Wow... anyone else spot the pretty heavy spin in this portion of the preceding quoted story:

Sadly, Paterno's legacy has been tarnished in the last few months.

Paterno was unable to coach his final season at Penn State. Joe Pa lost his coaching job this year due to the sex scandal involving his former assistant Jerry Sandusky. Sandusky is being charged with 52 counts of child molestation and many people have criticized Paterno for not doing more when he learned about the scandal.

Paterno called the scandal the "deepest sorrow of my life."

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1. Paterno coached the final season-- but not the last GAME. And he was/is known as JoePa, not Joe Pa (as written by an outsider emphasizing a parental relationship).
2. It is accurate that Paterno lost his job due to the SCANDAL... but the sorrow alluded to was over the ABUSE, not merely the scandal ABOUT the abuse as the above verbiage indicates.
3. The whole thing was/is bad enough without more people ingesting sloppy, inflammatory verbiage instead of thinking clearly about the actual situation.
4. I am no friend to abuse (have reported it myself numerous times), to abusers (have reported them too), or to systems allowing abuse (have worked to help change them). I AM a friend to clergy and others in State College who have been jumping into the breach to help heal the hurts. They already find themselves with very little room to work, due to media frenzy.


So-- in the effort to get the news out about a human being's passing, and throw him under the nearest bus-- please spare a thought for the people on the ground actually working in the situation of his death's effect on the community.

~Susan