By: Alum

Alum
Thu, 22 Jan 2015 22:36:32 +0000

The tbdbitl.com rebuttal is little more than a petulant 5 year old countering ‘nuhuh!’ to each point. I can’t believe that Mr. Waters keeps pushing the issue with lawsuits and press conferences and that the ‘band supporters’ (who are more like Waters’ fanboys) cheer him along the way. It will only get worse for them all. Nearly nude calendars, partial nudity and simulated sex acts on video along with his own admission that he knew about nicknames based on gender, sexuality, and racial or ethnic group and did not stop them are more than enough to fire an at will employee regardless of gender. Who is going down with the USS Waters? Tbdbitl alumni association? President Gee for hiring him without considering other candidates? The people who were supposed to help Waters teach this young adults how to appropriately represent themselves and the Ohio State University? There is more than enough blame to go around, but that doesn’t make Waters blameless. Drake didn’t plant a calendar of nearly nude pictures in Waters office.

OSU will hopefully do a proper candidate search this time around and hire from outside the organization to clean house and provide future band members with a positive, supportive environment without hazing, drinking, and verbal and sexual abuse.