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Stephen Starr in Columbus, Ohio

Ohio State reels from multiple scandals amid wider crisis in higher education

Students walk in front of a neoclassical Ohio State University building with large columns and arched entrances
Students walk across the campus of the Ohio State University in Columbus, Ohio on 6 November 2023. Photograph: Megan Jelinger/AFP via Getty Images

When Rocky Ratliff transferred to Ohio State University in Columbus to study political science and wrestle for the college in the mid-1990s, he soon found himself being sexually abused by a prominent member of the university athletic department’s medical staff.

At the time, Dr Richard Strauss, who is believed to have abused hundreds of student athletes over a period of decades at Ohio State, and who killed himself in 2005, would subject young men to intense abuse, including rape.

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