Penn State = Open sewer

[Albert Hidel]

Now that sick fuck Sandusky has been convicted the question is what are they going to do about the university admins who knew exactly what the pervert was up to and either ignored it or tried to cover it up?

If the NCAA will put a school on probation because a coach slipped a player $50 for meal money, what do they do when a non-coach is using the showers to rape 10-year olds? What does MSCHE think about this?

We know the death penalty Sandusky surely will receive in prison is thoroughly justified, but is Penn State deserving of anything less? Already the PSU spinmeisters are at work:

Penn State, Jerry Sandusky, NCAA Sanctions and the “Death Penalty”
Jun 21st, 2012 at 6:21 am by Tim Tolley

...Quite a few people have asked me over the last 6 months about Penn State and the NCAA. Mostly people from outside of the PSU loop. “What’s going on with the NCAA investigation?” “Do you think there will be sanctions?” “Do you think Penn State will get the ‘death penalty?’”

The what?

The “death penalty” generally refers to SMU’s penalty, which cost them an entire season of football, as well as the home games of a second season, 55 scholarships over 4 years, 4 assistant coaches, a ban on off-campus recruiting and other penalties. Why? SMU was exposed for a decade’s worth of violations including paying players to commit as well as paying them while on campus. These are as severe as you can get, as far as NCAA violations go.

Paying players and recruits directly affects the on-field performance and is essentially cheating, in its purest form.

What Jerry Sandusky has been accused of is much, much worse. Legally. He is facing over 50 charges and some 500 years of jail time. Nothing he is accused of will result in NCAA violations. At least, it shouldn’t. Nothing Sandusky did, however terrible the offenses are, affected the on-field product. No cheating or tampering of any kind is involved.

But what if he did it on Penn State property? That’s awful and disgusting. Is it an NCAA violation? If so, who is responsible for it? It’s not the football team. I repeat. It’s not the football team. The athletic director granted Sandusky entry to the facilities. Will the NCAA bring penalties on the entire athletic department because an ex-coach was allowed on campus? Doubtful. Regardless of what he was doing there.

What if the AD (Curley), Police Chief (Shultz) and the President (Spanier) knew about Sandusky’s crimes and even covered it up, as it appears may be the case? Now we might have something. I was asked last week by a hopeful Ohio State fan: “Isn’t that the definition of lack of institutional control?” Probably not, because they didn’t have THIS situation in mind when they wrote the rule, I assure you. Still, a cover-up from administrators is a big deal. Legally. I’m not sure that the NCAA (National Collegiate Athletic Association) has any real jurisdiction in the matter. It’s not a cover up of players breaking rules or skipping class or doing drugs. I’m not positive it’s athletically related.

Of course, the NCAA has proved to be difficult to predict with their rulings, but I’m not sure where they’d begin. There are sure to be charges doled out, following the Sandusky verdict. Curley and Shultz have already been charged and Spanier may face some of charges of his own. Is that something that the National Collegiate Athletic Association can/will concern themselves with?

Even if the NCAA wants to bring penalties on Penn State athletics, where do they begin? As I said, this is not a football crime, regardless of how it has been portrayed. If a penalty comes, it has to be big. It has to be everybody from women’s basketball, to wrestling to baseball and fencing. A hockey team that doesn’t yet exist would be penalized. Will the NCAA punish hundreds of athletes because of the wrong-doings of an administration? Has there ever been an NCAA punishment that didn’t involve a single athlete committing a single infraction?

I wouldn’t want to be in the shoes of the NCAA decision makers but if I were, I think I’d let the legal process play out and move on to athletics. As you know, I prefer to not get in over my head.

[Martin Eisenstadt]

Sizing up Penn State's liability in abuse scandal
By Andrew Longstreth
NEW YORK | Sat Jun 23, 2012 12:37am EDT

(Reuters) - The Jerry Sandusky trial was loaded with details of the child sex abuse a jury has now convicted the one-time Penn State assistant football coach of carrying out over 15 years, but it revealed little about the university's potential liability in the scandal.

That is likely to change in a related prosecution of two former university officials: athletic director Tim Curley and finance official Gary Schultz.

Both have been charged with perjury and failing to alert authorities to one act of sexual abuse by Sandusky in a scandal that tarnished Pennsylvania State University's name and led to the firing of its president and its head football coach, the late Joe Paterno.

"Their trial will be much more an indictment of Penn State," said Max Kennerly, a Philadelphia lawyer who is not involved in the case.

A trial date has not been set.

Late Friday, the jury in Sandusky's criminal trial found him guilty of 45 out of the 48 charges against him after about 21 hours of deliberation over two days. He faces hundreds of years in prison.

DEEP POCKETS

Now, attention will turn to compensating the victims.

With $4.6 billion in operating revenue reported for the last fiscal year and an endowment topping $1.8 billion, Penn State is a flush civil litigation target for Sandusky's victims.

At least one unidentified male has already filed a lawsuit against the university for failing to protect him from Sandusky. He is initially seeking more than $50,000 in damages, the standard amount in Pennsylvania courts to trigger a jury trial.

To hold the school liable, an victim would have to show that Penn State - through its employees - owed the boys a duty of care and that they failed to uphold that duty.

Legal experts said they expect more civil suits to be filed soon against Penn State and media reports have suggested that the total number of victims could be closer to 20. Victims of sexual abuse often wait until a criminal proceeding has concluded to initiate civil litigation.

Following Friday's verdict, Penn State issued a statement inviting victims to participate in discussions toward a resolution of their claims against the university.

"The university plans to invite victims of Mr. Sandusky's abuse to participate in a program to facilitate the resolution of claims against the university arising out of Mr. Sandusky's conduct," the statement said.

"The purpose of the program is simple - the university wants to provide a forum where the university can privately, expeditiously and fairly address the victims' concerns and compensate them for claims relating to the university."

Penn State had previously declined to comment for this story.

The situation Penn State faces has drawn comparisons to the sexual abuse allegations that have dogged the Roman Catholic Church and prompted calls for the university to set up a victims' compensation fund. So far, Penn State has not established such a fund.

In Sandusky's trial, the prosecution's case relied mostly on the testimony of eight of the 10 victims, who described being molested by Sandusky in graphic detail.

ESTABLISHING RESPONSIBILITY

While a conviction of the former coach would bolster any civil case against Penn State by establishing that molestation occurred, a conviction of Schultz and Curley could help in establishing Penn State's responsibility, legal experts said.

A grand jury report made public in November found that Curley and Schultz, who oversaw the campus police, lied about their response to a 2002 report from Mike McQueary, then a graduate assistant for the football team. McQueary testified to he told Curley and Schultz he witnessed what he believed to be Sandusky having anal sex with a boy in a shower on campus.

NBC reported last week that newly obtained evidence includes emails showing Curley, Schultz and former Penn State President Graham Spanier discussing how to handle the McQueary report. Spanier and Schultz, according to NBC, agreed that it would be "humane" to not report Sandusky to social services agencies.

Prosecutors for the Pennsylvania attorney general alluded to the new evidence in recently filed court papers. They claimed that a grand jury had "long ago" subpoenaed evidence relating to Sandusky from Penn State, but that the university only recently provided a file that was maintained by Schultz.

In a statement following the NBC report, Penn State said the emails were discovered during the course of an independent investigation led by former FBI Director Louis Freeh and were immediately turned over to the state attorney general.

Lawyers for Curley and Schultz, meanwhile, said the files show the two men "conscientiously" considered McQueary's report and "deliberated about how to responsibly deal with the conduct and handle the situation properly."

UNKNOWN COST

It's impossible to know what the cost to Penn State ultimately might be. There is no formula for damages in sexual abuse cases and there are no caps on damages. Lawyers who specialize in sex abuse cases say damages can vary widely from case to case, depending on the harm done to the victim.

Last week, a jury in Northern California awarded $7 million in compensatory damages and an additional $21 million in punitive damages to a woman who claimed the Jehovah's Witnesses allowed one of its members to sexually abuse her when she was a child. Lawyers for the plaintiff say they believe the award is the largest ordered in the United States in a religious child abuse case for a single victim.

Another variable that could determine Penn State's liability is what portion of blame a jury assigns to it. If a verdict is returned in a civil case brought by one of Sandusky's victims, a jury may be asked to determine how much of a judgment Penn State should be required to pay.

"That will be a big issue," said Stephen Estey, an attorney who has litigated sex abuse cases. "The defense is going to say we didn't commit the crime."

[Armando Ramos]

The Sandusky Verdict – time for Penn State to pay the price
Submitted by SBN on Sun, 06/24/2012 - 22:00

Friday evening the State of Pennsylvania delivered a resounding message to former Penn State assistant football coach Jerry Sandusky, you’ll be spending the rest of your life in jail. The Sandusky saga isn’t over yet. Among the issues yet to be decided, will the NCAA hold Penn State accountable for their role in this sordid tale of sexual abuse. The NCAA has yet to decide if Penn State is guilty of “lack of institutional control” in relationship to the school’s cover-up relating to the Sandusky case.

“Lack of institutional control” has been cited in most every NCAA penalty issued for the past three decades. USC, North Carolina, Boise State, Kansas, almost every program Florida have been cited by the NCAA this decade. The violations all stemmed from failing to oversee the actions of their athletes, coaches, boosters, or others affiliated with the athletic program. The NCAA has a long list of rules and regulations relating to illegally paying athletes, grade tampering or recruiting violations. The NCAA doesn’t have any rules relating to the sexual abuse of children by former coaches and what took at Penn State – a coordinated cover-up that led to more children being sexually abused.

“Penn State behaves abominably in letting Jerry Sandusky prey on children.

“You know we -- the thing that haunts me in this case is this awful scene that we've talked about so many times of Mike, the assistant coach, seeing Jerry Sandusky raping a little boy in the shower in 2002. Jerry Sandusky isn't arrested for another decade.

“How many kids did he abuse in that decade because Penn State and senior people didn't do their jobs?” CNN legal expert Jerry Toobin offered Friday on CNN’s Anderson Cooper program.

McQueary caught Sandusky raping a ten-year old in 2001. McQueary met with the late Joe Paterno the following day. Paterno told his “superiors” what McQueary had told him, Penn State choose to not contact the police about McQueary’s allegations. Penn State attempted to ban Sandusky from the football locker room.

Sandusky continued to hold football workouts for high school football players at Penn State. During the 2011 Penn State football season (Sandusky was indicted on November 4, 2011) Sandusky and his wife Dottie were seen at Beaver Stadium in the Nittany Lions VIP box. Not only did Penn State never report what took place in the football team’s locker room in 2001 (and earlier), they continued to allow Jerry Sandusky complete access to their university.

"Time is going to have to heal the image and perception," former Penn State quarterback Todd Blackledge said. "That's going to happen sooner for some, later for others. It's going to take time for people to think about Penn State and Penn State football without thinking about the Jerry Sandusky scandal."Penn State must be held accountable for their complete lack of lack of institutional control. In time college football fans will as Todd Blacklege suggested “move on”, some may even pretend Sandusky never did what he did, but that simply are those who choose to bury their heads in the sand.

Why did Penn State choose to cover-up the sexual abuse of children? Penn State’s football program has generated an annual profit in excess of $50 million over the last decade. Penn State had more than a half billion reasons to cover-up what Mike McQueary witnessed in 2001. Penn State’s leaders knew if the rape of a ten-year old boy was reported to the police and the schools' former defensive coordinator was arrested in conjunction the fallout could cost Penn State tens of millions of dollars. What Penn State failed to consider in allowing Jerry Sandusky to continue raping young boys that they are guilty of allowing Sandusky – evil personified, opportunities to continue his perverted lifestyle.

According to the Harrisburg Patriot News, who won a Pulitzer Prize for their Sandusky coverage, “In four months — November, December, January and February — Penn State dipped into its own resources to pay more than $7.5 million in legal fees, crisis communications and other expenses related to the Sandusky scandal.

If that were to continue over the next five years that would cost the university $112.5 million out-of-pocket.”

And now Penn State are facing a series of lawsuits from Sandusky’s victims. Friday night Penn State’s Board of Trustees released the following statement after Sandusky’s conviction was announced: ““The board of trustees and current administration maintain a steadfast commitment to pursuing the truth regarding Mr. Sandusky’s actions. While we cannot change what happened, we can and do accept the responsibility to take action on the societal issue of child sexual abuse — both in our community and beyond.

“The university is committed to ensuring that our campuses are safe for children and to being a constructive participant in building greater awareness of child sexual abuse and the practical steps that can be undertaken to prevent, report and respond to such abuse.”
The statement went on to encourage Sandusky’s victims to come forward and seek the counseling Penn State is offering.

It also acknowledges that some victims have sought dialogue with the university to discuss its responsibility with regard to Sandusky’s actions.

“Now that the jury has spoken, the university wants to continue that dialogue and do its part to help victims continue their path forward,” the university statement reads.

“To that end, the university plans to invite victims of Mr. Sandusky’s abuse to participate in a program to facilitate the resolution of claims against the university arising out of Mr. Sandusky’s conduct.”

“The purpose of the program is simple — the university wants to provide a forum where the university can privately, expeditiously and fairly address the victims’ concerns and compensate them for claims relating to the university. Counsel to the university plan to reach out to counsel to the victims of Mr. Sandusky’s abuse in the near future with additional details.”

Penn State’s insurance company is suing the school in an attempt to limit the coverage it will provide Penn State in the Sandusky case. Penn State is suing the insurance company. If the insurance company were to win their case against Penn State, the school will be forced to dip into its general fund or its endowment to pay the victims.

What could, should, will the NCCA do to Penn State.

Penn State’s football program should receive the death penalty – be forced to shut down their football program for at least one year. What can the NCAA do, little if anything? The NCAA didn’t have rules and regulations in place prior to Sandusky’s November 4 indictments. That makes what the NCAA could do a very risky proposition. Given the NCAA had no rules in place relating to child abuse prior to Sandusky’s indictment, subsequent conviction and the near certainty of a massive Penn State cover-up that relates directly to the school’s football program the NCAA has its hands tied. What will the NCAA do, put the necessary rules in place to ensure what took place at Penn State never takes place again, of if it does there is a price to be paid. Sad but true Penn State has earned the death penalty but there is little if anything the NCAA can do to make Penn State pay any price.

[Winston Smith]

Jerry Sandusky was found guilty on 45 counts. Penn State did not release a statement on the Sandusky verdict. As usual they're going to wait 10 years before they say anything.

Experts say Sandusky is headed for a special circle of hell in the prison system. See, you never hear about the good things the prison system does.

http://www.newsmax.com/jokes/

[WilliamW]

For some reason Division III Juniata College could figure it out, but it was just too much for the Big Ten powerhouse?

Penn State leaders disregarded victims, 'empowered' Sandusky, review finds
By Susan Candiotti, Josh Levs and David Ariosto, CNN
updated 1:32 PM EDT, Thu July 12, 2012

State College, Pennsylvania (CNN) -- [Regionally accredited] Penn State's most powerful leaders showed "total and consistent disregard" for victims of child sex abuse and failed to protect children, according to the findings of a long-awaited internal review over how the [regionally accredited] university handled a scandal involving its former defensive coordinator.

In fact, the report says several former officials "empowered" Jerry Sandusky to continue his abuse, and investigators say legendary head football coach Joe Paterno could have stopped the attacks had he done more.

Read the report here (PDF)

In a statement released Thursday along with the 267-page report, Louis Freeh, the former FBI director and federal judge who spearheaded the review, blasted several top former officials at the [regionally accredited] school, accusing them of forging an agreement to conceal Sandusky's attacks.

"There are more red flags here than you can count," said Freeh, who added that the abuse occurred just "steps away" from where Paterno worked in the [regionally accredited] university's Lasch Building.

"Our most saddening and sobering finding is the total disregard for the safety and welfare of Sandusky's child victims by the most senior leaders at [regionally accredited] Penn State," Freeh wrote. "The most powerful men at [regionally accredited] Penn State failed to take any steps for 14 years to protect the children who Sandusky victimized."

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He went on to name four former school officials -- former President Graham Spanier, former Vice President Gary Schultz, Paterno, and former athletic director Tim Curley -- saying they "never demonstrated, through actions or words, any concern for the safety and well-being of Sandusky's victims until after Sandusky's arrest."

Their failure "to protect against a child sexual predator harming children" lasted "more than a decade," the full report says.

"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 whom 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 (Mike) McQueary saw in the shower on the night of February 9, 2001."

Key passages from the report

Then-Penn State graduate assistant McQueary reported to Paterno that he had seen what appeared to be a sexual attack involving Sandusky and a boy in the shower room on that night.

The report also says the four men, "unchecked by the board of trustees that did not perform its oversight duties, empowered Sandusky to attract potential victims to the campus and football events by allowing him to have continued, unrestricted and unsupervised access to the [regionally accredited] university's facilities and affiliation with the [regionally accredited] university's prominent football program. Indeed, that continued access provided Sandusky with the very currency that enabled him to attract his victims. Some coaches, administrators and football program staff members ignored the red flags of Sandusky's behaviors and no one warned the public about him."

See Freeh's prepared statement here (PDF)

The Penn State board of trustees issued a statement saying it is reviewing "the findings and recommendations. We expect a comprehensive analysis of our policies, procedures and controls related to identifying and reporting crimes and misconduct, including failures or gaps that may have allowed alleged misconduct to go undetected or unreported. We will provide our initial response later today."

The board added that it is "convening an internal team" to analyze the findings.

The report says investigators conducted 430 interviews of "key university personnel and other knowledgeable individuals."

"We tried to speak to Sandusky; he did not want to speak to us," Freeh said at a news conference.

More than 3.5 million "pieces of pertinent electronic data and documents" were analyzed, the report says.

The report found that janitors who were aware of the abuse took no action, out of fear.

"They witness what I think in the report is probably the most horrific rape that's described," Freeh told reporters. "And what do they do? They panic." One janitor, a Korean War veteran, said it was "the worst thing he's ever seen." He and other janitors were "alarmed and shocked," but were afraid that if they reported it they'd be fired.

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"They said the [regionally accredited] university would circle around it. It was like going against the president of the United States. ... If that's the culture on the bottom, God help the culture at the top."

The review casts a dark shadow over the school's storied football program and over the career of Paterno, who was widely beloved for bringing Penn State football to national prominence. He died on January 22.

Attorneys for Spanier, Schultz, Curley, Paterno's family, and Sandusky did not immediately respond to CNN's requests for comment.

White House Press Secretary Jay Carney also weighed in Thursday, calling Freeh's findings "a reminder that ... individuals and institution(s) have grave responsibilities to make sure that our children are taken care of and protected."

Barbara Dorris, a spokeswoman for a group called the Survivors Network of those Abused by Priests (SNAP), applauded the work of investigators and called for the former top school officials who were implicated in the probe to be prosecuted.

Scott Paterno, son of the former head football coach, told CNN contributor Sara Ganim, reporting for The Patriot-News, that "we wish (Joe Paterno had) been more aggressive in following up."

"But clearly he thought it had been handled," he said, referring to the 2001 report of Sandusky's abuse of a minor.

"There wasn't anything more Joe Paterno could have done because it was an unsubstantiated allegation," the younger Paterno said. "I know my father did not know Jerry was a pedophile and did not suspect he was a pedophile."

At a glance: Key players in Penn State report

Freeh's team found that even before May 1998, "several staff members and football coaches regularly observed Sandusky showering with young boys," and that "none of the individuals interviewed notified their superiors of this behavior," according to the report.

It also found that university police "and the Department of Public Welfare responded promptly to the report by a young boy's mother of a possible sexual assault by Sandusky" in 1998, and top university officials were "kept informed of the investigation."

A year later in 1999, Paterno, Spanier, Schultz, and Curley decided to allow Sandusky to retire, "not as a suspected child predator, but as a valued member of the [regionally accredited] Penn State football legacy, with future 'visibility' at [regionally accredited] Penn State and ways 'to continue to work with young people through [regionally accredited] Penn State,' essentially granting him license to bring boys to campus facilities for 'grooming' as targets for his assaults. Sandusky retained unlimited access to [regionally accredited] University facilities until November 2011," the report says.

Penn State community still admires Paterno

He was awarded emeritus status at the [regionally accredited] university in 1999 -- which provided Sandusky greater access to school facilities -- despite what Provost Rodney Erickson described as an "uneasiness" because of the ex-coach's "low academic title."

The [regionally accredited] university also approved a one-time lump sum payment of $168,000 to Sandusky in June of that year. Top school officials said "they had never known the [regionally accredited] university to provide this type of payment to a retiring employee," according to the report.

An effort to avoid bad publicity "is the most significant, but not the only, cause for this failure to protect child victims and report to authorities," the investigation found.

The scandal, which rocked the nation, led to the dismissal of Paterno, Spanier, Schultz and Curley.

Sandusky was convicted in June of sexually abusing young boys over a 15-year period. He maintains his innocence.

Victim No. 6: Violation and vindication

Freeh's internal investigation is separate from criminal investigations that have resulted in Sandusky's conviction and charges against Curley and Schultz over perjury and failing to report the abuse. No trial date has been set for the two ex administrators.

The cost of the investigation "is estimated to be in the millions," but is covered by the [regionally accredited] university's insurance policy, said [regionally accredited] Penn State spokesman David LaTorre.

"No one, no one, is above scrutiny," said trustee Kenneth Frazier, head of the committee addressing the scandal, when the review began in November 2011.

At the time, Freeh said to expect recommendations to improve possible leadership failures at the [regionally accredited] university "that allowed anyone to prey on children with impunity."

"Our mandate is clear," added Freeh. "We have been tasked to investigate this matter fully, fairly, and completely."

Those interviewed in the investigation included a former athletic director at nearby Juniata College.

In 2010, Sandusky requested to work as an unpaid football coach at Juniata College after retiring from Penn State in 1999, authorities said.

Video: Sandusky scandal part of Paterno legacy

A school background check turned up an investigation into the former defensive coordinator as well as a "do not hire" warning, prompting Juniata College officials to reject Sandusky's interest in the program, they said.

In June, eight young men testified in court, often in disturbingly graphic detail, of how Sandusky forced them to engage in sexual acts in various places, including in hotel rooms, the basement of his home and in the [regionally accredited] Penn State coaches' locker room.

In court documents, prosecutors say they have e-mails from [regionally accredited] university officials that allegedly contradict grand jury testimony of Curley and Schultz,

The alleged e-mails, which CNN obtained exclusively, were among other documents, including a Sandusky file maintained by Schultz. The Freeh review discovered the documents and turned them over to state prosecutors as part of ongoing investigations, according to both the [regionally accredited] university and prosecutors.

One of the alleged e-mails suggests Paterno had a previously undisclosed conversation with Curley about the shower incident from 2001.

On February 26, [regionally accredited] Penn State's vice president purportedly wrote to Curley about a plan to contact Sandusky, referred to only as "the subject," alert child welfare authorities and inform Second Mile, the charity the ex-coach founded for disadvantaged children, according to the purported exchange. Neither Sandusky nor the charity was mentioned by name. They were referred to as "the subject" and "the group."

After Curley spoke with Paterno, however, the athletic director allegedly told the school president that he had changed his mind about the best course of action to pursue.

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"After giving it more thought and talking it over with Joe yesterday, I am uncomfortable with what we agreed were the next steps," he allegedly wrote the following day.

Instead of alerting authorities, Curley apparently wrote that he would prefer meeting with Sandusky, telling him they knew about another incident in 1998, and offering him professional help. He then suggested notifying the charity "at some point" if Sandusky is cooperative, and "maybe" child welfare officials.

Paterno did not report the shower incident to police.

"We determined that his decision to do his minimum legal duty and not to do more to follow up constituted a failure of leadership by Coach Paterno," the board of trustees said in a report that explained his firing.

That decision prompted rioting by [regionally accredited] Penn State students, overturning a news van and clashing with police, who used tear gas to break up throngs of angry protesters.

Video: Coach K on Joe Paterno

Wick Sollers, a lawyer for the Paterno family, issued a statement following CNN's disclosure of the purported e-mails asserting that "the e-mails in question did not originate with Joe Paterno or go to him as he never personally utilized e-mail."

Sollers noted that Paterno, "from the beginning ... warned against a rush to judgment in this case. Coach Paterno testified truthfully, to the best of his recollection, in the one brief appearance he made before the grand jury. As he testified, when informed of an incident involving Jerry Sandusky in 2001, Coach Paterno followed university procedures and promptly and fully informed his superiors. He believed the matter would be thoroughly and professionally investigated and he did not interfere with or attempt to compromise any investigation."

The Pennsylvania attorney general's office is also investigating what [regionally accredited] Penn State knew about the 2001 incident and how it was handled.

Meanwhile, Spanier, the ousted president, has maintained that he was never informed of any incident involving Sandusky that described sexual abuse or criminality.

Spanier's attorneys have said he "wanted the Freeh Group to create an accurate report and has been determined to assist in any way he can."

According to the board of trustees, Spanier was fired in November because "he failed to meet his leadership responsibilities."

Paterno defended football, Penn State in letter before his death

[Don Dresden]

[Regionally accredited] Penn State's most powerful leaders showed "total and consistent disregard" for victims of child sex abuse and failed to protect children, according to the findings of a long-awaited internal review over how the [regionally accredited] university handled a scandal involving its former defensive coordinator.

In fact, the report says several former officials "empowered" Jerry Sandusky to continue his abuse, and investigators say legendary head football coach Joe Paterno could have stopped the attacks had he done more.

Just curious how many little kids have gotten ass raped at unaccredited schools over the last couple decades? I'm thinking the number is somewhere between zero and none.

How many administrators at unaccredited schools would be covering it up and lying to a grand jury if it did happen? Again, probably right around nill and null.

So if the "RA or No Way" sycophants support regional accreditation, and oppose unaccredited schools, aren't they pretty much supporting little kids getting ass raped?

Is this why people like notorious gay boy pornographer Thomas "Chip" White, John Klempner Bear, George Dana Gollin, Gustavo A. Sainz and Bill Dayson support regional accreditation, and conspire to stalk, threaten and harass anyone who supports access to higher education unencumbered by government slime and corruption?

[Dickie Billericay]

The NCAA has yet to decide if Penn State is guilty of “lack of institutional control” in relationship to the school’s cover-up relating to the Sandusky case.

Seems to be a lot of talk about what, if any, penalty the NCAA will inflict upon Penn State. But other than here, there seems to be no talk whatsoever about what, if any, penalty MSCHE will inflict upon Penn State.

The football program says it's not a football issue. MSCHE probably will say it's not an accreditation issue.

Trustee Kenneth Frazier, head of the committee addressing the Sandusky scandal, said Thursday that the school's board of trustees is "deeply ashamed" of its lack of oversight identified in the report.

He said the board's 32 members -- none of whom plan to resign -- as well as university administrators are accountable for what happened. He pledged corrective measures to ensure that an "event like this can never happen again in the Penn State community."

The board will meet Friday afternoon for a regularly scheduled session, but it was unclear if the internal report will be discussed.

It has not gone unnoticed that the school has been up front and cooperative with investigators from various organizations since the scandal broke into the open last year, said Richard Pokrass, a spokesman for the Middle States Commission on Higher Education, which issues the school's academic accreditation.

Because university leaders have acknowledged a problem and have been up front, it seems unlikely the school will risk losing that accreditation, Pokrass said.

"That being said, the commission certainly feels there are problems that need to be addressed," he said. "They're certainly going to be watching closely for quite a while."

More storms looming for Penn State in wake of Freeh report


Kids getting boinked in the showers is a "problem"? Yeah, very "up front" of you to acknowledge that. That should more than make up for their ripped backsides and ruined lives. Yeah, MSCHE, just keep "watching," that should solve everything. Try to keep your hand out of your pants while you're watching there, Mr. Dick Poker Ass.

I say that if you really want to make sure such an "event" never happens again, then everybody and everything associated with Penn State should get (figuratively speaking, of course) fucked in the ass the same way the child molesting homosexual perverts fucked those kids.

Not only should they tear the whole place down, they should incinerate the remains, salt the earth, then erase it from maps.

The fact that MSCHE is saying and doing nothing tells you a lot about what kind of people run the show there. Probably a load of child molesting homosexual perverts who wonder what all the fuss is about. Or as Degreeinfo moderator Bruce Tait might say, those kids should just relax, bend over and enjoy their shower.

[Armando Ramos]

Not only should they tear the whole place down, they should incinerate the remains, salt the earth, then erase it from maps.

You got it. Just like a cancer, it needs to be chopped out and radiated.

BEFORE:


AFTER:

[bigfoot]

Sandusky is a repressed homosexual...who never came to terms with being "GAY"! He is a homosexual pedophile...he didn't molest girls...just "BOYS"...pretty freaking sick...Paterno was a slime-ball and so were the other duplicitous cockroach's involved with PSU administration, that turned away from these heinous crimes. I never liked Nittany Lion football, and dislike them all the more after the Sandusky scandal broke...GO BLUE!

One more thing...homosexuality is a form of mental illness, it's a sexual anomaly and a form of sexual deviance...nuff said

[ham]

One more thing...homosexuality is a form of mental illness, it's a sexual anomaly and a form of sexual deviance...nuff said

You wouldn't say that to our face, would you?