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JoePa
Jul 12, 2012 12:01:19 GMT -6
Post by fatmenace on Jul 12, 2012 12:01:19 GMT -6
continuing...
exhibit 2f contains the emails that were leaked recently. There is NOTHING out of context. It was verbatim.
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JoePa
Jul 12, 2012 12:03:01 GMT -6
Post by fatmenace on Jul 12, 2012 12:03:01 GMT -6
Taking into account the available witness statements and evidence, the Special Investigative Counsel finds that it is more reasonable to conclude that, in order to avoid the consequences of bad publicity, the most powerful leaders at the University -- Spanier, Scheultz, Paterno and Curley -- repeatedly concealed critical facts relating to Sandusky's child abuse from the authorities, the University's Board of Trustees, the Penn State community, and the public at large.
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JoePa
Jul 12, 2012 12:03:46 GMT -6
Post by fatmenace on Jul 12, 2012 12:03:46 GMT -6
For the past several decades, the University?s Athletic Department was permitted to become a closed community. There was little personnel turnover or hiring from outside the University and strong internal loyalty. The football program, in particular, opted out of most of the University's Clery Act, sexual abuse awareness and summer camp procedures training. The Athletic Department was perceived by many in the Penn State community as 'an island,' where staff members lived by their own rules.
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JoePa
Jul 12, 2012 12:04:54 GMT -6
Post by fatmenace on Jul 12, 2012 12:04:54 GMT -6
exhibit 5A is the law firm bill. 2.9 hour conference with G. Schultz re "reporting of suspected child abuse; legal research re same". Yet Schultz testified it was only horseplay.
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JoePa
Jul 12, 2012 12:06:34 GMT -6
Post by fatmenace on Jul 12, 2012 12:06:34 GMT -6
The last part of the findings has echoes of the Bonfire report and its finding that the culture at aggy did not allow for questioning authority.
The last bullet point problem discovered by the investigation is
A culture of reverence for the football program that is ingrained at all levels of the campus community. From p. 129, containing the recommendation on how to address the cultural issues:
However, there is an over-emphasis on "The Penn State Way" as an approach to decision-making, a resistance to seeking outside perspectives, an an excessive focus on athletics that can, if not recognized, negatively impact the University's reputation as a progressive institution. Summary: cult-like groupthink was a fatal flaw.
It was a fatal flaw for the A&M Bonfire. It was a fatal flaw for the Sandusky affair. It will ALWAYS be a fatal flaw. It is also one of the most difficult flaws to address, because it does not exist in just one department, or one subset of employees or administrators. It is universal among the aggy/PSU community.
PSU is broken. Only PSU can unbreak itself. If it fails/refuses to do so, it should be dismantled by the State of Pennsylvania.
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JoePa
Jul 12, 2012 12:07:30 GMT -6
Post by fatmenace on Jul 12, 2012 12:07:30 GMT -6
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JoePa
Jul 12, 2012 12:17:11 GMT -6
Post by fatmenace on Jul 12, 2012 12:17:11 GMT -6
Another thing I just learned though of course I suspected - report (p.40) says that a number of people witnessed Sandusky showering with young boys before 1998 (the instance leading to the conviction) but they were all pukes who should have their balls cut off:
Report, p.40 Before May 1998, several members and football coaches regularly observed Sandusky showering with young boys in the Lasch Building (now the East Area Locker Building or "Old Lasch"). None of the individuals interviewed by the Special Investigative Counsel notified their superiors of this behavior. Former Coach Richard Anderson testified at Sandusky's trial in June 2012 that he often saw Sandusky in the showers with children in the football facilities but he did not believe the practice to be improper.
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JoePa
Jul 12, 2012 12:18:24 GMT -6
Post by fatmenace on Jul 12, 2012 12:18:24 GMT -6
Wow, just wow... p.41: Another adult male, not part of the June 2012 Sandusky trial, alleged that he was molested by Sandusky over 100 times as a child and that Sandusky took him to the Rose Bowl game in Pasadena, California in 1995. He also said that Sandusky brought him to the Penn State football locker room showers where Sandusky fondled him and performed oral sex on him.
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JoePa
Jul 12, 2012 12:22:28 GMT -6
Post by fatmenace on Jul 12, 2012 12:22:28 GMT -6
Wow, this press conference is hell on earth for PSU. Freeh just discussed the incident the janitor observed, noting that these are the lowest level folks at PSU (the "bottom" of the PSU culture) and how all the janitors discussed it, and concluded that they couldn't raise anything about a beloved coach at JoePa's program -- "it would be like going against the president of the United States." Freeh then said "you know, if that's the culture at the BOTTOM of PSU, then God Help Penn State."
The evidence is overwhelming. No RATIONAL person can conclude differently than Freeh has.
PSU can tear itself down and try to rebuild into something worth keeping, or other folks will do it for them. Those are the only two choices.
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JoePa
Jul 12, 2012 12:24:39 GMT -6
Post by fatmenace on Jul 12, 2012 12:24:39 GMT -6
Penn State fans are moving through stages of grief. They are in denial right now, but they think they have reached acceptance. PSU boards are full of "Yep, Joe sure did make mistakes and didn't try to help" when the actual truth is that Joe Paterno actively concealed Jerry Sandusky's crimes.
Paterno did not fail to act. He did act. It is just that his actions were specifically designed to promote and conceal the rape of children.
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JoePa
Jul 12, 2012 12:27:13 GMT -6
Post by fatmenace on Jul 12, 2012 12:27:13 GMT -6
From a friend:
The thing to keep in mind about Paterno is that he turned out to be the textbook definition of a sociopath. The children that had been and would be harmed were conceptual entities to him, not real people. His only care was the going concern of Penn State football. Anything that could have threatened its power and well-being had to be suppressed, regardless of the impact on the larger community or the moral implications of the suppression.
People chuckled at McQueary's retelling of his call to Paterno, how it began with "I DON'T HAVE A JOB FOR YOU". To me, in light of Paterno's callous disregard for the children harmed by Jerry Sandusky, that dialogue actually sounds more like a narcissistic sociopath. Paterno's reaction to McQueary's call might have just been cantankerous old Joe, tired of the constant entreaties by former players begging to be let back into the kingdom. Or it might have been the reaction of someone for whom life was nothing but a series of calculations: how can this interaction benefit me? McQueary had nothing to offer Paterno, Paterno thought, when he took the call. The call could not benefit him. McQueary's eligibility was up; he was barely more than a liability to Joe, who was being put out by even having to have a conversation that couldn't benefit him.
That personality disorder also explains why Paterno would be so willing to trade a GA position for McQueary's silence. Was it morally wrong? Did Joe even want McQueary on the staff? Who cares? Joe valued McQueary's silence and its benefit to Penn State Football more than he cared about a GA position. Because life, to Paterno, was nothing if not a chance to build and preserve, at any cost.
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JoePa
Jul 12, 2012 12:30:13 GMT -6
Post by fatmenace on Jul 12, 2012 12:30:13 GMT -6
Chs. 4 and 5 of the Report (pp. 62-95) cover in detail the single incident (May 3, 1998) that started this whole thing rolling.
It is an exercise in further incredulity. Although you've heard it talked about for months now, to see how the event unfolds and the incredible cover-up and deflection by the "Ped 4" (3 Admins and JoePed), you can't believe it. Too much to cite here, but probably this one sums it up among the best. From p. 79:
At the preliminary hearing, Curley agreed that there was "no practical way to enforce [Sandusky] not bringing children onto the campus" after he was warned not to.
So the people in authority at the University, who HAD the authority to enforce this, saw "no practical way"? there are no words.
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JoePa
Jul 12, 2012 12:36:18 GMT -6
Post by fatmenace on Jul 12, 2012 12:36:18 GMT -6
Here's a good one: (page 52)
Spanier never declared Sandusky a “persona non grata” on Penn State campuses, as he did toward a sports agent who, before the 1997 Citrus Bowl, bought $400 worth of clothing for a Penn State football player. Spanier was very aggressive in that case and banned the agent from campus. Spanier said the agent “fooled around with the integrity of the university, and I won't stand for that.”
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JoePa
Jul 12, 2012 12:37:03 GMT -6
Post by mayor on Jul 12, 2012 12:37:03 GMT -6
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JoePa
Jul 12, 2012 12:38:03 GMT -6
Post by fatmenace on Jul 12, 2012 12:38:03 GMT -6
pp. 69-70- After Schultz was charged, his assistant pulled Sandusky documents from his office and delivered them to Schultz. She was interviewed twice by Freeh and did not disclose what she'd done. They only found them in May. I expect additional charges for Schultz, unless we are to believe this assistant came up with that plan all by herself.
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