By: JJM

JJM
Mon, 17 Feb 2014 17:22:51 +0000

“According to OCIO, there is no record of the issue being reported.”

Of course there isn’t. OCIO and OSU Police remove reports all the time in order to make the campus seem safer and give the appearance that our administration has some semblance of control… How else would the school be able to rope in more students? Want to test it? Try making a report with either agency. If it involves gross negligence, gross student misconduct, or assault, it will magically disappear – especially if an athlete is found to be involved.

When I was assaulted last year on Ohio State’s campus, I made a report with OSU Police. They never showed up, but Columbus PD did at the dental school. Columbus PD then called to update OSU PD on the case. Two days later, OSU had “no record” of the assault ever happening, even though it occurred on campus during business hours and Columbus PD had record of contacting OSU multiple times.

Two students in an upper-division humanities course (which one of my colleagues teaches) were subjected to a disciplinary committee hearing after they were found to have plagiarized all assignments over a 16-week period. There is no record of this, and the instructor was told to “Grade the items as they are” because “these are two athletes on scholarship, and being dismissed would ruin their lives.”

OSU is just plain underhanded in their enforecement (or lack thereof) of codes of conduct and campus safety.