Fired band director Waters might sue Ohio State

And he sez he wants his job back ... he's going about it the wrong way. The attorney must need the publicity. When did it happen that an employer cannot fire an employee ... maybe it's a state thing. Seems to me that Waters even acknowledged some problems he was working on ... so some did exist. I say let him head to Akron and lead their band and not waste everyone's time and money just to listen to him whine ..... and in the statement below Waters didn't say ..... "suing The Ohio State University" .......

Jonathan Waters isn’t ruling out the possibility suing Ohio State University for his firing, a lawyer working for the former band director said today.

After disbursing a five-page “white paper” on legal topics surrounding the firing this morning, lawyer David Axelrod said that Ohio State denied Waters his constitutional right to due process. Waters said in earlier interviews that he had no plans to sue Ohio State, but Axelrod said it’s still a possibility.

“It’s an option, and if we can’t resolve it without filing a lawsuit, then we may do that,” Axelrod said.

In his report today, Axelrod wrote that Ohio State never gave Waters the chance to defend himself properly. Axelrod cited federal guidelines requiring schools to “include the opportunity for both parties to present witnesses and evidence,” but he said Waters never had that opportunity.

Ohio State Fires Band Director After Report Details Overly Sexual Culture

The Columbus Dispatch reported band director Jonathan Waters was fired for fostering “a deep culture of sexual harassment.” Waters was ousted after complaints surfaced that male and female band members had to play together in only their underwear during an annual midnight practice session, new members were allegedly given sexually explicit nicknames, and hung from luggage racks on the bus in sexual positions. Explicit lyrics set to team songs were part of a band songbook, the Dispatch reported. “In one case, a female student was told to imitate a sexual act on the laps of other band members, including her brother,” the Dispatch reported. Waters allegedly ignored complaints about several of these allegations from band members and did nothing to stop alcohol abuse on a band trip.

So, Waters was fired. Now, he wants his job back ..... "problems that existed were not true" he says. I gathered they were "old" problems ... seems to me that a word from him would have removed the problems.

If OSU lets him return I would think they are opening themselves to a lawsuit, I don't see how they could possibly do  it. Waters is in New York, hitting the TV circuit, crying, "I want my job back." I would doubt that it would ever happen. I am sure that OSU, prior to dismissing him, had just cause. 

How often do you see someone .... RE hired, none come to mind .... and, The Pride of Ohio .... The Best Damned Band in the Land .... Well, OK, all the things that happened, well, it was before your time, and well, you probably could have stopped them, but ... well, it's better to taper off, I guess .. so here, is the "baton, Maestro"..... when time permits, have them cut down on the hazing and the harassment and abuse and stuff, OK John, we're sorry .... You dot the i this year, OK?

WHY would he even want the job back? The "blemish" is on his record, never to be removed, maybe no one else wants him so he is trying to get his old job back. He must be a really proud man, no, not that, practical, perhaps .................

If he gets his job back and is rehired .. the wore PROUD should not be used, either by the director nor the university ...........

Well, they did it again ...............

I vowed years ago to not watch the Rose Bowl Parade again. It seems like that EVERY YEAR, regardless of which Big Ten school is playing, well, today. We see a Wisconsin cheerleader float, some cheerleaders, the start of the Wisconsin Band .................. and then ................ COMMERCIALS .... next thing we see, the Salvation Army Band.

They do it every year. Years ago, the Ohio State Band, which is one of the best in the land, same thing, only as the OSU contingent approached, commercials, nothing.

It must be a personal thing, Don't Televise any of the Opponents bands, cheerleaders, nothing.

I wonder why they do that?

Oh, that, up in the right corner, the Wisconsin Band in the Rose Bowl Parade, 2013.

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