Penn State - Clery Act

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Penn State - Clery Act

Postby nerd on Sat Jul 14, 2012 4:39 pm

The NCAA's death penalty may be the least of Penn State's worries right now.

http://sports.yahoo.com/blogs/ncaaf-dr- ... ncaaf.html

The issue at hand is Penn State's compliance (or lack thereof) with the Clery Act. The Clery Act requires that any public or private university that receives federal financial aid publicly report any crime on or near campus.

The federal government enacted the Clery Act in 1990 and Penn State adopted it in 1991 by designating a member of the university police to be the act's coordinator. However, according to the Freeh report, an independent investigation of the Penn State scandal by former FBI investigator Louis Freeh, Penn State did not train the officer to enforce the act until 2007, six years after Penn State graduate assistant Mike McQueary reported seeing Sandusky in the Penn State locker room showers with a young boy.

The Freeh report also stated that Penn State's "awareness and interest" in Clery Act compliance was "significantly lacking." And according to the report, no record of McQueary's observation of Sandusky in the shower with a young boy exists despite the fact that he reported the matter to coach Joe Paterno and subsequently athletic director Tim Curley and vice president Gary Schultz.

The Department of Education has stated that it is looking into the findings from the Freeh report, but declined to make any other public comments about the matter. But if the DOE were to come down on Penn State, it could remove the university's accreditation and prohibit students from obtaining Pell Grants and federal student loans. In essence, it would cripple Penn State's ability to be a viable institution.


People talk about what the death penalty would do to all the local businesses in State College, but that's only 7 Saturdays a year. A punishment this severe would pretty much destroy the economy in Central PA. And with Pennsylvania being a key swing state, and the shitty economy being the primary election issue, Obama would be the world's most retarded person to allow the Department of Education to do this.
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