The mishandling of Sandusky by the school has led to the damaged their reputation and credibility. This scandal has left many of Penn State’s organization in a crisis. Management was greatly affected by Sandusky actions, because they failed to report what was really going on. They simply ignored it; this has led to loss of business, or donations, and talented students and staff. They felt as though the leadership did not care about Penn State or the victims. These ethical issues have led to them paying more than $92 million in the child sex abuse scandal. The school could have spent this money on the students, who would have benefited more instead of using it to pay the victims of a crime that never should have happened. “We hope this is another
A model citizen of the community, Jerry Sandusky joined the Penn State staff as assistant football coach under Joe Paterno in 1969. He was also a founder of The Second Mile charitable organization to help disadvantaged youth. Sandusky retired from this position in 1999 but still had access to the campus due to him being an emeritus professor (Crandall, 2014). Sandusky was found guilty of 45 counts of child sex abuse in 2012. He sexually abused 10 boys over a 15 year period (Cheppell, 2012).
Penn State football was once the pride of Pennsylvania. The Sandusky scandal changed all of that forever. The University had to learn many lessons. According to Layden, T. (2014), one of the biggest issues that caused the scandal to strive was the fact that those in charge probably felt the football program was too big to fail. In other words, they felt the success of the program was so important to the University and its fans that the scandal needed to be kept on a low profile.
Penn State football is a major brand with a very large fan base. Many areas of the school benefit from the large amount of revenue generated by the success of the football program. One of the major factors in the Penn State scandal was blind loyalty to one individual with total disregard for the children and the lives he was destroying. Many believe the four individuals that had the control to step in and stop this from happening either did not do so for fear of destroying the program or the hopes that it would somehow stop on its own (Crandall 2013). Jerry Sandusky was a top assistant and defensive mastermind for thirty years with Joe Paterno as the head coach.
The internal stakeholders in the Sandusky scandal would include Penn State University faculty, Penn State football coaches, and Penn State football players. Crandall, W., Parnell, J. & Spillan, J. (2013), explained how these internal stakeholders were affected. Four members of the faculty were either fired or forced out because of the scandal. Legendary football coach Joe Paterno was one of those who was fired, which shook up the coaching staff. The football players were unfairly penalized by the sanctions that were placed on the team.
Pennsylvania (Penn) State’s assistant football coach Jerry Sandusky who worked under head coach Joe Paterno appeared to be an upstanding model citizen; however, he was found to be a serial child rapist (Crandall et al., 2014). Those who were high in power were responsible for informing other of the past of Sandusky. The Board of Trustees knew about his predatory actions and incidents, yet fail to report them. Jerry Sandusky started out as the assistant coach at Penn State in 1969 and later became the defensive coordinator. He was most known for the establishing of the Second Mile, a charity that developed in 1977 as a group foster home for troubled disadvantaged boys (CNN, 2013).
PROS: The pros of the Louisville scandal were very hard to identify. Being that the scandal was very much the hot topic and caused more bad than good, there are not many pros of this scandal. One pro that I found while reading up on the Louisville Scandal was that it brought the team, school and also the coaches many opportunities of fame and attention. During this time of attention, there was a book published called ‘breaking cardinal rules: Basketball and the Escort Queen.’
In 1998, a mother reported that Sandusky had showered with her son in one of the buildings on campus, which was quietly swept under the rug (Crandall, et al., 2014). In 2001, a football assistant, Mike McQueary witnessed a sexual encounter between Sandusky and a 10 year old boy and reported it to Coach Paterno (Crandall, et al., 2014). Paterno went to the group of four men who were made aware of the situation in 1998 and together, they confronted Paterno (Crandall, et al., 2014). Instead of reporting him to authorities, they told him to refrain from bringing young men to the facilities and informed the director of Sandusky’s charitable organization as well (Crandall, et al., 2014). When President Spanier next met with the board of trustees, he intentionally withheld the information regarding Sandusky’s actions (Crandall, et al.,
“President Graham B. Spanier, Senior Vice President-Finance and Business Gary C. Schultz, Athletic Director Timothy M. Curley and Head Football coach Joseph V. Paterno – failed to protect against a child sexual predator from harming children for decades” (Crandall, Parnell, & Spillan, 2014). These four did not report what they knew to the right people and allowed it to continue for some time, therefore, this cover up is what lead this indecency to become a scandal at Penn State. “An examination of meeting notes and e-males reveals that Spanier, Schultz, Curley, and Paterno had met and discussed the problem with various authorities, and not including the board of
Penn State restored their 112 football wins that had been stripped from Sandusky and Paterno although NCAA hit Penn State with a $60 million fine to fund child abuse-prevention programs. The University must reduce 10 initial and 20 total scholarships each year for a four-year period. Sandusky was an assistant coach to Paterno for many years and he was greatly looked upon. After this scandal I think that Penn state being punished for their actions were more than okay, the athletic office of Penn state covering up and hiding what Sandusky had been doing is morally not okay. Everyone is taught right from wrong, when you lie about something there will be consequences, Penn State coved up this scandal for too long and got hit hard.
In June 1972, five men carrying cameras and bugging equipment were arrested inside the Democratic National Committee 's offices in the Watergate complex in Washington, D.C. Police soon discovered that the burglars worked either directly or indirectly, for the presidential cabinet. President Nixon had stated he had no relation to this act. Political investigations began in February 1973; the Senate established a Committee to investigate the Watergate scandal. The public hearings of the Committee included the finding of secret white house tapes,the most incriminating one dubbed, Smoking gun revealing that he had taken part in the Watergate cover up.
In totally shocking news today, Jerry Sandusky's son Jeffrey Sandusky has been arrested for allegedly sexually assaulting a minor. TMZ revealed this breaking news today. Jeffrey is 41-years-old and was arrested in Pennsylvania and was arraigned on Monday. Alleged sexual assault is not the only thing that Jefferey Sandusky is in trouble for, though. Documents show he is also being charged with multiple counts of child pornography, child sex abuse and corruption of minors.
In general I would say Richard Nixon was a fairly decent president. During a time where there were many protests amongst the American public (especially the youth) against the troops in Vietnam, Nixon was able to pull the troops out of the war. Nixon also reduced the tensions with the Soviet Union, and helped China join the United Nations. He also helped decrease the amount of racial discrimination by segregating schools in the south. It is a shame though, that those achievements of his are not acknowledged because of the Watergate Scandal.
Colleges are protecting their public record and do not wish to affect their brand be publicly admitting the high rates of sexual assaults. The documentary focused on a student attending Harvard Law School and the administrators insisted that the female victim should remain silent and avoid spreading the incident around. They asked questions such as, "Did you give him the wrong message, why did you choose not to fight back". Victim blaming is presented when the administrators are more interested in what the victim did wrong rather than what the offender's actions
Throughout time there has been conflict around the united states, there has fights as well as many productive debates that have really inspired the idea of what we are today, the united states of America. All four, all four monumental historic figures, the 4 presidents that truly set their mark on this American soil. Presidents Richard Nixon, Gerald Ford, Jimmy Carter, and Ronald Reagan. True Legends, they did so much for this country, truly amazing things. Richard Nixon, he did many things one of them including the OPEC, the organization of petroleum exporting countries, which basically is Nixon trying to help control the limited supply of petroleum, this really helped balance the economy.
The Watergate Sandal began to slowly unravel on June 17th, 1972 and would later become known as the worst scandal in American history. The beginning of the end started with the arrest of five men, Bernard Barker, Virgilio Gonzales a locksmith, Eugenio Martinez a licensed real estate agent, Frank Sturgis a former Cuban Military army intelligence and Edward Martin aka James McCord, a retired CIA employee who was working on the Committee to Re-elect President Nixon at the time. They were arrested for breaking into the Democratic National Committee Headquarters, DNC, at the Watergate office and hotel in Washington D.C.. They were there to copy documents and swamp out eavesdropping equipment that had been placed there during previous burglaries; this was reportedly the third burglary like incident at the DNC since May 28th. All five men were charged with felonious burglary and with possession of implements of crime.