& Penn State has preached openness since the aftermath of the tumultuous November. I believe a part of this openness is taking accountability for the riots after the Board of Trustees announced Joe Paterno's high profile and highly criticized removal Nov. 9.
&& It was their announcement on that ill-fated Wednesday night that directly triggered the riot.
&& If the announcement was made in the morning, I doubt any havoc would have ensued — leaving the emotionally ragged, emotionally wound, "media-pissed" and riot-eager students subdued. These students acted irrationally and immaturely, but so did the trustees.
&& If we are funding the legal fees for the officials involved in the scandal, the least our school can do is cover the damage to the borough from the riots that they incited.
&& More lives than necessary were ruined in November, but education is meant to cultivate students to avoid such atrocities, not to make them victims of the idiocy of where their elders failed them.
&& Help the students who made mistakes, and stop making them scapegoats for your failures as trustees.
&& Joseph Domino
&& senior - recreation, park and tourism management
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