A judge has thrown out involuntary manslaughter charges against eight Beta Theta Pi brothers at Penn State who, in February, waited 40 minutes to call 911 in order to help a brother who laid unconscious in a rigor mortis-like state. District Attorney Stacy Parks Miller had argued that they had rushed 19-year-old…
The Women’s Law Project filed a suit in 2002 against Penn State for their violation of Title IX, after the woman who accused Birth of a Nation director Nate Parker of rape faced harassment on campus. The woman died by suicide in 2012.
James Vivenzio, the pledge who revealed sexual harassment and drug deals at Penn State’s chapter of Kappa Delta Rho, filed a lawsuit against both his former fraternity and the university. Vivenzio’s whistle-blowing uncovered two secret Facebook pages filled with photographs of hazing, drug deals and unconscious…
Good riddance, Kappa Delta Rho: Penn State University shut down the notorious fraternity for three years following a sexual harassment investigation effective this past Tuesday.
As previously reported on Jezebel, a bunch of unparalleled assholes from Penn State's Kappa Delta Rho were suspended this week after a former brother exposed the fraternity's two Facebook pages containing photos of brothers hazing, conducting drug deals, and unconscious women. And now one of these neanderthals has…
The Penn State chapter of the Kappa Delta Rho fraternity has been suspended and police are investigating after the school's interfraternity council discovered two "secret" Facebook pages filled with pictures of the members doing objectionable things: hazing, transacting drug deals, and photographing women who were…
A recent study from Penn State has put together a definitive profile of the average American female serial killer, combing through the 64 "FSKs" who committed their crimes in the US between 1821 and 2008.
In an interview with Oprah Winfrey on Thursday night, former Penn State coach Jerry Sandusky's adopted son Matt Sandusky detailed how he had been sexually abused by Jerry as a child. "90 percent of the time with Jerry Sandusky was everything a child would want," he said, explaining that the desire for a stable family…
The U.S. Department of Education announced this week that it will be looking into Penn State's handling of sexual harassment and assault reports in order to see if the administration has responded "immediately and appropriately" to complaints.
On Monday, Penn State University announced that it would awarding $59.7 million to 26 men who were abused by Jerry Sandusky, a settlement that came after a year of negotiating. The Sandusky scandal has been an expensive one for the college; that nearly $60 million is in addition to more than $50 million they've spent…
Penn State's newspaper The Daily Collegian cancelled their female-written sex column "Mounting Nittany" in the wake of the Sandusky scandal. This week they've announced that it's coming back, though now they "want to hear from the men, too" so the column will feature one female and one male columnist, both anonymous.…
Judge William Wenner called it "a tragic day for Penn State University."
Matt Sandusky, the adopted son of super cool dad and former super cool Penn State football coach Jerry Sandusky, has filed to have his name changed, the Associated Press reports.
Why are sorority girls drawn to racist party themes like fake-tanned moths to a flame? Unclear, but check out these Penn State Chi Omegas posing as Mexicans with sombreros (pushing it), ponchos (pushing it x2), fake mustaches (gah, stop), finger mustaches (somehow even more offensive) and cardboard signs proclaiming…
A Pennsylvania judge sentenced former Penn State coach Jerry Sandusky to 30 to 60 years in jail today, meaning the 68-year-old will almost certainly spend the rest of his life in prison. Sandusky was convicted on 45 counts of child sex abuse, including corruption of minors to involuntary deviate sexual intercourse.…
Listen: I'm a Michigan alum and a card-carrying member of the cult of Big House football. And I've talked plenty of shit about Ohio State for no real reason other than that's just what you do. I can't intellectually defend any of it; it's just silly and a long-standing but ultimately meaningless tradition. Point is, I…
Three Penn state students who were all set to graduate have been indefinitely expelled and are facing misdemeanor charges of simple assault and conspiracy for beating up a pledge like they were all starring in Fight Club 2: Greek Life Hell.
Today in news that you could have sworn should have already happened: The Second Mile, disgraced former Penn State football coach Jerry Sandusky's charity that he allegedly used as a totally fucked up matchmaking service to meet potential victims, is finally closing its doors.
Earlier last month, we wondered why we hadn't heard more about Sara Ganim, the 24-year-old reporter who broke the Penn State sex abuse scandal involving assistant football coach Jerry Sandusky and his Second Mile charity — definitely one of the biggest stories of 2011 — when she was barely out of undergrad. Since…
There's the common presumption that the more expensive a wine is the more exciting and delicious it is. That might be true in theory, but your enjoyment of it all depends on your ability to taste it. And, according to a new study, that's determined by your physiological makeup. If you don't possess the necessary…
