Joe Paterno

Jerry Sandusky was considered an excellent citizen to the community during his tenure as an assistant coach at Penn State. He assisted under head coach Joe Paterno and founded a charitable organization that helped disadvantaged youth; unfortunately, he was a serial child rapist (Crandall, Parnell, & Spillan, 2013). The general public wished someone had known of his actions, when in fact, there were people at the University how did and they performed internal investigations. Reviewing notes and…

an assistant coach under Paterno for thirty years and had been a regular visitor to the football team's facilities for years following the 2002 incident, Paterno had not spoken to him or confronted him about the accusation. This falls within the apologia strategy of reducing offensiveness. This lack of communication from Paterno added to the controversy surrounding the case and raised questions about institutional responsibility and accountability. Claiming that Paterno never mentioned this…

The athletic director Tim Curley and Joe Paterno, head football coach at the time, worked closely with Sandusky, heard allegations, and failed to report the suspected child abuse. They failed to maintain the duty they had to have a safe environment on campus for students by not pressuring an investigation and allowing Sandusky to continue working there. Paterno himself said before he passed away, “With the benefit of hindsight, I wish I had done more…

In the play Oedipus the King by Sophocles many different characters go and visit the Oracle at Delphi. The Oracle that Oedipus went to offers advice or a prophecy that has come directly from the gods. Before the play had even begun, Oedipus went to the oracle to receive advice about where his family came from. This is stated in the text where it said “the god dismissed by question with reply; he spoke of other things. Some were unbearable: as that I should lie with my own mother… and that I…

season which some people including myself thought he should stay until the end of the season. It’s rare for a coach of Spurrier’s caliber to just walk away. Other legendary coaches have been criticized for staying to long. The names Bobby Bowden and Joe Paterno come to mind. How many times in business,…

Even though both universities are involved in sexual assault scandals, when comparing both Penn State and Baylor university's cases I came to the conclusion that there should be a difference in disciplinary action. Reviewing Penn State scandal, on November 4, 2011, a grand jury report was released containing testimony that former Penn State defensive coordinator Jerry Sandusky sexually abused eight young boys over a period of at least 15 years. On July 23, 2012, The NCAA announces a $60 million…

Vestibule, is not considered a circle of Hell. This part contains the people that took no side, good or bad. The neutrals were indifferent and chose to live life for nothing. A good example of someone to be put in Vestibule is Joe Paterno, former coach for the Penn State football team. Joe witnessed the events of Jerry Sandusky sexually abusing the football players and said nothing. On the other hand, he also did not participate in the event. This is a perfect example of someone who is neither…

Organizational Conflict “Organizational conflict, or workplace conflict, is a state of discord caused by the actual or perceived opposition of needs, values and interests between people working together” (“Organizational conflict – Wikipedia,” n.d., n.p.). Conflict within an organization is going to happen, the important part of conflict is how the situation was handled and preserved by employees and in some cases the customers. This paper will use the Penn State/Jerry Sandusky scandal to…

Same Traits Different Outcomes in Leadership Leadership is a long researched, studied theme in Organisational Psychology. However, looking at the recent incidents that took various organisations to a huge failure, it is seen that leadership does not only have a bright side. These failures mostly show that destructive leadership is an important reason for them to happen (Thoroughgood, Padilla, Hunter & Tate, 2012). As Goldman (2009) indicates, organisations have started to assess potential…

In today’s world, violence is increasing. Whether it be about race, or species, it needs to be stopped. As of 2015, 776 people have been killed by police in the United States, where only 161 of them have been unarmed. Also in 2015, a thirteen year old lion was brutally hunted and murdered. This death of a lion, has had more publicity than the 161 murders of unarmed black men and women. This shows the type of society we live in, where an animal has more outrage than a human. When a black person…