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Subject: Thoughts

Author:
Jono

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Date Posted: 10:09:40 07/24/12 Tue

Yesterday stunk. I have an 8am call every Monday morning and yesterday, I spent the entirety of it refreshing my twitter feed and first getting sad, then getting really sad, then getting angry, then getting frustrated and then ending up bummed out and pissed off. Our beloved football team will not be good again until 2020 and our beloved university is forever covered in mud. Fuck.

The thing that I am most pissed off about is how the cultural feeling about Penn State is forever changed. As you all know, I hated Penn State football before I went to school there and hated it while I was there, for the 1st 3 years at least. I went to Penn State b/c I knew I was getting a good, respected Engineering degree. Penn State has come shops and academic accololades that not many people outside of the alumni and fan know about. Instead, they know Joe Paterno, the clean white and blue uniforms, Beaver Stadium, the Big Ten, etc. That's all fine and well as long as the football program is held in high regard, but now, because of this Sandusky mess those accolades are probably even further from the public's conscious when the words Penn State come up.

I stole some of the following from a friend of mine who went to Pitt, but I agree wholeheartedly with what he said (and I am paraphrasing). I hate that I now feel that my education and degree is somehow in vain because of what happened in a locker room I would never be allowed in, by individuals that weren't even living on the same planet as me. It makes me fucking pissed. These awful crimes are light years removed from my day to day reality and are going to bring endless judgement from millions of morons (but more importantly, actual people I will come in contact with) who feel that Universities should be judged solely on football.

I've already begun to experience this out here when I am a lonely PSU alum and it sucks.

Yesterday in my office, I overheard numerous people discussing the sanctions and the statue being removed the everything Penn State. To give you an idea of how out of touch people who are not part of the PSU "culture" (students, alumni, players, people in PA who love PSU, etc.) I actually heard a guy being disgusted that Penn State students would try to compare these events and the statue being torns down as analogous to what happened to Marshall back in 1970. Confused, I reluctantly interjected and ask what this guy meant. He said, and again I am paraphrasing:

"I was reading that article on Yahoo about when they were tearing down the statue and a bunch of students were yelling "We are...Penn State". You guys have a bunch of people molesting kids and you're idiot students think a statue coming down is like a bunch of Marshall players dying in a plane crash. Come on dude! Enough of that "We are" crap."

I corrected him but you get an idea of what I am dealing with...

(shaking my head)

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