Analysis Paper
Professor Brook Business Society and Ethics
1st Analysis Paper - Penn State Scandal
On June 2012, Jerry Sandusky, former assistant Penn State football coach, was found guilty for 45 of the 48 charges of sexual abuse of young boys over a 15 year period. He was previously known as a notable college football coach who wrote several books and even founded The Second Mile, a nonprofit charity serving Pennsylvania underprivileged and at risk youth. This scandal deeply affected the whole Penn State community but also the entire state of Pennsylvania, victims and their families, and the general public. It was a media frenzy and many were shocked to hear about the corruption that was going on at Penn State. One of the greatest football organizations in the country was slowly collapsing more and more each day. Cover up’s facilitated by Joe Paterno (Penn States head football coach), Graham Spanier (President of the Penn State), Gary Schultz (Penn State Vice President) and Tim Curley (Penn State Athletic Director) was shocking to uncover. Overall the scandal revealed many ethical problems going on at Penn State that effected many people directly and indirectly which is extremely hard to swallow.
One may ask what are the ethical issues that are presented in the scandal and who really are the stakeholders? When discussing ethics one must understand that not everyone holds the same ethical standards as one another. Ethics is something that does not have a definite definition rather something that is very subjective based on one’s own morals and what they believe to be as right and wrong. In the case of the Sandusky scandal one of the ethical issues that had been brought up was, why did Joe and others in Penn State admiration, that had knowledge of what was going on with Sandusky not properly handled and report it? This is not a simple question to answer because we don’t truly know what they really were thinking but we can make speculations of the reason they with
1st Analysis Paper - Penn State Scandal
On June 2012, Jerry Sandusky, former assistant Penn State football coach, was found guilty for 45 of the 48 charges of sexual abuse of young boys over a 15 year period. He was previously known as a notable college football coach who wrote several books and even founded The Second Mile, a nonprofit charity serving Pennsylvania underprivileged and at risk youth. This scandal deeply affected the whole Penn State community but also the entire state of Pennsylvania, victims and their families, and the general public. It was a media frenzy and many were shocked to hear about the corruption that was going on at Penn State. One of the greatest football organizations in the country was slowly collapsing more and more each day. Cover up’s facilitated by Joe Paterno (Penn States head football coach), Graham Spanier (President of the Penn State), Gary Schultz (Penn State Vice President) and Tim Curley (Penn State Athletic Director) was shocking to uncover. Overall the scandal revealed many ethical problems going on at Penn State that effected many people directly and indirectly which is extremely hard to swallow.
One may ask what are the ethical issues that are presented in the scandal and who really are the stakeholders? When discussing ethics one must understand that not everyone holds the same ethical standards as one another. Ethics is something that does not have a definite definition rather something that is very subjective based on one’s own morals and what they believe to be as right and wrong. In the case of the Sandusky scandal one of the ethical issues that had been brought up was, why did Joe and others in Penn State admiration, that had knowledge of what was going on with Sandusky not properly handled and report it? This is not a simple question to answer because we don’t truly know what they really were thinking but we can make speculations of the reason they with