Penn State board holding emergency meetings tonight

[Bozita]

Penn State board holding emergency meetings

Posted by John Taylor on November 8, 2011, 8:23 PM EST

Scheduled to hold a meeting Friday with the state’s governor in attendance for the first time, the furor that’s erupted over the past 48 hours has forced Penn State’s Board of Trustees to take more immediate action.

Chairman Steve Garban told the Associated Press Tuesday evening that the board was in session amid rumors that emergency meetings had been scheduled. The Patriot-News subsequently tweeted that “we’ve heard trustees are meeting tonight and tomorrow.”

Reports surfaced earlier today that the board was working on a plan for Paterno’s exit in the coming days or weeks, and that support for Paterno from the board is eroding.

Paterno’s son Scott stated on multiple occasions throughout the afternoon and into the evening that the reports of his father’s ouster are premature and that there’s been no discussion with school officials, other than football matters.

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http://collegefootballtalk.nbcsports.com/2011/11/08/penn-state-board-holding-emergency-meetings/

[Liberal_in_LA]

1. a whole bunch of people had the chance to report the crime to the police - the grad student,

the father of the grad student, Paterno, the janitors, the other administrators. wow. Not one did.

[MH1]

4. yeah, that's when they should have been having emergency meetings

to deal with the fallout of reporting the scumbag AT THE TIME.

I briefly searched for a shred of sympathy for these guys but nope, came up empty.

[markpkessinger]

7. Not one of them even bothered to try to determine the boy's identity.

Shameful!

[monmouth]

2. Students gathered at Paterno's home to give him support. Disgusting..n/t

[markpkessinger]

3. Those students should consider taking a refresher in Ethics 101...

Reports said it was about 200 students -- not necessarily representative of PSU's main campus student body of over 44,000 students.

[markpkessinger]

5. Criminal liabilitty and moral culpability

As I posted in http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=439x2266736">another thread, whatever the criminal liability of the parties, the moral culpability is shared up and down the line:

• from the graduate assistant who witnessed the rape of a 10 year-old boy by a 60 year-old retired assistant PSU football coach in progress, in the shower facilities used by the Nittany Lions, and neither (a) intervened immediately to stop the crime nor (b) called the police, and instead called his father;
  
  
• to the GA's father, who upon hearing his son's report of witnessing the rape, advised his son to go, not to the police, but to Penn State's head football coach, Joe Paterno;
  
  
• to Joe Paterno, who covered is ass and fulfilled his legal obligation to notify his superior, but neither called the police, nor followed up when it was clear no action had been taken;
  
  
• to Joe's organizational superior, the athletic director Curley (now charged with perjury), who notified the University Vice President who was in charge of the campus police, and who was aware of prior allegations of a similar nature against Sandusky, but like Paterno, never followed up;
  
  
• to that Vice President, Gary Schultz (also now charged with perjury), who neglected to order campus police to investigate;
  
  
• to PSU president, Graham Spanier, who also knew of prior similar allegations against Sandusky, to the point of having previously signed an order barring Sandusky from bringing minor children onto campus, yet likewise failed to demand a thorough investigation ...
  

It is all just so, so fucking sick. Not ONE of those men even bothered to check on the condition of the boy who was raped, or even so much as tried to determine the kid's identity. Sandusky went on to abuse at least seven other boys (that is, that we know of, and there will be likely more coming forward). And meanwhile, the truly lovely hamlet of State College, Pennsylvania has to find a way to pick up the pieces in this Shakespearean tragedy.

[riderinthestorm]

6. Too damn late and too damn little. They're only meeting now for damage control

Disgusting.