Penn State’s Shame
RICH LOWRY
"The school removed the 900-pound Paterno statue over the weekend, carting it away with a tarp over top of it as if the representation of JoePa -- forefinger pointed in the air in victory -- were doing a perp walk. Penn State should melt it down into bronze millstones, for use the next time it is confronted with a monster like Sandusky. The NCAA has severely sanctioned the school, fining it $60 million, limiting its scholarships, officially stripping it of victories since 1998, and banning it from bowl competition.
It stopped short of the "death penalty" of suspending the football program altogether. Penn State should have undertaken that act of penance itself in recognition of how it had let its omnipotent football program twist and taint its administration. But false idols die hard.
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The Freeh report concludes that Paterno and the others "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." They looked the other way from unspeakable crimes involving the football program that was the pride of the university."
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