"Fired band director doesn’t want to sue Ohio State" Associated Press August 06, 2014
COLUMBUS, Ohio — The fired director of Ohio State’s celebrated marching band said Tuesday that he wants his job back but does not want to sue his beloved university, at least not now.
The school stands by its July 24 firing of Jon Waters after an investigation concluded he knew about but failed to stop a ‘‘sexualized culture’’ of rituals that included students marching in their underwear and performing sexually themed stunts to get explicit nicknames.
Waters, 38, said that he has not asked Ohio State for reinstatement, and that he remains focused on setting the record straight about efforts he made to change the band culture and about the investigative report, which he calls inaccurate and unbalanced. He complained that only a few band members were interviewed, that it cites behavior occurring before his leadership, and that information he provided was not in the report.
Waters, who was an assistant director before he took over the band in 2012, denies the university’s claims that he misled investigators and did not properly report allegations of sexual harassment.
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