Tuesday, October 29, 2013
Penn State
A recent article showed that penn state is paying about 60 million dollars to the families and victims of the boys impacted in the sandusky case .
http://espn.go.com/college-football/story/_/id/9893588/penn-state-nittany-lions-pay-26-victims-jerry-sandusky-597-million
My question is, why does money make up for something that can impact these people the rest of their lives. When someone dies how does money being paid to them make up for it? I think that is a problem that people can be bought. I'm not saying i cant be bought, because i love money as well. But i think this is just weird to think about.
Matt Kees
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I do not think that money makes up for what happened to the victims at Penn State. I think that it is the university's way of saving face in a sense because they were at fault in the whole situation. I also disagree with the idea that money makes up for someone dying because money could never take the place of someone's life. I also think that this can be a problem that people receive money to just "forget" about situations.
ReplyDeleteI don't think its right to think of someone being "paid off" for the horrible things that happened at Penn State. However, most of (if not all) of the families of the victims, victims, etc. all sat down with their lawyer(s) before appearing in court. While I personally don't believe money takes the place of a life either, Im sure these people went into the situation for a SETTLEMENT payment that they felt would be sufficient for their suffering. I guess one could look at the situation and think its like coming out of the situation with something as opposed to nothing at all. Its a tricky situation and could possible vary on the outcome depending on the individual. Overall the whole thing is a very sad situation and shouldn't have happened in my opinion.
ReplyDeleteI honestly believe that this whole case was messed up. I feel like the NCAA punished the wrong people by taking away scholarships and punishing the players by banning them from bowls. It wasn't the players fault that they had disgusting pigs as coaches. The people (coaches, athletic director, president, etc) were all fired or quit and had no part of the school or athletic program anymore yet they still felt the need to punish the team which in the end was punish the players who were not at fault. The money part is a way that the University can apologize because saying sorry doesn't mean anything really. Neither should money but its showing that the University is serious about their apologies and their wrong-doings.
ReplyDeleteI don't think that money can make up for harm that people have done. In this case I feel that the money can't make up for the emotional effect on the rest of the families lives. I agree with Logan in that Penn state was trying to make their university look better. But with someone dying I feel that money can lift some financial burdens off the families even though the emotional stress may still be there.
ReplyDeleteNo family will ever say that the money they get from a settlement makes up for the loss of their loved one. It is not shameful or morally wrong to seek a settlement. It's not that they are being bought, its more like the only thing the institution has to offer the families to even remotely begin seek their forgiveness. Giving financial reward for pain and suffering is a way to accept that an extreme wrongdoing has occurred and that they apologize for what has happened.
ReplyDeleteI feel the university is obligated to do something. That something is money. I don't think its wrong to offer the families this money because it shows that they do care and seek to help these families. Its basically wrong not to help these families in some way. Sometimes the best way is financially
ReplyDeleteI agree with ET there is not a whole lot the univeristy can do to help the victims at this point other than ensuring it will not happen to anyone ever again and that those people who were responsible have been brought to justice. All those who were involved from Jerry Sandusky, Gary Schultz and Tim Curley and even Joe Patterno. The monetary amount that they received pails in comparison to the justice being done and as Kyle said the NCAA should not have even been involved in this Why is it the current players on Penn State responsible for these atrocities that have been committed when most of them were barely able to walk when these crimes were going on
ReplyDeleteWith the issues that happened at Penn State, there is no amount of money or anything in the world that can take back what happened to those people. That is somehting that they have to live with for the rest of their lives and will haunt them. With being offered large amounts of money, is the colleges way of trying to say that they are deeply sorry for the occurances and what took place and they know that they cant take back what happened but maybe with money it could help those that were affected start a life and get away from the things that remind them of that and live a great life.
ReplyDeleteThe Penn State situation was horrific and tragic. Those affected will never be able to lead a normal life again. Jerry Sandusky took that from them. Money cannot solve this issue but it can give a way for the college to "save face." Also, the NCAA wants to send a message to this institution and others so that it will never happen again. In the end, money always talks and makes people listen. It is sad, but our society uses money to value how bad this situation was by imposing unprecedented fines and penalties to the college.
ReplyDeleteI completely understand where you are coming from. I feel that it is shallow that people can be bought but at the same time I feel that I could be bought as well. People say that money can't buy happiness, and I still think this is true. I feel that money doesn't buy you happiness but it about to distract you from strains that one might have in their life.
ReplyDeleteThis is such a sad and shocking story, and i think that the money only makes it worse. These victims were weighed in the balance and their worth was labeled with a price. To me this just seems callous. It also seems that it would hinder the victims' attempts to overcome their trauma because the money would always be there reminding them of what happened to them and how a price was placed on their head. In such situations it seems to me the only thing that can be done is to bring justice to the perpetrator and peace of mind to the victims that their tormentor can no longer hurt them.
ReplyDeleteI feel that there isn't really a way that Penn State can properly alleviate what has been done in the Sandusky scandal. As Matt mentioned, people love money though, therefore Penn State paying the victims of the scandal is one of the very few ways that they can move forward from this incident. One could say that it is well deserved that they pay the large amounts of grievance allowances to the victims due to the failure of being proactive when the issue was first mentioned in the athletics dept.
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