Topic: Decline of the West
Here’s yet another reason to go back and read George Orwell’s great essay on sport:
Bedlam erupts on Penn State campus
STATE COLLEGE - Happy Valley was in bedlam early today as angry, chanting students ran amok in a bizarre climax to an unforgettable day that ended with the unthinkable: the firing of football legend Joe Paterno.
Chanting "Joe Pa-ter-no!" and "One More Game!" students raced to the stately Old Main administration building to express their anger that the winningest coach in major-college football history was out - fallout from the child-sex scandal involving his former top assistant, Jerry Sandusky.
More than 1,000 students rioted and rallied at Old Main and on frat-house-lined Beaver Avenue. Riot cops, fire trucks and ambulances were on hand after midnight, amid reports that tear gas was being used to disperse the crowd.
Demonstrators overturned a TV news van, toppled street lights, shook stop signs and threw toilet paper. From rooftops and in the streets, they yelled "F--- Sandusky!" and "We Want JoePa!"
Bear in mind that these students, so called, are rioting over football. Even Occupy Wall Street has a more respectable list of grievences than that.
You know what I want? For colleges and universities to stop acting like sports franchises and start behaving like institutions of higher learning. At a time when the value of a college education is being devalued at a rapid rate even as college costs soar, is that really too much to ask?
