the Informer

USAToday.net

Take a trip to the Mid-West state of South Dakota and walk the wide open pastures scouring for pheasant, visit the glorious Corn Palace or simply mingle with the kind country folk.

It will truly be one of the most exhilarating experiences of your life, as most of us on the country’s coast can’t even imagine realistically going through a scenario of such.

As I found myself doing so amidst this power outage chaos at UHa last weekend.

I also found out of a horrible atrocity that occurred at another University campus.

Penn State athletics administrators and officials have been involved in child molestation of young boys, that has been going on over a 15 year span.

Jerry Sanusky, Joe Paterno,Tim Curley, and Gary Schultz are only a few who comprise the laundry list of names who at one point were participants in the scandal.

Sadunsky, is the man charged with sexually abusing eight boys.

Paterno, the man Sadunksy is an assistant coach to, was the head coach of the Nittany Lion football team, after getting fired as a result.

Curley is the Penn St. athletic director and Schultz is the senior vice president for finance and business who are charged with perjury and failing to report to authorities what they knew of the allegation.

Here is a brief rundown of what happened.

“Head coach Joe Paterno was told about it the day after it happened by Mike McQueary, a graduate assistant coach who testified that he went into the locker room one Friday night and heard rhythmic clapping noises. He looked into the shower and saw a naked boy about 10 years old “with his hands up against the wall, be subjected to anal intercourse by a naked Sandusky,”according to the grand jury report.

Honestly, one of the biggest outcries of this whole scandal, is determining which individual involved worth more attention.

Clearly Sadunksy is at fault hear and should receive all attention necessary for his intolerable actions.

What about Paterno, Curley and Schultz, though? Are they not just as equally deserving of all attention necessary for their actions?

Their actions were turning a blind eye to the situation.

Alterations in allowing Sandunsky athletic privileges were made, however only minor ones.

And because of that, everyone is at fault here, even “JoePa,” the winningest coach in the FBS college football system.

I have a feeling those “country folk,” with there simplistic hard-working and honorable lifestyle in South Dakota, are no where near possible committing such actions.