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<p>Unless you’re including institutions run by nuns. The most harrowing stories I have ever heard came from friends who went to schools run by nuns.</p>
<p>Women teachers have molested underaged boys, sometimes becoming impregnated by them. Women may or may not have run the school, but women can be just as deviant as men. Historically, women have not run as many institutions, so it is hard to compare. However, I do not doubt that women can be just as swayed by institutional bias to cover up as mensometimes are.</p>
<p>just a guess …would it eliminate the need for the house to be probated?</p>
<p>Jon Stewart, referring to Sandusky and his lawyer, Joe Amendola: "What sort of creepy guy club do you both belong to? I’m not a lawyer here, but if you’re accused of sex with minors, maybe your criteria for finding a lawyer shouldn’t be “Also Has Issues With Sexual Boundaries”.</p>
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I was at a catholic boarding school for several years. I still remember Sister Mary Oliver - Olly Ostrich as we not affectionately called her - that was one mean woman. If she had it in for you, you were in trouble. I remember at about 10 or 11 years old sitting outside the door of a closet most of one night trying to calm down the hysterical girl who was locked in there after she tried to run away after Olly had whipped her with a leather strap (part of her uniform) - I think for eating a piece of toast in class. I still clench my hands when I remember the edge of the ruler hitting. My friend being made to eat a whole dinner plate of beets till she threw up because she was caught giving me her beets (I hated cauliflower and she hated beets so I would eat her beets and she would eat my cauliflower).</p>
<p>Nothing sexual (that I was aware of) - but some of the corporal punishments would get you arrested nowadays. There were also some kind nuns - but I remember Olly the most.</p>
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<p>Well then that’s unfortunate for Duke. They are in danger of making the same mistake that PSU did, namely putting the welfare of their big-name sports program ahead of the welfare of people.</p>
<p>PSU’s devotion to football didn’t cause the abuse, but it certainly warped the collective priorities and thereby made it feasible, even logical, for officials including Paterno to turn a blind eye to the mess to avoid a scandal for the football program.</p>
<p>One can only hope that this mess, the biggest scandal to ever hit the school, or perhaps any school, will cause the idolators who worship at the alter of Penn State football to get their priorities straightened out. But based on some of the reactions and responses I’m hearing on this thread I fear the chances of that actually happening are lower than I thought.</p>
<p>But maybe there is hope. If the Board in charge of the school has any real courage they’ll abolish the football program for a decade or two. And then maybe bring it back as a non-scholarship club sport, if at all.</p>
<p>So, again, punish a bunch of predominantly African-American scholar-athletes with a higher graduation rate than the rest of the student body because of the actions of a bunch of white coaches, their white assistants, and white administrators who raked in the big bucks while one of their white number had sex with little boys and the others either enabled it or covered it up (or both).</p>
<p>What’s wrong with this picture?</p>
<p>(And, let it be noted, I’m not football fan, but… And beyond the sports teams, the percentage of African-American students at Penn State is vanishingly small. To be precise, “There are 1,866 black students at the flagship campus in University Park. They make up 4.1 percent of the student body.”)</p>
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<p>Oh, I’m pretty sure that if I were told that a child had been raped in my workplace, I’d make sure the matter came to the attention of law enforcement, even if I had to make that call myself. And by law enforcement, I mean an agency that would do something about it, as opposed to the Penn State police. Call me crazy, but I happen to believe that predators of children need to be behind bars.</p>
<p>oh darn - I totally missed that this was really about race. Thanks for the help mini!</p>
<p>You’re welcome! And welcome to America.</p>
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<p>He’d be given a public defender, who I bet wouldn’t have allowed him to go on national TV and talk about how much he loved to shower with little boys.</p>
<p>Has there been any mention of the race of the victims?</p>
<p>Boy, Jon Stewart (as usual) says it best</p>
<p>[Jerry</a> Sandusky Phone Interview - The Daily Show with Jon Stewart - 11/15/11 - Video Clip | Comedy Central](<a href=“The Daily Show with Trevor Noah - TV Series | Comedy Central US”>The Daily Show with Trevor Noah - TV Series | Comedy Central US)</p>
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<p>I live in America, but I don’t see everything in terms of race. And this topic has nothing to do with race.</p>
<p>Why do you always bring the conversation around to race?</p>
<p>This topic is about big time money brought in by big time college sports and the possible corruption of people that are afraid to lose it. </p>
<p>I will wait until the facts are in before allowing this to destroy peoples lives and reputations and the reputations of their school.</p>
<p>Mini, a quote from Sidney Poitier:</p>
<p>“You and your whole lousy generation believes the way it was for you is the way it’s got to be. And not until your whole generation has lain down and died will the dead weight of you be off our backs!”</p>
<p>And it does get better with each generation.</p>
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<p>That will never, ever happen.</p>
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<p>Very true. And posters do need to get perspective that the problem is big time sports wagging the dog. </p>
<p>Bogney makes a good point on post #2457. Why can’t we eliminate athletic scholarships and move to a Div 3 or an Ivy model in which we have student athletes. Let the professional teams create their own minor leagues. </p>
<p>Contrary to popular opinion, I think the schools will actually save money. Yes, the alumni will be upset but they’ll get over it. I suspect those that care a lot contribute to the sport’s boosters, not the university.</p>
<p>JoePa sells house to wife for a dollar!!!</p>
<p>[Joe</a> Paterno sold family home to his wife for $1, N.Y. Times says, in move that could protect assets | PennLive.com](<a href=“http://www.pennlive.com/midstate/index.ssf/2011/11/joe_paterno_sold_family_home_t.html]Joe”>Joe Paterno sold family home to his wife for $1, N.Y. Times says, in move that could protect assets - pennlive.com)</p>
<p>While I agree that the football program at PSU is damaged, diseased, and needs to either die or spend a lot of time in rehabilitation, I fear Nrdsb4 may be right. They will NEVER do the right thing here. They will continue on with the program as if it wasn’t the strong desire to keep the program intact that allowed this to happen.</p>
<p>The NCAAF will not step up and throw their asses out. </p>
<p>They will not give the victims the satisfaction of knowing that the root cause of their abuse was put to rest. For the rest of the victims lives, they will come across newspaper headlines, or Internet headlines, or radio talk, or TV shows, about how great Penn State Football is.</p>
<p>Sandusky, Paterno, all of them involved severely damaged this program. But it will continue on, and the money will keep coming in, and maybe next year they won’t get as many good recruits, but people will forget. </p>
<p>And this scandal will be nothing more than a memory. Especially for the victims.</p>