Penn State students fail to get it

The flocking of students at Penn State, defending Joe Paterno in the wake of the legendary coach being fired, is sickening.

There was only one move to be made, and that was to remove Paterno from his position. This is a man who'd been told of an assistant coach sexually abusing a young boy, yet never reported it to the police.

That the Penn State students don't seem to understand the magnitude of Paterno's ghastly silence on this sex-abuse issue is alarming.

There is silence from Paterno's fans, of course, if they were among the abused. Then, they get it.

The surprise is all those folks who fail to get it without having experienced sexual abuse first hand. There seem to be a whole bunch of those types roaming around at Penn State.

— Pat Ruff