The Penn State Child-Sex Abuse Scandal Thread...Hammer dropped on PSU...sanctions galore.

To be honest, I could care less if they cancel the football season. I barely had time to go to any games last season because I had to study on weekends (Engineering Major ftl). Cancel the season for all I care. What I really care about is tax payer money going towards legal fees. And tuition increasing because of legal fees and this whole debacle. And if this somehow messed with my education. That's what directly affects me. Shoot, I'll root for PSU Football because I love my school. But it honestly makes no difference whatsoever in my life if they win or lose.
 
[h1]Meet Penn State’s New Whistleblower, Vicky Triponey[/h1] by Jessica Bennett , Jacob Bernstein Nov 23, 2011 2:02 AM EST
[h2] Former VP of student affairs Vickey Triponey says she was ousted from the university after butting heads with football god Joe Paterno and trying to hold players to the same standards as other students. [/h2]

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This is how long it takes to become a celebrity in the Penn State saga: exactly one day. On Monday, Vicky Triponey was living in South Carolina in anonymity. By Tuesday, she’d made the front page of The Wall Street Journal. ESPN was calling. Reporters had shown up at her door.
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Triponey was vice president of student affairs at Penn State from 2003 to 2007—and allegedly was fired after butting heads with football god Joe Paterno, when she tried to punish a number of his players for crimes that ranged from bar fights to sexual assault.
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She was basically run out of town. According to Triponey, whose story is backed up by the local chief of police, people knocked on her door late at night, then bolted when she went to answer it. Students prank-called her and savaged her on message boards. One morning, she woke up to find a "For Sale" sign in her yard. Even Paterno—when he appeared on a local sports radio show in the fall of 2005—proclaimed that “that lady in Old Main
 
Newly obtained e-mails between Joe Paterno, the former Penn State coach, and the university's former president illustrate the scope of the coach's control over top administrators' decisions on disciplinary matters.

The documents, which The Chronicle acquired from a source close to the Jerry Sandusky investigation, contradict comments made in recent days by Mr. Paterno's representatives suggesting that the coach never used e-mail or played a role in influencing university investigations.

The e-mails, from 2007, concern the handling of football players accused of beating up fellow students and suggest a pattern of Mr. Paterno's influence in disciplinary cases. Those e-mails have been turned over to officials investigating the Sandusky scandal.


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Getting worse and worse by the day for Paterno and his "legacy."  

& from Gunna's article:
Over the next two years, there were multiple other serious behavior infractions involving football players. Over and over, Triponey was sidelined or told to stay out of it. In August 2005, Triponey says, Paterno urged her, in an email that has since become public, to “leave discipline of football players to the coach
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Originally Posted by Mr Marcus

is espn even reporting this ++@* about paterno?
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no or the national media

which is why his "legacy" will not change in the media. know matter what comes out they will paint the picture of him never knowing what was going on.
 
Defend Paterno all you want but you'll never convince me a man who didn't molest children would in any way help or protect a man that does. You can say he wanted to protect the university I'm not buying it he wanted to protect himself. They swept Sandusky's *+#% under the rug for how long why am I not to believe they just did a better job with Paterno's antics , write a couple checks etc. You see he was in the ground asap, lot tougher to throw these allegations at a dead "LEGEND" and have em stick. Again this is just my opinion.
 
So. New site lost a lot of info, but, here's the newest stuff going on.

STATE COLLEGE, Pa. -- Amid calls for the removal of football coach Joe Paterno's statue from the Penn State campus, some students have started a vigil to protect it from vandals.
Seniors Mike Elliot and Kevin Berkon organized a gathering at the statue after a plane flew over the campus Tuesday with a banner that read: "Take the statue down or we will."
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Like, these guys are really still out trying to protect this old dead guy? Whatheffff?
 
Noskey said:
So. New site lost a lot of info, but, here's the newest stuff going on.
Like, these guys are really still out trying to protect this old dead guy? Whatheffff?
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They're delusional.  Penn State is a weird place, man.  Almost cult-like. 
 
Noskey said:
So. New site lost a lot of info, but, here's the newest stuff going on.
Like, these guys are really still out trying to protect this old dead guy? Whatheffff?
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They're delusional.  Penn State is a weird place, man.  Almost cult-like. 
 
Report is that Penn State will take 48 hrs to decide on removing Paterno statue.

Hope they melt that **** .
 
Some of you are acting like Joe Pa abused these kids. This situation would have been handled that same way at pretty much every big time athletic school in the country. Players rape girls, burglarize cribs, punch cops is like normal behavior at this point. Think of how much "bad" stuff is concealed. PSU is not alone in conduct like this, that's for sure.
 
He helped cover it up for years you don't know what you're talking about. What every school harbors a pedophile? Serious?

I don't care if this goes on everywhere (which it doesn't), you still make an example of them.
 
Leave it to the Meatchicken fan to post blasphemy with little to no knowledge of the situation...

No death penalty? Damn. I expect a 3-5 year bowl ban with 50+ scholarships gone.
 
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He helped cover it up for years you don't know what you're talking about. What every school harbors a pedophile? Serious?
I don't care if this goes on everywhere (which it doesn't), you still make an example of them.
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Stop being hyper-literal. When presented with the same situation 99% of these big time programs would have done the same. Maybe not pedophilia but similar sins and criminal conduct are covered up on a very regular basis at all of these big time programs.
 
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Your right, Joe didn't molest the children, but not stopping it and letting it continue, he's almost just as guilty as you can get without doing the devilish act himself. Him wanting to protect what he built and his players was noble but him protecting himself is and was cowardly.
 
The only option that Penn St. has at this point is to suspend the football program for a year or two. After the suspension, they should come back with new colors and a new team mascot.


my 2¢
 
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