Nov. 16 (Bloomberg) -- On Sept. 11 I watched as so many
good people put their lives in peril to save others, and I
wondered whether I would have had the courage to do the same. I
doubt it. But there were no burning towers at Penn State. Doing
the right thing to protect a small boy would have taken very
little.
Yet, according to a 23-page grand jury report, no one did -
- certainly not Mike McQueary, who told the grand jury that when
he was a graduate assistant back in 2002 he had witnessed former
Penn State defensive coach Jerry Sandusky sodomizing a boy in a
shower. McQueary, a strapping former football player, lacked the
guts to stop the alleged rape in progress. But why was he
incapable of picking up the phone and dialing 911? (In an email
attributed to McQueary and leaked, he said he did indeed stop
the abuse, although it’s unclear how. “I did stop it,” the email
reads, “not physically ... but made sure it was stopped when I
left that locker room.”)
