Report: PSU disregarded safety and welfare of children/victims

Report: PSU disregarded...

I read the post here and Paterno is not the only one to blame here. There is enough to go around, to include Dr. Erickson, current President of the university, who should be let go.He was a Vice President there, at this time. And not only will folks who live in Pennsylvania have to pay up, so will the parents and students, who attend Penn State.

RGK
 
RGK,

I fully agree with you. My tuition has already gone up $200 because of this and the technology fee jumped from $50 to $300.
 
Hurricane 12

Hurricane 12,

I can see from your viewpoint that you find the culture around Joe Pa somewhat strange and I respect that. However, what the media is reporting is wrong. Paterno wrote personal letters before his death stating what and why he did what he did. The problem is, the media is making the whole situation revolve around him just because he was a legend.

But yes I agree with you to some extent, if someone was involved and true to help cover it up, they're just as guilty as the person who committed it. I can see that your a 2012 graduate of USNA. Wouldn't the Honor Code come into play with a situation like this?
 
tpg,

Thanks for sharing your insights and feelings as someone who's family is intimatley attached to the institution that is Penn State. Your words are appreciated.

And I agree with your listed points. With one major exception: point 4. Simply stated, Penn State's football program must be disbanded, indefinetly. I can only hope the NCAA has the courage and conviction to do so, rightfully killing a program that is at once so recognized as it is so ingrained into the psyche of the upper echelons of college sports.

Why should the NCAA kill it? It has to. How can it not, when it is perhaps the greatest example ever in college sports of a University willing to sacrice integrity and duty to justice in order to protect it's "Golden Calf". And that is exactly what Penn State football is to the university: its Golden Calf. Nationwide, when folks think "Penn State", their thoughts do not first go to the great academic institution, its world-class research facilities, or the learning that goes on every Monday through Friday. No, kids wear tee-shirts and hoodies with the Nittany Lions proudly displayed mostly because of its reputation for what is accomplished on Saturdays. Penn State's glory, sadly, was mostly tied to its successful football program and the image of Joe Pa roaming the sidelines, a good man achieving success "the right way, the Joe Pa way".

The school made MILLIONs from that legend and that reputation. The football program WAS bigger than the school itself, and no one more so than Joe Pa. So big, and so sacred a calf, that anything that could be feared as jeapordizing that reputation, and the money it generated, had to be suppressed. Suppressing some football players mis-behaving off-season? Not such a big deal, and Joe Pa usually handled it the right way anyway. Suppressing violent and horrific acts against children? NOT getting the authorities involved as soon as they suspected? All for the sake of protecting the image that was Penn State football? Unforgivable.

Your point that it's hurting the current players for past transgressions? Well, they CAN transfer to another school -- plenty also have games on Autumn Saturdays as well. And if the NCAA really does care about these student athletes and their chances of moving on to professional sports careers, perhaps they can waive the standard transfer rules to allow them to play right away. Or perhaps Penn State itself can once again hold the position that these are STUDENT-athletes (emphasis mine, as the emphasis is usually reversed at most big college football scholls. I'm looking at you, SEC), and they are more than welcome to finish their academic careers and move on to their post college professions.

Sorry, the level of travesty in this case just doesn't equal the concern we should have for the current athletes there. The revenue lost because the campus is a little more quiter come Saturdays? Well, perhaps we can justify that as "punitive damages" to the Institution's lack or regard for children's welfare.

This Golden Calf was so big that good men were scared to make the right call. They'll have to explain that lack of judgement to their maker one day, and my heart bleeds for the good man Joe Pa was and how his fear of hurting this Golden Calf influenced him to ignore such vile acts.

For now, it is time to put this Calf down.
 
TPG,

While I agree with many of your points I also disagree with some of them too.

1. Yes, they are not Gods.

However, they also loved being put up on that pedestal, maybe their own narcissistic tendencies are at vault regarding this tragic outcome.

Sorry, but Joe Pa, at the end of his life acknowledging he should have done more is not enough. Many people when they are about to meet their maker have regrets, that doesn't give them a pass for their inactions.

I think that is what you are missing. He knew. He remained silent for over a decade. Many people can't forgive his lack of action caused lifelong emotional pain that no amount of money can cure to God knows how many kids.

He placed his needs above innocent victims. He cared more about the program where he was known to value integrity than his own integrity. For that I have pity for him. I think his loyalty to PSU and his players was misplaced.

2. I agree the Trustees should be replaced, without a doubt.

I say this because PSU, regardless of their FB program is respected nationally from an academic perspective. Parents will spend up to 125K+ (OOS) for their child's education. They need to trust the administration at PSU.

3. I agree the FB program should not be ended. They are already paying the price and will for yrs., because not only due to the trial, but since Joe Pa died, high quality players would have likely gone somewhere else due to the fact of uncertainty. Next yr., high quality players will not want to go PSU when the team is rebuilding. It takes yrs to bring back a quality team.

This is on top of the fact that high quality coaches will not want to be associated with PSU.

What does that mean? It means loss of televised games, and sold out stadiums. Loss of revenues.

Another poster stated PA residents should be ready to open their checkbooks. Maybe so, but for a different reason than the intention in their post. PSU has insurance, they have endowments, they can cover the costs, drain, their accounts, but still make it. They don't realize everytime PSU plays a FB game on ESPN, or any network, they got money. Go to a bowl game, more money. If PSU is a losing team, that impacts them financially. That is before you talk about apparel sales, or refreshments, parking, etc. The FB team is no longer the cash cow.

4. I am not a PA resident, I can understand the anger to Corbett, since he was the AG, if I am correct.
http://www.philly.com/philly/hp/news_update/162305266.html
Corbett called "absolutely false" news reports that his office had initially assigned just one investigator because most were tied up in public-corruption probes. He said even Bureau of Narcotics agents worked on the Sandusky case. And when he became governor, Corbett said, he added state police resources to the probe.

His role as ex-officio Penn State trustee is mentioned in a paragraph of the 267-page report issued Thursday by former FBI chief Louis Freeh. The report said some trustees recalled that during a conference call on whether to fire Paterno, some asked "if the governor was still on the phone line, as he was quiet during parts of the call."

Other trustees told Freeh's investigators that Corbett was more "vocal"; one said he urged "decisive action or there might be a loss of support for Penn State."

Corbett on Thursday confirmed one quotation in the report. "I made no recommendation," he said, "other than at the end. Before the vote, I said: 'You have to remember the children.' "

You know how bureaucracy works, Do you think as an AG he handled every single case? He oversaw, yes, but he did not intimately know every single case in the AGs office. To hold him to that standard in my opinion, is wrong. When they present proof that he knew there were multiple victims and saw the handwritten notes and emails than I am with you. However, right now, nothing. He left the AG in 95, before Sandusky had his 1st and 2nd run ins (98 and 01) that was swept under the rug, by most accounts by PSU and their trustees. Returned as an AG in 08. He had 1 child investigation, but not a strong enough case to win, he had narcotics on it as an AG, and when he became Gov. 3 yrs later he placed the state police on it too.

Again, I am not a PA resident. I am sure there were tons of whispers, but what does an elected official do? Listen to whispers and waste tax dollars if they are just that...whispers?

JMPO.
 
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LMAO!

Bullet and I x-posted. Just want to point out that to those who think he and I walk in step on everything and anything, it proves the fact we don't!

Bullet wants the FB program shut down, I don't. I think it is because PSU plays UMDCP :idea:

NO FLAMING...JK!
 
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Reference disbanding the football team:

Heard an interesting angle on the news from a Penn State Alumni who is now practicing law in the DFW area. He said that the only way the NCAA would give the football program the death sentence is if they could prove that the school had lost control of the athletic program. His angle was that since the school kept such a tight grip on the scandal they (the NCAA) could never show loss of control. HOW IS THAT FOR PUTTING A POSITIVE SPIN ON THINGS! AMAZING...
 
Oh, and it's far from being over....

FYI - http://www.cnn.com/2012/07/13/us/pen...html?hpt=hp_t2

"The school is still under scrutiny by the Department of Education and the National Collegiate Athletic Association, inquiries that could further tarnish the once sterling reputation of the school and its football program. The organization that grants Penn State's crucial academic accreditation is keeping a watchful eye on developments. Two former university administrators are awaiting trial for their role in the scandal, and more charges are possible.

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."

It is less clear what the Department of Education and NCAA inquiries will bring the school.

In November, the Education Department notified Penn State that it was looking into the school's compliance with the Clery Act, a federal law that requires universities to report crimes on or near campus and provide timely warnings if reported crimes threaten the campus community.

http://news.blogs.cnn.com/2012/07/12...womans-murder/

The law carries fines of up to $27,500 per violation, but more critically, schools that fail to comply can be suspended from the federal financial aid program, according to the Department of Education."
 
Tom Corbett was AG for six years, from 2005 to 2011. Louis Freeh uncovered more in six months than the PA AG's office did in six years.

There are two major reasons for punishment, retribution and deterrence. Several have made the argument against punishment because the present players were not a part of it and that retribution is not logical. This is true. However, the NCAA must ensure that nothing like this will ever happen again. The most effective way to do this is to make an example of Penn State and shut down the football program.
 
Word is that Penn State will not take down the statue of Paterno...



...they're just going to turn it so it's looking the other way.
 
Penn State football season must be canceled

If you read the report by former FBI director Louis Freeh about Penn State's complicity in the Jerry Sandusky sex abuse scandal, the only thing missing is the following:

It would be obscene to play football at Happy Valley this fall.

Such a move would be at least a step toward long-term recognition of the damage done by the Penn State administration and fallen icon Joe Paterno. But such a move is unlikely, for the same reasons that allowed such horrifying acts to take place under the cover of Penn State football.

There's too much money at stake.

Someone with a code of honor is going to have to make the statement that no, this can't be business as usual. No matter what the cost, someone has to stand up and declare that they won't be part of this obscenity.

Someone on the 2012 Penn State football schedule has to say they will have nothing to do with football at that school this season.

It's a bold move with repercussions that will be financially damaging at the very least.

But the alternative is that anyone who steps on the football field to play Penn State this fall -- and profits from it -- will be part of the obscenity.

That may fly for most schools, but there is one Penn State opponent that should cancel its game against the Nittany Lions because its program stands for something beyond college football.

The Naval Academy should cancel it's Sept. 15 game against Penn State at Beaver Stadium.

The game is scheduled as "Military Appreciation Day," but the military and what the Naval Academy stands for should not be tarnished by participation in a game against a football program -- and Joe Paterno was that football program -- that, according to the Freeh report, "failed to take any steps for 14 years to protect the children who Sandusky victimized."

The Naval Academy, with its code of honor that declares, "Midshipmen are persons of integrity," should stand for what is right and show the integrity that Penn State has yet to show and refuse to be part of the obscenity.
 
It certainly will not hurt the people who committed these horrendous acts.

NCAA punishment never does. It's the university that is punished, not the people.

Many a recruiting scandal or "illegal payments to player" scandal result in significant penalties to the university, thus punishing those who had nothing to do with it. Why shouldn't this be as severe or even more severe?

Are you calling for less punishment than they get for giving Johnny Touchdown a new car, or Charlie Runningback a C instead of a F?

I guess we should just let Penn State go on as if nothing happened?

That was Penn State's plan all along. :rolleyes:

Thus Penn State should get punished. And if that includes "the people that had nothing to do with it" - I couldn't care less. They are all a part of the culture that led to the desire to cover it up - to shield PSU and their beloved football program from criticism & embarrassment, and that culture enabled a child molester to continue his crimes for over 12 years.

Punish them as severely as possible - cancel their season, tear down the stature, send as many to jail as possible.

Penn State will never be remembered for anything but this scandal until they take drastic actions that further the care, treatment, reparations, and remuneration of the victims.

Instead of Penn State, which is all they are thinking about.

Nail them.
 
Neither this article nor any of the other people in favor of the NCAA getting involved here ever seem to say why they are in favor of this? What does an NCAA punishment do? Does it deter others from not reporting sexual abuse more than the firings and criminal charges levied against the AD, Vice President and President of the University for not properly reporting this to Law enforcement? Or is this call for NCAA action really just a forum for expressing your outrage? (And everyone should be outraged at the sheer stupidity and callousness of the response of all of the people in charge of the University- I haven't met anyone who isn't and haven't heard too many folks who don't think that there will be a flood of justified criminal and civil actions taken against lots of folks at PSU and Pennsylvania.) If you are really serious here then why stop at cutting Football though? Why not be pushing to penalize the University by cutting Government funded contracts- After all - the President of the University was involved here so clearly there is more than just athletics at stake? Maybe - since it appears that the AG of Pennsylvania was grossly negligent here as well- we should extend that to business with the State of Pennsylvania? If you are really interested in expressing your disgust with the movers and shakers at Penn State and Pennsylvania for their gross mishandling of this crime, then I would think that all of the above would be in the mix.

I didn't see Freeh arguing that this was a function of them somehow attempting to gain some athletic advantage here which is theoretically what the National Collegiate Athletics Association regulates. Is the NCAA now going to be in the general law enforcement business?
If the NCAA gets involved here because the Football Coach was involved in not reporting a crime - a crime which did not involve the administration of the athletic program - then what other non-athletic administration issues will be within their purview? Is moral repugnance of the manner that an Educational institution handles a non-athletic crime now going to be a consideration for the NCAA? When has that been part of their charter and a consideration for how they deal with member institutions?
Punishment is supposed to affect those responsible for the crime. The NCAA isn't a law enforcement agency and the crime in this case doesn't seem to be an area that they regulate and neither the Football team nor the fans nor as far as I can tell any of the booster clubs etc... were alleged to have had a hand in the mishandling of this crime. Three people have been charged with a crime for not reporting Sandusky's crimes and the 4th is dead- The Coach, the AD, the University VP and University President all lost their jobs and their reputations are in tatters forever, and I assume that if others were found to have failed to comply with the law's regarding reporting of these crimes, then I assume they will be charged as well.

If I were a member of the Penn State family- I would be screaming to get Paterno's name off everything in the place and his statue flipped with his butt facing the sky- because at the end he was revealed to have serious flaws in his judgement and I wouldn't want to commemorate that in perpetuity. But I fail to see what would be accomplished by the NCAA getting involved, other than public posturing . It certainly won't do anything to
further the care, treatment, reparations, and remuneration of the victims.
which I agree is what the PSU needs to be focusing on here.
So again: Why?
 
If the NCAA gets involved here because the Football Coach was involved in not reporting a crime - a crime which did not involve the administration of the athletic program - then what other non-athletic administration issues will be within their purview? Is moral repugnance of the manner that an Educational institution handles a non-athletic crime now going to be a consideration for the NCAA? When has that been part of their charter and a consideration for how they deal with member institutions?
Punishment is supposed to affect those responsible for the crime. The NCAA isn't a law enforcement agency and the crime in this case doesn't seem to be an area that they regulate and neither the Football team nor the fans nor as far as I can tell any of the booster clubs etc... were alleged to have had a hand in the mishandling of this crime.

This.

There has been much debate as to whether the NCAA should punish Penn State, but it is clearly authorized to do so and could even impose the "death penalty," whereby the Penn State football team would be shut down for at least one year. Articles 2.4 and 10.1 of the NCAA constitution command ethical conduct on behalf of coaches and others associated with athletic programs, and 2.4 expansively states, "These values should be manifest not only in athletics participation, but also in the broad spectrum of activities affecting the athletics program."

One might argue that covering up child rape perpetuated by a football coach in the football team's showers is not sufficiently connected to the playing of football, but consider another perspective: If the rape had become public knowledge, the football program would have been damaged and the team worse off.

If the NCAA hits Penn State with sanctions, it is unlikely to impose the death penalty, which it has only used five times in the association's 102-year existence and is normally reserved for institutions that commit repeat infractions of NCAA rules. Still, sanctions, including loss of scholarships and postseason bans, seem possible.

Instead of waiting for the NCAA, Penn State might also self-impose sanctions. The NCAA typically doles out lighter penalties on schools that admit wrongdoing and take action against themselves.


Read more: http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/20...-penn-state-reaction/index.html#ixzz20jUtCgp4
 
NCAA punishment never does. It's the university that is punished, not the people.

Many a recruiting scandal or "illegal payments to player" scandal result in significant penalties to the university, thus punishing those who had nothing to do with it. Why shouldn't this be as severe or even more severe?

Are you calling for less punishment than they get for giving Johnny Touchdown a new car, or Charlie Runningback a C instead of a F?

I guess we should just let Penn State go on as if nothing happened?

That was Penn State's plan all along. :rolleyes:

Thus Penn State should get punished. And if that includes "the people that had nothing to do with it" - I couldn't care less. They are all a part of the culture that led to the desire to cover it up - to shield PSU and their beloved football program from criticism & embarrassment, and that culture enabled a child molester to continue his crimes for over 12 years.

Punish them as severely as possible - cancel their season, tear down the stature, send as many to jail as possible.

Penn State will never be remembered for anything but this scandal until they take drastic actions that further the care, treatment, reparations, and remuneration of the victims.

Instead of Penn State, which is all they are thinking about.

Nail them.

I think you've let your anger push you towards retribution without regards to fixing the problem exposed in Collegiate athletic programs.

Let me point out here the actual problem here - the participants in Penn State's program (in this case, underage participants) are not being protected from harm (in this case sexual abuse - but there are other types of abuse that can happen to participants at these Athletic Department sponsored events).

What we have here is an athletic department that didn't put into practice sound operational checks to make sure minors are never left in the private care of only one adult. The Boy Scouts learned this a long time ago - always have 2 adults present.

I don't know whether they have such a policy in place, but the NCAA should insist that all member institutions have such a policy in place for all athletic department events and that the implementation of those procedures are audited by an outside authority (outside of the athletic department).

Clearly Penn State's athletic department did not have such a policy in effect at the time (or at least did not enforce it). To that end the ENTIRE ATHLETIC DEPARTMENT is responsible for the failure here. As much as it was football guys involved, the department head was clearly involved. This could have happened at ANY of their camps. I mentioned in another related thread that my daughter attended a camp at Penn State during the time which this was happening. That camp was well run and had correct procedures in place - my daughter was never left alone with a single adult - and I asked before I sent her. That camp had folks from USA Hockey involved, and I'm pretty sure it was their involvement that ensured the environment she experienced.

Everything was not rotten with Penn State during that time. They just lacked adequate controls and oversight.

Fast forward to this summer. My daughter is working a couple USA Hockey sponsored camps at another institution. She was asked to work it because she has known one of the principals involved in this camp since that Penn State camp and has worked with her at other events in the interim. They always have 2 adults present with any camper.

Point here is there are well-run camps happening at NCAA institutions.

If there is a punishment to meted out, I could understand post season ineligibility, loss of scholarships, etc. meted out against the WHOLE program at PSU (not just the football team). Playoff time should be reserved for reflection upon how everyone at PSU should be watching out for the good of ALL participants.

More importantly, I think the NCAA needs to require ALL schools' athletic departments to put appropriate controls into their operations so that this kind of thing never happens at an NCAA campus again. Probably should have some anti-bullying (see a particular marching band for example) controls as well. Then AUDIT the heck out of schools. Ask for camp schedules and staff assignments to make sure multiple adults are present at all times. Ask for copies of the background checks.

You can take this opportunity to punish PSU for the arrogance of ALL schools towards their sports programs OR you can do something to fix it. Punishing PSU will not change the behavior of Athletic Departments everywhere. Fear is a great short-term motivator, but incredibly short in the memory of these programs where coaches turn over frequently because winning is above all else.

Let's not let our anger focused on the symbol (Joe Pa) of one of the more powerful sports machines blind us to the systemic responsibility to protect all people involved with the institutions.
 
If Any School Deserves the NCAA Death Penalty, It's Got to Be Penn State

The only appropriate remedy has to be the so-called death penalty, which prohibits a school from competing in a given sport for up to two years. A school that conceals a child rapist in order to protect the reputation of the head coach and the football team needs to be hit with the death penalty.

Penn State thought its football program was more important than reporting a child rapist. Is this a football program that deserves to exist? And if so, then how is this not worse than what SMU did? SMU just paid players to play college football. They didn't allow a pedophile to roam the sidelines.

The NCAA has let numerous schools skate away from the death penalties in recent years. Schools like USC, Alabama, Memphis and Miami have flaunted rule after rule after rule knowing the only punishment they'll get is a probation stripping them of scholarships, or prohibiting them from appearing on television or going to a bowl game.

But what about the current players? Do they deserve to be punished? Isn't that what Penn State's been arguing since they learned about Sandusky in 1998? They covered up everything for the good of the football program, and the good of the program meant that nothing would happen to the football program so that players could keep playing. The school actively sought to cover this up since 1998, saying in 2001 that this was a problem that could be "assessed down the road."

Is concern about the players really where the concern should be placed? If Penn State gets the death penalty, players can transfer to other schools. They can also stay at Penn State and be students. Shouldn't the concern be with the children who were raped and molested by Jerry Sandusky because Penn State and the football program thought their reputation was more important?
 
Sad situation for the student-athletes at PSU, but more has to be done. Every administrator that knew anything about this going on should be fired and possibly face legal action. I don't think the NCAA could do much because it involved people they don't have authority over, IMO. Shut the football program down until the entire house can be cleaned of people who allow child molesters to continue child molesting. I disagree with an NCAA death penalty, but the PSU BoT should enforce one. Allow all student-athletes to transfer without having to sit out a year.

I don't care about the JoePa statue, let it stay, just add "Enabler" right underneath "Humanitarian".

TPG, I mean this post as absolutely no disrespect to you and your beloved institution. My school had a scandal hit national media this year and while it didn't involve children, it was lying about an inappropriate relationship between athletic staff. All parties involved have since been removed from the university. This does affect players, who had nothing to do with what went on, but suffer from losing their coach. Universities cant allow things like this to go on. Regardless of how much money these teams bring in ro the school.
 
Luigi-

Sadly, I am not sure that you fully understand the implications of what you are suggesting. If the NCAA does what you suggest, it is setting a terrible precedent that will have far reaching implications, implications that will allow for the NCAA to punish schools for the criminal acts of its student athletes and coaches. So far I have not read or heard an argument that compels me to think it is a good idea to open that Pandora’s Box.

Please be mindful that it is easy to point the finger at Penn State and say this or that needs to be done. However I am a firm believer that when you discuss options such as you are proposing, you have to look at the big, overall picture. As such I see trouble.

The NCAA "death penalty" exists for a reason. Lack of institutional control is a biggie.

It has been implemented in the past, for such things as recruiting violations and payments to players.

You believe a lesser penalty should be enforced for the deliberate administration cover up of child rape at the football facility and the complete lack of institutional control the university had over Paterno and his minions?

I'm nonplussed.

The have been damaged, perhaps beyond repair. Taking a few years off, voluntarily, might be a better idea than a forced-NCAA ban, which would only give the rabid fans another martyr.

I guess you'll feel better while cheering them on to victory in their next game.

Penn State should not play football

If the NCAA and Penn State have any decency, even a shred of integrity, remorse or belief in regaining standing, the Penn State football program, the carrot used by Sandusky to rape children, the monolith that intimidated good people from coming forward and doing the right thing and the financial jewel Paterno, Spanier, Schultz and Curley protected at all costs, should be indefinitely terminated.

There are times when the entire monument must be razed in order to be rebuilt if it is to have any moral value. This is one of those times. To allow Penn State to continue playing football when Southern Methodist University lost its program for something as common as a recruiting scandal is to condone the past and enable the future. It is to suggest that all the next university in trouble need do is to make the right public relations moves.

For Penn State to open the season Sept. 1 versus Ohio when the University of Southwest Louisiana lost its basketball program for two years over academic fraud and recruiting violations after Spanier, Schultz, Curley and Paterno responded to repeated child rape by negotiating not only an honorable discharge for Sandusky, leaving him financially intact, respected and elevated, but also for ways for Sandusky to continue to have contact with young children would show an equally striking lack of regard for the victims.

Most of all, allowing Penn State football to survive and profit -- as if this were only about a couple of kids who cheated on an entrance exam -- says that all of the rhetoric about accountability and protecting children was just exhaust, that compared to the importance of football, the university didn't care then and doesn't care now about children being raped on its premises.
 
I guess for me, this is not about football but about a human tragedy that could have happened anywhere. Child exploitation is a human rights problem that is worldwide. Therefore the answer does not just involve Penn State…but each of us.

Amen.
 
Like I said earlier, the board hired Mr. Freeh with the purpose of finding who DOWN THE FOODCHAIN FROM THEM was responsible for this happening. The question here is how did the board magically absolve itself from the decisions of the officials THEY hired? How did THEY hire a president that allowed this culture to continue/exist? Why are THEY trying to cover THEIR responsibility for overseeing the top university officials with this "Report" which is only an opinion they paid for. When you hire a consultant, they tell you what YOU want to hear. Mr. Freeh did a good job of that.

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With all that said, I will say what is on my mind.

First and foremost, my family has waited for this report to come out. Knowing the reputation of Judge Freeh, I have no reason to believe that he would hold back any evidence to protect anyone. Even if a faulty BOT empowered him, I have no reason to believe that he would protect them.

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I firmly believe that more needs to be done. At first, I felt the same as many of my family members who say that the entire BOT should resign. Upon further review, I am not even sure if that is a justified or reasoned position. However there are some long term trustees, some even in emeriti status, that should resign in disgrace.

I am also of the belief that a huge part of the Senior Leadership should be terminated. They should start with the current President of the University. As the Executive VP, he was second in command while all of this was happening. I have a hard time believing that he was that insulated and knew nothing.
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http://news.yahoo.com/penn-state-pa...ion-freeh-190507723--abc-news-topstories.html

The report also singled out the university's board of trustees for oversight failures and promoting a culture where dissent was discouraged.

Penn State trustee Kenneth Frazier and new board chairwoman Karen Peetz said the board accepted responsibility for allowing the four men the power to conceal the allegations against Sandusky.

"The board of trustees, as a group, has paramount accountability for overseeing and ensuring the proper functioning and governance of the university, and accepts full responsibility for failures that have occurred," Peetz said.

She said members would work quickly to adopt all of Freeh's recommendations for how to increase oversight of administrators and ensure crimes like Sandusky's cannot happen on campus again.

"Accepting full accountability means that not only are we taking blame, if you will, for these events, but that we are also determined to fix the governance," Peetz said.

Freeh sidestepped questions about whether trustees ought to quit if they were on the board during the 14-year period when the incidents were said to have occurred. Board members have steadfastly rejected calls for the full board's resignation.

I think we agree that the board members involved should be gone. I still think this report is not entirely trustworthy given who commissioned it.

I stand by my opinion. The board didn't ask whether they should quit and Mr. Freeh didn't give them what they didn't pay for.
 
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