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Task Force To Examine OSU Marching Band Culture

Ohio State University is expected to announce today it will form a task force to help bring changes after the firing of marching band director Jon Waters amid allegations he ignored rampant sexual harassment. Task force members will study how to reverse a band culture of sexual harassment and objectionable traditions. Waters was fired last week after a two-month investigation concluded he knew about but failed to stop rituals that included students being pressured to march in their underwear, sing lewd songs and perform sexually themed stunts that yielded often-explicit nicknames. Former Ohio Attorney General Betty Montgomery will lead an independent follow-up review of the probe by the university's Office of Compliance and Integrity.

Jim has been with WCBE since 1996. Before that he worked as a reporter at another Columbus radio station, and for three newspapers in Southwest Florida.
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