Never have I been so proud to say I’m a Pitt alum as I have been since the Penn State scandal hit the news wire. The scandal that has rocked Penn State University is terrible, unthinkable, and the path of its destruction is only growing.
I'm at a loss to understand how PSU's football program could ignore child sex-abuse allegations against Jerry Sandusky and allow him to continue to have access to not only more potential victims, but access to them in PSU's own facilities. I'm even more at a loss to understand how an eyewitness to the abuse could witness what he did and not immediately contact the police, and then later he became a Penn State coach.
I'm saddened that this is how Joe Paterno's 46-year career will be remembered, because up until this scandal broke, his legacy was a proud one. (I can say that even as someone who wished for a rock-solid victory by my own Panthers anytime Pitt and PSU met on the football field.) But, I am not sorry that he was fired. I am not sorry that the university's president was fired. Nor am I sorry that Mike McQueary, the eyewitness in question, has been placed on leave, indefintely. No doubt the university will eventually fire him for not alerting the proper authorities to what he witnessed. That is his deserved treatment.
In my opinion, the Penn State University football program has lost its moral compass. No other conclusion can be reached about a program that harbors sex offenders and lies for them. I sincerely hope that the clean-up and righting of that compass continues to be swift, if only out of respect for those that have suffered at its hands.
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