PSU TVs Switched Away from Freeh Report

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As almost everyone in the sports world watched on TV this morning, a report from former FBI director Louis Freeh was released Thursday detailing his findings from a seven-month internal probe regarding the Jerry Sandusky child sex abuse scandal.

Well, almost everyone watched except those on Penn State’s campus.

According to Philly.com, televisions in PSU’s student center switched to a public access channel, on which there was a discussion of the state budget, right before the 9 a.m. EDT release of the report.

Philly.com said that those gathered near televisions who had been watching CNN “scrambled” to find out what was wrong so they wouldn’t miss the broadcast of the findings.

According to the website, a student working at the student center’s main desk said that a university employee controls what is on the television screens, but that person could not be reached because he or she was in a meeting.

[Philly.com]

12:06 PM on 7/12/2012

Marvin

Hey – At what age of the victim is someone promoted from pedophile – and hated – to gay – and that’s OK?
Sandusky is a queer. He is not a pedophile. Neither should be accepted in a civil, moral society.
- Troy33
  
  marvin,
  as a gay man, as all gay men, we absolutely we would never hurt a child. you are an idiot-homophobe!
  - Anonymous
    
    marvin……..you are a complete loss!!!
  - Michael Plautz
    
    I used to be a homosexual until Jesus set me free from that sin. I married and have 4 children. I used to go to “Gay” bars where older men would have an escort who was a teen ages 15-17. he would buy the teen drinks and food and take them home to bed for sex. That is how the teen earned his money, turning tricks. That is rape, but no one talks about that. There is a movement within the homosexual community that is calling for the age of consent to be lowered to 8 years of age, so these older homosexuals can have sex with male boys as young as 8. Truthfully, most pedophiles are not homosexuals as men prey on young girls as well. 95% of pedophiles are priests, pastors, close family, aunts, uncles, trusted members of the community. On the flip side, men who want to have sex with kids may be homosexual in nature but too afraid to admit it to themselves and others, so they have sex with children and don’t have to face themselves. Kids can’t say no to a powerful adult, whereas an adult can say no to a sexual advance from another adult man. But remember, there is a movement within the “Gay” community to have sex with kids as young as 8, and to make it legal. Lust knows no limits when you go down that path. I repented of my sins and now follow Christ. In the 25 years that I have been free from Homosexuality, I have not had any desire to go back to living that way. It is a choice, and not being born that way, as some have suggested. jesus is the answer to any sin, including homosexuality. He forgives, which is more than humans sometimes do. I also think using the word “homophobic” by Gays really is a way to put down the people who don’t agree with you, so you don’t have to listen to what they say. That way you don’t have to analyze your own behavior to see if you are right in what you are doing. I am glad I changed. But, all Gays are not pedophiles either. Some let their lust carry them further into depravity with kids.
- MarvinIsSoWrong
  
  If that is true where are his adult male lovers? Molesting kids makes you a pedophile by definition.
- Lisa
  
  Raping young boys and being gay are two very different things. You may not agree with homosexuality, but it is a far cry from a man forcing himself on children.
- omahadave
  
  Marvin,
  
  That is the stupidest comment I have ever read, and I have read millions. Are you a grad of Pedophile, I mean, Penn State?
- Mark.
  
  your comments are absurd. You sound like a very dangerous person.
  - Mark
    
    Am replying to Marvin and agree with Troy !! Sandusky is a pedophile monstor !!
- debra
  
  Marvin, you show remarkable ignorance (willful?) at the difference between a pedophile and a person who is homosexual. I suggest you do serious research on the matter. People in charge of youth programs who do not understand the difference have, in the past, sometimes permitted married adult males to be alone with children, assuming them to be ‘safe’ and then children have then been abused because those ‘safe’ males were pedophiles. There is no evidence whatsoever that Sandusky had any adult male relationships; his behavior pattern is that of a serial pedophile abuser. Pedophiles seek out opportunities to be alone with children; that is why youth programs have to be constantly vigilant.
- Anonymous
  
  Marvin – get your head out of the A – -! Only an ignornant person would think much less voice such a stupid statement. A pedophile is not a homosexual and a homosexual is not a pedophile.
- tf
  
  Hey Marvin: at the same age that a man who rapes a six-year-old girl is “promoted” — and no longer “hated.” Obviously rape at any age is “hated”, though worse with children. Consentual sex is another matter entirely.
  
  Very surprising that you are unable to see this distinction.
- Motor City Mom
  
  You are ignorant and horribly misinformed. Do you actually think that being a pedophile means that someone is gay?? Keep your comments to yourself until you can speak sensibly. You’re embarrassing yourself.
Graduated From Real College

Ped State will never live this down.
Cowardly

Is this a sign of what’s to come from the folks at Penn State? Afraid to face the truth? Sad.
james layne

close down the PS FOOTBALL PROGRAM 4 A FEW YEARS… THE FOOT BALL PROGRAM WAS THE REASON THAT BOYS WERE raped by sandusky & it was covered up by the heads of the college & JOEPA..

TAKE DOWN HIS STATUE & PUT THE PARTIAL BLAME OF BOYS WERE STILL BEING RAPED ON dear ole’ JO PA… HE’S NOT A hero……………………. thanks.
james layne

just more of the cover up by PENN STATE STAFF….. CONTOL THE TV’S SO STUDENTS WON’T HEAR THE TRUTH OF THE MESS AT PENN STATE BY THE GUY WHO DID THE INVESTIGATION ON THE ACTIONS OF PENN STATE STAFF…..
THeY MAY LOOK AT IT THIS WAY.. “” IF THE STUDENTS DON’T HEAR OR SEE THE X FBI GUY TALK ABOUT PENN STATES employees ACTIONS … mayb it never happened “”"” ???
& the child rapes went on… the oral sex on children went on….. thanks…
betsy searfoss

i am an Ohio State fan, who lives in a house full of PSU grads/fans. i have NO conections to PSU as per employment, etc. but, reading this article makes me ill. you say Football rules Happy Valley, you point the finger at Jo Pa, yet YOU JOURNALIST S, give fuel to the fire. instead of getting the FACTS, you report inuendos and false facts. Joe DID promote Education over Sport. Remember Jimmy Cefalo’s antics in the 80′s?? he was a starter who was benched because of horsing around. many were on probation (academic) but there they stayed until the grades met the talent on the field. Joe also told Sandusky, he wouldn’t become head coach when Joe retired. maybe this was also a PAYBACK by Sandusky to tarnish the school. notice how he flaunted the PSU clothes everytime he was on camera? i believe the security dept. and Spanier are the ones who lied. would the FBI take the advice of a clerk in the State Police barracks? why would an officer at the college take advice from a coach? maybe because he is dead and can’t defend himself. also, who gave him the locker room key? he was under investigation, then. also, Mc Cleary was a Grad STUDENT, not a State Employee. he did what was right. (i know chain of command cause i worked for the Dept. of Welfare). so let’s stop the witch hunt and point the finger at the right people…Sandusky, Spanier and the head of Security! Roar Lions, Roar!!!
- Anonymous
  
  YOU are the ONLY person who has made any sense out of this nightmare!
  - Bill
    
    Roar Lions Roar? I think I’m going to be sick. Why is it, the more light you shine, the more blind some people are. The football PROGRAM — including JoePed — covered up for the rapes of numerous boys for more than a decade.
    
    The only thing the Lion needs to do right now is die. Quickly, Quietly. Just go away. Come back when you’ve learned a thing or two. I’m betting you won’t.
- JD
  
  Very much agree
- Anonymous
  
  omg joepa covered it for years he is to blame
- Anonymous
  
  whether Joe Pa promoted education over football is irrelevant. he still promoted football over the welfare of children. i don’t care one way or the other how he treated his football players. the fact is that he was told about this and when the school intended to report sandusky, he intervened and talked them out of it. the absolute least that he could have done was fire the guy; that would have at least taken away his safe place to commit these atrocities. Joe Pa by himself is not to blame but he is in no way blameless. the death penalty is the only thing that the ncaa can do in this situation. if they could justify giving SMU the deathe penalty for on-field antics and for recruiting infractions, etc, then there is no justification for NOT giving it to a school that knowingly covered up numerable crimes-crimes committed against children-in the name of sports for more than a decade. a clear and strong message needs to be sent that as much as sports, and football in particular, matter to the public at large, nothing is more important than obeying the law and doing what is right-not what is profitable and popular. Edmund Burke said it best: All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is that good men do nothing. That is exactly what happened at PSU: good men did nothing, and by doing nothing, evil triumphed. As a result of their failure to act, a multitude of young people were irreparably damaged and this institution which placed its own welfare and prestige above all else must be held responsible for their own hubris.
- Anonymous
  
  Pathetic Rationalization!
- Anonymous
  
  Betsy,
  what you stated here sounds good..and maybe we will never know the full truth..but lets look at it from a different perspective..what if it was YOU or YOUR CHILDREN who were violated and sodomized..would you be so quick to defend Ole Joe”Pure as The Driven Snow”Paterno..?..i doubt it seriously…this Lion should be euthanized permanently..dont penalize the current players,but remove that statue ASAP!…if you leave it up..may as well erect a swastika, a burning cross and a statue of terrorists flying into buildings to remind everybody else of their pain and suffering…just sayn.
Anonymous

What else can one expect from Penn State. They are not able to air their own dirty laundry. Is there a pattern at this institution?
little sister in NH

I known what was done possitively horrible, but we need to learn from it, put Sandanky’s wife in jail and all of the people who had to do with the cover up, but enough is enough Joe’s gone, Penn State’s sport endorsements will never be the same. The young men who were accaused by Sandusky get them get the help they need and don’t keep flewing in there faces every day.
Anonymous

Here’s what needs to happen. Football should not be banned. Take the profits that football will receive over the next 4 years and give it to the poor kids and there families in this case. This would be a small gesture to the families and kids, but it would hurt Penn State where it needs to be hurt. Which is in the wallet. The reason for the coverup has to do with money, and nothing else, football generates alot of money for the school.
- Anonymous
  
  What a great idea – really. What possible good will a football ban do??? The kids, and some of the coaches in the program now were in grade school when Sandusky was doing his dirty deeds – why punish THEM, or the school students???
- Anonymous
  
  Sounds Good…but the problem is that the “powers that be” will make sure the program doesn’t make any money through creative accounting and thus the victims will receive nothing. This truely gives the victims the proof needed to file suit and win. But will money solve their problems. They are scarred for life.
- pedophile state university
  
  I would agree at and go one step further, ALL athletic department revenues not needed to pay to run the sports need to go to charity.
Anonymous

you can never fix this for the kids involved. therefore, the punishment must be extreme. one, ban penn state from playing football for 3 years. two, strip paterno from the record books…period. three, take his estate and divide it equally amongst the victims. four, the Big Ten conference should kick penn state out of the league.

for anyone to try and say what a good man he was is as sick as paterno. he did this intentionally. he lied to a grand jury. he went out of his way to save his a** when he knew he would be fired back in 2001. the guy is lower that pond scum.
Mike — Vegas

If you Penn State fans want to objective you should ask yourselves what would you think if this happened at a West Cost School say…. Southern Cal or Stanford…. I’m sure you would be willing to give them the death penalty……. Death to the Penn State Football Program and any others that would condone such actions….
anonymous

I don’t want to ever see Penn State at my Alma mater!
soo1

Penn State deserves the Death penalty for about 10 Years! By then they may have learned how to use a phone and report a crime!!
Anonymous

because this report is bogus you have too be blind you say we will hurt no more children these in comming students need not have too pay for this monster you got him let the program go on two what do think the real reason this report comes out for interesting mcqueery not held on purgery huh changed his story enough i think he commited the acts against the children but blind a** basterds i could fabricate a report in the he had .please dispand fox sports news espn nbc abc cbs cnn yes maybe others did things or so say you never did anything interesting too hear that crock you went and sat out side one home killed a good man coach mentor too so many yet you dare not sit spaniers curley sandusky residance huh.suck a** you idiot.
- Anonymous
  
  If you’re trying to make a coherent point, I would suggest you try using punctuation. Learning to spell would help as well.
Anonymous

I agree with “anonymous” comments….give the money the football program generates over the next few years (or more) to the victims and stop blaming the football “program”. I guarantee, none of the hundreds of players who worked their tails off on the field during the 1990′s, as well as today, deserve to be blamed or punished for the actions of the “leaders”.
Anonymous

I am amazed at comment after comment of (basically) “I know what JoePa did was wrong, but I love him!” What? You CANNOT overlook or disregard every one of the victims, or their families. Joe lied…to the grand jury, to the public, and ultimately himself. Joe was a humble person. For the mostpart, an upright moral person, but he had this huge skeleton hanging in his closet.
Pete Rose was friggin banned for life for gambling. And the statue remains at Penn State of JoePa?? Man is this country screwed up!!
I say…death penalty. Teach the greedy and corrupt a lesson. And may more universities who trail down this path fall also!
- Anonymous
  
  well said.
Soccerphile

There are other sports at Penn State, They don’t get nearly as much press, and those student athletes sweat just as hard as the ones wearing a helmet. Perhaps no other sport gets the attention that football gets, but the pigskin seems to get the media’s attention, and media attention to one sport rightfully deserves a share of the blackeye. Athletics used to be only part of the reason young Americans go to a school. Those in the cover-up deserve to pay heavy monetary penalties to those children Penn State turned a “blind eye” to. That, plus give them some time to think of the real reason they were appointed to management: like in solitary confinement. Justice can’t compensate the victims, time and support can only partially give these people the means to go on with their lives in society. The answer lies in America’s misguided belief that “…best football team in the Nation…” is more important than “BEST UNIVERSITY in the NATION. How about media giving headlines to that. Oh, I forgot, that doesn’t sell papers, Sorry!
fedup

Shut the program down and arrest ALL people named in the report. From the janitor on up.
susan

to bad mr sandusky didnt get to one of there grand children, they would have been singing a different tune then I’m sure
Papa Joy

I used to be a homosexual until Jesus set me free from that sin. I married and have 4 children. Not once have I wanted to go back to that life. But most homosexuals are not child molesters. Remember that men molest girls as well as women who molest young boys. Pedophiles are close friends, Aunts, Uncles, Pastors, Priests, trusted people, etc 95% are from this group. 5% are homosexual in nature, but much higher if you count the priests. A friend of mine in a Catholic Seminary said there was a lot of homosexual behavior going on because of the vow the priests take of chastity, not marrying a woman. Actually, when I went to the Gay bars, there were older men who had 15-17 year old escorts in tow and bought them food and drinks, then took them home later for sex. That is rape, but nothing is reported on that. There is also a movement in the Gay community which is calling for lowering the age of consent to 8 years old so these older homosexuals can have sex with children. Trurhfully, I believe that male on male pedophiles may be homosexual in nature but afraid to admit it to themselves, so they explore their fantasies with boys because they won’t resist or say no as an adult is able to.
When you are carried away in your own lust, it continues into more depravity to satisy those sex drives. Jesus is the answer to any sin and will lead you home to Heaven. He forgives, so should we.
kjw

In my opinion the Penn State football program needs to receive the death penalty. A Penn State trustee says that the program has been “Marred.” LaVar Arrington was reported in the newspaper as saying that Joe was not perfect. Joe was not God. Joe was a person, and he MESSED UP. Messed up? There is a report that the televisions at Penn State were changed to a other stations when the news of the report was announced. Despite of the findings of the new report released, Mickey Shuler was reported to have said that there is no way Paterno would have covered up actions as heinous as Sandusky’s. Penn State administration was said to have looked the other way over years. It seems to me that the university still does not completely get it. Maybe the death penality will get their attention.
hotrod

for many years before this atrocity broke I preached that the football program at Pedophile U was not as squeaky clean as the PSU naive followers professed, now I can finally rub it in. Now if the trustees have any guts at all they should police the program and shut down the cash cow (football) for at least a year!!
Tom

PSU should get the DP and all funding be taking away. Hell they are bragging about how much money has been donated to the school. Just sick. Shut the doors. I hope the schools folds. This is the most sicking thing I have read in some time. So many people could have been saved.
UKfan

The Football Program has done nothing wrong–people did. Why do you talk about closing the football program when all that would do is bring more negative consequences to this tragic situation. Less scholarships would be available to talented, intelligent high school seniors who are looking for an opportunity in life! Why would you want to punish young people who are not involved??

Those responsible for not reporting and stopping Sandusky are either in jail, fired from their jobs and waiting to be sued by multiple parties and, possibly, going to jail themselves, or, sadly passed away. In truth, we will never really know what The Icon Paterno knew because he isn’t here to tell us. Even if he WERE here, he wouldn’t tell us. Those who know exactly what Paterno knew (the former president of the university and the 2 or 3 trustees who were present at the meeting where Paterno talked them out of firing Sandusky) could tell us what they understood about The Sandusky Problem except now they can’t. They are waiting to be sued by multiple parties and are wating to see if they will have to stand trial.
Wondering

OK Louie F., now lets find out what happened to Ray Gricar!!!
And who, and why.
Flea97

So Freeh did not investigate everyone involved because of ongoing legal cases, does that mean we should use opinion’s in criminal cases?

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