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[tw: abuse/sexual assault]At a press conference Wednesday, Pennsylvania Gov. Tom Corbett announced his lawsuit against the NCAA over the Penn State sanctions implemented after assistant coach Jerry Sandusky's sex scandal.

(Reblogged from invisiblelad)

On Penn State

freedominwickedness:

When the NCAA first announced the sanctions against Penn State University’s football program, I felt that they struck a fair balance between punishing the school for its complicity and not punishing football players who had no knowledge of the situation.

I no longer believe that because of the sheer number of Penn State students and alumni who have spoken up on this issue. I have listened to what they have to say, and their sincere, passionate statements have convinced me that that this is a community which has been so thoroughly and deeply indoctrinated with “Football Uber Alles” that they lack any sense of morality whatsoever.

These young men and women aren’t outraged that their school knowingly aided and abetted the rape of dozens of young children. Instead, they’re outraged — to the point of violent rioting — that their school got caught. They’re outraged that their beloved sports program is being held accountable for its direct complicity. They’re outraged that the “legacy” of a man who knowingly enabled a pedophile prey on the innocent is being “tarnished”. They’re outraged that a culture of collaboration which puts even the infamous “Blue Code of Silence” to shame is being brought to light and dealt with.

Their outrage damns them.

I now believe that Penn State got off too easy. The NCAA should have imposed an indefinite death penalty, totally barring the school from any participation whatsoever in NCAA football until such time as a panel of independent arbitrators agrees that their attitude has fundamentally changed and placing all of their other NCAA programs on close supervision.

Every time I read the words “innocent kids are suffering/paying the price” being used to describe the students/athletes…

(Reblogged from freedominwickedness)

The Other Penn State Cover-Up: Death Threats Against Black Students

reelbrains:

cocothinkshefancy:

Hate mail to black students and a death, all swept away by PSU

As news unravels around the grand jury report revealing charges against former Penn State football defensive coordinator Jerry Sandusky for raping and sexually molesting underage boys, some former black Penn State students are now painfully reliving a scandal that occurred at their university ten years ago. In 2000, the year a janitor witnessed a boy younger than 13 (“Victim 8” in a grand jury report) “pinned against a wall” while Sandusky performed oral sex on him, black students and football players on Penn State’s campus began receiving hate mail.

The hate mail sent to black students had nothing to do with Sandusky’s proclivities, but the two incidences shared something in common: both were ultimately covered up by the university, even as both chain of events grew worse. Sandusky went on to molest and possibly rape more boys, according to a grand jury report (Sandusky denies foul play), and hate mail against black students became death threats.

Ultimately, a black man’s dead body was found by police near Penn State as one of the death threats said it would. And some black students had to attend their graduation the following May with bulletproof vests on in fear of their life. 

But few know about the death threats because Penn State and Joe Paterno were not willing to allow bad publicity to ruin the university’s image, say some of the black students at the center of the tragic events.

One of my girlfriends went to Temple, but had considered Penn State, even going on a tour with her mother. She said that she was one of the two black women on tour and in sight on campus, so she asked the first black person she saw - a freshman using the restroom - about what it was like and if she liked it. The girl shrugged and said she was transferring out but wouldn’t articulate why. She laughed about it when telling me the story, but apparently the reception and attitudes towards her and her mom were far from welcoming, and very chilly.

(Reblogged from karnythia)