Kelly Dolak, a former Penn State student and a current film professor at Ramapo College, sees the Sandusky scandal in a different light than your average outsider. As an alumna, Dolak felt a connection to our student body when the news broke in November, and she set off with her camera to the chaos of State College, unsure of what was to come.
A lawyer has released yet another statement on behalf of the Paterno family, this time calling for the Freeh Group and the PA Attorney General to release emails and records relating to the current investigation. The statement stems from recent criticism of Joe Paterno following a leak of certain emails from Penn State administrators that mention Paterno as being part of the discussion to not report the 2001 Sandusky incident.
The Paterno family has released a statement through their attorney Wick Sollers in response to Friday night's CNN report.
We are Penn State. Well, are we? Do we want to be now? Do we want to have our names tied to this institution that immediately raises eyebrows at the very mention of it? Yeah, I think we still do. Because who really is Penn State? The fact of the matter is that the crimes and the almost-certainly-true-but-technically-alleged coverup, heinous though they were, were committed by just a handful of people, a microscopic portion of the 96,519 students and 17,780 faculty and staff that form the technical makeup of the University.
According to ABC27, Jerry Sandusky will continue to rake in his state pension of over $59,000 while he sits in a Centre County correctional facility.
“Alleged” victims no more. After eight days of testimony and 20 hours of jury deliberation, justice has been served. The path in which we traveled to come to a verdict was so arduous that I’m still mentally processing what happened on Friday evening.