have DI athletics but no athletic scholarships. They have some great athletes, a Harvard basketball player made the Golden state Warriars baskeball team last year. However, athletics do not have more prestige than academics. Maybe that is truly the right way to go.</p>
<p>That’s good, Bogney, especially if academics don’t have more prestige than athletics. </p>
<p>We have a such a massive obesity problem (pun intended) in this country. Perhaps requiring ahtletic participation, at some level, doing something, for all four years, in order to graduate college would also help to stem the academic vs. athlete paradigm that can be so dangerous, as well. Also, no athletic scholarships, then no academic merit scholarships, either.</p>
<p>One ought not to be priveledged over the other. The lack of fitness in this country is far too expensive to act as if the only thing we need to worry about developing is our kids’ minds. JMO</p>
<p>apologies for going off topic.</p>
<p>
</p>
<p>I have yet to see this kind of thing happen at an institution that is run primarily by women.</p>
<p>@erhswimming:
Joe is getting old. This may be in preparation for his passing as it could be beneficial taxwise to have it in his wife’s name rather than passing it through a will.</p>