Sick to see students at Penn State defend sick criminal behavior

Joe Paterno fired along with Penn State president Graham Spanier | World news | guardian.co.uk: "Penn State University has sacked its president, Graham Spanier, and head football coach Joe Paterno in the wake of a child sex abuse scandal in which authorities said the men failed to do enough after an assistant coach was accused of molesting a boy in a campus shower.

"It is in the best interests of the university that a change in leadership (must be made) to deal with the difficult issues that we are facing," John P Surma, vice-chairman of the university's board of trustees, announced on Wednesday.

Spanier, one of the longest serving and highest-paid college presidents in the US, was under fire for his handling of allegations that a former assistant football coach sexually abused boys on campus."

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