"'A cesspool of deviancy?: New claims of voyeurism test Jordan denial". in this article, even Jim Jordan's defenders admit that the situation was pervy and abusive:
Larkins Hall, the building that housed athletic teams, became such a well-known target that people who frequented it at the time have reminisced in anonymous postings online how easy it was to ogle naked members of the wrestling team.
The situation was so egregious that former wrestling head coach Russ Hellickson would at times have to physically drag the gawkers out of the building, several sources familiar with his actions at the time said. Hellickson also pleaded with the university multiple times to move their athletes to a private facility, the sources said. Jordan served as Hellickson?s No. 2, and the coach has been described as Jordan?s mentor.
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?Was there some deviant behavior? ? Was there behavior when guys were coming into the sauna and showers, was there sexual misconduct? No one is denying that,? said ex-OSU wrestler George Pardos of Larkins Hall in an interview. He defended Jordan as ?one of the most honest men I?ve ever known.?
The rest of the wrestlers interviewed by the story claim Jordan had to have known about it, and another said he witnessed once yell at a guy ogling wrestlers to get out of the showers.
Now... a couple things occured to me as I read this:
1) I suppose at some point Jordan et al might try to spin this as "
Hey, what do you have against homosexuality? the people complaining are the real bigots here!"
But the issue here is this activity was all non-consensual, and the faculty and staff had a duty to protect their athletes and provide safe facilities for them to train in and yet allowed it to go on.
I don't think a coach throwing up his hands and saying "
the university won't build us private showers... what can I do?" is under any circumstances an adequate response, to put it mildly.
2) it doesn't happen as much anymore, but I remember both on the interwebs and in real life OSU fans criticising UM for being "too gay" i.e. "tolerant." It's a little ironic some more conservative OSU fans sometimes try to spin the rivalry as a battle between "liberal decadent UM" and a "conservative wholesome OSU" when shit like that described in the article was going on for decades in their showers...
I've never been to Columbus, but have heard stories from people who lived there that it has some pretty rowdy public events, including a couple people from California of all places who said the Columbus Pride parade was WAY raunchier than any other they'd ever been to, including San Francisco.
That's cool and all, but I wish they'd at least own up to it, instead of acting like they're above all that. why is it that the "holier than thou" types always end up being the biggest pervs out there?!?
I mean despite being described by dumbasses as "The People's Republic of Ann Arbor" it only really has... Hash Bash... which is just a bunch of people getting high. The Naked Mile was more or less banned over 15 years ago. i think my freshman year was the last time the University didn't actively try to shut it down. then there's the Art Fair which is incredibly tame.
