{"id":516,"date":"2011-11-10T13:42:59","date_gmt":"2011-11-10T19:42:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.podles.org\/dialogue\/?p=516"},"modified":"2011-11-10T13:48:50","modified_gmt":"2011-11-10T19:48:50","slug":"the-sensitive-students-of-penn-state","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.podles.org\/dialogue\/the-sensitive-students-of-penn-state-516.htm","title":{"rendered":"The Sensitive Students of Penn State"},"content":{"rendered":"

A sister of one of Sandusky\u2019s victims is a student at Penn State. The Patriot-News<\/a> reports<\/p>\n

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In a parallel universe, going to class might be a nice distraction, to get her mind off the chaos surrounding the arrest of the man accused of molesting her brother.<\/span><\/p>\n

But not as a junior at Penn State, where students are making jokes about being \u201cSanduskied.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cI can\u2019t escape it,\u201d said the junior, whose brother was allegedly molested in a shower by former assistant football coach Jerry Sandusky when he was 11. <\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019ve been going to minimal classes, because every class I go to I get sick to my stomach. People are making jokes about it. I understand they don\u2019t know I\u2019m involved and it was my brother, but it\u2019s still really hard to swallow that.\u201d<\/p>\n

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\u201cI\u2019ve just been really upset about it all because a lot of people aren\u2019t focusing on the victims in this,\u201d she said. \u201cAnd instead they\u2019re focusing on other things, like football. As much as you shouldn\u2019t blame the football players … they should be focusing on their respect for the families and what they\u2019ve been through.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

Instead, the outrage on campus has been directed mostly at national media, which descended during the weekend, set up camp and have stayed put as the scandal violently jolts in directions that, each day, seem more unbelievable than the last.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

And here<\/a> and here<\/a> and here<\/a> are the students expressing their opinions about the media. At least, unlike certain Catholic cardinals, the students are not blaming the Jews \u2013 at least not yet. <\/span><\/p>\n

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