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Penn State Values: The System that Discourages Making Waves

United by Tragedy

It wasn't just university leadership that enabled Jerry Sandusky. It was a system that discourages rocking the boat at all costs.

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The moral of the Jerry Sandusky saga is this: Pennsylvania State University, as an institution, decided that protecting Joe Paterno’s reputation and winning a few more football games was more important than stopping the ongoing rape of young boys.

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Of course, no one ever said anything like that out loud.

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