One of my very best friends is a Penn State alum.

[WilliamPitt]

I asked him what he thought of the riots at PSU. This was his reply.

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I think the people participating in these riots are making themselves and the PSU look terrible. No amount of rioting or complaining is going to bring JoePa back. All they are doing is giving people ammunition to trash PSU. Act like adults. PSU fucked up immensely, and now it is time to control the damage and move forward. These idiots are not helping anything.

The actions of one person (Sandusky) forced everyone else into a very difficult and delicate situation. Obviously they didn't handle this properly. I have no idea why they handled it the way they did.

Maybe more information will come out as time goes on. Maybe Joe figured that his superiors would do the right thing. Maybe they specifically told him not to go to the police. Maybe this is 100 times worse than we even know right now. We just don't know the whole story right now, and maybe we never will.

The fact is that he's gone, his reputation is probably destroyed, and no amount of rioting or violence is going to change anything. The students at PSU can do incredible things when they work together in a positive way (the annual THON charity is one example). This could be an opportunity for the student body to get together, do something positive (I'm not quite sure what that would be right now), and show the world that PSU is better than what they have seen over the past five days.

That's my two cents.

[Ninga]

1. Re: student reaction, I agree. Re: PSU not handling properly. To that I say PSU

didn't handle it at all from my understanding, let alone properly.

And isn't that the problem?

[gordianot]

2. Handling the crimes committed is bad enough now Penn State has permanent damage to their reputation.