Thread:Una74/@comment-71.58.210.121-20171010133156/@comment-71.58.210.121-20171103163524

P.S. And two things about Paterno in 1998. One, I came to Penn State in 2001. Two, everyone who knew about the Sandusky incident in 1998 was told by the district attorney that there were no grounds for an investigation. That is precisely what I wrote in 2012, and I stand by it today:

"So there are two institutional failures here. The first, in 1998, is primarily a failure of our police and child-protection authorities. The second, in 2001, is primarily a failure of university governance. In between the first and the second, we now know that a couple of Penn State janitors, too, were aware of Sandusky's criminal escapades, but told themselves they would lose their jobs if they reported what they saw. The cover-up in 2001 strongly suggests that their fear of a culture of secrecy at Penn State was well founded.

"And that is damning enough—to the reputations of the men who never reported Sandusky to the police, and to the reputation of the university that once prided itself on its athletics integrity. That alone is enough to compel me to resign the chair I had once been so honored to hold."



How anyone can read that as “apologism” for Paterno and Penn State is honestly beyond me.