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    Paterno murals? Really. I am starting to doubt you even read the news at all. Pull your head out of your ass and actually inform yourself.
    Anonymous

    Oh PLEASE let this be about the Sandusky Scandal. Because let me tell you something, I live about an hour from where this whole thing happened. It was the talk of the town for weeks. You think I haven’t heard every little detail? I have. It effected the whole community. We are all Penn State fans around here. It was a terrible, terrible situation. But does this scandal define Penn State? No. Does it define Joe Paterno? No. It’s such a shame. I feel for everyone involved, especially the kids. Joe Paterno should be remembered as the great coach that he was. He’s a legend. And he should not have been fired. Maybe he would still be alive today..

    So take this bullshit somewhere else. Fucking moron.

    Oh, and don’t you dare come and tell ME to pull MY head out of MY ass and inform MYSELF when you obviously do not have a clue what you are talking about.

     
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    This is in the hall at my school, painted by a student.

    Miss you, Joe Pa. <3

     
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    Joe Paterno played for Brown University. This is a rare slabbed card. SGC 5.  

    Call 713-672-2793 for more information.

     
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    400.

     
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    [Flash 10 is required to watch video.]

    The video above was shot on my phone while driving (I don’t recommend this) to Penn State the day after the Sandusky scandal shook my alma mater. Nearly every radio station was talking about the shocking content of the Grand Jury Report. But this isn’t where my story of making No Act Of Ours begins.

    On Nov. 10, I woke up and did what I do every morning. I opened up facebook to see what’s going on in the world and with my friends. I saw a bunch of posts with vague sentence fragments about Paterno, Sandusky, and the Board of Trustees. I thought, what happened at Penn State? I’m sure it’s nothing that serious. I’ll check it out when I get to work. 

    I jumped online and saw that Coach Paterno was fired, the president was asked to step down and that Jerry Sandusky is alleged to have sexually abused kids. I also saw that students took to the street to protest the firing of JoePa. OK, this is serious.

    This is a huge story. It’s my alma mater. I grew up 30 miles from Happy Valley. This is going to tear this community apart.

    Have you ever gotten an idea that doesn’t seem to come from you? It just seems to jump into your brain and you’re like, where did that come from? Well that’s what happened when I found myself lugging my camera gear to my car and heading to State College.

    I called my cousin on the way down to see if I could crash on his couch. I called my mom to let her know what I was doing. She debriefed me on the allegations. I really didn’t know much about the story and that’s what made my split second decision scary. When I got there I saw that this wasn’t the place I had left many years ago. Happy Valley was occupied by camera vans and reporters.

    The energy in the air was tense. Heavy. Chaotic. I wasn’t the only one who didn’t know what was going on. There were many more questions than answers.

    I walked around that night talking with students. Most students wanted to talk. Some lashed out and asked me when I was going to leave. When they found out I’m a PSU alum and that I was there to get the student perspective they relaxed as much as they could.

    Now it’s more than six months later and the funding trailer is up on Kickstarter. People are talking about the film online and so now it’s time for me to process this experience and talk about it. We’re trying to raise $28,000 in 45 days to cover the filming, editing, music, and promotion of the film. We’re at $4,380 with 35 days to go. 

    In these six months it’s become clear why I’m making this film and why I made that split second decision to join this community during these dark times.

    I’ll talk about those reasons in my next post.

    -K

     
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    Mike McQueary Files Notice of Intent to Sue Penn State

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    Former Penn State wide receivers coach Mike McQueary will sue the university in what his court filing describes as a whistleblower lawsuit.

    The attorney for McQueary filed what’s called a writ of summons in county court Tuesday for an employment dispute. While it doesn’t outline the details and cause for the civil lawsuit, the document gives Penn State notice the 37-year-old former Nittany Lion quarterback plans to sue his alma mater and employer.

    The document indicates McQueary intends to seek damages outside the normal arbitration limits.

    Penn State spokesman David La Torre said McQueary remains on the university’s payroll. He said couldn’t comment on the lawsuit because the university hadn’t received the complaint yet….

    In November, Penn State President Rodney Erickson and then-interim Athletic Director Mark Sherburne put McQueary on administrative leave.

    “It became came clear that coach McQueary could not function in this role, under these circumstances,” Erickson said at the time.

    McQueary is represented by Harrisburg attorney Elliot Strokoff, who didn’t return a message seeking comment Tuesday. McQueary’s father, John McQueary, declined to comment when reached by phone.

    Earlier this year, McQueary put his State College home up for sale. The house remains on the market listed for $575,000.

    In November, Penn State President Rodney Erickson and then-interim Athletic Director Mark Sherburne put McQueary on administrative leave.

    “It became came clear that coach McQueary could not function in this role, under these circumstances,” Erickson said at the time.

    McQueary is represented by Harrisburg attorney Elliot Strokoff, who didn’t return a message seeking comment Tuesday. McQueary’s father, John McQueary, declined to comment when reached by phone.

    Earlier this year, McQueary put his State College home up for sale. The house remains on the market listed for $575,000.

    Read more here: http://www.centredaily.com/2012/05/08/3190060/mike-mcqueary-files-notice-of.html#storylink=omni_popular#wgt=pop#storylink=cpy
     
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    Mike McQueary Alters Timeline; Ex-Penn State Administrators May Benefit

    The prosecution’s star witness modified his official testimony. Will it matter in the Penn state trial?

     
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    A Man Who Did To Little

    A horrifying sex scandal at Penn State University has now swept the nation. One of the biggest outcomes of this was the firing of head coach Joe “JoePa” Paterno. Most people agree with the firing, but there are also some who don’t think he should have been fired. But when you let child molestation from a former assistant coach just go by, and you do about as little as you can about it, being relieved of your duties sounds about right to me.

    Jerry Sandusky began working for Penn State in 1969 as a defensive line coach, promoted to the linebacker coach in 1970, and in 1977 he became the defensive coordinator, holding that position until his retirement in 1999.

    Sandusky was considered to be one of the greatest assistant coaches that college football has ever seen. He became the reason that Penn State dubbed the name, “Linebacker U,” because of how dominate his defense and linebackers became there.

    In 1977 Sandusky founded The Second Mile charity to provide care for foster children and in 2002 he was honored with a, “Congressional Angels in Adoption,” award from U.S. Senator Rick Santorum.

    Also in 2002, graduate assistant Mike McQueary, now assistant coach, walked in on Sandusky sexually assaulting a ten-year-old boy. McQueary went to head coach Joe Paterno and informed him of these actions, and Paterno then went to athletic director Tim Curley.

    Curley and senior vice president for finance and business Gary Schultz (who oversaw the Penn State police department) only told Sandusky to stop taking boys from Second Mile to the football building instead of taking it to the police.

    On November 4, 2011 Jerry Sandusky was indicted on 40 counts of sexual activity. On November 5th he was arrested and charged with  seven counts of involuntary deviate sexual intercourse; eight counts of corruption of minors, eight counts of endangering the welfare of a child, seven counts of indecent assault and other offenses.

    Time Curley and Gary Schultz were charged with perjury and failure to report suspected child abuse by Sandusky.

    On November 9th Joe Paterno, after a 45 year head coaching career with Penn State, was fired.

    The firing of Paterno started and outrage throughout the entire campus of Penn State, the student body did not agree with the firing of, “JoePa,” and rioted on the campus.

    The student body thought what they did to him was unfair after the career he had at Penn State and all the things he had done for the university.

    So was the firing of Joe Paterno the right thing to do? Should the other members such as Mike McQueary, Time Curley, Gary Shultz and many others be fired?

    Yes.

    I don’t care about the career that Paterno had. He should not have been able to leave on his own terms. He might be one of the greatest coaches the NCAA has ever seen, but that does not exclude him from the wrongful acts he did.

    Paterno should have done more, he should have gone to police himself and continuously pressured the board to fire Sandusky, but instead he told them one time and then let it be. 

    You do not let child molestation be.

    The fact that he did so little to stop it, shows that he was basically allowing all these things to happen.

    When Woody Hayes, former Ohio State football coach, hit a player from Clemson in the 1978 Gator Bowl, he was immediately fired. When Jim Tressel, former Ohio State football coach, was found to have known about his players selling Ohio State gear for tattoos and didn’t tell anybody, he was fined, and then resigned as head coach.

    Paterno was knowingly allowing Jerry Sandusky to molest young boys, and did about as little as he could about it. When fired, Paterno said himself, “I wish i had done more,” meaning that he knew about it, he knew he could have done more and didn’t. With the power that Paterno had at Penn State, he could have gotten it all resolved if he kept at it instead of letting it go.

    Tim Curley, Gary Shultz, and Mike McQueary should be fired as well, I don’t think i need to explain why.

    The Second Mile program should also be shut down, and the members of it should have some sort of punishment put upon them. That program is now being looked at as possibly where Sandusky was getting all his victims from.

    Anyone who knew, or was involved with this should all be fired, and Sandusky should be sent to prison.

    You can be mad at Paterno being fired and say that he did his job as head coach to reporting it once and then going back to do his job as head coach. But when it comes to child molestation, you don’t let it go, you continuously push for it to be taken care of.

    The legendary career of, “JoePa,” is now tarnished because of all this.

    If he had done what he was supposed to do back in 2002 and pushed to have it stopped and Sandusky arrested then, he might have lost his job, he might have not gotten another 9 years of coaching. But he would have been looked at as a hero, a man who stood up and tried to get this stopped and not only would he have been remembered for his illustrious career, but also for his stand against child molestation.

    Instead, he let it go. He got 9 more years of coaching, and now he’ll be remembered by most as a man who did to little.

    Who knows what else is going to happen with this scandal, who knows how many other victims there are, and who knows what will happen to Joe, Jerry, and all the others involved. 

    But all we do know, is that two great college football coaching careers are now tarnished, and a schools football prestige is crushed.

     
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    Keep Calm

     
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