[NU Sports] LA Times column worth reading

[hakirsch at aol.com]

I disagree with the LA Times article suggesting PSU just pull out of any bowl game they may have earned on the field due to sideshow it would create

While not completely analagous, suppose Arthur Butz' (an Electrical Engineering Professor at NU) book denying the Holocaust had come out this week with all of the subsequent protests on campus.  We would likely expect   protests and pickets in and around our bowl game site.  We would probably expect questions at press conferences about it. It would be a distraction.  Yes this example wasnt started by a former coach nor involve Pat Fitzgerald,but none of the people who apparently are morally guilty are part of the PSU team right now. They have been let go.(The Grad Assistant is on leave) Yet the article implies  it is the sideshow created by others that should derail PSU's participation not PSU's actions per se  

Harry
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From: Alan Abrahamson
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Subject: [NU Sports] LA Times column worth reading
Sent: Nov 17, 2011 12:21 AM

http://www.latimes.com/sports/la-sp-1117-dufresne-penn-state-20111117,0,1933841.column

CHRIS DUFRESNE / ON COLLEGE FOOTBALL
For everyone's sake, Penn State needs to say no to a bowl game The school
needs to concentrate on recovering from the child sex abuse scandal and not
burden bowl officials with an unwanted sideshow.
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