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Please spare us the mournful tributes for Joe Paterno

By On January 22, 2012 · 6 Comments

Joe Paterno is dead, and I’d like to take this moment to ask many of you reading this to spare us the farcical tributes and forced empathy.

For decades, Paterno’s public image was the ambling, grandfatherly figure at the sideline of Penn State games. He was a throwback to […]

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John P. Surma, Vice President of Penn State's Board of Trustees, announces the firing of President Graham Spanier and football head coach Joe Paterno.

Joe Paterno, Penn State, and Priorities

By On November 10, 2011 · 4 Comments

Penn State students and alumni siding with Joe Paterno: you’re wrong.

There aren’t any if, ands, or buts about it. There isn’t a discussion to be had about what could have been done differently. Claiming ignorance of extent is not a valid excuse. Neither is invoking the phrase “hindsight” as a means of deflection.

Joe […]

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Joe Paterno in 2006, four years after an incident of child abuse was allegedly reported to him. Image via wikipedia.

Send a message to Penn State: Don’t Occupy Beaver Stadium

By On November 7, 2011 · Leave a Comment

 

This Saturday, November 12th, the Penn State Nittany Lions football team will take on Nebraska in a home game at Beaver Stadium.

Don’t go.

If you haven’t been following the news the last several days, then you have been spared horrific and atrocious accounts of rampant sexual abuse of children as young as ten […]

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Joe Paterno’s official bullshit statement

By On November 7, 2011 · 1 Comment

From CNN.com:

“If true, the nature and amount of charges made are very shocking to me and all Penn Staters. While I did what I was supposed to with the one charge brought to my attention, like anyone else involved I can’t help but be deeply saddened these […]

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