Penn State = Open sewer

[ham]

Most homosexuals are in complete denial about this perversion, which makes treatment that much more difficult when one is in denial and rationalizes away this perversion as a legitimate alternate lifestyle. There are no alternate lifestyles! God made Adam and Eve not Adam and Steve...

[bigfoot]

LOL! Ham...funny visuals.....especially the guy choking on enema water...LMAO!

Went back and reread Dan's laser post! Freakin' laser baby!! with crystal clear summation he has defined "gay men" and the sordid, putrescent world they inhabit...It was beyond funny...the part about the "enema guzzler's" and the flukes and worms and pinwheels! Still laughing my self silly... I need an In-n-out burger ...double double with fries...if I only had a cheeseburger..

[bigfoot]

an ex-friend of my mine (who I suspect is a fag)...used to run around with a priest from San Antonio. On the way up the mountain to Arrowhead, the "gay" priest stated, to my friend, "Sex between men and men is really no different than between men and women". When my "former amigo", disclosed this to me, I asked him if he reported this to the Bishop. He was silent, I wonder if they both had a "fag fling"...and the same "ex-amigo" once said, that a "gay man, who struggles to remain celibate gains great virtue"...words to that effect. By the way...the other dead giveaway was the "homo-lisp" that he has. My friends wife met this guy at El Torito, and later shared with me that he was definitely a fag!. Women can definitely pick up on this, even faster than most guys. He acted like a "chick"..and a potentially "dangerous and hostile narcissist". Needless to say, I cut the fag off, and don't have him over any more. One more thing, my wife and i were going to in-n-out burger one night, before we got married and Tim was asked to come along. He stated, " I haven't showered, and my hair is not clean, I can't go to "in-n-out", without showering first". My wife went through the FLOOR! Life is to short for these psychic-vampires who are 'light-in-the loafers!

[Dickie Billericay]

[ham]

[Martin Eisenstadt]

Still waiting for someone to get serious about yanking Penn State's MSCHE accreditation. If the NCAA does "throw the book at 'em" will MSCHE just keep "watching" or will they step up too? Who besides a NAMBLA convention could look at this and just shrug?

It's not just a "football problem" any more. Now the feds are investigating for Cleary Act violations, of which there seems to be a multitude. When will MSCHE stop "watching" the kiddy rape show and start doing something? "Lack of administrative oversight" anyone?

Federal officials probe Penn State for possible Clery Act violations
By Jenna Johnson, Published: July 17

As Jerry Sandusky awaits sentencing on 45 child-sex-abuse convictions, several investigations continue to examine the role of Penn State University leaders in the scandal, including a probe of whether the university violated a federal campus-safety law.

Five days after the former assistant football coach was arrested in November, the U.S. Department of Education launched an investigation into Penn State’s compliance with the Clery Act, which requires prompt public alerts of safety threats, annual disclosure of crime statistics and other steps to protect campus communities.

Federal officials declined to discuss the scope of the investigation. But a Nov. 9 letter from the Education Department to Penn State requested a long list of documents, including logs of all incidents of crime reported to any campus security authority from 1998 to 2011.

“They’ve asked for absolutely everything,” said S. Daniel Carter, who has been a campus security advocate for more than two decades and works for a foundation started by families of victims of the 2007 Virginia Tech massacre. Carter said the Penn State investigation may be the department’s largest to date.

When federal officials investigate a school after a high-profile incident, they typically broaden the search to the school’s handling of safety issues over a number of years, according to records that the department has made public. Usually these probes cover one to three years, maybe as many as five or six — but nowhere near the 13 at issue with Penn State.

A Penn State spokesman said the university is cooperating but declined to comment further.

The Clery Act, signed into law in 1990, was named for Jeanne Clery, who was raped, tortured and murdered in 1986 in her dorm room at Lehigh University in Pennsylvania. The ultimate penalty under the law is loss of federal aid funding. Officials have never gone that far, instead imposing fines of up to $27,500 per violation.

In the past five years, the Education Department has ramped up Clery Act enforcement. It now has a staff dedicated solely to conducting investigations. It also has partnered with the FBI to audit a random sample of universities, a practice that has revealed widespread problems with crime data reporting and a lack of policies to ensure compliance.

In 2007, the department fined Eastern Michigan University $357,500 — the largest Clery Act penalty to date — for not notifying the campus community that a student had been murdered in her dorm room in December 2006 and that the killer was at large. Instead, school officials led the campus to believe that the student died of natural causes. Two months later, a man was arrested and charged with her rape and murder. Soon after, Eastern Michigan’s president and two top administrators were accused of covering up the crime and fired.

The fine was later reduced to $350,000. Of the 13 Clery Act violations found at the school, three were related to the 2006 murder. The others resulted from a review of 2003, 2004 and 2005 data.

In 2011, Virginia Tech was fined $55,000 for what federal officials said were failures to issue prompt alerts during a gunman’s rampage that left 32 people dead in April 2007. An administrative judge this year overturned the fine, ruling that the university had issued a timely warning. The final decision in that case rests with Education Secretary Arne Duncan.

At the heart of the Penn State case is this question: When school officials were alerted to Sandusky’s behavior, did they meet legal requirements for documenting those incidents and announcing any threats?

Last week, in a report the university had commissioned, former FBI director Louis Freeh used the word “failure” in describing Penn State’s implementation of the law. Specifically, Freeh noted:

●As of November, Penn State’s Clery Act policy was still in draft form and had not been formally implemented. Although the school offered training to employees starting in 2007, the athletic department did not participate.

“The football program, in particular, opted out of most of the University’s Clery Act, sexual abuse awareness and summer camp procedures training,” the report reads. “The Athletic Department was perceived by many in the Penn State community as ‘an island,’ where staff members lived by their own rules.”

Since then, the school says it has formalized policies and hired a full-time Clery Act compliance officer, among other actions.

●When a mother reported to university police in May 1998 that Sandusky had inappropriately touched her 11-year-old son in a Penn State locker room shower, notes were kept in an “ ‘Administrative Information’ file,” the report said, but never publicly documented.

Early in that investigation, Penn State Police Chief Thomas Harmon e-mailed Gary Schultz, a vice president who oversaw the police department, writing: “We’re going to hold off on making any crime log entry. At this point in time I can justify that decision because of the lack of clear evidence of a crime.” Charges were never filed.

The Clery Act requires recording all reported crimes, even those that do not result in charges.

●In 2001, assistant coach Mike McQueary says, he saw Sandusky sexually assault a young boy in a locker room shower. The next day, McQueary made a report to head coach Joe Paterno, who alerted other officials. They ultimately decided not to involve the police.

Three Penn State officials — Schultz, President Graham Spanier and Athletic Director Tim Curley — agreed over e-mail to advise Sandusky to seek “professional help” and bar him from bringing children to campus, among other things. In agreeing to this plan, Spanier wrote that the “only downside for us is if the message isn’t ‘heard’ and acted upon, and we then become vulnerable for not having reported it.”

Under the Clery Act, the two coaches and the athletic director are considered “campus security authorities” who are obligated to report serious incidents to police for inclusion in annual crime reports and to decide if a campus alert is necessary. While Schultz and Spanier might not have had the same legal obligation, the report said, “they should have ensured that the University was compliant.”

Alison Kiss, executive director of the Pennsylvania-based Clery Center for Security on Campus, which was started by Clery’s parents, said the Freeh report raised questions about Penn State’s compliance with the law. “You kept seeing a missed report and a victim. Another missed report, another victim,” Kiss said. University officials “have a lot on their plates, but they need to pay attention.”

[Winston Smith]

MSCHE says they are "watching" but what do they see? Are the dominoes starting to tumble, or is Garban just a fall guy?

The chairman of the board of trustees didn't think kids getting raped in the Penn State showers was a big enough deal to bother telling others. Does MSCHE think it's a big enough deal to issue a show cause order? If doing nothing is wrong, why is MSCHE doing nothing?

Under Fire, Trustee Resigns at Penn State
By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
Published: July 19, 2012

The former chairman of the Penn State board of trustees resigned Thursday, becoming the first board member to do so in the wake of the Jerry Sandusky child sexual abuse scandal.

The trustee, Steve Garban, was harshly criticized over his handling of a crisis that engulfed Penn State after Sandusky’s arrest last November, and he faced persistent calls from alumni and fellow board members to step down.

An internal investigation by the former F.B.I. director Louis Freeh found that Garban was briefed twice about developments in the Sandusky case but did not share what he knew with the entire board, depriving trustees of a chance to prepare for the worst crisis in Penn State’s 157-year history.

Freeh’s 267-page report portrayed a disengaged board that handed too much responsibility to the university president and failed to investigate deeply enough once it became aware of a grand jury investigation.

After the report’s release, trustees accepted responsibility for a failure of oversight and said they were “deeply ashamed.” The board’s chairwoman, Karen Peetz, who announced Garban’s resignation in a letter on the board’s Web site, said at the time that no trustee would step down.

A 1959 Penn State graduate, Garban worked at the university for 33 years, the last 12 as treasurer and senior vice president for finance and operations. Alumni first elected him to the board of trustees in 1998.

In April 2011, the report said, the university president Graham Spanier told Garban about a grand jury investigation of Sandusky. Garban did not alert fellow board members.

Then, on Oct. 28, Garban learned from Penn State’s chief lawyer that Athletic Director Tim Curley and the vice president Gary Schultz were about to be charged with failing to report suspected child abuse. But he informed only two other trustees.

[Armando Ramos]

Down goes Joe Pa! Down goes Joe Pa! Penn State takes out the trash. Will NCAA and MSCHE do the same?

N.C.A.A. Plans ‘Punitive Measures’ Against Penn State


The plaza outside Penn State's Beaver Stadium stands empty after workers removed a statue of Joe Paterno early Sunday morning.

By PETE THAMEL and ZACH SCHONBRUN
Published: July 22, 2012

On a day when a statue of the former football coach Joe Paterno was removed from outside Penn State’s Beaver Stadium, the N.C.A.A. announced Sunday that it would punish the university’s football program in the wake of a child sexual abuse scandal involving the former assistant Jerry Sandusky.

The university is bracing for what the N.C.A.A. is calling “corrective and punitive measures” that are expected to handicap the football program for years. While the specific findings will be released at a news conference at N.C.A.A. headquarters in Indianapolis on Monday morning, a person briefed on the sanctions said that the N.C.A.A. would issue a postseason bowl ban, a number of scholarship reductions and a stiff financial penalty. It is also expected that players in the program will have the freedom to transfer, essentially creating free agency for other programs to approach them.

The N.C.A.A. board of directors’ decision to go outside its usual process for dealing with infractions, forgoing a long investigation, and authorize sanctions based on the findings of an outside investigation is considered unprecedented. It is a pivotal moment in the presidency of Mark Emmert, whose two-year tenure had been characterized by the N.C.A.A.’s seeming lack of enforcement power in a long stream of rules-violation cases and the chaos of conference realignment.

“In a sense, moving out of that model is moving into a new world,” said Josephine R. Potuto, a law professor at the University of Nebraska and a former chairwoman of the N.C.A.A. Committee on Infractions.

The measures represent a significant change in the N.C.A.A.’s operating procedure in that it will punish a university for moral transgressions as opposed to violations of specific bylaws.

Just how severe the N.C.A.A.’s sanctions will be is unknown. ESPN and Yahoo both reported bowl bans of multiple years and significant scholarship losses, though neither specified.

In an interview last week with PBS, Emmert said Penn State had demonstrated egregious conduct in covering up Sandusky’s behavior for more than a decade. Emmert did not rule out invoking the N.C.A.A.’s power to impose the so-called death penalty to shut down Penn State’s football program. That appears unlikely now, as sources at multiple programs on Penn State’s schedule this year say they have not been informed that their games against the Nittany Lions will be canceled.

Sandusky, Paterno’s longtime defensive coordinator, was convicted last month of sexually assaulting 10 boys whom he had befriended through a charity he founded to work with troubled youths.

Whatever the penalties, Penn State is welcoming a poor recruiting class and a roster that the Big Ten Network recruiting analyst Gerry DiNardo calls “not one of their stronger rosters of recent years.” DiNardo added that the most significant action the N.C.A.A. could take is a multiple-year bowl ban that would give players the freedom to transfer.

“U.S.C. has had scholarship reductions, and they’re poised to win the national championship because their 75 are better than most programs’ 85,” DiNardo said, referring to overall rosters. “If you allow multiple classes of your roster to transfer, which is what a long bowl ban would do, that would be the most significant penalty next to the death penalty.”

There has been debate throughout the collegiate sports community on whether the N.C.A.A. is going beyond its jurisdiction to punish Penn State for actions not directly tied to its bylaws. In normal circumstances, the N.C.A.A. would wait for criminal cases involved in the situation to unfold, as Athletic Director Tim Curley and the vice president Gary Schultz face charges tied to the case.

Lou Prato, who has written several books about Paterno, said he wished the university had waited to take down the statue until the criminal cases played out.

“We have men waiting trial,” Prato said. “Everybody seems to think they know the full truth. They don’t. People are making judgments based on a lot of information put out there.”

The Penn State scandal led to the removal of the university’s president and the firing of its legendary football coach, Paterno. A report commissioned by Penn State’s board of trustees and compiled by Louis J. Freeh, a former F.B.I. director, found a series of failures all the way up the university’s chain of command that it concluded were the result of an insular and complacent culture in which football was revered.

Earlier Sunday, a work crew arrived before dawn and used jackhammers and a forklift to remove the statue of Paterno from its spot outside the Penn State football stadium. The statue, which was taken to an undisclosed location, had become an object of scorn after the release of the Freeh report, which detailed Paterno’s involvement in covering up child sexual abuse accusations against Sandusky for more than a decade.

Penn State’s president, Rodney Erickson, made the final decision about the statue’s removal.

“I believe that, were it to remain, the statue will be a recurring wound to the multitude of individuals across the nation and beyond who have been the victims of child abuse,” Erickson said in a statement. “I fully realize that my decision will not be a popular one in some Penn State circles, but I am certain it is the right and principled decision.”

In a statement, the Paterno family said the statue’s removal “does not serve the victims of Jerry Sandusky’s horrible crimes or help heal the Penn State community.”

The statue’s sculptor, Angelo Di Maria, said he was “hurt” by the removal of the statue but understood the decision.

“As reality sets in and I’m considering more and more of both sides, how can you argue?” he said.

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"Severe"??? How would this compare to, say, all Penn State admins getting ass raped in the showers?

NCAA hands out severe punishment for Penn State
By Eric Prisbell, USA TODAY

Penn State's football was given severe punishment for the school's handling of the sex abuse scandal involving former football assistant Jerry Sandusky.

NCAA President Mark Emmert made the announcement Monday morning that the program would be hit a four-year postseason ban and a $60 million fine.

In addition, the school will be forced to cut 10 scholarships for this season and 20 scholarships for the following four years.

The move essentially bumps Penn State down to the scholarship levels of schools at the lower Football Championship Subdivision.

The school will be forced to vacate all wins from 1998-2011, a total of 112 victories, and serve five years of probation.

Because of the length of the punishment, all current Penn State players and incoming freshman will be free to transfer to another school without penalty.

The totality of the sanctions will have a drastic impact on the school's ability to compete in football the rest of the decade.

The NCAA ruling represented a seminal moment for Emmert, the former University of Washington president whose 20-month tenure has coincided with an unpredictable and turbulent time in college sports.

The spate of high-profile scandals that came to light under Emmert's watch, including one involving alleged widespread booster payments at Miami, took a backseat when Sandusky was arrested Nov. 5. The graphic nature of what then were allegations of sexual abuse against children repulsed the public and soured the sporting mood when LSU played Alabama on the most anticipated Saturday of the sport's regular season.

Immediate focus centered on Paterno: How much did he know and when did he know it? Did his inaction enable a sexual predator to continue to prey on children, most from troubled homes?

Paterno was soon fired, famously by telephone, because of what Penn State officials deemed a lack of leadership exhibited after former graduate assistant Mike McQueary told Paterno in 2001 that he had witnessed Sandusky sexually abuse a child of roughly 10 years of age in the Penn State locker room showers.

When Paterno was ousted, more than 1,000 Penn State students flooded the campus streets, some chanting, "Hell, no, Joe won't go!"

University president Graham Spanier was fired. Two other administrators, athletic director Tim Curley, who remains on leave, and now-retired vice president Gary Schultz, continue to await trial on charges of failing to report child abuse and lying to a grand jury. Both have maintained their innocence.

Throughout the winter, the scandal continued to deepen as Paterno's legacy unraveled. When Paterno spoke with The Washington Post's Sally Jenkins in January --- what would be his final interview -- he appeared a weakened man, speaking with a rasp and battling lung cancer. Paterno told The Post that he did not know what to do when McQueary informed him of what McQueary saw in part "because I never heard of, of, rape and a man."

Three days later, Paterno was dead, his legacy clouded, if not forever stained.

In Bellefonte, Pa., last month, a jury of seven women and five men, including nine with ties to the university, found Sandusky guilty on 45 of 48 counts. He was convicted of sexually assaulting 10 boys over 15 years and faces life in prison.

The release of Freeh's report this month added a punctuation mark to the scandal and provided clarity to the tarnished legacy of major college football's all-time winningest coach. One page after another, all part of a nearly eight-month investigation that drew upon more than 400 interviews and 3 million documents, exposed Paterno as one of the senior university leaders who for years concealed information that could have stopped Sandusky from abusing more children.

Among the most alarming findings was that Paterno had been aware of a 1998 investigation of allegations that Sandusky abused a boy in Penn State's locker room showers. Paterno followed the case closely - Sandusky was not prosecuted --- but did not take action or alert the board of trustees. (The Paterno family had recently maintained that Paterno was not aware of the 1998 investigation at the time.)

Three years later, the Freeh report suggests, Paterno dissuaded Curley from having Penn State's administration report to authorities the allegations made by McQueary. And the report concluded that senior school officials did not demonstrate concern for the safety or well being of Sandusky's victims until after Sandusky's arrest.

The nearly 300-page report also added fuel to the debate over whether Penn State or the NCAA should shut down the Nittany Lions' football program for at least one season and whether the university should remove the bronze Paterno statue outside Beaver Stadium, which it did on Sunday morning.

The NCAA has imposed the so-called death penalty on a major college football team just once. And it has taken SMU more than two decades to recover after it was shut down in the late 1980s following a scandal that involved, among other violations, widespread booster payments to players.

But with Penn State's case, the NCAA confronted a scandal unlike any the association had ever seen. The wrongdoing, while egregious, did not reflect traditional violations of NCAA bylaws. And no obvious competitive advantage was gained by the cover-up of criminal activity.

Former NCAA investigators and infractions committee chairmen argued that the NCAA should leave the Penn State scandal for the criminal and civil courts. But Emmert, who recently said in a PBS interview that the death penalty remained on the table, felt compelled to punish Penn State with sanctions that would severely impact its football program for years.

And with the backing of the NCAA's executive committee and the Division I board of directors, Emmert bypassed usual investigation protocol and levied an array of penalties that will long be studied and debated in the college sports world.

Paterno's 409 wins and two national titles remain intact, but his statue is gone, his reputation is irreparably scarred and the program he built during a 61-year career, 46 as head coach, is left to deal with harsh NCAA sanctions and the pending rulings of ongoing investigations.

With the NCAA verdict handed down, Penn State still could face further punitive measures. The Department of Justice and U.S. Department of Education are conducting investigations into the school's actions in relation to the scandal.

[Virtual Bison]

Down goes Joe Pa! Down goes Joe Pa! Penn State takes out the trash. Will NCAA and MSCHE do the same?

N.C.A.A. Plans ‘Punitive Measures’ Against Penn State


The plaza outside Penn State's Beaver Stadium stands empty after workers removed a statue of Joe Paterno early Sunday morning.

By PETE THAMEL and ZACH SCHONBRUN
Published: July 22, 2012

On a day when a statue of the former football coach Joe Paterno was removed from outside Penn State’s Beaver Stadium, the N.C.A.A. announced Sunday that it would punish the university’s football program in the wake of a child sexual abuse scandal involving the former assistant Jerry Sandusky.

The university is bracing for what the N.C.A.A. is calling “corrective and punitive measures” that are expected to handicap the football program for years. While the specific findings will be released at a news conference at N.C.A.A. headquarters in Indianapolis on Monday morning, a person briefed on the sanctions said that the N.C.A.A. would issue a postseason bowl ban, a number of scholarship reductions and a stiff financial penalty. It is also expected that players in the program will have the freedom to transfer, essentially creating free agency for other programs to approach them.

The N.C.A.A. board of directors’ decision to go outside its usual process for dealing with infractions, forgoing a long investigation, and authorize sanctions based on the findings of an outside investigation is considered unprecedented. It is a pivotal moment in the presidency of Mark Emmert, whose two-year tenure had been characterized by the N.C.A.A.’s seeming lack of enforcement power in a long stream of rules-violation cases and the chaos of conference realignment.

“In a sense, moving out of that model is moving into a new world,” said Josephine R. Potuto, a law professor at the University of Nebraska and a former chairwoman of the N.C.A.A. Committee on Infractions.

The measures represent a significant change in the N.C.A.A.’s operating procedure in that it will punish a university for moral transgressions as opposed to violations of specific bylaws.

Just how severe the N.C.A.A.’s sanctions will be is unknown. ESPN and Yahoo both reported bowl bans of multiple years and significant scholarship losses, though neither specified.

In an interview last week with PBS, Emmert said Penn State had demonstrated egregious conduct in covering up Sandusky’s behavior for more than a decade. Emmert did not rule out invoking the N.C.A.A.’s power to impose the so-called death penalty to shut down Penn State’s football program. That appears unlikely now, as sources at multiple programs on Penn State’s schedule this year say they have not been informed that their games against the Nittany Lions will be canceled.

Sandusky, Paterno’s longtime defensive coordinator, was convicted last month of sexually assaulting 10 boys whom he had befriended through a charity he founded to work with troubled youths.

Whatever the penalties, Penn State is welcoming a poor recruiting class and a roster that the Big Ten Network recruiting analyst Gerry DiNardo calls “not one of their stronger rosters of recent years.” DiNardo added that the most significant action the N.C.A.A. could take is a multiple-year bowl ban that would give players the freedom to transfer.

“U.S.C. has had scholarship reductions, and they’re poised to win the national championship because their 75 are better than most programs’ 85,” DiNardo said, referring to overall rosters. “If you allow multiple classes of your roster to transfer, which is what a long bowl ban would do, that would be the most significant penalty next to the death penalty.”

There has been debate throughout the collegiate sports community on whether the N.C.A.A. is going beyond its jurisdiction to punish Penn State for actions not directly tied to its bylaws. In normal circumstances, the N.C.A.A. would wait for criminal cases involved in the situation to unfold, as Athletic Director Tim Curley and the vice president Gary Schultz face charges tied to the case.

Lou Prato, who has written several books about Paterno, said he wished the university had waited to take down the statue until the criminal cases played out.

“We have men waiting trial,” Prato said. “Everybody seems to think they know the full truth. They don’t. People are making judgments based on a lot of information put out there.”

The Penn State scandal led to the removal of the university’s president and the firing of its legendary football coach, Paterno. A report commissioned by Penn State’s board of trustees and compiled by Louis J. Freeh, a former F.B.I. director, found a series of failures all the way up the university’s chain of command that it concluded were the result of an insular and complacent culture in which football was revered.

Earlier Sunday, a work crew arrived before dawn and used jackhammers and a forklift to remove the statue of Paterno from its spot outside the Penn State football stadium. The statue, which was taken to an undisclosed location, had become an object of scorn after the release of the Freeh report, which detailed Paterno’s involvement in covering up child sexual abuse accusations against Sandusky for more than a decade.

Penn State’s president, Rodney Erickson, made the final decision about the statue’s removal.

“I believe that, were it to remain, the statue will be a recurring wound to the multitude of individuals across the nation and beyond who have been the victims of child abuse,” Erickson said in a statement. “I fully realize that my decision will not be a popular one in some Penn State circles, but I am certain it is the right and principled decision.”

In a statement, the Paterno family said the statue’s removal “does not serve the victims of Jerry Sandusky’s horrible crimes or help heal the Penn State community.”

The statue’s sculptor, Angelo Di Maria, said he was “hurt” by the removal of the statue but understood the decision.

“As reality sets in and I’m considering more and more of both sides, how can you argue?” he said.

---

"Severe"??? How would this compare to, say, all Penn State admins getting ass raped in the showers?

NCAA hands out severe punishment for Penn State
By Eric Prisbell, USA TODAY

Penn State's football was given severe punishment for the school's handling of the sex abuse scandal involving former football assistant Jerry Sandusky.

NCAA President Mark Emmert made the announcement Monday morning that the program would be hit a four-year postseason ban and a $60 million fine.

In addition, the school will be forced to cut 10 scholarships for this season and 20 scholarships for the following four years.

The move essentially bumps Penn State down to the scholarship levels of schools at the lower Football Championship Subdivision.

The school will be forced to vacate all wins from 1998-2011, a total of 112 victories, and serve five years of probation.

Because of the length of the punishment, all current Penn State players and incoming freshman will be free to transfer to another school without penalty.

The totality of the sanctions will have a drastic impact on the school's ability to compete in football the rest of the decade.

The NCAA ruling represented a seminal moment for Emmert, the former University of Washington president whose 20-month tenure has coincided with an unpredictable and turbulent time in college sports.

The spate of high-profile scandals that came to light under Emmert's watch, including one involving alleged widespread booster payments at Miami, took a backseat when Sandusky was arrested Nov. 5. The graphic nature of what then were allegations of sexual abuse against children repulsed the public and soured the sporting mood when LSU played Alabama on the most anticipated Saturday of the sport's regular season.

Immediate focus centered on Paterno: How much did he know and when did he know it? Did his inaction enable a sexual predator to continue to prey on children, most from troubled homes?

Paterno was soon fired, famously by telephone, because of what Penn State officials deemed a lack of leadership exhibited after former graduate assistant Mike McQueary told Paterno in 2001 that he had witnessed Sandusky sexually abuse a child of roughly 10 years of age in the Penn State locker room showers.

When Paterno was ousted, more than 1,000 Penn State students flooded the campus streets, some chanting, "Hell, no, Joe won't go!"

University president Graham Spanier was fired. Two other administrators, athletic director Tim Curley, who remains on leave, and now-retired vice president Gary Schultz, continue to await trial on charges of failing to report child abuse and lying to a grand jury. Both have maintained their innocence.

Throughout the winter, the scandal continued to deepen as Paterno's legacy unraveled. When Paterno spoke with The Washington Post's Sally Jenkins in January --- what would be his final interview -- he appeared a weakened man, speaking with a rasp and battling lung cancer. Paterno told The Post that he did not know what to do when McQueary informed him of what McQueary saw in part "because I never heard of, of, rape and a man."

Three days later, Paterno was dead, his legacy clouded, if not forever stained.

In Bellefonte, Pa., last month, a jury of seven women and five men, including nine with ties to the university, found Sandusky guilty on 45 of 48 counts. He was convicted of sexually assaulting 10 boys over 15 years and faces life in prison.

The release of Freeh's report this month added a punctuation mark to the scandal and provided clarity to the tarnished legacy of major college football's all-time winningest coach. One page after another, all part of a nearly eight-month investigation that drew upon more than 400 interviews and 3 million documents, exposed Paterno as one of the senior university leaders who for years concealed information that could have stopped Sandusky from abusing more children.

Among the most alarming findings was that Paterno had been aware of a 1998 investigation of allegations that Sandusky abused a boy in Penn State's locker room showers. Paterno followed the case closely - Sandusky was not prosecuted --- but did not take action or alert the board of trustees. (The Paterno family had recently maintained that Paterno was not aware of the 1998 investigation at the time.)

Three years later, the Freeh report suggests, Paterno dissuaded Curley from having Penn State's administration report to authorities the allegations made by McQueary. And the report concluded that senior school officials did not demonstrate concern for the safety or well being of Sandusky's victims until after Sandusky's arrest.

The nearly 300-page report also added fuel to the debate over whether Penn State or the NCAA should shut down the Nittany Lions' football program for at least one season and whether the university should remove the bronze Paterno statue outside Beaver Stadium, which it did on Sunday morning.

The NCAA has imposed the so-called death penalty on a major college football team just once. And it has taken SMU more than two decades to recover after it was shut down in the late 1980s following a scandal that involved, among other violations, widespread booster payments to players.

But with Penn State's case, the NCAA confronted a scandal unlike any the association had ever seen. The wrongdoing, while egregious, did not reflect traditional violations of NCAA bylaws. And no obvious competitive advantage was gained by the cover-up of criminal activity.

Former NCAA investigators and infractions committee chairmen argued that the NCAA should leave the Penn State scandal for the criminal and civil courts. But Emmert, who recently said in a PBS interview that the death penalty remained on the table, felt compelled to punish Penn State with sanctions that would severely impact its football program for years.

And with the backing of the NCAA's executive committee and the Division I board of directors, Emmert bypassed usual investigation protocol and levied an array of penalties that will long be studied and debated in the college sports world.

Paterno's 409 wins and two national titles remain intact, but his statue is gone, his reputation is irreparably scarred and the program he built during a 61-year career, 46 as head coach, is left to deal with harsh NCAA sanctions and the pending rulings of ongoing investigations.

With the NCAA verdict handed down, Penn State still could face further punitive measures. The Department of Justice and U.S. Department of Education are conducting investigations into the school's actions in relation to the scandal.

I heard about this.

I thinks its sad for the students at the school and all the athletes who were innocent of this stuff. I guess when the Joe Paterno turned a blind eye to this it caused the reputation of the entire school to be tarnished.

[Armando Ramos]

Looks like financial instability to me. Maybe now MSCHE will stop watching, get their thumbs out and start doing their job.

Moody's puts Penn State on credit review
By Charles Riley @CNNMoney
July 24, 2012: 12:25 PM ET

NEW YORK (CNNMoney) -- Moody's put Penn State on notice for a possible credit downgrade Tuesday, citing continued fallout from the university's child sex abuse scandal and risks posed by ongoing state and federal investigations.

Penn State currently holds a credit rating of Aa1, the second highest possible mark, and one that reflects strong student demand and a strong national academic brand.

The university has about $1 billion in rated debt. Along with a loss of prestige, a downgrade could make it more expensive for Penn State to borrow money.

The credit rating agency is expected to complete its review of the university within 90 days.

The credit review is the latest blow to Penn State after Jerry Sandusky, an former assistant football coach, was convicted of sexually assaulting ten young boys over a 15-year period.

On Monday, the NCAA announced significant sanctions against the university, including a $60 million fine. The football team was able to avoid the so-called death penalty, but the actions were severe enough that the team is not expected to be competitive for many years.

In a separate action, the Big Ten conference said that it would donate Penn State's share of bowl revenue to charity, a loss of roughly $13 million for the university.

Moody's said in an analysis that the monetary fines announced Monday appear manageable given the "substantial reserves of the university."

But ongoing investigations by state and federal officials could result in further criminal charges and monetary penalties, and uncertainty about future actions contributed to the agency's decision to launch a review.

Moody's said its review would focus heavily on Penn State's governance and management, and specifically cited the findings of the Freeh Report.

That report, an internal review paid for by Penn State, found top university officials, including former president Graham Spanier and football coach Joe Paterno, had failed to report abuse and created an environment that helped to empower Sandusky.

"The review will assess the potential credit implications of these reports and investigations, which collectively point directly to weaknesses in the university's management and governance practices," Moody's said.

A previous review of Penn State's credit rating, launched by Moody's in November, did not result in a downgrade.

Penn State is Pennsylvania's flagship public university with more than 80,000 students and operating revenues of $4.6 billion.