4um: Penn State Students Bear Brunt of NCAA Sanctions for Sandusky Cover-Up as Trustees Emerge Unscathed

Title: Penn State Students Bear Brunt of NCAA Sanctions for Sandusky Cover-Up as Trustees Emerge Unscathed
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Published: Jul 26, 2012
Author: Amy Goodman & Juan González
Post Date: 2012-07-26 19:48:43 by Jethro Tull
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Penn State Students Bear Brunt of NCAA Sanctions for Sandusky Cover-Up as Trustees Emerge Unscathed

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The governing body of U.S. college sports Monday announced a series of unprecedented sanctions against Penn State University following an independent investigation into the widespread cover-up of child sexual abuse by former assistant football coach Jerry Sandusky. The NCAA leveled penalties including a fine of $60 million, a reduction of student-athlete scholarships, and a vacating of all wins of the Penn State football team from 1998 to 2011. We’re joined by Dave Zirin, sports columnist for The Nation magazine and host of Edge of Sports Radio. Zirin says the sanctions will punish Penn State students while sparing top officials, including Pennsylvania Gov. Tom Corbett, who has drawn criticism for his handling of the Sandusky investigation while serving as the state’s attorney general and preparing for a gubernatorial run. "We’re attacking 18-year-old scholarship athletes and making them pay the price, when people in power have not really had to be affected or afflicted by the horrible crimes that took place in Happy Valley," Zirin says. "I do not trust the NCAA to be [the] adjudicating body, for the simple reason that their very existence ensures more cover-ups and more scandals in the future." [includes rush transcript]

When it comes to college football, the President of the university along with the V.P. and their top official staff, are fully aware of what goes on concerning pedo cases like this as well as prostitution. I actually knew of university officials at a school who were pimping out students. And the university cops were fully aware of it too. Some of those cops had enough sense to resign while others were given gifts and money to pay mortgages for their homes.

The usual stereotype of a street pusher on the street making money exploiting male and females to turn tricks for johns and janes is jaded thinking these days. A pimp/pedophile can be anybody from a highly respected member of the community to a 19 y.o. member of the established entertainment industry.

I agree, and I'd also add the Board of Trustees to the mix you named. Furthermore, in this matter, it reached into the 2nd Mile, which fed the current Governor more than $640k in campaign contributions. I honestly think the truth will come out, if for no other reason than the incompetent Louie Freeh is the author of the report that is the sole basis of the economic sanctions this town now is under.

Take that up with christine. I have no idea if she has the patience to re-post her material to you, but I suggest that you ask.

Cornel is Ivy league, Penn State isn't. I live right next to Princeton and often me and wifey go for sunset walks in town. The students have lots of disposable scheckels. That matters a lot.

Also, business has not been built to meet a demand level that will no longer exist.

Now that Penn State football has been reduced to Pop Warner league level, do you consider the pedophilia problem we face is over?

He's 5'0", goes 100 pounds and he's the kid who looks like he knows what he's doing on the line.

I agree completely. My problem with the Freeh report is that it took the dumbed down sheeple down the wrong path, away from the elite and toward a football team which violated no NCAA sanctions. The team, the community, of which I and my family are part, are living this in real time. We know that the remaining criminals are still free to do as they please, so pardon my vested interest. I'm not going to rest until the entire saga is visible and all of the criminals are caged like the rats they are. Please feel free to join me in uncovering the ENTIRE crime. We do need help.

Wow, I havent really followed this story at all but it sounds pretty ugly. it does make sense that the criminals in charge of the investigation would derail it to the wrong path, to protect their cronies.

as with any institution, parents just need to watch their kids. i dont think its ever a good idea for parents to blindly trust their minors spending time unsupervised with some adult alone.- wheter it be a church, a club, a team, or whatever.

It's a Governor Corbett, Louie Freeh whitewash, Artisan. The problem is the haters already have their minds set but despite that, we have to carry on and work toward exposing everyone involved.

how do you do that? given the fact, for example of the franklin coverup where they hired a conservative republican senator john decamp to investigate the banking scandal and when he found the pedo ring, they ignored his findings.

and another- when the news reported underage male hookers touring the bush reagan white house. barbara bush even responded to the washington times after the initial story broke. she said she didnt think it was a big deal. that was actually in the paper. i need to find the original version of that again.

then you have the jeff gannon deal, where bush was letting this fag hooker into the white house regularly., even tho he was using a fake name. it was dismissed and brushed aside.

and lastly, when cynthia mckinney questioned rumself on the child sex slaves traded by military contractors,. she grilled him but it was brushed aside and never addressed.

I'm not suggesting not to expose them or discouraging an attempt. It just seems that the pervert USA likes this sort of thing and it is never rooted out. , no matter the evidence and proof.