[QUOTE=Christenson;278199]As for the disappearing prosecutor: Remember that a prosecutor has many enemies...all the people he has put behind bars and all of their friends...and given that he declined to prosecute Mr Sandusky, it's unlikely that Mr Sandusky engineered that disappearance.[/QUOTE]

I hope that I hadn't implied that.

[QUOTE=SaneMur;278137]
(link to story of disappearing prosecutor)
Now that is truly bizarre! I don't even know where to begin to comment, other than that is very, very, very suspicious![/QUOTE]

This is where I got the idea that someone thought the disappearing prosecutor was linked to the case....not from Mr Cheesehead....

Do the defenders of JoePa still feel that way after all the revelation of the past month and a half?

[QUOTE=garo;283841]Do the defenders of JoePa still feel that way after all the revelation of the past month and a half?[/QUOTE]

Where's a good place to track the sum of those revelations? I have very limited patience for watching/reading soap operas.

I support due process, not JoePa. I actively wonder if putting Sandusky in jail isn't tantamount to a death sentence, and whether or not there is a better way to deal with these problems -- there's little evidence that putting Sandusky (or a younger copy of him) in jail will or would make much difference in his predatory activities outside of his jail time. I actively wonder how, with a significant amount of probable cause, the cooperation between the various authorities failed to gain the necessary search warrants to establish proofs long before they were presented with "in your face" evidence.

The single useful (and telling) comment I have heard is that Joe was "God" around Penn State, so if he had wanted Sandusky to be investigated properly, he would only have had to say he wanted it to happen, and generally put out the word that such behavior wasn't going to be tolerated, so he wasn't just a little complicit. With power comes responsibility, and sex (or even romance) between a senior adult staff member and any "student" has to be presumed to be nonconsenting because of the power imbalance.

IMHO, the Board of Directors therefore did the right thing. Had they not, we can now be assured that their tenures on the board would be quite limited.

The big morality test comes with FAMU (Florida A&M)...will they replace their president over the hazing death/murder of a band member, and do it soon?

Joe Paterno is dead [url]http://news.yahoo.com/fired-penn-state-coach-joe-paterno-dead-85-151950813--spt.html[/url]

[QUOTE=Uncwilly;286949]Joe Paterno is dead [url]http://news.yahoo.com/fired-penn-state-coach-joe-paterno-dead-85-151950813--spt.html[/url][/QUOTE]

He was battling cancer...and we shouldn't be too surprised.

In the larger moral sense, of looking at consequences of actions, there is some question if being fired (and taking him away from his life for so many years) hastened his death. However, lung cancer is nasty, and I think he was already diagnosed when he was fired.

In that sense, he is like my dad, also a university professor...didn't discuss his eventually fatal cancer with the university until he was too sick to teach, then he was gone to the surprise of many. [He made 9 months with a recurring prostate cancer, 8 years from the first time].

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FAMU now has lots of blue-ribbon attention...but no administrators fired. ewmeyer would let us know how ineffective it has been.
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[QUOTE=Christenson;286954]FAMU now has lots of blue-ribbon attention...but no administrators fired. ewmeyer would let us know how ineffective it has been.[/QUOTE]

The SEC and congressional deficit-reduction panels are probably making competing offers to FAMU members as we speak.

[url]http://msn.foxsports.com/collegefootball/story/joe-paterno-dies-sandusky-scandal-clouds-legacy[/url]

Depending on your point of view, could be inflammatory, but I think it's well written either way.

[QUOTE=Christenson;286954]He was battling cancer...and we shouldn't be too surprised.
....
However, lung cancer is nasty, and I think he was already diagnosed when he was fired.[/QUOTE]And had already been preparing for his death by transferring the house to his wife, etc. I think that all of his public words after his firing were consistent with the way he normally lived and his love for the school. He was, over all, a good man that messed up in one very bad way. He could have been very vindictive and run off his mouth, but didn't. His actions after his firing help to keep the focus on the victims, he did not paint himself as a victim.

[QUOTE=Dubslow;286965][url]http://msn.foxsports.com/collegefootball/story/joe-paterno-dies-sandusky-scandal-clouds-legacy[/url]

Depending on your point of view, could be inflammatory, but I think it's well written either way.[/QUOTE]

Indeed, states the case *VERY* well. They didn't call JoePA that name for nothing.

Reuters: [URL="http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/07/12/us-usa-crime-sandusky-liability-idUSBRE86B1G520120712"]Penn State report may increase university's liability[/URL]
Wall Street Journal: [URL="http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052702303740704577522603440183734.html"]Penn State Concealed Abuse, Report Says[/URL]
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