sister of one of the victims is having a tough time as a student at Penn State.

I think this is heartbreaking.

I...can't comment anymore on the Penn stuff.

Suzi, I am so sorry for you and for K-Bug. Good thoughts to you, my dear.

I love HFH generally, but my grandparents were the ones who started the HFH chapter in your fair city, Erin! So I like to read about what they're doing today.

Kate, I am sure they will still be working on it tomorrow. Are your grandparents still with you? I will be happy to take a picture! Heck, I'll take a carafe of hot cocoa down in your grandparents' honor.

At the very least, couldn't this have been reported to campus police for full investigation?

The Penn State campus police are sworn officers, i.e., the same as municipal police, and investigated an incident as early as 1998 in which a mother reported that her 11-year-old son had showered with Sandusky. That case was also referred to the state. The PD reports to Gary Schultz, the VP for finance and business, who was charged with perjury and failure to report. The GA told Schultz directly about the event he witnessed, but Schultz didn't refer it to campus police for investigation.

I need to find a word more appalling than appalling.

I need to find a word more appalling than appalling.

This pretty much sums up my feelings right now.

'm amused that my sorta-hippy-conservationist-organic/peace-corp-naturalist neighbors' wedding celebrations out in the midwest was SO midwestern,

You can take the girl out of the midwest, but you can't take the midwest out of the girl! Roomie (who went to my same high school) and i were just talking about being midwestern at heart the other day (she also lived in DC, and in London).

This morning I wrote, scanned, and sent a letter to your Board of Trustees, reminding them of their responsibilities.

Kick ass, Rick!

The graduate assistant, Mike McQueary, was truthful in his testimony (as far as anybody knows), and didn't have a legal duty to report.

Hmph. Legal duty my ass. I still find it damn sketchy--I mean, bad enough you hear someone tell you "I saw horrible things". But when you're the one who actually SAW the horrible things, you've got a duty...

And, police have started using mace on the students downtown.

OMG. That's....just not right. I mean, first--go home, students. This is not worth protesting. And second--cops? Really? MACE?

OMG. That's....just not right. I mean, first--go home, students. This is not worth protesting. And second--cops? Really? MACE?

The crowd of students has already torn down two streetlights. Seems like the tear gas (or whatever they're using -- is there a difference between tear gas and mace? Different tweeters are using different words) has convinced the students to leave downtown, but they're headed back toward the administration building.

I need to find a word more appalling than appalling.

DITTO

and I am sorry Suzi

The crowd of students just overturned a news van.

I have mixed feelings about the graduate assistant. He told God, in the form of Paterno. He told the guy over the campus police. He may have thought that there was nothing else he could do. What I can't fathom is how he could have continued to work with those people.

I don't understand why he didn't tell the ACTUAL police. Even an anonymous tip would have been better.