(03-26-2021 12:02 PM)quo vadis Wrote: (03-26-2021 12:26 AM)Erictelevision Wrote: I've always thought "campus police" worked on behalf of the school. Meaning: they do what it takes to protect the school.
Most campus police forces consist of sworn officers, meaning they are required to uphold the laws of the state, etc. Sure, there might be corrupt officers in any police force, but at Penn State, the campus police are "real police". If you report something to them, you are reporting it to official government law enforcement.
Right. There are two forces: University Park and State College. But, UPark rolls up to someone within the University. This was Schultz. It's not necessarily the same at State College. Where I came to loathe Paterno after this was that McCreary came to him in State College, and Paterno took it back onto University Park. A deliberate and administratively savvy move by Paterno. Even if University Park is where the Sandusky stuff took place, Paterno didn't immediately call SC police for them to create their own records on this when McCreary came over to State College to report it to Paterno (which very well could have been pushed back to University Park, but, it was something not afforded to State College to do). In fact, doing so probably would have mobilized local district investigators onto the scene. The "Schultz equivalent" in SC is a district attorney, not some administrative suit. Schultz, already having gone through the 1998 allegation, used his venue to jump on the grenade and not let another force or body in on the investigation. It still makes me fume. What awful, craven, soulless people these were.
On a side note, it's (kinda?) a known thing at Main Campus that while your parties are best done off-campus, in State College, where there might be more tolerance locally for some activities, it was a matter of what kind of punishments came down whether you did something stupid in University Park or did it in State College. UPark could do academic-related things, kick you off campus, expel you, or make you perform community service. State College, you were getting the tickets, fines, handcuffs, mug shots, etc.. Different tracks.
Quote:That’s why you wanted them fired after what they did/know? For an Eastern sports conference?
No, and I honestly hope there's more to spotlight on all of the people across the years who had their hand in covering this up (Tarman got off the easiest, imo...dementia and statutes spared him), even if he and Paterno can't defend themselves from whatever is put out there. It's just that the taint of Paterno cast across so much of Penn State athletics that it does rub against all of that conference stuff, as well as the orientation of the overall athletic department. It's a lot of damage, and none of it had to happen.