Penn State scandal (merged)

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Penn State has fired Joe Paterno, the iconic football coach with more wins that any other coach in Division 1 history, amid pressure stemming from a child sex-abuse scandal involving one of his former top assistants.
Paterno, 84, has announced earlier today in a press release that he would retire at the end of the season.
But the Penn State Board of Trustees voted tonight to remove Paterno and university president Graham Spanier.
 
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therealUT said:
You are charging someone with a crime right now? I did not realize that. Proceed please; I did not mean to interrupt in this reality you have constructed here. What time are you serving the papers?
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Yea, that's exactly what I said. We're discussing people's criminal culpability here. Is that better? Thus, your philosophical nonsense isn't relevant. So, you can continue staring at your computer and asking yourself "is this computer actually here in front of me, or is it just a construct of my imagination."
 
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Both Joe Paterno and Graham Spanier are out effective immediately.

That, of course, means that Paterno will not coach Saturday or the rest of the season and his long tenure has come to an end.
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Tom Bradley has been named the interim head coach.

"It was the trustees' view that it was in the best long-term interest," says a member of the board.
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therealUT said:
Did I say that hearsay cannot establish probable cause? I said that hearsay does not establish knowledge. Probable cause is not knowledge. Knowledge is justified true belief: justified truth being stressed in this situation. Hearsay can never establish justification for truth; it can provide justification for belief, though. This leads to Gettier Cases, though, in which knowledge is not ever achieved.
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But the important question is whether hearsay can establish an obligation for action. Especially when the object of that hearsay is something as desperate and needy as a child that's putatively being raped.

The guy who spent decades setting himself up as The Fountain Of All Moral Authority In College Football didn't think so.
 
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10:19 p.m. ET: Paterno was apparently told over the phone that he's been let go.

10:16 p.m. ET: Tom Bradley has been named the interim head coach.
"It was the trustees' view that it was in the best long-term interest," says a member of the board
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This is just crazy. I still can't believe all this has happened. I think this is the biggest sports scandal in my short life time.
 
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zjcvols said:
This is just crazy. I still can't believe all this has happened. I think this is the biggest sports scandal in my short life time.
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Same. I wasn't alive when SMU happened, so...

Out of all of this, how the heck does McQueary still have a job?
 
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To me, The BOT had no other choice. But honestly, I doubted that they had the kahonas to do it. In a few years they can resurrect his memory like they did for Michael Jackson.
 
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I think he should be in jail. And so should everyone else that knew and didn't call 911. **** you, Joe Paterno.
 
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Should've left 10 years ago, Joe. You would've departed a legend with your dignity intact.
 
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