"Paternoville" renamed "Nittanyville" at Penn State

A photo is taped to a rock in the "Paternoville" encampment outside Beaver Stadium in the wake of the Jerry Sandusky scandal on November 11, 2011 in State College, Pennsylvania. "Paternoville" has been renamed "Nittanyville." / Photo by Mario Tama/Getty Images

(AP) STATE COLLEGE, Pa. - Paternoville will now be Nittanyville.

The Penn State student group that manages the area outside Beaver Stadium where students camp out for prime football tickets has changed the name of the tent city that spouts up the week before home games in Happy Valley.

The also-renamed Nittanyville Coordination Committee said Monday that student officers decided the name change would "return the focus to the overall team and the thousands of students who support it."

Late coach Joe Paterno was fired in November soon after his former assistant, Jerry Sandusky, was charged with child sexual abuse. Sandusky awaits sentencing after being convicted last month of abusing 10 boys. He has maintained his innocence.

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An independent investigation led by former FBI Director Louis Freeh released a report last week that concluded Paterno and other top Penn State administrators concealed Sandusky's abuse to shield the university from bad publicity.

On its website, the student organization that runs makeshift campgrounds said that "since it was unlikely another coach would stay as long as Coach Paterno had, changing the name for each new coach would be impractical."

"Now, it's a new era of Nittany Lion football," committee President Troy Weller said in a statement released Monday. "And by changing the name to Nittanyville we want to return the focus to the overall team and the thousands of students who support it. We thank the Paterno family for their gracious assistance and support over the last several years."

Students at this year's encampment plan to donate some fundraising proceeds to a child abuse prevention and treatment center.

The tent city was dubbed Paternoville in 2005, and the student organizing group became an official university organization, recognized by the office of student affairs, the following year.

[KnowerseekerReturns]

I think "Lionville" would be more catchy.

[dustin93sc]

Liberace said that homosexuals like Mark Emmert practice a two-faced policy. He ridicules Penn State University without revealing his preference for sexual favors from young male prostitutes.

[rightontarget]

by canislupus16 July 17, 2012 1:44 PM EDT
Oh_Come_on_Already [really]
"Paterno did nothing wrong."
Paterno only engaged in the cover-up and protecting Sandusky, and failed to follow up. Actually, my latter point is moot; of course he didn't follow up with appropriate law enforcement because he was neck deep in helping orchestrate the cover-up. Other than covering up and protecting a pedophile, I suppose you're right.
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You are an idiot! You and other "Jock Haters" only feel good about yourselves when you are tearing someone else down. So I guess you must have been one of the kids who was always picked LAST at sports?(No I am NOT a "jock" and totally hated Phys Ed all during my school years.) Still, nobody knows that Joe did anything to cover anything up. So he had a "conversation" with the administration? Jeeze, they probably already had discussed amongst themselves how to save the school's reputation and had to explain to Joe their reasoning. It WASN'T Joe's call to make. The "Godfathers" of that college just threw him under the bus to save themselves and their own reputations.
I feel sorry for Joe Paterno and his family. Obviously you know NOTHING about how things were in those days. Back in that day and time there were LOTS of claims of sexual harrassment, molestation and whatever both true and false. (Lots of people seeking "revenge" on someone would make a claim that they "knew" or "saw" something.) Some people were actually convicted of such things and did jail time when in fact they never did anything at all. (Next step, law suit) My employer at the time sent all of us employees to a seminar on the subject and we were INSTRUCTED to report any and all of these cases to our Human Resources or Corporate Administration. That's what we were SUPPOSED to do. Especially if you did not WITNESS the situation yourself. (lots of law suits were flying around back then) McQueary on the other hand professes to have WITNESSED something. HE could have done something. He SHOULD have done something. He wasn't in fear of losing his job. He was a lousey little "assistant" coach who wasn't even very good at that and was going nowhere and he knew it. Joe had said himself that he did not feel qualified to deal with the situation and was not familiar enough with the proper procedures, so he turned it over to people he TRUSTED to have it INVESTIGATED and see that justice was done. THEY are the ones who did NOTHING.

[pcfogarty]

Took me so long to log in I almost forgot what I wanted to say . At any rate . Yes they have had to change the names on other things as well. Trying to blot out such a sordid episode in that schools history is not going to be easy . Elements of it will continue to leak out from time to time , but eventually it will be put behind them , though , always to remain a very sad historical memory .

[OHwhy]

Wow really? He covered up stuff? Any proof of that? Because no one has any. Otherwise he would have been charged.

None of you mutton heads know any of the facts. And it WASN'T PATERNO WHO WAS THE MOLESTOR!!! HELLOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!

No, you people are wrong and are talking from complete and total ignorance.

[KnowerseekerReturns]

They're probably building the case against him. Either way, his estate will probably be sued.

[Silveron74]

What did Paterno get out of this? Nothing! Why the witch hunt against him? Let him be already! Why not go after the parents of the molested children that knew, why not go after the counselors, the school teachers, the DA, Jerry's wife, social services, etc..

Why? Because Jo is an easy target, he cannot speak now. All he did as dedicate his life to this school and the tens of thousands of kids he HELPED. Joe did not abuse these children nor did he enable Jerry to continue molesting.

I'm so freakin' tired of these one-sentence nasty comments about Joe and PSU. Leave it alone already!

Continue picking at a scab and it will never heal. Let it go so that PSU and the State College community can move on.

[OHwhy]

Well said, thank you.

[KnowerseekerReturns]

That's not what the investigative report says.

[Oh_Come_on_Already]

That's odd, I didn't know Paterno was a molestor, I thought that was sandusky.

Maybe everyone needs to get off the witch hunt. Paterno did nothing wrong.

Go after the one who actually molesting. DUH!

Can only tell that no one really has the info on this at all.

Penn State would be another small town university that people rarely hear of if it were not for Paterno. give the guy a break.

Oh and BTW, I was molested as a child, so shut the F up!

[canislupus16]

Oh_Come_on_Already [really]

"Paterno did nothing wrong."

Paterno only engaged in the cover-up and protecting Sandusky, and failed to follow up. Actually, my latter point is moot; of course he didn't follow up with appropriate law enforcement because he was neck deep in helping orchestrate the cover-up. Other than covering up and protecting a pedophile, I suppose you're right.

Then, let's not overlook the fact that Paterno, having gotten wind of the potential explosiveness of this case, figured he better cut the best deal he could with his own enablers on the PSU board of trustees, and hammered out a deal giving him over $5 million in a payout.

Paterno was part and parcel of the whole stinking cesspool. He knew about Sandusky over 10 years ago and that's when he made the decisioon that Sandusky would not succeed him. "Go back to your Second Mile, Jerry, and continue your molestations there." That's what Joe Paterno effectively said to Sandusky.

Joe Paterno is rotten to the core.

What the hell does your last statement mean? One, I don't believe you were molested. Two, if you had been, you would not be so cavalier in dismissing a pedophile enabler. Three, what's with the "shut the F up."?

One last point, if you missed it - Joe Paterno is rotten to the core.

[OHwhy]

I posted that, so I would not say I was molested? So I am a liar? Hety pal, I am in Spokane, 4th and guirard, yopu come to my house and say that to my face, see what happens to you. ******!

[Oh_Come_on_Already]

That's odd, I didn't know Paterno was a molestor, I thought that was sandusky.

Maybe everyone needs to get off the witch hunt. Paterno did nothing wrong.

Go after the one who actually molesting. DUH!

Can only tell that no one really has the info on this at all.

Penn State would be another small town university that people rarely hear of if it were not for Paterno. give the guy a break.

Oh and BTW, I was molested as a child, so shut the F up!

[jmsi1]

Chester the Molester is finally put away. They really need to remove Joe Patreno name from anything to do with the school it would be a sick legacy to remember!