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A search warrant Ohio State Police filed March 12 named two current OSU football players and one former OSU football player in connection with an alleged rape of a female OSU student. One player who was brought in for questioning by University Police was picked up by a staff member of the football team. The Lantern obtained the warrant University Police Detective Pete Dragonette filed for access to one of the players’ cellphones. Dragonette stated in the warrant that the phone might identify evidence associated with the incident. The female student reported the incident, which allegedly occurred during the early morning hours of Oct. 21 in Neil Avenue Building, to police on Nov. 10. The Lantern does not name victims of alleged sex crimes. Because no charges have been filed in this case, the players’ names are also withheld. The woman told police she met two of the football players at an off-campus party on the night of Oct. 20, and walked back with them to the dorm room the players shared. She told police she began to “fool around” with one of the players, Player 1, whom she told police she was romantically interested in. She said she was kissing him when the other player started touching her without her consent. She said she got off the bed and went into the
Our detectives have been pursuing all leads as is their routine. Since this is an ongoing investigation, there is nothing more anyone from OSU Police are able to discuss at this time. Paul Denton University Police Chief in an email bathroom to separate herself from the situation, but Player 2 followed her, began kissing her in the bathroom and then forced her to give him oral sex, which she said she did not want to do. She said she pushed Player 2 away and exited the bathroom. She said a third player had entered the room, and she accepted Player 3’s offer to let her stay in his room for the night in an “extra bed.” Dragonette interviewed Player 1 at University Police headquarters on Feb. 22, according to the warrant, and there was some discrepancies between his story and the woman’s. Player 1 said the woman came back to his room, then jumped on top of him and started to kiss him when he got into bed. He said he kissed her back, but stopped when he decided that he should not continue because he had a girlfriend. Player 1 said he went to the bathroom, and when he returned, he saw the alleged victim touching Player 2. Player 1 said he went back to his own
bed, and the woman then followed Player 2 into the bathroom. Player 1 said he was uncertain what transpired in the bathroom but said the woman went to Player 3’s bedroom after she and Player 2 left the bathroom. According to the warrant, Player 1 declined to provide Dragonette with his girlfriend’s phone number. University Police Chief Paul Denton confirmed that the department is conducting an “active and ongoing criminal investigation” into the case. “Our detectives have been pursuing all leads as is their routine,” Denton stated in an email. “Since this is an ongoing investigation, there is nothing more anyone from OSU Police are able to discuss at this time.” The first player told Dragonette when he left that Ryan Stamper, coordinator of player development for OSU football, was at the police headquarters. The 2012 OSU football season, the Buckeyes’ first under coach Urban Meyer, was the first for all three players. One of the three players left the team prior to the start of spring football. An OSU spokesman confirmed he is not enrolled in classes at OSU. An OSU athletics department spokesman declined The Lantern’s request for comment. A statement from OSU’s media and public relations department said “the university is not at liberty to discuss the matter at this time.” The woman did not return email requests for comment.
University cashes in on multimedia rights IMg pays OsU $9.8 million this year
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IMG College has a 10-year contract in which OSU receives $107 million. This year, IMG paid OSU $9.8 million for its media rights, which includes radio and television broadcasting, liscenses to run gameday promotions, hospitality events, and other services.
IMG generates $500 million in annual revenues from agreements with
74 Division I colleges 7 athletic conferences and the NCAA
Since 2007, Florida State has collected about $6 million per year from IMG. Other IMG clients include University of Oregon, Duke University and Boston College.
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aBDUlRahMaN al-RUsWaIshaN Lantern reporter al-ruswaishan.1@osu.edu If you have been to any Ohio State game in the past few years, odds are you have seen the handiwork of IMG College without even realizing it. IMG College, a sports marketing company, buys multimedia rights to colleges, then resells those rights to corporate sponsors. IMG College has a 10-year, $107 million contract with OSU in what is the largest multimedia rights guarantee in collegiate sports. This year, IMG paid OSU $9.8 million for its media rights, which includes radio and television broadcasting and licenses to run gameday promotions, hospitality events and other services. “Included within multimedia rights are signage opportunities, intellectual property ties between corporate brands and the Ohio State athletics brand, the radio network, local radio, the coaches’ television show, corporate hospitality,” said Ray DeWeese, general manager for OSU’s IMG Sports Marketing. “And then (there
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is) on-site activation opportunities — if the sponsor has materials that they’d like to pass out at games … anything that’s going to be a corporate acknowledgment with the OSU athletics department falls within our multimedia agreement.” DeWeese said while IMG College oversees more aspects of the athletics program at some schools, it only controls the multimedia rights to OSU’s athletics. “At other schools we have a ticket solutions group that handles ticket sales, (but) we don’t do that here at Ohio State,” he said. The group handles other schools like Ohio University, Duke University an Kent State University. IMG College doesn’t charge for its services. It makes its money by exceeding the guarantees it promises schools. “What we do … (is) aggregate all of the multimedia rights, and then we pay the university a guaranteed fee,” DeWeese said. “Then we have the right to go out and resell those multimedia rights to … corporate partners, in order to make our money back.”
Sigma Chi investigated for ‘disorderly conduct’ lIZ YOUNg Asst. sports editor young.1693@osu.edu The Alpha Gamma chapter of Sigma Chi Fraternity is on interim suspension pending an Ohio State Student Conduct investigation less than a month after an incident of “disorderly conduct” involving a Sigma Chi pledge, according to University Police reports.
The chapter was served its suspension sentence on Feb. 26, nearly five months after being put on disciplinary probation through May 2014 for hazing-related violations, according to police reports and Student Life spokesman Dave Isaacs. The probation sentence was issued Oct. 9, Isaacs said. The disorderly conduct incident
Ohio State’s Undergraduate Student Government is considering moving future elections to accommodate the semester schedule. Tyler Byrum, a third-year in engineering physics and USG chief justice, said election deadlines for candidates to get on the ballot and the campaigning season were much earlier this year under semesters. “Campaigning season was earlier this year, usually it’s April,” Byrum said. “Students usually have all of Winter Quarter to prepare for elections.” Campaigning began on Feb. 17 this year. Byrum said the USG Constitutional Bylaw Review Commission suggested elections be earlier under semesters, but after feedback from members of USG, the commission might move elections to after spring break. “I had heard from some people that they thought they couldn’t properly prepare a good campaign,” Byrum said. “Candidates had a two-week period to petition to get on the ballot.” The two-week period is the same time frame students have had in the past, it has always just been offered later in the year. However, USG President Taylor Stepp said he thinks the reason USG is considering changing the election dates has nothing to do with the petition deadlines. “It’s utterly hell to campaign in this weather,” Stepp said.
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