Posted on 11/10/2011 1:12:59 PM PST by Colofornian
We forget sometimes how insular the world of a college campus can be, how the social and ethical culture of the place often has little relationship to what goes on outside those gates.
...Penn State’s board of trustees should be applauded for making this move now and not at the end of the season...
...it was clear from the bizarre tone of the news conference with board of trustees vice chairman John Surma and the ensuing mayhem on campus that the provincial Penn State community doesn’t understand why Paterno had to go.
...this is what happens when football defines a place the way it defines State College, Pa. In a larger sense, this is what happens when you attach the billion-dollar enterprise of amateur athletics to institutions of higher learning. At Penn State, football overwhelmed the culture of everything it bumped up against and might have enabled the alleged abuse of children to continue for nearly a decade. Wednesday night, it led to thousands of students marching the streets in protest, going so far as to flip over a satellite television truck. These images were broadcast live and sent around the world, the portrait of a campus in chaos and disgrace.
It’s enough to spark a legitimate debate about whether Penn State should even play a football game on its campus Saturday. The atmosphere might just be too emotionally charged to guarantee that 100,000-plus fans can safely attend and the teams can play without incident. School officials need to give careful consideration to all possibilities before making that call.
...the Penn State community is too shortsighted to see it would’ve been far worse to show up for the Nebraska game with Paterno as head coach and pretend like everything was all right...
(Excerpt) Read more at msn.foxsports.com ...
Mass exodus @ Sat.’s game by PSU GAY student population????
Seriously, I have big concerns about Saturday’s game. Nebraska has very loyal fans and they typically travel quite a few. That’s going to be a very flammable environment. Hopefully they will have the stadium blanketed with police and have the field secured.
That’s true, a college town depends on the college, and this does make for a very strange environment.
Post-internet, as you say, this is a little harder to get away with.
“We Are...Perv State”
~45 yr ago.
2011 minus 1983 is 28 years. Am I missing something?
Better to be of a humble spirit with the lowly,
Than to divide the spoil with the proud.
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