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Thursday, September 4, 2008
Up in smoke?
"Which way to the Lasch building, man?"

I know, not the most original of headlines. But there's serious concern about a promising season after four Penn State players got mixed up with the law earlier this week. Tight end Andrew Quarless, cornerback A.J. Wallace, defensive end Maurice Evans and defensive tackle Abe Koroma are registered residents at an apartment where marijuana was found and seized by Penn State police on Tuesday. A team source said they did not practice yesterday. What remains to be seen is their status is for Saturday's game and beyond. For now, however, it looks like coach Joe Paterno is taking a wait-and-see approach until charges are pressed. Here's this morning's story.

UPDATE: Penn State team spokesman Jeff Nelson said early this afternoon that there wasn't any new news concerning the four aforementioned players and their status for Saturday's game. He said if anything were to happen it would occur sometime shortly after 3 p.m. If something does go down we'll have it here for you first. And if it involves dismissals, suspensions, etc. we imagine Paterno might have something to say during his weekly call-in show tonight.

UPDATE: Capt. (it was Lt. a day ago, but he just got promoted) Bill Moerschbacher, of Penn State police, said that no charges have been made in the Nittany Apartments marijuana incident and that it could be TWO WEEKS (my emphasis) before anything comes to fruition. He said the police were still in the investigative phase and that they still needed to complete testing (of the controlled substance that was sent away to a lab -- not of the suspects) and interviews with suspects and witnesses. He said he anticipated charges being brought about, but he couldn't be completely sure when that would occur.

Also, so far no word from Capt. Paterno and if he's decided to punish the four players, if any. Stay tuned.

 

Posted by Jeff McLane @ 8:04 AM  Permalink | 3 comments
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Posted 09:52 AM, 09/04/2008
tjc
To quote my diehard PSU cubemate..."Ugh. Seriously Joe Pa." Seriously is right - how much more of this will the Penn State community take this lack of institutional control?
Posted 04:11 PM, 09/04/2008
ReadingNitFan
There's dumb and then there's these guys. We might have to invent a word to describe how stupid these guys have to be in order to pull something like this after all of the incidents that have occurred in Happy Valley over the past few years. Short of the substance being oregano and not weed, I think it's time to cut ties with Quarless at a minimum. The others have never been in trouble so I doubt that their behavior warrants expulsion unless the police found the weed in their possession. It's disgusting what this current crop of kids is doing to the reputation of Penn State Football.
Posted 07:10 PM, 09/04/2008
benny1
will EVERYONE please calm down about this? so there was some weed in these guys apt. like this is the first time this happened in the school's history. believe me i was at many a party at PSU and i saw all sorts of drinking and drugs and it was no big deal. this is just an over reaction to this whole business. these are kids! these are football players, not saints! seems like all anyone wants to do is "get a stripe". tons of players have gone through this program without any problems and all you guys can focus on is the few and far between guys who are all over in college football at every school. it's not a big deal and should be ignored because it's basically a non news item .
About Joe Juliano
Joe Juliano has been a staff writer for The Inquirer for 20 years, covering college sports, golf and the Penn Relays. He has most enjoyed covering the relays and the Masters.
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