A remarkable piece of news indeed

1) I remark that the protesters attacked a TV crew. (Of course, if this had been in, say, Pakistan, someone would be calling them terrorists already now. British press is already calling this a "riot"...) They seem to instinctively know where the enemy is - even though it is not really the crew in the van who is responsible, but their bosses who sent them there and who sponsor the bile they can pass for coverage while on camera.

2) This is what happens with mandatory reporting laws. Instead of increasing the visibility of abuse, they decrease it. Without them, it is likelier that the university offices would have investigated deeper into the affair so as to make up their minds whether to report it or not. With them, it becomes easier for everyone to cover up - you save yourselves ANY kind of investigation and appear to comply. That's theoretically a virtue in a consensual case, but the obvious problems are that coverups happen in abusive cases too, and that it also means that cases, whether abusive or consensual that are discovered anyway many years later (such as this one) become harder to contain.

3) It is very refreshing that a significant number of college aged men and women don't give a sh*t about immoral laws.

4) It is very revealing that it is the Department of Education who is pursuing the procedures against the school which have been the direct cause of all the firings. What the hell this has to do with education, one can only wonder. This has no influence on the academic quality of PSU, and if it has an influence on the athletic quality, one would presume that it is a positive one, given what the numbers say.

5) Of course, needless to say, the Occupy movement has time and again spoken against the huge inflation in college tuition prices. Is anyone surprised of this inflation - given that, even at no improvement in academic quality, and no improvement in athletic quality, colleges now have to spend millions of dollars in armies of lawyers to all comply with mandatory reporting, or make a cover up, and in both cases cover their asses against subsequent lawsuits? This regulatory compliance is costing entire generations of Americans (and anyone foreign who wants to study in the USA) the largest debt of their lives, which is now helping depress the American economy. F* them! Really really F* them!