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Are_grits_groceries

(17,111 posts)
Fri Jul 6, 2012, 02:54 PM Jul 2012

Here's what happened to VP Triponey at PSU as she tried to hold the FB players to student standards:

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Triponey was vice president of student affairs at Penn State from 2003 to 2007—and allegedly was fired after butting heads with football god Joe Paterno, when she tried to punish a number of his players for crimes that ranged from bar fights to sexual assault.

She was basically run out of town. According to Triponey, whose story is backed up by the local chief of police, people knocked on her door late at night, then bolted when she went to answer it. Students prank-called her and savaged her on message boards. One morning, she woke up to find a "For Sale" sign in her yard. Even Paterno—when he appeared on a local sports radio show in the fall of 2005—proclaimed that “that lady in Old Main” (referring to the university’s administrative building) didn’t know how to deal with students because “she didn’t have kids.”

“This was creating an environment that put me completely on edge,” Triponey told The Daily Beast.

The abuse got to a point, she says, where the local police had to install a camera outside her door.
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Much more about FB team incidents and the results:
http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2011/11/23/meet-penn-state-s-new-whistleblower-vicky-triponey.html

Yeah! Good ol' PSU. Just move on now because it's all ok.

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Here's what happened to VP Triponey at PSU as she tried to hold the FB players to student standards: (Original Post) Are_grits_groceries Jul 2012 OP
And that says so much about St. Joe JHB Jul 2012 #1
PSU= death penalty or disband NCAA Rambis Jul 2012 #2
Sports builds character! rfranklin Jul 2012 #3
There should be no such thing as athletic 'scholarships'. Ikonoklast Jul 2012 #4
JoePa died a loser. GeorgeGist Jul 2012 #5

JHB

(37,161 posts)
1. And that says so much about St. Joe
Fri Jul 6, 2012, 03:00 PM
Jul 2012

Not "cut the crap guys", but "will no one rid me of this meddlesome priest?"

 

rfranklin

(13,200 posts)
3. Sports builds character!
Fri Jul 6, 2012, 03:05 PM
Jul 2012

Unfortunately in many cases it is bad character. Sports stars, beginning from an early age, are allowed to think that hitting home runs or throwing touchdowns somehow elevates them to an elite status where they are exempt from the demands put on mere mortals. And by the time they get to college, especially in football, they basically can get away with almost anything as long as their stats are above average.

Ikonoklast

(23,973 posts)
4. There should be no such thing as athletic 'scholarships'.
Fri Jul 6, 2012, 03:53 PM
Jul 2012

A special class of students who are actually minor league players for the pros have no place at university.

If a student wishes to play sports, all well and good.

But first and always, he is a *student*.

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