Quick Points......

[spin1978]

I really only have one thing to say as a Penn State alum - I expect heads to roll and the blood of unconscionable asshole administrators to flood the streets of State College. I am reasonable, though - the heads of administrators can also be impaled on large stakes right outside the school gates. Until this happens, though, I am not donating a

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[innerslytherin]

What happened there is unconscionable. But you know, I can't think that the president necessarily knew anything about it. I suspect it was kept hushed up within the ranks of the athletic department. The president of a company or university or country doesn't and can't know everything that goes on. After all, if the president of my last company knew how much everyone there hated him, a lot more of us would have been jobless.

I don't say that to excuse anything, but I think the RIGHT heads should roll for this. Coach Paterno, for instance, is right to retire after this. He was aware of what happened, and rather than going to his boss, he should have gone to the cops. He was remiss. The grad student who witnessed it should have gone to the cops as well. He is also remiss. The athletic director should probably be burned at the stake. But is there any proof the president was aware of what happened?

[spin1978]

Spanier noted "unconditional support" for the two indicted administrators. He did not take your "wait and see" approach on that.

Even if Spanier was completely ignorant of everything else, this ensured his demise. You can't clean house if that's the insular attitude being spread.

And while I've often called Spanier an ignorant slimy excuse for a human being (since about, oh, 2000), I doubt he was completely in the dark on all of this. There's no way. Whatever he didn't know, I'm betting it was because he didn't want to know.