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Winning Coach a Symbol of Penn State If I were the editor in chief Heads would roll A pedophile and an institution Of higher learning And dare we venture lower moral values linked in bold type. There once as a time When being a sports star Did not excuse amoral behavior We expected so much more of our icons. And we knew better than praise their resumes on national news. We buried their shame Oh, so quietly and rightly In the back page obits below the fold. J. Binford-Bell January 2012 The exercise this week for Jingle Poetry at Gooseberry Gardens was to take a headline from the New York times and write. I did.