I read the Grand Jury Report. It's definitely worth reading before making an opinion on the whole subject. However, needless to say...it's EXTREMELY disturbing and will frick you up for a few hours.

Basically, here is the gist of it for those who don't know...Sandusky was allegedly doing improper things for a long time, and even did these things on campus. There were suspicions among people who had supposedly walked in on some semi-suspicious stuff, but nothing extremely blatant until the graduate assistant walked in on a blatant incident (and I mean blatant).

The GA (now the WR coach) allegedly reported it to Paterno, who reported it to his higher ups (the AD and the university administration) and told the two coaches that they would take care of it. Essentially they swept it under the rug, which is why they are under trial right now.

The police commissioner came out and basically said that so far as the grand jury testimony is concerned (unless further details are revealed), Paterno and the GA are innocent of breaking the law, as they fulfilled their legal obligation by reporting it to their "higher ups" in the chain of command. However, the commissioner also said that Paterno should have immediately gone to the police instead of just waiting for his bosses to take care of the incident.

I don't like to speculate, but given this information, it seems like at best, Paterno just informed his higher ups and didn't really follow up on whether they did the right thing and informed the proper authorities. At the absolute worst, he was complicit in a cover-up with the administration.

As to answer the OP, I honestly don't know how I would react if a similar thing came out at my school. I would probably end up just hoping that these were just unfounded allegations, but if they turned out to be true, I would probably want to clean house.

I think what makes this worse for the Penn State community is that Paterno and his "regime" (can't think of a better word) have basically defined Penn State. There was an article on Grantland by someone who grew up close to State College about how this has affected them, since everything about that community lived and breathed PSU football. So if this happened at a school where the administration was relatively new, it would be much easier to sever ties, whereas now, it's like realizing everything you believed in was a lie.