The coach, Joe Paterno, has been a hero of mine. One of the two most illustrious graduates of my high school Brooklyn Prep (the other is John Sexton, President of NYU). The guy from Brooklyn whose brother George coached our team. Joe Pa - whose top football players graduated - unlike those corrupt football mills that Taylor Branch lays bare in his recent Atlantic magazine article The Shame of College Sports.
Paterno - the Jesuit educated paragon - stood for the corpore sano part of our school's motto mens sana in corpore sano. After the scandal of the bishops here, there and everywhere, after asking how could those sworn to chastity fail so, at least Paterno - the married outstanding Catholic layman - knew how to protect and train young men, I assumed with pride.
Sickening failure
The winningest major college team coach in history will end his career tarnished , his accomplishments forever stained by this scandal of sexual abuse by his long time assistant coach Jerry Sandusky who, if the indictment's allegations are proven, is a deeply disturbed man who was protected by his co-defendants - the leaders of the Athletic Department of the Pennsylvania State University. It is a charge sickeningly like that detailed in the January 2011 Grand Jury Report of the Philadelphia Catholic hierarchy's failure to report the sexual abuse of children by its priest subordinates. - GWC
If Jerry Sandusky allegations are true, Penn State and Joe Paterno deserve part of the blame - The Washington Post: "Paterno - the Jesuit educated paragon - stood for the corpore sano part of our school's motto mens sana in corpore sano. After the scandal of the bishops here, there and everywhere, after asking how could those sworn to chastity fail so, at least Paterno - the married outstanding Catholic layman - knew how to protect and train young men, I assumed with pride.
Sickening failure
The winningest major college team coach in history will end his career tarnished , his accomplishments forever stained by this scandal of sexual abuse by his long time assistant coach Jerry Sandusky who, if the indictment's allegations are proven, is a deeply disturbed man who was protected by his co-defendants - the leaders of the Athletic Department of the Pennsylvania State University. It is a charge sickeningly like that detailed in the January 2011 Grand Jury Report of the Philadelphia Catholic hierarchy's failure to report the sexual abuse of children by its priest subordinates. - GWC
"After what allegedly happened to “Victim 2,” a boy estimated to be 10 years old, in the same room where Penn State football players shower, it’s near impossible to keep reading the grand jury’s report. By “Victim 8,” numbness turns to anger.Most of all, you want to have an audience with one of sports’ most endearing icons, Joe Paterno, Happy Valley’s homespun saint, and ask Joe Pa, repeatedly, “While you were regaling everyone with sappy tales about meeting your wife 50 years ago over ice cream at the local creamery in State College, Pa., did you have any idea what your longtime defensive coordinator was doing in the company of young boys?"
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