Ex-OSU band director asks for job back

Associated Press

COLUMBUS

The fired director of Ohio State’s celebrated marching band is formally requesting his job back, citing alleged flaws in a university investigation as well as a positive performance review issued weeks before he was terminated.

In a letter Thursday, Jonathan Waters, 38, asked the university’s board of trustees to act on the matter at its Aug. 28-29 meeting.

Waters was fired July 24. A two-month investigation had concluded he knew about and failed to stop a “sexualized culture.”

Through legal counsel, Waters called the firing a “rush to judgment.”