Jerry Sandusky was found guilty of forty-five out of forty-eight sexual assault cases and is currently serving a thirty to sixty year life sentence in the Pennsylvania State prison . Happy Valley is a documentary, that showed an insight into the gruesome activities that happened at Penn State surrounding the Jerry Sandusky 's child sexual assault case and how it affected this college football community. First off, how did the community reacted to the documentary? The documentary was screened on November 14 at Penn State, State Theatre, where there was, also after the film a question and answer forum for the community to ask the film 's consulting producer Mark
The Duke lacrosse case implicated criminal actions of: first degree rape, first degree sex offenses’ and kidnapping charges against three Duke University lacrosse players; Collin Finnerty, Reade Seligman and Dean Evans (North Carolina State Bar v. Nifong, 2007,p.18-20). According to Mosteller (2007) the case started with “gang rape allegations” by Crystal Mangum, a black exotic dancer who was also a student at North Carolina Central University on the morning of March 14th, 2006 (p.1337). The alleged rape occurred during the Duke lacrosse teams’ party at 610 North Buchanan Blvd (North Carolina State Bar v. Nifong, 2007,p.1). Suspiciously Mangum could not make any identifications of her attackers even after viewing most Duke lacrosse team members including the names mentioned above and the lacrosse team members who actually lived at 610 North Buchanan Blvd (Mosteller, 2007, p.1407). Mosteller (2007) also mentions that Mike Nifong had to know that
The Boston College Point shaving scandal was put together by Tony and Rocco Perla during the summer of 1978, before the college basketball season would start. At the time they put this together, they were small time gamblers. Rick Kuhn, a friend of Rocco 's from when the two were in high school together, was recruited to take part in the plan. He was an essential player in his senior year at Boston College, both to the team and to the Perla brothers. Kuhn 's job, through his play on the court, was to make sure that the Eagles did not cover the spread.
Tim Curley and Gary Schultz were also charged with one count of felony perjury and one count of failure to report abuse allegations. Curley and Schultz, both resigned from their positions with the university on November 7, 2011 after their arraignment. On November 11, 2011, McQueary, who was now the football team’s assistant receiver’s coach, was placed on indefinite administrative leave. Sandusky denied all the charges, stating that the only thing he did wrong was showered with the boys. On December 7, 2011 Sandusky was arrested on additional counts of child sex abuse, raising the number of victims from eight to ten.
On November 4, 2011, Jerry Sandusky, former defensive coordinator for Penn State, was accused of sexually abusing eight children during his time at Penn State. More news followed saying that officials at Penn State knew about the incidents, but failed to report any of it to law enforcement. Jerry Sandusky was with Penn State for a total of 32 years. In that time, his actions outside of football didn’t go completely unnoticed. In 1998, an 11-year-old boy told his mother that Sandusky showered with him and may have engaged in some inappropriate contact.
Penn State football was once the pride of Pennsylvania. The Sandusky scandal changed all of that forever. The University had to learn many lessons. According to Layden, T. (2014), one of the biggest issues that caused the scandal to strive was the fact that those in charge probably felt the football program was too big to fail. In other words, they felt the success of the program was so important to the University and its fans that the scandal needed to be kept on a low profile.
Being the thirty-seventh president of the United States in 1974, President Richard Nixon was involved in a scandal known as the “Watergate Scandal”, that eventually led to the replacement of presidency from vice president at the time, Gerald Ford. Both Nixon and Ford believed Ford taking over the position of the president was the best decision as Nixon was never charged with the crimes from the “The Watergate Scandal”. Emotional responses from the people were also a key factor to accept as Ford took over the president position, and overall Nixon and Ford had to work together to figure out the prime decision regarding the nation. President Nixon was always attempting to do what is best for the nation. However, after the entire “Watergate Scandal”,
Subsequently, Schultz and Curley both stepped down. Moreover, the National Collegiate Athletic Association barred the university from any postseason games for four years starting in 2012, scholarships were cut, and Coach Paterno’s wins for the past 14 years was taken off the books, which was 111 wins from his once-record 409 victories. Some think these sanctions were harsh, and even surprised some sports journalist (Crandall, Parnell & Spillan,
In September 2016, the first allegations came out against Larry Nassar, the national team osteopathic physician. It turned out that he had sexually harassed, assaulted and abused over 250 women. Most of them were gymnasts in Michigan State but some of them were Olympic athletes. He has received 3 lifelong sentences and he will never get out of prison. (Wikipedia, 2018).
Enrichment Paper 2 When I think of major scandals of my time, none are more relevant than Bill Clinton an intern Monica Lewinsky. But if you ask someone older, they are going to say Richard Nixon and the Water gate scandal, both were very damaging to the United States, because of the lying and tampering of evidence which affected innocent people it. Clinton and Nixon were the only presidents in our history to be impeached with the greatest significant scandals there ever was. Nixon immediately resigned, while Clinton stayed in office after impeachment.
The Jerry Sandusky trial began in 2012 and was held in Centre County, Pennsylvania. Sandusky was found guilty on 45 of 48 counts and sentenced to 30 to 60 years in jail (Curry, 2015). The details of the case are horrific in nature, and worse is five men were made aware of the incidents and no action was taken to alert authorities. During the trial the victims were led through questions that all pointed toward the trust they had in Sandusky. The university is located in a small town setting where people work hard and have little; Sandusky reaching out to someone was considered a big deal.
Penn State restored their 112 football wins that had been stripped from Sandusky and Paterno although NCAA hit Penn State with a $60 million fine to fund child abuse-prevention programs. The University must reduce 10 initial and 20 total scholarships each year for a four-year period. Sandusky was an assistant coach to Paterno for many years and he was greatly looked upon. After this scandal I think that Penn state being punished for their actions were more than okay, the athletic office of Penn state covering up and hiding what Sandusky had been doing is morally not okay. Everyone is taught right from wrong, when you lie about something there will be consequences, Penn State coved up this scandal for too long and got hit hard.
Case Study: Mini-Case-Scandal at Penn State Once a model citizen and former Pennsylvania State University football coach, Jerry Sandusky also had a dark secret that finally caught up with him (Crandall, Parnell, & Spillan, 2013). In 1977, Jerry Sandusky created a group foster home for troubled boys called, The Second Mile. The foster home grew into a non-profit organization that “helped young people to achieve their potential as individuals and community members (Crandall, Parnell, & Spillan, 2013).”
In the article titled “Why college football should be banned”, Buzz Bissinger argues that college football should be banned. I believe that Buzz Bissinger did not support his reasons with sufficient evidence. While he shows the reader multiple reasons why college football should be banned, he doesn’t cite any sources or show support for his claims. Bissinger shows some statistics, but does not show where he got the information from. First of all, Bissinger did not cite his sources when supporting his claim.
Throughout the nineteenth century events played out time and time again in college football that would end up having a sweeping significance on American culture. Issues such as racism and women having a larger part in the sports world were dealt with. Business and the art of cheating through one’s sports team were seen as growing rapidly in the football world and obviously having a vast effect on how American business would end up carrying itself. College football and all of its antics would end up not only transforming the American culture then, but everything that was decided on then would set the tone for college football and how it operates now and American culture and the system is handled today.
