<p>rosieleem - what exactly would you like the students to do?</p>
<p>Boycott football for a start. Insist statue be taken down. Ask for pensions taken away from Sandusky family, paterno etc. </p>
<p>Demand an investigation into the entire football program and it’s past and present power over staffing of university, and the influence it had over the school and how the school treated its players.
There are lots of things the students could push for besides this go blue garbage.</p>
<p>They rioted in anger over the firing of paterno. They publicly defend him and his program. If they can do that they can surely stand up now and say, wow, are we messed up. Football is not god. Paterno was an jerk at the very minimum.</p>
<p>Tear down that statue.</p>
<p>Tear down the statue. The man was a moral monster. To continue to honor him with a statue dishonors the university and everyone associated with it. Tear it down.</p>
<p>My point is that whole Blue Out just sounds like more PSU culture than caring about the victims. Why are they trying to grab world attention to themselves? “WE will show the world what Penn State truly represents.” Sorry, but to me that sounds like a lot of posturing.</p>
<p>Son is listening to sports center at the moment. Wow they just do not get it. they are talking about the report. they say Joe Paterno legacy should not be negated with this one event? Are they serious? They go on to say he did not get accused of NCAA violatons. In as much to say what he did/did not do was not an indication of his character.</p>
<p>In November, 2011, the Department of Education announced that they would launch an investigation of Penn State for failing to comply wth the Clery Act:</p>
<p>[U.S</a>. Department of Education to Investigate Penn State’s Handling of Sexual Misconduct Allegations | U.S. Department of Education](<a href=“U.S. Department of Education”>U.S. Department of Education)</p>
<p>I know a few Penn State grads. I have no allegiance to Penn State at all. However, I must admit that in the beginning, I could not imagine that Joe Paterno could have known anything and not reported it. When he was fired, I told my husband that that would kill him, and I thought they could have let an old man finish the season. HOWEVER, I now know that the people making the decisions had far more information than I had. </p>
<p>This is just the beginning.</p>
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<p>Grcxx3, let me repeat what I quoted above: </p>
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<p>The issue is not what people are doing (which may be laudable in itself), but why.</p>
<p>“They exhibited a striking lack of empathy for Sandusky’s victims by failing to inquire as to their safety and well being, especially by not attempting to determine the identity of the child who Sandusky assaulted in the Lasch building in 2001. Further they exposed this child to additional harm by alerting Sandusky, who was the only one who knew the child’s identity, of what McQueary saw in the shower on the night of February 9,2001.”</p>
<p>YES, this was my concern that not only did they never try to locate this victim to provide appropriate care, they let Sandusky know. This potentially made this child someone Sandusky really needed to silence. And where is this young man? Is he still alive? What happened to him?</p>
<p>also, Paterno’s statement in response to McQueary’s report of a sexual assault by Sandusky is different than what was reported earlier, and repeated on this thread. The Freeh report indicates the actual statement Paterno made to McQueary was;</p>
<p>“You did what you had to do. It’s my job now to figure out what we want to do.”</p>
<p>the first reaction I had reading this was it sounded like what a Mob figure might say. what we WANT to do??? To me it sounds like he was acknowledging the need to strategize. This would have also been a clear communication to McQueary that Paterno was going to control the process from there.</p>
<p>I have no problem with Spannier et all having their jobs now. They have been investigated and charged but not proven guilty so it would be wrong to take away something like tenure without due process of law (whether by criminal court or university process). That they appear so guilty should not be rushed to treating them as though they’ve been convicted. That is how a system of laws should work.</p>
<p>So did Freeh do any forensic accounting? Did he “follow the money”?</p>
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<p>What I would like them to do is put on a second riot, except this time instead of angrily protesting the firing of Paterno they should march over and angrily pull his statue down. Maybe some of them publicly burning their football season tickets along the way would be a nice gesture too. All the while chanting “We are!..Penn State!” </p>
<p>It would be things like this that would show that they truly do “get it” and would put a little bit of honor and respect back into their traditional chant.</p>
<p>I don’t think a university (or any employer) must follow the legal standard of “innocent until proven guilty” when considering whether to fire an employee. But they will do whatever is best for the school’s reputation. (Yes, that was intentional irony)</p>
<p>I wondered that too Mini. Who is investigating Corbett, the Second Mile, the judge who kept Matt Sandusky with the Sanduskys. </p>
<p>We now have the facts about the former PSU leaders. The new leadership at PSU needs to lead, and to guide the next steps, which should include removing the statue.</p>
<p>and I realize no charges have been made against Spanier, but how did he obtain a position managing a national security project when he was fired from PSU due to a horrifying child sexual abuse scandal?</p>
<p>"So did Freeh do any forensic accounting? Did he “follow the money”? "</p>
<p>There was a mention of the extra lump sum money of $168k that Sandusky got as part of his retirement package that was unprecedented, and Sandusky was given emeritus status when he actually did not meet the prerequisite for the honour. Then the report mentioned that the university approved a favorable land deal to Sandusky Second Mile after the 2001 incident for surprisingly about $168k also.</p>
<p>If the Penn State community truly cared about righting the wrongs done by their “heroes”, they would have shown some sort of public display of protest. However, I feel they are too obsessed with trying to salvage their precious Penn State reputation. Where is the outrage by the Penn State fans and alumni? There isn’t any–donations to the university are up despite this tragedy. It’s sickening.</p>
<p>Close the damn football program. Knock down the statue. Raise a new memorial praising the bravery of the men who came forward to tell their tales of horror caused by the secrecy within the walls of Penn State. Change their motto from “Success with honor” (barf) to
“Never Again”.</p>
<p>Next step: follow the money trail. Make public the amount of money Penn State gave these corrupt evil men.</p>
<p>The only way to “punish” a corp. like Penn State is to literally make them pay. Money is at the root of all of this.</p>
<p>I also want to know about the money trail from Paterno to Sandusky. Some of it may simply have been “recommendations” (e.g. demands) to the university for hush money (like the $168k); others might have been more direct (or through Second Mile).</p>
<p>Jay Paterno, son of Joe and himself a former member of the Penn State football program, told host Today Show host Matt Lauer that all the family has wanted is for an investigation to find the truth.</p>
<p>“We have never ever at any time been afraid to see what people have had to say,” he said.</p>
<p>He went on to call the Freeh report just "one opinion, one piece of the puzzle.</p>
<p>“We’ve never been afraid of the truth, so let’s have the truth come out and let’s go from there.”</p>
<p>Wait, what? the 7 month long investigation now known as the Freeh report is just one opinion? what exactly does Jay mean by let’s have the truth come out. That’s what the Freeh report did, show the TRUTH. What would satisfy him as evidence of truth. Should there be a seance so Joe Paterno can tell us the “truth”?? The only way the Paterno family can retain a shred of respect now is to respect the Freeh report, and demonstrate their empathy for the victims. It appears that is never going to happen.</p>
<p>Obviously the truth will be what the two accused of perjury say – none of them knew Jerry Sandusky sexually molested a boy in the shower in 2001, and none of them knew of anything illegal in 1998. This has all been quite the shock for them.</p>
<p>It also just seems sensible to me that Paterno would have alerted his kids to keep their kids away from Sandusky. I know it’s just speculation, but who, with the knowledge of the 2001 incident and had grandkids that I’m sure were often on the PSU campus, would not do so? While it’s most likely Sandusky feared Paterno in some way, still…</p>
<p>And it also sounds like Sandusky got paid off with a nice retirement to keep his mouth shut.</p>
<p>I love it - a team of former prosecutors, FBI Agents and Pennsylvania and Delaware State Police Officers conduct over 430 interviews and spend months analyzing over 3.5 million emails and other documents and it is “just one opinion.”</p>
<p>The arrogance is just unbelievable.</p>