DLA-Penn State Scandal

While this scandal has been all over the news, it took a breakdown from my 332I class to understand exactly what was going on and exactly who was involved; and
now it seems this is all anybody ca talk about. First of all it was a set of
horrible crimes that were committed against young children, but it was followed
but a second, also disturbing act of cover up by members of the Athletic
Department at Penn State. I find this scandal disgusting because these men were
put in positions of power and they abused it against the most innocent members
of our society. Now only Sandusky committed rape and molestation but the other
people involved failed to act and protect the children involved. Social media
has played a huge part in the delivering of news to people, especially via sites
like Twitter, Facebook, blogs, etcetera. People all over the web have added
their opinions. However, the social media is focusing on things like the Penn
State students being upset and petitioning, and honestly, who cares? I bet not
one of those students petitioning was ever molested by Sandusky. The thing that
social media needs to be focusing on is justice, and standing up for the rights
of these children, because if this were any other group of men, aside from the
athletic department from Penn State, everyone would be outraged. Again, these
men were in positions of power and abused that power (as a form of deviance)
because they did not want to bring a scandal on to the Penn State University,
even though now its the biggest scandal of the decade thus far. As a way of
overconforming, people did not report to the authorities but did the minimum as
far as what they thought was right. Media has now come inand blown this
scandal was up. I think from a interactionist framework one might look at this
scandal and say that it is not that these individuals lack a moral code, but we
need to look at the biggest picture and understand that they may have been
overconforming to protect the institution. Now, this is not to say that this is
right, or any one of these men are not to blame, but it is saying that all the
blame does not fall on these individual's moral compasses. Instead, it is the
dynamics and structure of the organization they have at Penn State, and the fact
that that entire organization failed. As for Sandusky, he abused the power he
had, and abused the relationships he had developed with these children. He has
tainted their self-image, and probably ruined the meaning they had put in to
sports.


Danae Delfin
Kin 332I
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**sorry this is duplicate, forgot to put my name on the first one