The rabble won at UVA. Sullivan reinstated as President of the University of Virgina

Dragas: "This Board has found [a] middle path."
YES, it's PRESIDENT SULLIVAN AGAIN.
http://twitter.com/LarrySabato/statuses/217700076007587842

Dragas kept her seat- maybe. McDonnell has to reappoint her which he probably will. I'll bet he used that as a big stick to get her to STFU so this will die down. He wanted no part of it, but he had to act.
Dragas will now be watched like a hawk along with the entire BOV. They badly underestimated the support Sullivan had in most areas of the university. Even the people who didn't like her detested the secrecy.

Check out this great Oreo pic that was posted on FB:

Dana Jacobson, formerly of ESPN, recounts her abuse when she was a child:

JERRY SANDUSKY'S VICTIMS AREN'T ALONE ON THEIR ROAD TO RECOVERY

The Jerry Sandusky child sex abuse trial is over.  The long road to recovery for his victims, is just beginning.
I should know, as it's a path I'm currently traveling.

Like the young men who bravely took the stand in the Sandusky trial, I was molested as a child.  That's still not easy for me to say, let alone write and share publicly, but if we've learned anything from the Sandusky scandal it's that the time for silence is over.  As I heard one Sandusky victim put it, it's time to "find my voice."

It was something I couldn't do when I was molested.  I didn't speak out, no matter how many chances I may have had.  I just couldn't.  Travis Weaver, one of the young men who testified in front of the grand jury in the Sandusky case but not at trial did an interview which aired on Rock Center last week.  He said he was scared to say anything because he thought no one would believe him.  I know that feeling.

That's what these monsters count on, our silence.  They have the power and they know it.  
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http://danajacobson.blogspot.com/2012/06/jerry-sanduskys-victims-arent-alone-on.html

She was also on CNN discussing this.
Took some courage!

Sandusky insists he is innocent of child sex abuse. Wants out of isolation.

(Reuters) - Former Penn State assistant football coach Jerry Sandusky still maintains he is innocent of sexually abusing children, remains determined to clear his name and insists that he has always been faithful to his wife, Dottie, his defense lawyer said on Monday.
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"The main reason is he wants the public to know he's not guilty, but the most important reason is he wants to maintain his innocence for his family's sake," Rominger told Reuters. "He really feels that (the conviction) is an insult to his wife, who he has loved and been faithful to all these years."
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"Jerry said to me that he was looking forward to being evaluated by the psychiatrist because he was going stir crazy sitting in that holding cell by himself and just needed to get a chance to get out and see family," Rominger said.

"He lost some of his energy, but we still share a joke or two about a few unrelated things, inside jokes basically. He's still capable of a little bit of humor. He told me he's been thankful for the companionship of the guards who've been supervising him because otherwise he'd have no one to talk to."
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http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/47957374#.T-mXz2t5mK0

Jerry Sandusky wants out of isolation in jail
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"He's anxious to be able to move around," Rominger said. "His exact quote to me, 'I don’t think I’m suicidal. I’m dealing with this, but if I have to sit around in this cell for a few more days, I am going to go nutty.' ”

In general population, Rominger said, Sandusky would be on a block with only a few other inmates.
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http://www.pennlive.com/midstate/index.ssf/2012/06/jerry_sandusky_wants_out_of_is.html


smh

Exclusive: The Untold Drama of the Jerry Sandusky Trial

As Jerry Sandusky awaits a sentencing that will almost certainly put him behind bars for the rest of his life, a previously unrevealed exchange in court last week illustrates the ways in which his case will never be fully resolved.

The Daily Beast has learned that one of the defense’s key witnesses in the sexual-abuse case against the former Penn State coach—a young man who called Sandusky a “father figure” and a wholly positive influence on his life—may have reached out just days earlier out to a victims’ support group, using language that would suggest he may be a survivor of abuse himself. In an extraordinary behind-the-scenes meeting in the presence of the trial judge, the witness was apparently confronted about what appeared to be his confession, but the message was ultimately never presented as evidence.
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Unseen at the time was a Facebook message, obtained exclusively by The Daily Beast, that had been sent to Voices 4 Victims, a victims’ advocacy group established by Penn State student and sexual-abuse survivor Matt Bodenschatz.

The Facebook message carried the name and picture of the young man in question. It was sent on June 15, 2012 – five days before he took the oath, sat in the witness chair, and said that nothing bad had ever happened between him and Coach Sandusky. The private message was sent only to Bodenschatz, the Facebook page’s administrator, but was directed at the eight young men who had testified for the prosecution:

“Thank you to the victims to come forward (sic), I am very proud of you.  You are the voice for some of us who have been so badly damaged. And stay strong not to let our violators win.  Stay STRONG. You have my support!”
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The whole story:
http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2012/06/26/exclusive-the-untold-drama-of-the-jerry-sandusky-trial.html

In some ways, it will never be over.

Greatest slogan to use on anti-gay marriage homophobes:

LOLGOP@LOLGOP
Gay marriage. If Dick Cheney can handle it, so can you.

Good bumpersticker too!

Here's what the inmates did for Sandusky on his first night in jail:

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By law, Sandusky, who is currently on suicide watch at the Centre County (Penn.) Correctional Facility, will be sentenced within 90 days of the verdict being rendered.  He’s facing a maximum of 442 years behind bars.

As for what he may be facing once he’s actually behind bars?  If his first night in jail is any indication…

As soon as the lights went out at night, Sandusky’s fellow inmates at the Centre County Correctional Facility serenaded him with a chorus from Pink Floyd’s “The Wall”:

“Hey, teacher, leave those kids alone!”

For those seeking real-world justice, it appears Bubba has things well in hand.
http://collegefootballtalk.nbcsports.com/2012/06/24/juror-on-sanudsky-victims-they-were-honestly-telling-us-the-truth/

Ha!
Inmates don't like child molesters.

And now comes the reckoning for Penn State itself:

Penn State's reputation, image soiled by Jerry Sandusky scandal
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But there is no indication that the board was ever told McQueary’s story back then. There is an indication, however, that the feds want to know how much they knew. A subpoena from the Department of Justice requested records of any payments by board members to the university or to third parties on the university’s behalf.

Many of them weren’t aware that the ongoing three-year investigation into Sandusky had been reported by The Patriot-News. They didn’t know Paterno, Schultz and Curley had testified before the grand jury.
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And then there are the lawsuits. Already there are five. And Penn State’s insurance carrier is suing to limit its coverage.Penn State is suing back, but if any top administration officials are found guilty of knowing about the allegations, the insurance company probably won’t have to pay for claims that were made after 2001. So, if the insurance company were to prevail, almost every penny spent on the scandal would come from Penn State’s general fund or its endowment.
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However, Hartle said the Department of Education — which is investigating whether Penn State violated the Clery Act by not reporting campus crimes — has the ability to withhold student aid funding to an institution.
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The ongoing investigations could bring more charges. The feds, the NCAA, the Department of Education and the inevitable litigation that will go to court could eventually make everything more clear.
But it’s the Freeh report that Penn State has promised that will begin to put together the pieces of what happened in Old Main.
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Much, much more here:
http://mobile.pennlive.com/advpenn/db_272508/contentdetail.htm?contentguid=j4lkrXrH

This isn't over by a long shot. PSU will be dealing with this for a while.

Bullying of teachers more damaging in online era. Kids post astonishingly false info about teachers.

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In Maryland, students posed as their vice principal's twin 9-year-old daughters on pedophile websites, saying they had been having sex with their father and were looking for a new partner.

Elsewhere, students have logged on to neo-Nazi and white supremacist sites claiming to be a Jewish or minority teacher and inciting the groups' anger. Others have stolen photographs from teachers' cellphones and posted them online.

"The ways they provoke teachers are limited only by their imaginations," said lawyer Parry Aftab, who described the above cases as just a few of the hundreds she's handled.
Compared with those, what happened to Klein in Greece, N.Y., a suburb of Rochester, was mild, Aftab said.
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http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/47931496/ns/technology_and_science-security/#.T-bKWWt5mK0

And some of this shite is incredibly hard to stop. It may resurface over and over.
There are some mean little bastids out there. It only takes one to post this kind of stuff and begin the horror.

"Hands Off My Clam" (Message to RWNJ in song)