Thank you for your responses, detailed and sharp as a knife. Thank you for your gracefulness to me. My mixed feelings clarified quickly when I read the entire indictment “presentment”. I was upset Tuesday night by Paterno’s turning supportive students’ visit to his home into a pep rally. I was outraged Wednesday morning at his cynically manipulative resignation “at the end of the season,” to make things easy on the board /s. I would have driven down to campus and fired him myself.
Wednesday night, if not before, the students should have held a candlelight vigil for the victims. Their pity party was a disgrace.
Much more information will come out, and I think we will be shocked and disgusted again. For starters, Sandusky is out on bail.
Paterno’s ouster gave cover to the also-deposed university president Spanier. Much attention needs to be paid to the culture of tolerance for deviance he directed and enabled on campus. I will begin to know PSU is serious when I assess the quality of Spanier’s replacement and other appointments.
Thursday Rush said he was told by a friend in a position to know that Sandusky's activities were common knowledge.He elaborated on the Sandusky ice cream dessert (apparently one of a hundred locally named for campus figures) and it was graphic.
He alluded to the suspicious nature of the DA's refusal to prosecute in 1998 and the disappearance in 2005.
In the larger scope we have a Babylonian closet queen in the Oval Office appointing a NAMBLA worm to a Safe Schools czardom.
It's time for diverting the river through the Augean Stables.