Hundreds of students gathered in front of Joe Paterno’s house Tuesday evening, cheering and chanting Paterno’s name and eventually drawing the Nittany Lions head coach out of his house to offer his thanks for the support.
Paterno eventually went back inside, but instead of dispersing, the throng of student supporters continued to grow, eventually migrating down Beaver Avenue to the steps of Old Main, the school’s administrative building, according to Penn State’s student newspaper, The Daily Collegian.
Thousands of students congregated in the campus streets, as you can see in the picture below posted on Twitter by @TheSchoolPhilly:
Probably the number of threads in which you’ve written disparaging opinions about the OWS people, and how you attempt to juxtapose them with the Paterno supporters you wrote an OP about. It certainly seems to me that you are expressing support and even admiration for the people gathering outside of Paterno’s house.
There’s nothing to “defend”. Thousands of students turn out for something stupid like a sport team’s coach firing. As I pointed out, OWS would kill for this kind of turnout. But I guess OWS just cannot provide a good reason for young people to come. At least not as good as the one in the OP.
I take it you haven’t seen any of the pictures depicting thousands of people at OWS then? It’s funny, but just by googling “owe crowd size” I was able to find pictures from just a couple of days ago that make the crowd outside Paterno’s seem small.
I think you might be the person here who has fantasies.
Yes - sure. In the most populous city in the nation, once, OWS managed to get 6K people together. Otherwise, it’s a couple of hundred people sitting in a park.
Seems that OWS has done a very fine job of occupying your head, since even the totally unrelated firing of a football coach has reminded you of what they’re doing. And that’s what they want; they want people to be aware of them and why they’re out there. Mission accomplished. And with only a few hundred people! How efficient, eh?
The thread being titled “see, now this is a crowd” is another subtle clue, as is the cleverly coded language displayed here:
I’ve analyzed this carefully, and it’s my opinion— stay with me here, this may seem shocking, but keep an open mind— that the OP is attempting to draw a disparaging comparison between this demonstration and the OWS ones.
