Penn State Nittany Lions

I want Jerry Sandusky (the rapist) to take complete responsibility for the whole NCAA scandal. Joe Paterno is a legend, and also my hero, in terms of college football. His accomplishments are phenomenal, and that's an understatement.

1. 400+ wins.
2. 1 national title.
3. 46 seasons as Penn State head coach. (he's 84-years-old right now, which means he started when he was about 38-years-old.).
4. He's been part of the Penn State football team. (as an assistant or something since he was about 20-years-old.).

This news has been all over the TV on not just ESPN stations, but also on news stations like CNN, FOX NEWS, etc. Penn State students went on a rant on 11/9/11.  They even tipped over a car or two in their rant throughout the campus streets.

Joe Paterno.
Great guy.
Great coach.
Unfortunate person.

MACON SMITH

The difficult task of understanding and adopting the theoretical frame of Critical Geography has become even more challenging due to the globalized spaces that people inhabit, spaces characterized by current trends toward measurement, assessment, and standardization—all of which normalize a certain way of conceiving and perceiving.

Salish

          The Coast Salish people of British Columbia and Washington State inhabit a borderlands region where they have negotiated the sometimes contrasting policies of two empires. Families belong to more than one village and must travel across the Canada–USA border frequently for ceremonies and events that bind the Coast Salish world together. Both British and American colonialism required categorising, dividing, and confining Aboriginal people. Residential schools were the ultimate tools for removing Indigenous peoples from the land as they were designed to eradicate the memory of languages and place‐based epistemologies containing the Indigenous meanings of time and reality. This article focuses on some contrasting educational policies and contexts across the Canada–USA border and shows some strategies Coast Salish people have used for resisting assimilation and returning to their own understandings of place and identity. Some of the community strategies for resisting assimilation have included reclaiming government boarding schools as a way to escape the racism of integrated public schools. Coast Salish efforts at decolonising education have concentrated on the maintenance of cultural boundaries, challenging neoliberal assumptions about history while defending treaties and land claims.