OT- Ohio St Band Director Fired for "sexualized" Culture

Submitted by michchi85 on

Link.  Some pretty alarming issues here, especially midnight practices in underwear and having one girl to imitiate a sexual act on the laps of several band mates, including her own brother.  

TheSacko221

July 24th, 2014 at 7:51 PM ^

OSU is a joke. They people in charge have no clue what they are doing. On parent whose kid probably couldn't cut it starts a stink and the University ignores the thousands who have been in the band and had no issues.

It is also sad that Jon Waters was trying to slowly change the culture and he is fired over traditions that pre-dated him for 20 years.

I went to the same high school as Jon and remember watching him spend his spring breaks at the HS parking lot practicing to dot the I. This was his dream job and he is a stand up guy. The things that were discussed in the report would mean virtually ever head coach of a sports team would need dismissed.

wolverinebutt

July 24th, 2014 at 8:32 PM ^

Dot the brown eye should replace dot the eye - the band tuba thing they do.

The sucks always cheat, lie, steal, and even the band is out of control 

kehnonymous

July 25th, 2014 at 10:39 AM ^

...between the unctuous fawning over OSU, pedantic references to his own previous screeds and the preening insistence that he was right all along, how can you be sure M Man and Section 1 are the same person?

Scarlatina

July 25th, 2014 at 2:41 AM ^

I had a female friend who was on OSU's band for all 4 years of college. She's not denying that things like this happened, but she also said she was never forced to participate. The older band members always re-assured her that if anything made her feel uncomfortable at any point she could stop and they wouldn't think any less of her.