Month: July 2012

Real change should come from within, but it probably won’t.  So instead, all we have are the changes that will be forced up on the school from without.  There will be civil suits against the university, and rightly so.  There also needs to be more thorough criminal investigations from both state officials and the federal Justice Department.  Hopefully they will bring about the proper sense of gravitas.  Criminal convictions and serious sentences for the major players would help. And then there’s the National Collegiate Athletic Association.

The people who mattered most, knew.  The people who had the power to stop Jerry Sandusky from raping children, knew. Head Coach Joe Paterno knew. School President Graham Spanier knew. Athletic Director Tim Curley knew. Senior Vice President Gary Schultz knew. They all knew that Jerry Sandusky was fucking children on their campus. They knew as far back as 1998.  Fourteen years ago.  And they did nothing about it.  Worse, they covered it up. The extensive investigation led by former FBI head Louis Freeh came to that conclusion.  Its 267 page report says Penn State officials “repeatedly concealed critical facts relating to Sundusky’s child abuse from authorities” (p. 14