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OSU Scandals
An investigation of a football coach from OSU that covered up NCAA violations and knowingly allowed star atheletes to play in games even though he knew they may be ineligible for competition. The university attempted to dismiss Tressel's violation as a minor oversight and suspended him for two games.
Tags: NCAA; OSU; Ohio State University; Football; College
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"Little Leagues, Big Costs"
This five-day series chronicles the experiences with youth sports of high school and college athletes and coaches. By establishing "baseline data" that has been previously unreported, Dispatch reporters found a "corrupted" sports program overrun with angry parents and practices that cause severe injury to young athletes. Rising costs and financial competitions are added pressures to the industry.
Tags: youth-sports; IRS 990s; NCAA; NCAA Equity in Athletics Disclosure Act; Nexis; Ohio State; Gene Smith; Ohio High School Athletic Association; OHSAA; OSU
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OSU Faculty and Staff Raise Program Analysis
The author examined payroll data from Oklahoma State University. He found that pay raises were distributed unequally between administrators and the rest of the university's staff. The author also found that some departments, specifically one that had a history of problems with the administration, did not receive any pay raises.
Tags: data analysis; wages; pay roll; salary; college; education; academia; FOIA; Freedom of Information
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OSU's Star Power
Universities pay lavish salaries to land "superstar" professors, mostly in the fields of medicine and economics. The Dispatch analyzed salary databases for Ohio's 13 public universities to find the highest-paid professors in the state. The series focuses on Ohio State University, the school with the most professors among the highest-paid.
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The big bucks of OSU sports
When it comes to sports, Ohio State University increasingly is all business. The Dispatch takes a look at how the university competes just as hard to win in the financial arena as it does on the field.
Tags: Alumni donations; stadium
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Columbus Dispatch reports that the chief of urology at the Ohio State University Medical School was being investigated by OSU officials for academic misconduct; looks at the way ethics investigations are handled at the university, April - December 1992.
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Plain Dealer (Cleveland) looks into the past performance of a doctor charged with deliberately poisoning several Illinois people; years earlier, while he was at Ohio State University Hospital, there were reports of misconduct but the university did not inform law enforcement officials; OSU botched its investigation of the doctor, January - April 1985.
Tags: OH IL Webb Sharkey OSU