It’s a real red-letter day for university sports at that most fervent sports school, Penn State. Not to be outdone by America’s rape capital, Baylor University athletics, Penn State now waves goodbye to a president and a vice-president as they both go behind bars for child endangerment. Graham Spanier gets “two months to be served behind bars and two more to be served under house arrest,” while his vp gets “two [months] to be served in jail and four under house arrest.”
As for the Penn State athletic director whose talk a few years ago at a Knight Commission meeting in Washington was so disgusting, cynical, and insulting a whitewash of university sports that UD and others in the audience audibly groaned and laughed as he spoke: He gets “7-23 months with three months to be served in jail and four more under house arrest.”
Pardon my French, but UD can’t tell you what sweet poetic justice it is that this asshole is going to jail.
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A university president in prison for child endangerment! And all because he was afraid of Joe Paterno and his creepy band of Happy Valley fanatics. But anyway. That’s ancient history. Today we all focus our attention on that other dominant force on the campus of Penn State University: fraternities.
From a Deadspin comment thread:
Don’t worry- few Penn staters will be outraged. They’re too busy being outraged that people might expect their fraternities to act like civilized people.
June 3rd, 2017 at 9:37AM
Funny you should mention Penn State frats.
I’m Shmacked The Movie-Penn State (throwback) Youtube
http://www.youtube.com?watch?=c6thTAPX124
Sorry, can’t embed from my device. Or go to the I’m Shmacked website and put Penn State in the search engine.
Point being, that despite all that’s gone on at Happy Valley, the admins use heavy drinking, frats and football games as primary marketing tools. If you’re thinking that Penn State admins aren’t using I’m Shmacked for promotion, the various universities that are featured have to compete with each other in order to get the producers on campus. Further, the book stores are heavily promoted because the swag with uni logos and trademarks are readily seen. If admins didn’t want their institutions depicted as they are in these vids, they could claim copyright infringement and the content would be pulled. The fact that they haven’t means those schools know their market segments far better than we do, and debauchery is a prime tool to get these idiots to go deep in debt to attend.
No matter what Penn State claims, the fact that this vid, which also features frats, is still on the I’m Shmacked website, indicates the craven nature of the folks who run that place. This website has a huge teenage and young adult following. Anybody who honestly thinks that someone using this crap as a primary tool for enrollment decisions cares about academic quality is delusional.
But it also indicates that unis are pretty much in a battle to maintain any semblance of status quo. They cannot appeal to academic rigor because very few prospects can do hard scholarship, nor care to even try. That bullshit is for parents and alumni, the real deal is seen with these vids. Keep in mind that Penn State is the third most expensive public university.
10 Colleges With The Highest Tuition for In-State Students
http://www.usnews.com/educational/best-colleges/
If you’re PSU, how do you get kids to pay that much to attend? Well, it ain’t due to the academics….