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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Maryland has never had a football coach have knowledge of one of their assistants molesting young boys and then the administration cover it up    [/quote]

Every big university has had its fair share of problems. What's your agenda here?[/quote]

Agenda? Are you always this awful? Institutional coverup of childhood rape is not a "fair share of problems."[/quote]

So you're going to write off the entire school because of one horrible mistake? It wasn't the entirety of Penn State that committed the atrocity. I'm very sorry if you or someone you love was impacted by this, but it's not a reason to imply that no one should choose PSU over Maryland, which has had its own problems. Same for Michigan. And UVa. And Dartmouth. Etc...[/quote]

I am writing it off. It was an institutional and widespread coverup by the organization as a whole. It speaks to the values of the institution. I have many smart friends/family who went to Penn State and they are good people, loved their time there, etc. But, to me, there are many other options out there where I don't have to question the integrity, morality, safety of the school.

Also I did not say "no one should go there." I said (in another post) other people are free to make their own choice about Penn State. Ours is we will not consider it.

Finally, I really and truly feel like you are minimizing what happened there when you say things like other colleges have their own problems. This seems to equate the same gravity to what happened at Penn State. Some are, yes (Michigan). But not all. Any school that sacrifices children (or worse, children at the university as part of a charity program) to sexual predators in order to prop up its football team is not a school that we will pay money too. You can go right ahead and do so but we will not. [/quote]

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