Dear Tipsters, Don wrote: It is, of course, possible that he didn't intervene because it wasn't a rape. Sandusky claims that they were just "horsing around". The media have clearly convicted the coach but I prefer to wait for the court to make a determination.
I happened to see Anderson Cooper on CNN showing a court document on the screen
with all the prurient details of the alleged incident in the shower.
Although some journalists retain the adjective "alleged" the message seems to
be that he did it. Maybe he did, but this is a matter for the judicial court,
not the court of public opinion, fuelled by screaming headlines.
With regard to the obligations of people (e.g., witness, head coach, athletic
director and so on up), we again get a media frenzy of blame.
Do I detect hints of the hindsight effect here?
I wonder what all these journalists would have done if they had been in the
place of all those standing accused.
Again, I am not trying to hint that the assistant coach is not guilty - just
asking about objectivity.
Sincerely,
Stuart
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From: don allen [mailto:[email protected]]
Sent: November 15, 2011 2:00 PM
To: Teaching in the Psychological Sciences (TIPS)
Subject: Re: [tips] Penn State abuse...not bystander apathy
-Don.
----- Original Message -----
From: Beth Benoit <[email protected]>
Date: Tuesday, November 15, 2011 10:27 am
Subject: Re: [tips] Penn State abuse...not bystander apathy
To: "Teaching in the Psychological Sciences (TIPS)" <[email protected]>
> (Note that I changed the subject heading!)
>
> Even if someone were required to report to a legal authority
> doesn't excuse
> - or perhaps have much bearing on - why a person who observed
> the rape
> didn't intervene at the time it was happening.
>
> Beth Benoit
> Granite State College
> Plymouth State University
> New Hampshire
>
> On Tue, Nov 15, 2011 at 1:06 PM, Brandon, Paul K
> <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>>wrote:
> > Problem is that the connection to Penn State was tangential --
> while it
> > involved a Penn State Athletic Department employee, most of
> the contact was
> > in the context of the private foundation that he set up to
> connect with
> > young boys. One or more of the incidents happened on
> university property,
> > which is how they became involved.
> >
> > The problem was that everyone from McQueary on up to the
> president met the
> > minimum legal requirement in Pennsylvania of reporting the
> event to his
> > superior. It got bumped all the way up to the president,
> who did not take
> > adequate action, so the buck stopped there.
> >
> > Parenthetically, in Minnesota McQueary would have been legally
> required to
> > make a report directly to a legal authority (varies by
> county); he would
> > not have been able to simple pass the report on up.
> > Such is our Federal system.
> >
> > On Nov 15, 2011, at 10:27 AM, Beth Benoit wrote:
> >
> > This take on the horrible story about child abuse at
> UPenn troubled me,
> > since the story of the coach who observed the little boy being
> raped in the
> > shower is NOT a very good example of "bystander apathy."
> It doesn't really
> > fit what we know about bystander apathy, particularly the most
> important> concept: that the more people there are, the
> less likely one will step
> > forward. With only one observer, it's more likely that
> that one person
> > will feel responsible.
> >
> > Of course there are other parts to the "bystander effect," and
> "lack of
> > knowledge" might loosely fit here - that is, Coach McQueary
> may have been a
> > little unsure what he should do, but that doesn't really seem
> relevant> either. But I hate to see this story dubbed an
> example of the bystander
> > effect.
> >
> >
> > http://healthland.time.com/2011/11/11/bystander-psychology-why-
> some-witnesses-to-crime-do-nothing/?xid=gonewsedit
> >
> > Beth Benoit
> > Granite State College
> > Plymouth State University
> > New Hampshire
> >
> >
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