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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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Secrecy 101
"Universities hide information about their athletics departments behind a student-privacy law designed to keep grades private." Further, it hides athletes, who have done a number of unethical and some illegal activities. Also, coaches are using the law to hide their own bad behavior. All this information stunned the senator who created the law and he believes the "institutions are putting their own meaning into the law."
Tags: education; college; Senator James L. Buckley; NCAA; Ohio State; FOIA; Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act (FERPA); federal; sports; public records; censor; academics
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MRDD Boss Profits from his Nonprofit
This series of articles investigates how a nonprofit CEO routed money from the organization into his own private business. Findings included misrepresentation, diversion of cash and possible tax evasion.
Tags: nonprofit; Leadership First; Mental Retardation and Development Disabilities; MRDD; Ohio State University; charity; money
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Rx for disaster
NBC looks at the nationwide abuse of Ritalin, a drug prescribed to treat Attention Deficit Disorder. Using hidden cameras, the investigating team finds out how easy it is to find the drug illegally. The story reveals that the abuse is common among children and teenagers in high-school and college. The problem "cuts across social lines," NBC reports. Children who are prescribed Ritalin are often pressured by their classmates and friends for their pills. The young addicts snort crushed pills to party and study better. Most are unaware of the harmful side effects and the risk of death from heart attack.
Tags: TAPE; TRANSCRIPT; children; teenagers; parents; health; safety; Ohio State University; University of Wisconsin; University of Texas; Indiana University; education; youth; prescription drug abuse
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Research at What Cost
The Chronicle of Higher Education follows the story of Shawn Wight, an Ohio graduate student who died of bacterial infection resulting from altitude sickness, after going to an international expedition to Tibet. The story reveals that the expedition, organized by the Ohio State University, failed to provide adequate safety plans, and lacked medical personnel, altitude medications and logistic support. The article details the symptoms of acute mountain sickness and describes "the young's man neurological problems at the top of the mountain." The Chronicle follows the wrongful-death lawsuit brought and ultimately won by the student's parents against the Ohio State, and looks at the lack of safety protocols for expeditions as a problem in general.
Tags: emergency; international expeditions; mountain sickness; Ohio State University; Lonnie Thompson; Kathmandu; glaciers; courts; litigation; dehydration
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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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Trouble on 12th
For the past two years, 12th Avenue, across from the Ohio State University, has been the scene of numerous riots. Autumn 1996 started no differently with drunken students versus police, with fires, violence and arrests. Long investigates the origins of the problem.
Tags: Alcohol
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Township between rocks, hard place
The Columbus Dispatch investigates moonlighting professors at Ohio State University. Under an employment policy unique to higher education, thousands of college professors across the country take one day a week at taxpayer expense to moonlight at second jobs.
Tags: Miller Professors moonlight on taxpayer time Teachers College Income
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The Chronicle analyzed thousands of pages of documents from 48 tenure cases decided at Ohio State University's liberal-arts college in 1994. Among the findings: Despite the rhetoric about rewarding excellent teaching, research still matters much more in tenure decisions. Race is often a key factor. (April 14, 1995)
Tags: Lederman Mooney The new light on tenure Contest entry Teachers 17 pgs.