Unless you attend Penn State, you cannot imagine the emotions that are flooding the hearts and minds of thousands of students, alumni, faculty and staff right now. When the campus you love, the place you call home, and the college you have so much pride for changes before your very eyes because of decisions made “in the best interest of the university,” you don’t know how to react. Within hours, our school has been judged, talked about, and cast in a negative light because of one man, Jerry Sandusky’s, horrifying and unforgiveable actions. ONE man. Jerry Sandusky does not represent the 95,000 students that attend Penn State. Jerry Sandusky does not define who ‘We Are’ – We Are a school that arose from “founders strong and great,” We Are a school that will always “Sing our love and loyalty,” and We Are so much more than what Facebook, Twitter, and the news media have made us out to be. We Are Penn State and we grieve for the victims of this unimaginable act. So before people who don’t get it, who don’t understand Penn State post a status or tweet a message about what they ‘think’ they know – consider the emotions of the victims directly affected right now. Turn your accusatory thoughts about us into prayers for them; We Are and so should everyone else. I will never stop being a proud Nittany Lion and will always be “For the Glory of Old State.”
