[Husker] PSU report

[Paul Dalen]

You're right about the verbiage.  Whatever you want to call it, it's serious. 

Whatever happens, there MUST some kind of institutional sanctions.  Yes, men perpetrated the crimes, but it was the facade of the institution they hid behind and its reputation they held as more sacrosanct than the young men entrusted to Sanduskys care. 

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On Jul 12, 2012, at 3:15 PM, Drew <chivas3 at gmail.com> wrote:

> I'm seriously not piling on here, but every time someone uses the term "cover up" in this context, I want to scream!
> 
> A cover-up implies there was some undesirable event (that started and ended in the past) that leaders of the organization tried to keep from becoming widely known.
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> When someone fails to report a crime (especially a violent crime against children) that act can not be referred to as covering up- it is active aiding and abetting. 
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> A person knowingly "covering up" such acts by a person who is still free to continue committing them has moved firmly into the role of Accomplice.
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> IMO, they might as well have been standing guard outside the shower stall and banging on locker doors to mask the sounds of cries for help.
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> If this had happened at UNL, I would never again support the Huskers.
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> This is easily the most sickening story I could imagine happening in college sport.
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> On Thu, Jul 12, 2012 at 11:37 AM, Paul Dalen <quesohusker at gmail.com> wrote:
> After taking a quick look at the report I'm wondering if the suggestion to remove PSU from the B1G doesn't have merit.
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> If PSU is allowed to maintain all of its current status and positions the the goal of the coverup worked.  They protected the University.   Unless someone is willing to make the price for covering up crimes worse than the price of reporting them there will be coverups.
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