I think the PSU penalties were appropriate.  I think PSU had a total loss of institutional control probably not equaled in the history of American academe.  However, to call PSU "Rape U" is ridiculous.  And, to implicate the city government is likewise not warranted, at least in terms of the facts that have thus far been revealed.  If you know anything about child sexual abuse, you know that the victims are so ashamed that they very seldom say anything about it until they develop other psychological problems (usually as a result of the repression of the sexual abuse) and it finally comes out in therapy by sensitive questioning at the hands of a very well-trained and astute mental health professional.  As I said in a previous post, this happened to a member of my extended family and I've witnessed the tremendous devastation that this type of abuse can have on a young man.  Sandusky is a monster, and all such monsters need to be exposed and punished as soon as there is evidence of their molestation activities.  The coverup for about a dozen years at PSU is just totally unconscionable. 

Edit:  OK, I just reread your posts and I see that "Rape College" is suppose to refer to "State College" and not PSU.  My comments still stand.  You have no evidence that the victims were talking about this and that city officials were part of the coverup.  This is a very bad situation, but your slanderous comments do nothing to enlighten and only serve to inflame and hurt.

...  I do find it rather astonishing that the PSU board has the balls to fight this, given what the public perception will be.  Obviously there's too much money involved not to.

Try on State Penn, it is far less insulting to the victims.

Feds are investigating Second Mile. We'll see who's making things up.

It would be almost unbelievable if not a single other person in State College knew about this. 

I had no idea we lost the sole of the defense. We might lose a step as a result.

The grammatical skills of that message board [are]... um... questionable at best.

I didn't say everyone knew. But definitely some people knew and no one ever did anything to stop it. And by municipal I didn't mean city government, but rather just a gag on the town. They either didn't want to hurt the football program or they couldn't believe what they heard because they'd always been told the football program was better and more honorable than any other. Either way, there were almost certainly people that didn't report what they knew to the authorities.

And there are still many PSU fans that are in denial, want to fight the NCAA, hell want to leave the NCAA, feel wronged and like the NCAA screwed them and have it out for their own president and board of trustees...it would be a great study for some psych researcher. 

I suspected when this broke that there was a lot more to this. I think if and when someone starts looking under rocks, they'll find out that a lot more people knew or should have known if they had bothered to care than one has been led to believe so far. You can't hide something like this in a small town for more than a decade. Someone will talk and then word spreads like wildfire. Except here...somehow no one had any idea for decades...yeah, bullshit.