Parents of these fine young minds must be so proud!

When have YOU ever stood up for ANYTHING?

I can't believe anyone can defend the Athletic Dept at PSU, including Spanier, Paterno, and on down. I guess Paterno and the rest of them were trying to avoid a black eye on their $50M a year dynasty that is (was?) PSU football. Eight kids over a fifteen year period and is HARDLY an isolated incident. Either Paterno was protecting this scuzbag Sandusky or he was inept as a leader who didn't know (yeah right) what was going on. It is sad that an American icon like Paterno was kicked out, but he had a moral responsibility to involve law enforcement when he FIRST heard about this allegations and he decided not to.

yes. Lets defend a coach because he won us games, although I have only been here 1 to 4 years and the boys molested have to live with it for the rest of their lives while Paterno and these other administrative creeps did nothing to stop this disgusting monster. You students are truely a credit to what Americans should NOT be like!!!

What does "winning games" have to do with a good education. Way way to much emphasis on sports.

I hope Penn State rams it up Nebraska butt this Saturday.

I hope Penn State has a good game against Nebraska this Saturday.

Misplaced outrage. I wish these students would get outraged against child sexual abuse--maybe then our society would evolve slightly. If it was Paterno's grandson getting raped, I'll bet he'd have acted differently.

It's great to see these privileged white kids finally found an 'injustice' in the world that could pull them away from their X-Box's and out into the streets. I always wondered what it would take.

P.P.PP. Pa paterno protects pedophiles! What about these poor families and scarred children? paterno protected the pervert and no acts like hes the victim!

Come on here people who cares that the coach was complicit with little boys being molested in the locker room!  There's more important considerations like football!!!  Honestly have some human decency people!!!

always thought that penn state was one of the few cleanly run programs in college sports. i thought wrong. now when i think of that institution it will be hard not to think of it as state pen.

Paterno is a monster. The students should be made to take an ethic course. Lastly, we will not be hiring anyone from Pen State- Sex abuse is unacceptable.

Mike 277, Holley75......Would your humourous takes on this situation be any different if it were you, your child or relative involved? Grow up.

I can't help but think that if it was the janitor caught molesting that child in the showers, the police would have been called right then and there. And aren't all educators required by law to report suspected child abuse? Ah, the disappointment when we realize that our heros have feet of clay.

Money is the root of evil. The difference between Paterno and a janitor.

As students go, these are the most likely to demonstrate. They were not raised with any regard for others, only their individual spoiled attitudes. Paterno had a moral and civil obligation to at least follow up on his original reporting of ALL the crimes against children, but he was too busy coddling his corps of JOCKS to be concerned about any victims. Penn State, as a public university is obligated to do what is best for the school, NOT what a bunch of uninformed kids deem as an outrage. They would all, be better served taking a moment to think of the small children that were violated. and not their individual egos. To them I say grow up and get your pampered butts back to class.

Send in the Guard! Penn State should be turned into Kent state!

Where was or is Joe Pa's morality? Joe Paterno didn't care to call the police and report a HORRIFIC CRIME against a CHILD ! He had specific names which included an eyewitness whom reported to him that a grown man had RAPED A CHILD! Shame on all of these student protesters! Where's their compassion, humanity and selflessness. Nittany Lion players don't have their name on their jersey for the sake of the team as a whole; neither should Paterno.

Have american values disinegrated so badly that these priviledged brats think a winning team is more important than a life. Why don't you MAKE A DIFFERENCE IN THE WORLD rather than defending scum in the name of a sport. Do you really think a person should turn their head when a child is being hurt, or any person for that matter!!! All of these people are guilty of conspiracy to commit a crime. I EXPECT TO SEE EVERYONE OF THEM IN PRISON....wonder how they'll like getting raped!!!

Proud of the kid holding the sign that says, "Paterno is not the victim". Damn right, he isn't. As a 27 year-old, it shames me to think that these kids don't have any perspective, and yet they aren't much younger than myself. The outrage is misplaced. Is it unfortunate that his career is ending this way? Of course it is. But perhaps he should've thought about that when he received this terrible information and didn't do enough to protect that poor child. Hindsight is 20-20, Paterno.

Everyone involved that did nothing to stop Sandusky should be in jail.

They'll be a soldier.

this was a setup, veryvery bad gets retirement pension, dedicated , loved guy, got fired, therefore losing his pension, penn state needed to keep money, especially in this financial market, where students aren"t getting jobs, Mr Paterno did nothing wrong , but saved the schools budget, I say get a lawyer, he should not be scapegoated , and lose it all, he also needs a lawyer, they should contact him, this is abuse and Penn state needs to hurt too! this disgusts me.

Dear Penn State students: Please remember that the head coach is ultimately responsible for everything that happens in his athletics department. The buck stops on his desk. What should've happened, but didn't, was that the eye witness should've immediately called the police. Instead, he misguidedly put the image of the football program first, and reported the incident to another assistant, who told Coach Paterno. Not only that, but the child molestation has apparently gone on for years. Students, the only victims here are those little boys and their families. This is a prime example of how far out of line our priorities can get. I suspect that if those sexual abuse incidents had been handled as they should have to begin with, the image of Penn State football would have been enhanced. Remember: it's not the crime; it's the cover-up.

Whoever protested this is a F'ING RETARD. Obviously no one cares about people unless they can win at football. ALL of you are a bunch of losers. I hope you have children one day and they get molested and then maybe you'll care....unless there's a game on tv, then you probably wont