[Husker] PSU report

[Scott Stewart]

I am not going to side with the leadership at PSU. The screwed up in a
major way. However, the media is whipping this into a frenzy and many
people are talking without admittedly reading the report.

I have read the first 25 pages of the report this afternoon. There are a
number of interesting things in it:

1. 1998 Incident- Was reported to the police and was investigated by Child
Protective Services. Sandusky was given a pass by both of them after the
investigation. The AG declined to pursue it. It was determined to be poor
judgement, "but nothing sexual occurred" by the police and CPS. However,
Spanier did not report it to the Board, and following this incident JS is
given a sweet retirement bonus and the admin goes to bat for him to have an
unusual granting of emeritus status (unprecedented for his faculty rank).

2. McQuery- Reported the incident to Jo Pa the next morning. He was told by
Jo Pa, "You did the right thing. Now let me decide how we handle this from
here." *In McQuery's defense. If my boss told me that, to pursue it further
is demonstrating my lack of trust in my boss and I should be fired.*

2. Jo Pa- Did not report the incident until Monday because he did not want
to "ruin" his bosses weekend (poor decision and poor choice of words). He
did report it though on Sunday to Curley and Shultz.

3 Spanier, Shultz and Curly- Met on Monday to devise a plan of action. It
apparently took them three weeks to do so. Their initial clearly includes
notifying Child Protective Services. Curly then changes his mind "after
giving it more thought and talking to Coach Paterno." He suggests that they
work with Sandusky on informing Second Mile if he is cooperative, and if
not inform Second Mile and Child Protective Services. Curley is warned by
Shultz that this could go bad if JS doesn't get the message. But they all
decide it is more "humane."

I had a supervisor in grad school that loved to say that Ethics is a
slippery slope. Once you start cutting the edges it is hard to know when
you've fallen off the edge. This is a perfect example. They knew what to
do, but then got re-directed, and it would almost seem like the redirection
came from Jo Pa. Two things I draw from this: If you believe in Karma Jo Pa
is probably getting fed some in the afterworld; never trust your business
to someone named "Curley."

Scott

On Thu, Jul 12, 2012 at 5:11 PM, David Strong <gobigredlist at gmail.com>wrote:

> I understand what you are saying about the terms "cover-up" vs. "active
> aiding and abetting".  You have a point, a good one.  But don't be hard on
> those who use the wrong term.  "Not telling anyone" or keeping it hushed
> just feels more like cover-up.  Aiding and abetting feels like "Hey Jerry,
> I'll leave the fieldhouse door unlocked for you tonight" or "Hey Jerry,
> here is a kid that might really like Second Mile".  I'm not trying to be a
> wiseguy here.  It's just hard to believe that anyone could actively aid and
> abet a child molester.  Ever since 9:10am or so this morning, I just can't
> process this in a way that makes any sense to me.
>
> "This is easily the most sickening story I could imagine happening in
> college sport."
>
> Amen.  It's so sickening that I don't think anyone could have ever imagined
> this would happen anywhere.
>
> Dave
>
>
> On Thu, Jul 12, 2012 at 4:15 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.
> >
> > 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.
> >
> > 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.
> >
> > 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.
> >
> > ---
> >
> > If this had happened at UNL, I would never again support the Huskers.
> >
> > This is easily the most sickening story I could imagine happening in
> > college sport.
> >
> >
> >
> > 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.
> > >
> > > 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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