Summary
LATE WEDNESDAY and early Thursday, Penn State students went on a rampage through State College, Pa., after they learned college trustees had fired football coach Joe Paterno. The revered 84-year- old leader of the football team lost his job due to the growing scandal over the alleged sexual abuse of minors by a former assistant coach, Jerry Sandusky.
In some ways this sick display of loyalty to Paterno is fitting. It shows that a culture of winning-football-at-all-costs is both dangerous and a perversion of all that society should hold as moral. Sandusky has been charged with sexually abusing eight boys over a 15- year period. Two university officials have also been charged for failing to report the alleged abuse and lying to a grand jury.See the full content of this document
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Boys Lost in the Company of Men
Over the course of this week, what school officials knew and how they reacted to that information has become the source of heated discussion, with calls for Paterno's resignation growing louder each day....
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