Failure with Honor

by rondar11 on Feb 1, 2012 10:04 AM EST

I'm a Penn State alum who took pride in the Success with Honor philosophy the University touted and now am ashamed at the lack of honor displayed by my school.

I don't pretend to know what is in the hearts and minds of other people. Frankly, none of us fellow humans can. But I know this: For Penn State to even be mentioned in the same sentence as something as hideous as a child abuse scandal, mistakes had to have been made.

Further mistakes, I believe, were made in how Coach Paterno was fired and the subsequent public relations damage control conducted by the University administrators and the Board of Trustees. There is no honor in any of the actions after the scandal broke, only slimy behavior intent on covering one's self interests.

As the parent of two young boys, I teach my kids everyone makes mistakes. When you make a mistake, however, you need to take responsibility for your actions and try to improve for next time.

Penn State leadership needs to stand up and do better. . It's the only way anything positive can come from this dark time. Honor is not just something to be displayed when trying to achieve success. It is possible to fail and to handle one's self with honor too.

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Welcome.

After reading this column, I wouldn’t hold my breath.

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by leeharvey418 on Feb 1, 2012 10:09 AM EST reply actions 1 recs

I think that's what pisses me off the most

the “unanimous” thing.

1. I doubt it. I’m sure the exec board said here’s how it is, anyone not want to be on the board any more? Or they said, if it’s not unanimous, the governor will slash our funding to nothing. But it wasn’t unanimous.
2. Just because this dude is trumpeting the decision as “unanimous” doesn’t mean it was correct or handled well.

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by Tailgate Shogun on Feb 1, 2012 6:03 PM EST up reply actions 1 recs

THIS!!!

Should be a separate fanshot. This guy had me at “Lanny Davis should shut his pie hole”
As I said earlier, the sentence that I saw he babbled to the press was disjointed enough that I would have asked him to take a sobriety test.

by cs93 on Feb 1, 2012 7:20 PM EST up reply actions

Let me just say that....

I am not “new” to this Blog and I am for the Victim’s Rights and I deplore any kind of sexual abuse and having had to say that, I know that the vote on Joe was NOT unanimous, but was made unanimous to provide a united front for tBOT and lastly, Lanny Davis is a no good, back-pedalling, lying son of a bitch….that is all for now.

" The Truth, the whole Truth, and nothing but the TRUTH, so help me God."

by DerryPharmer on Feb 1, 2012 11:12 AM EST reply actions 6 recs

All for now?

Please, please tell me that you’re willing to go on at length about what a sack of crap Davis is. I bet BSD Wentworth will be perfectly willing to defend you if Davis gets all litigious on your ass. …if not, I’ll kick in for your defense.

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by leeharvey418 on Feb 1, 2012 11:36 AM EST up reply actions

Thanks.....

Lanny and I are both “public figures” so we can both be slanderous and libelous without regard to litigation. Now as regards to “kicking in” for my defense, I might have to take you up on that simply due to the fact that I don’t have the Times backing me in any way, shape or form. And whom are you to believe anyways, The DerryPharmer or that lying “sack of crap”?

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by DerryPharmer on Feb 1, 2012 12:12 PM EST up reply actions 1 recs

Leave the sack out of this.

"We gon' get down. We gon' do the do. I'm going to hit these mother****ers" - Dock Ellis, May 1, 1974.

by OctaShields on Feb 1, 2012 2:10 PM EST up reply actions

You're right.

My comment was disparaging to sacks of crap everywhere, and for that I am sorry.

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by leeharvey418 on Feb 1, 2012 2:14 PM EST up reply actions 1 recs

Do we know what public figure you are?

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by misdreavus79 on Feb 1, 2012 5:31 PM EST up reply actions

Not to nitpick

But a better title would have been Failure Without Honor

"We gon' get down. We gon' do the do. I'm going to hit these mother****ers" - Dock Ellis, May 1, 1974.

by OctaShields on Feb 1, 2012 2:09 PM EST reply actions 2 recs

Agreed. As it is, I sincerely thought this thread was going to be about PSU basketball

Because they’re not winning much, but you’ve got to love their effort and what Pat Chambers is doing, right?

by reedjohnmiller on Feb 1, 2012 7:51 PM EST reply actions

Ouch...

Penn State has a long tradition of sucking at Men’s basketball. In the 80’s and early 90’s you could pick any 5 starters from the football team and they would have beaten the varsity b-ball team…at basketball.

Losing a game is heartbreaking. Losing your sense of excellence or worth is a tragedy.

by 87Townie on Feb 2, 2012 1:45 PM EST up reply actions

I know

I grew up here. In the 80s we used to get into games free with our Cub Scout uniform (not every game, just the special ones). Back then PSU was a crappy to mid-table team in a crappy conference. Now they’re a crappy to mid-table team in a good conference, so they’ve made progress.

by reedjohnmiller on Feb 2, 2012 3:57 PM EST reply actions 1 recs