The Penn State students were not the ones doing the child raping. Why hang this around their necks. Was it your fault that there was a drive by shooting in your neighborhood - no, it was not. The students are as frustrated as any of us that a mad dog rapist was running loose and people in power gave him a pass to operate. unheeded.
And yet what we've seen from Penn State supporters, from students to their fans, is continued support of some of those "people in power [who] gave him a pass to operate." [Paterno, for example]
From Penn State students rioting last Wed. night...
...to Penn State fans verbally abusing and trying to censor a single protestor -- a father who id'd with the victims -- @ Saturday's game.
Source on Penn State fans: Washington Times, Nov. 13, 2011 At Penn State’s stadium, profanity, scorn greet one father’s protest
We can call it a class in ethics given by the University of Hard Knocks. This is what happens when the university professors they listen to only teach amoral humanism.
We Americans can pretend that the ethics of natural law do not matter and even that they do not exist, but they do and if you violate them long enough, the professor of hard knock university pays a visit.
The students will benefit from it if they allow themselves to think rather than just chant football and p.c. slogans.
Again, it’s far easier to hate Paterno and hate Penn State and blame it all on him and the students/alumni than deal with the real issue.