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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]UVa and its athletics department should be doing some serious soul-searching and house-cleaning similar to what PSU is/should be doing now.  I'm surprised UVa hasn't been more scrutinized by this -- VaTech and Penn State and others certainly were.

I too think the culture of unsupervised binge partying is shocking; however the UVA men's team is the defending national champion.  Starsia is a sacred cow in Charlottesville, safe unless he is the one in the criminal dock.[/quote]
I don't know if anyone was more sacred or revered, for 40 years, than Joe Paterno.  And look what happened to him in the face of scandal.  I don't know how UVA is getting away with murder here.  (And I'm a UVA fan)[/quote]

Maybe I'm too cynical, but I think if Penn State had been the defending national champion they would not have fired Paterno.  Remember that five or so years ago the PSU President tried to convince Paterno to step down -- not because of scandal, but because of a dip in the success of the program.  I think Starsia has a lot to answer for, but I'm not sure the UVA admin is asking any questions other than "can we repeat"?  Odd, because UVA is much more famous as a stellar research university than as a lacrosse hotbed, but there you go.[/quote]
I  hear what you're saying but I don't know if people get the JoePa/PSU/College Park/Central PA thing.  They act like they did win the national championship last year and every year before.  Maybe I'm too much of a football junkie to see clearly (I'm originally from western PA and live in NoVa now) but before GH, I could not have told you one fact about UVa lacrosse.  UVa lacrosse is a losing $$ game for the university (compare the untold millions football has brought PSU) so why not take the high road, clean house and show some outrage over this murder and culture of alcohol abuse?  [/quote]

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