[net-gold] EDUCATION: COLLEGE: ADMINISTRATION : SPORTS: FOOTBALL: COLLEGE : CRIMES AND CRIMINALS: CHILD SEXUAL ABUSE : SPORTS: ORGANIZATIONS: How 'Culture' Became a Scapegoat For The Powerful at PSU
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- Date: Tue, 31 Jul 2012 06:51:42 -0400 (EDT)
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How 'Culture' Became a Scapegoat For The Powerful at PSU
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How 'Culture' Became a Scapegoat For The Powerful at PSU
By CORY RODGERS
Pittsburgh and Somerset
8:14 p.m. EDT, July 30, 2012
Daily American
http://www.dailyamerican.com/opinion/columns/da-ot-how-culture-
became-a-scapegoat-for-the-powerful-at-psu-20120730,0,4162108.story
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A shorter URL for the above link:
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http://tinyurl.com/cza6dz4
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What the report does not suggest are the punitive sanctions that the NCAA
has imposed against the entire PSU football program. By imposing these
unprecedented sanctions, the NCAA is already stretching its bylaws. Such a
move would be commendable if it were done for the sake of bolstering
ethical integrity. But why didn't the NCAA follow the experts' suggestions
in the Freeh Report?
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NCAA President Mark Emmert handed down the sanctions based on limitations
determined by the Executive Committee and the Division I Board of
Directors. One of the limitations was that Emmert could not make demands
to which PSU would not agree, an arrangement known as a consent decree.
Furthermore, Emmert's options were limited to fines, win-loss record
adjustments, scholarship restrictions, and integrity commitments, among
very few others.
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These limitations effectively castrated Emmert, leaving him impotent to do
anything more than impose crippling and unfocused penalties against the
entirety of PSU's football program.
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The NCAA could have demanded meaningful changes in PSU's institutional
structure and operations. They could have imposed specific sanctions
against administrators as they have against coaches in the past who
failed to uphold a minimal standard of ethical responsibility. While the
judicial courts are responsible for prosecuting crimes within the justice
system, the NCAA could have made sure that a tragedy like the Sandusky
scandal doesn't happen again. It could have made the Freeh report's
policy suggestions a reality throughout the institutions under NCAA
jurisdiction.
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Why didn't this happen?
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Enter "culture."
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Nomenclatural accuracy may seem trivial, but the NCAA's recent actions
demonstrate what happens when words like "culture" get thrown around
carelessly.
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Rather than thoughtfully address the nuances of institutional and
community culture at PSU, the NCAA has appropriated a vague
conceptualization of "culture" for its own purposes. It has distributed
the failure of a small group of administrators across an entire university
and its misguided "culture."
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In a July 13 article titled "NCAA better sanction administrators," ESPN
writer Jay Bilas wrote, "The NCAA never, and I mean never, takes action
against one of its own, a university president." Instead of calling out
administrators by name, or readjusting the power dynamics that allowed
these individuals to cover up Sandusky's misconduct, the NCAA has placed
blame on a new scapegoat: the anonymous "culture" of football at PSU.
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The complete article may be read at the URL above.
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Sincerely,
David Dillard
Temple University
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