Penn State Scandal Update

THERE'S A PSU DISCIPLINE OFFICER UNDER THERE SOMEWHERE

Is anybody going to be surprised by this?  Probably not, but it doesn’t help all the stakeholders in the Jerry Sandusky Dog House.

A former Penn State official charged with enforcing discipline at the school said Tuesday that Joe Paterno’s players got in trouble more often than other students, and got special treatment compared to non-athletes.

Vicky Triponey, who resigned her post as the university’s standards and conduct officer in 2007, confirmed that she sent a 2005 email to then-president Graham Spanier and others in which she expressed her concerns about how Penn State handled discipline cases involving football players.

Paterno “is insistent he knows best how to discipline his players … and their status as a student when they commit violations of our standards should NOT be our concern … and I think he was saying we should treat football players different from other students in this regard,” Triponey wrote in the Aug. 12, 2005, email.

“Coach Paterno would rather we NOT inform the public when a football player is found responsible for committing a serious violation of the law and/or our student code,” she wrote, “despite any moral or legal obligation to do so.”

But Tuesday night, a Penn State administrator who reported to Triponey and was directly responsible for overseeing student discipline noted that Paterno did not have the authority to change his office’s decisions when football players were sanctioned.

Joe Puzycki, who still works at the university, said in an email to The Associated Press that while Paterno was vocal in sharing his opinions, “we adjudicated athlete cases the same as we did any other student.”

We wager a complete audit of the actions reported and then taken over the past 40 years at Penn State involving Joe Regular Student and Joe Pa Football Player Student may contradict Puzycki’s claim…

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