"and Mike Newman, a local documentarian, intercepted Gee as he exited a public restroom. They began asking him questions about his awareness of a campus doctor's sexual abuse of student athletes during his presidency; his recent defense of Leslie Wexner, a billionaire and former board chair of OSU whose communications with convicted sex offender Jeffery Epstein are under scrutiny; and his decision to sell OSU's parking lots to a private equity firm."
""We wanted to get Gee on the record about some of the big issues here," Byrnes told Inside Higher Ed on Wednesday. A video Byrnes posted on The Rooster's website shows Gee and Byrnes engaging in a lengthy yet calm discussion in a hallway. Gee, however, declined to answer most of Byrnes's questions, save to say that selling OSU's parking lots for nearly $500 million "was one of the best decisions I've ever made.""
Luke Perez, an assistant professor affiliated with Ohio State University's Salmon P. Chase Center for Civics, Culture and Society, was placed on administrative leave after assaulting a documentarian on campus. Perez had invited former OSU president E. Gordon Gee to speak to his class. After the event, D.J. Byrnes and documentarian Mike Newman intercepted Gee and asked him about a campus doctor's sexual abuse of student athletes, his defense of Leslie Wexner amid scrutiny over communications with Jeffrey Epstein, and the sale of OSU parking lots to a private equity firm. Video shows a calm hallway discussion that later escalated.
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