Cbs evening news mcqueary speaks out as penn state scandal grows duration. Penn state plays for more than titles or bowl games. Jay paterno book defends late father over penn state sex. Penn states president, graham spanier, vice president, gary schultz, and athletic director, tim curley, were all brought up on charges for lying to a grand jury about what they knew of.
From wikipedia, the free encyclopedia the penn state child sex abuse scandal concerned allegations and subsequent convictions of child sexual abuse committed by jerry sandusky, an assistant coach for the penn state nittany lions football team, over a period of at least fifteen years. Former coach convicted in june of abusing 10 children over 15 years. Expenn state officials to stand trial on sandusky coverup. Six years later, penn state remains torn over the sandusky scandal photo by patrick smithgetty images as school leaders try to move on, joe paterno loyalists, including many university trustees.
The leaders of the university also failed to follow up and investigate the allegations. Malcolm gladwells penn state rabbit hole isnt very deep. He won national press clubs freedom of information. March 2, 2002 graduate assistant mike mcqueary tells coach joe paterno that on march 1, 2002, he witnessed sandusky sexually abusing a 10. The abuse scandal at pennsylvania state university does not appear to have slowed applications to the schools undergraduate programs as of friday, applications to enroll next year at one of the 20 campuses that comprise the penn state system were up 4 percent when compared with the same period last year, with applications to the systems university park flagship in state college, pa. Former penn state coach guilty on 45 counts in sexual abuse case duration. Repressed memory therapy played a huge role in the generation of the false memories of abuse. Moushey in an investigative journalist, formerly with the pittsburgh postgazette, and a professor at the school of communications at point park university. Paterno in death escaped justice but he did not escape infamy.
The sexual abuse scandal that has shaken penn state has a host of characters and a history that spans decades. Jay paterno book defends late father over penn state sex abuse. Penn state head football coach joe paterno will speak at his regular weekly press conference tomorrow, his first public appearance since the. Spanier, center, a former penn state president, arrived for his sentencing hearing at the dauphin county. The msu sex abuse scandal is worswe than penn state because jerry sandusky provided a warning that msu ignored. In july 2012, a mere months after the sandusky scandal broke, the national collegiate athletic association vacated penn states victories from. The penn state athletic director, 57, denies being told of sexual misconduct by sandusky in 2002 but is accused of covering up allegations tied to. After penn state scandal, reshaping a fathers legacy. A judge ruled tuesday that theres enough evidence for a full trial of three top former penn state officials on charges that they covered up the jerry sandusky child sex abuse scandal. After penn state scandal, reshaping a fathers legacy penn state coach joe paterno, right, with his son jay, in 2008. Penn state sex abuse scandal tackled in new book cbs news. Penn state, six years after jerry sandusky scandal, remains divided.
Clash of legends ii paterno greets bill walsh before stanford beat penn. What leaders can learn from what penn state did wrong. Instead, it tells the story of what happened when the scandal hit penn state, what happened to the campus, to the students and to joe paterno in the weeks after the scandal broke. The penn state scandal the penn state scandal case study. July 12 former fbi director louis freeh releases findings from penn states internal investigation. But warning signs were ignored for years, according to a new. Penn state scandal the chronicle of higher education. Jerry sandusky was on the penn state university football coaching staff. Jay paterno has written a book defending his fathers career.
There have been other lapses in ethical behavior and unfortunately there will be future lapses. Use features like bookmarks, note taking and highlighting while reading the rape of the nittany lions. It shows clearly how the most powerful people at the university allowed jerry sandusky to engage in abuse of children over a long period when it could have been stopped earlier. Penn state officials plead guilty in sexabuse coverup. In this essay i will discuss the situation that occurred and the impact that the social media had on this once great school. Former penn state president gets jail time in child molestation scandal graham b. Jay paterno book defends late father over penn state sex abuse scandal. Former penn state president sentenced to jail over. Author offers sandusky scandal as case study of difference between.
All of the accused are innocent from the top down to the bottom. Lessons to be learned from penn state scandal adventist. Transcript for penn state scandal this is supposed to be the most exciting time of the college football season but this year all eyes are on the penn. Penn state scandal business ethics 2012 penn state. The president, athletic director and head football coach failed to properly report the occurrences immediately. Penn state scandal sheds light on ethical gray areas there has been plenty of outrage over the moral failings of joe paterno and others who were made aware of.
The former penn state football coach joe paterno told his son the day after his firing that he hadnt informed the coaching staff about allegations jerry sandusky was a child molester because he. Coauthor of new book says its almost impossible that paterno didnt know what allegedly was happening on campus. Tim curley and gary schultz face up to five years in prison for the their roles in the scandal that brought down joe paterno. Gladwells chapter on sandusky and penn state is titled the boy in the shower, and it has two aims. Court documents last week set off new discussion of the jerry sandusky scandal at pennsylvania state university in ways that are highly damaging to penn state. Penn state officials must end their longrunning string of excuses and immediately correct this serious deficiency. Anecdotal evidence gained from your counseling sessions, larry, and the adventist grapevine, is not only unverifiable, but seems to have triggered in your mind an infelicitous analogy between the penn state scandal and the diverse church entities handling of. Penn state scandal sheds light on ethical gray areas. In it, there is a chapter devoted to reexamining the socalled penn state joe paterno jerry sandusky child sex abuse scandal, which shocked the world when it became one of the biggest news. The penn state sex abuse case is one of the biggest scandals in the history of college sports and it was a complete shock to most fans. And as far as it being too soon, the book doesnt really focus at all on jerry sandusky and whether hes guilty or innocent which i agree would be way too soon.
New court rulings suggest that penn states insurer may not be liable for all the settlements the university has reached with those who as children were molested and raped by now imprisoned former assistant football coach. Penn state scandal crisis communications case study. It affected both academics and athletics in a major way. The lessons of the penn state scandal have much to teach us. Six years later, penn state remains torn over the sandusky scandal. Former penn state president gets jail time in child. Penn state marks joe paterno milestone amid criticism over sex abuse scandal stadium displays video featuring highlights of former coachs career on 50th anniversary of his first game as head. Penn state, six years after jerry sandusky scandal. He was the defensive coordinator there for over 30 years. The penn state sex scandal was both a failure of university leadership and authorities to take proper action and a colossal mishandling by the school to take control and effectively manage the communications of the crisis to reduce the damage to the schools reputation and credibility. The board of trustees also failed holding the leadership of the university accountable and the. One of the most shocking aspects of the jerry sandusky penn state scandal is how the nittany lion went silent.
Thoroughgooda and art padillab a the pennsylvania state university, department of psychology, 115c bruce v. On monday, in the middle of preparations for this weeks game at purdue, penn state football coach bill obrien got up, left the xs and the os behind, and rushed over to. As i read it i became thoroughly disgusted with jerry sandusky. The book alleged that joe paterno had to know of the sexual abuse. It provides good insight into the culture of sports mania and idolatry. Penn state president eric barron is just the latest blameshifter with a blind spot, one who lacks basic command of vocabulary along with. Yet the narrative focused on penn state president spanier and joe. Jerry sandusky, penn state, and the culture of silence is a 2012 book written by bill moushey and bob dvorchak about jerry sandusky and the penn state child sex abuse scandal. All too often in response to highprofile scandals, observers say it couldnt. As alderfer observes, leadership is a social, or group, process.
In november 2011 college football lovers throughout the united states were shocked by news that former pennsylvania state university defensive coordinator gerald jerry sandusky was accused of sexually assaulting at least one young boy. Download it once and read it on your kindle device, pc. Penn state sexual abuse scandal us news the guardian. Whats happened at penn state university over the last couple of weeks drives that point home and created a divide on the penn state campus and throughout the college football world. Penn state should own its role in the sandusky scandal. The penn state scandal highlights how a conducive environment, typified by centralized power and an absence of checks and balances, coupled with flawed leaders and the actual assistance or quiet submission of certain followers, can lead to disastrous outcomes. The national media has saturated its airwaves and webpages with news regarding the scandal, but let me provide a quick synopsis for those readers who arent. Jay paterno book defends late father over penn state sex abuse scandal this article is more than 5 years old excoach jerry sandusky was jailed for sexual abuse of boys.
In addition to the charges against sandusky, penn states athletic director, tim curley, 57, was charged with perjury and failure to report sanduskys alleged child abuse in a 2002 incident. Despite scandal, applications to penn state rise the new. Jay paterno exposes false perceptions about dad, penn. In this interactive, you can explore the timeline of the case and focus on. Success with honor is the motto of penn state athletics but it appears the school subordinated its honor to preserve its reputation. The jerry sandusky case had a major impact on penn state. Paterno shares a laugh with bobby bowden before penn state and florida state meet in the inaugural blockbuster bowl in 1990. The latest scandal involving lapses in ethical behavior is the penn state child abuse scandal. The penn state sex scandal kindle edition by preston, j. Why the penn state scandal happened and how to keep. Gladwell uses the sandusky as a case study in his new book. Jerry sandusky, penn state, and the culture of silence bill moushey.
Author takes sympathetic view of former penn state administrators role in the. Game over is a lessthanflattering look at the penn state scandal. Malcolm gladwells book blows medias penn state scandal. Jerry sandusky is a retired american football coach. Why larry nassar scandal was so much worse than penn state. Auditor general depasquale says penn state shows some. Former penn state defensive coordinator gerald jerry sandusky was found guilty of sexual abuse, convicted of 45 out of 48 counts on friday. The central issue of the penn state scandal revolves around the lack of accountability and reporting. First and foremost, no one, even an icon, is above the law.
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