Unfortunately, he failed to follow his own advice, to maintain civility, which he said was sorely lacking in today's society, by protecting his own students and young boys in the community from someone he knew to be a sexual predator. Joe Paterno was an idealized father-figure, a loving, strong protective model for his young football players and Penn State students to learn from and emulate. Or like the Germans under Adolf Hitler who adored him while he committed the most unspeakable, barbaric crimes in the name of Aryan superiority. Or like the devotees of Joseph Stalin who loved him even after he imprisoned and tortured them. A major danger of idealization is merging with the idealized object and losing one's independent mind and moral judgment, like the cult followers of Jim Jones who drank the poisonous "cool aid" under his messianic direction. Children idealize their parents as mentors to provide them with guidance and as models to emulate in order to identify and define their values, morality, direction and life goals. Idealization serves a vital psychological need. His sin of omission, allowing a child molester to continue molesting, paled in comparison to losing their beloved football idol. Joe Paterno is no longer the head football coach effective immediately. Vice chairman of the board, John Surma, read the words aloud. The trustees had come to a decision, and Paterno’s retirement announcement was nullified. They were protesting the Board's injustice to Paterno. I do remember the audible gasps in the crowd whenever they said Paterno was being fired, Shoenfelt said. But the protesting students didn't seem to care about Paterno's moral lapse. In response to the public outcry over charges that Sandusky sexually corrupted eight children and to rectify these horrific lapses in moral judgment, the Board fired the president and Paterno.
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Like Paterno, neither the administrators nor Graham Spanier, Penn State president, reported this incident to the police, which left Sandusky free to continue molesting children. The administrators punished Sandusky by depriving him of keys to the university locker room but left him with access to a university office, to young men at Penn State and to boys in the vicinity. Instead, Paterno merely passed the information on to school administrators, allegedly because Sandusky was already retired.
On the evening of November 9th, more than a thousand Penn State college students vehemently protested the firing of their beloved hero, Joe Paterno, the legendary football couch of Penn State, for not reporting to the police in 2002 his knowledge of coach Jerry Sandusky raping and sodomizing a ten-year-old boy in an athletic facility.
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