In terms of the immediate fallout from Sandusky’s indictment, no event was more momentous than Penn State’s dismissal of the legendary Joe Paterno, who had worked at the university for 61 years and was head coach for 46 seasons. Sexual abuse scandals have continued to surface at major universities around the country - including in Los Angeles. Yet it’s difficult to assert that the punishment served as a deterrent. Within a year, Sandusky received what amounted to a life sentence in prison, the NCAA imposed unprecedented sanctions on Penn State, and major college football’s winningest coach had been unceremoniously fired. The scandal that unfolded 10 years ago this month had a profound effect on countless lives, none more so than those of the boys Sandusky abused. Some of the assaults occurred at Penn State’s football building, to which Sandusky still had access after his retirement in 1999. 5, 2011, on charges of molesting eight boys he had met through his Second Mile charity over a span of more than a decade. The former Penn State assistant football coach was arrested in Centre County, Pa., on Nov. It’s hard to think of a more shameful act than what Jerry Sandusky did.” “People put more emphasis on that line now.

“There’s a line that says, ‘May no act of ours bring shame, to one heart that loves thy name,’ ” said Oplinger, a high school teacher in Camden, N.J.

When 2011 graduate Michael Oplinger attended games in recent years, he noticed something different about the inflection people bring to a single line in the song, written more than a century ago. It’s a tradition meant to promote unity and school pride. Before and after football games at Penn State, many in the crowd of 100,000-plus at Beaver Stadium join to sing the university’s alma mater.

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