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Happy Valley was in bedlam early today as angry, chanting students ran amok in a bizarre climax to an unforgettable day that ended with the unthinkable: the firing of football legend Joe Paterno.<\/p>\n

Chanting \u201cJoe Pa-ter-no!\u201d and \u201cOne More Game!\u201d students raced to the stately Old Main administration building to express their anger that the winningest coach in major-college football history was out \u2013 fallout from the child-sex scandal involving his former top assistant, Jerry Sandusky.<\/p>\n

More than 1,000 students rioted and rallied at Old Main and on frat-house-lined Beaver Avenue. Riot cops, fire trucks and ambulances were on hand after midnight, amid reports that tear gas was being used to disperse the crowd.<\/p>\n

\nDemonstrators overturned a TV news van, toppled street lights, shook stop signs and threw toilet paper. From rooftops and in the streets, they yelled \u201cF\u2014 Sandusky!\u201d and \u201cWe Want JoePa!\u201d\n

The campus chaos began shortly after 10 p.m. with the announcement by the board of trustees that Paterno, 84, who had said earlier in the day that he would retire at the end of the season, was instead fired over the phone and denied a chance to end his career on the playing field.<\/p>\n

The trustees also accepted a letter of resignation from longtime president Graham Spanier, who was making $800,000 a year at the end of a 16-year run in which he\u2019d raised the academic profile of the state\u2019s largest academic institution.<\/p>\n

As for reports of campus unrest at Paterno\u2019s ouster, John Surma, vice chairman of the board of trustees, said he hoped everyone would realize that the board\u2019s action was for the best: \u201cBecause of the difficulties that engulfed our university \u2013 and they are grave \u2013 it was necessary to make a change in leadership.\u201d<\/p>\n

It was the shock-and-awe conclusion to a day of bombshells that made Penn State\u2019s hometown feel less like a bucolic mountainside oasis of pigskin-flavored academia and more like a foreign capital in the throes of revolution.<\/p>\n

via Bedlam erupts on Penn State campus | Philadelphia Daily News | 11\/10\/2011<\/a>.<\/p>\n

From this news report, it appears that some of the students were rioting in support of Paterno, while others may have been rioting over the sexual abuse.\u00a0 So people with opposite causes were rioting together.\u00a0 How monstrous this all is.<\/p><\/div>\n<\/blockquote><\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"