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PSU BRANDYWINE
Vol. 2, Issue 1.
Penn State Brandywine
Media, Pennsylvania
February 22, 2012
Sandusky
Faces More
Allegations
By Robert Ripson
Lion's Eye Staff Writer- tIr283@psu.edu
As the Penn State community wres-
tles with the passing of Coach Joe Paterno,
“Jerry Sandusky still lingers in the public eye,
reminding us of the terrible incidents that
lead to this hard time. Back in December it
was reported that there had not been any new
developments regarding Sandusky. That was
early in the month. As of the writing of this
report two more allegations have been levied
and Sandusky was re-arrested as a result
of these new allegations. Bail was set at
$250,000, which he posted and was released.
Sandusky remains under house arrest and
is barred from seeing victims or witnesses
and will have no unsupervised contact with
minors, as was reported by CBS/AP. Pros-
ecutors had sought $1 million bail.
All the victims, now numbering
ten, appear to have made initial contact with
Sandusky through the Second Mile founda-
tion of which Sandusky founded. Through
this foundation for at-risk children, Sandusky
allegedly displayed a pattern to lure chil-
dren into performing acts of a sexual nature.
Grand Jury testimony regarding these allega-
tions can be found at www.freep.com/assets/
freep/pdf/C4181508116.PDF .
In an article by Foxnews.com, the
Second Mile foundation has been sued by
Lance Shaner, a businessman and former
board member of the foundation who is seek-
ing a refund of $250,000 which he donated
over a five year period. The Pennsylvania
Attorney General’s Office is also named in
the law suit.
The amount of fallout from this is
staggering, yet probably inevitable. Along
with the lawsuit against Second Mile, there
have been other requests for refunds from the
charity’s benefactors. Additionally, the State
of Pennsylvania has halted the disbursement
of a $3 million dollar grant that was slated
to help with building a new facility for the
Second Mile. Due to the nature of financial
burdens that the charity is, and may be facing
as result of the allegations, the Second Mile
announced in December that they will lay
off personnel. There is ongoing discussion
within the Second Mile as to whether to keep
their doors open, transfer holdings to another
organization, or change its name.
There are those who seek to defend
Sandusky and his actions. Those that were
neighbors of Sandusky say that he often had
children in his home as early as when the
“new” Atari gaming systems became avail-
able. That the neighborhood children would
often flock to play the gaming system was
not deemed as unusual. However, the allega-
tion from victim nine appears to have dis-
mayed all who know him, especially his wife
Dottie Sandusky, who he said, was upstairs.
According to his account she did nothing.
She has denied the allegation. “I
have been shocked and dismayed by the
allegations made against Jerry, particularly
the most recent one that a now young man
has said he was kept in our basement during
visits and screamed for help as Jerry as-
saulted him while I was in our home and
didn’t respond to his cries for help,” Dottie
Sandusky said in a statement, as reported by
ABCnews.com.
Farewell JoePa
Beloved Penn State footall
coach Joe Paterno lost his
valiant battle with lung
cancer on the morning
of January 22. Paterno
devoted the majority of his
life to the Penn State Uni-
versity football program,
and made sure that his
players and other PSU stu-
dents were students first,
athletes second. (photo
courtesy live.psu.edu)
JOSEPH VINCENT PATERNO
1926 -
2012
By Kieran Mason- Lion 5s Eye Sports Editor- kdm5066@psu.edu
As a blanket of snow covered
State College, the mood was quiet and
somber. People started making their way
towards Beaver Stadium, which lit up
the night’s sky as if a football game was
being played. Instead, it was late-January
and the walk was for something much
more than a football game, it was for a
man who helped build that football team.
On the morning of January
22nd, it was announced that legendary
coach, Joe Paterno had passed away in
his fight with cancer. The news sent air-
waves across the country as Penn Stater’s
alike came together and mourned the man
in which made their university what it is
today. People flocked to his statue, which
sits outside of Beaver Stadium and left
flowers, candles and other memorabilia to
pay their last respects to Paterno.
Although, Paterno’s life will
continue to be celebrated, the last few
months on earth for him was far from
easy. He was faced with difficult verdicts,
as well as judgments on his morals and
his character as a human being.
When Joe Paterno’s telephone rang on
the night of November 9th, no one could
have imagined that it was going to be
a phone call that would eventually lead
to the firing of the NCAA Division |
football’s winningest coach. He initially
said that he would retire at season’s end
after the Jerry Sandusky accusations
were made public, but the University’s
Board of Trustees thought that it was in
Penn State’s ‘best interest’ to fire Paterno
immediately, with one game left in the
regular season. :
Days after his firing, Paterno’s
son Scott addressed the media stating
that Joe was diagnosed with a treatable
form of lung cancer and that doctors
were ‘optimistic’ on the chance of a full
recovery. During that time, many people
reached out to him and wished him well
in his recovery through letters and visits
to his State College home. On January
13th, Paterno was hospitalized due to
complications regarding his cancer and
laid bed ridden in Mount Nittany Medical
Center in State College for days. Dur-
ing this time many letters were sent to
him from people throughout the country,
whether friends, students, alumni, or
former players of just to reach out to the
man who made such an impact on many
lives over the decades. Nine days after he
was hospitalized and 84 days after his last
game coaching, Paterno was pronounced
dead on January 22.
Without football, Paterno was
nothing and he made that clear when he
was asked to step down after a 4-7 season
in 2004. He was quoted saying, “I’m
going to retire when I want to retire. I'm
going to retire when I feel it’s the best
time for Penn State football... Period.” He
went on to say, “What do you want me to
do on Saturdays, cut the grass... What am
. I going to do? I don’t fish. I don’t golf.
I don’t cut the lawn. I don’t want to die.
Football is my life.”
Just like legendary Alabama
football coach Bear Bryant, Paterno did
not live long past his final days of coach-
ing football. Both men dedicated their
lives to the game in which they loved so
dearly and shaping young men into good-
hearted and strong-minded men by the
time they were ready to graduate.
Although people may question
Paterno’s legacy, Penn State will always
have a soft spot for their beloved coach.
Through football he was able to touch
thousands of lives, but it is what he has
done to the institution that really catches
the eye.
Over the decades as head coach,
Paterno donated millions of dollars to
the university in trying to better stu-
dents both on the football field and in
the classrooms. He was more than just
a football coach. He was a teacher, a
husband, a father, a grandfather, and a
mentor. Some may even say that he built
Penn State University from the ground up
(figuratively speaking). He helped shaped
so many people’s lives in his 61 years at
the university and will be celebrated for
decades to come.
Brandywine Mourns
Loss of John
The Penn State Brandywine community is deeply
saddened by the passing of campus founding executive officer
John Vairo, on Jan. 1 following a long illness. John’s contribu-
tions to and support of the campus were unparalleled. He will
be remembered as a man of vision, wisdom and kindness. The
Brandywine Campus has set a date to honor and remember
Vairo on Wednesday, April 11, from 3-5 p.m.
In lieu of flowers, the family requests contributions to
Penn State Brandywine’s Office of Development, 25 Yearsley
Mill Rd., Media, PA 19063, or Heartland Hospice, 5 Christy
Dr., Chadds Ford, PA 19317. Cards may be sent to his resi-
dence, 8 Prince Eugene La., Media, PA 19603. (photo courtesy Penn
State Brandywine University Relations)
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