🚨 "Slapshot" Carter resigns from Ohio State in disgrace 🚨
Sheridan Hendrix of the Columbus Dispatch reports Carter resigned over an "inappropriate relationship" with a woman seeking resources for her private business.
Ohio State University President Ted “Slapshot” Carter resigned over the weekend due to an “inappropriate relationship” which he admitted to university trustees.
Sheridan Hendrix of The Columbus Dispatch broke the news:
In that meeting, Carter told trustees that he had an inappropriate relationship with "someone seeking public resources to support her personal business," according to a university statement. He offered to resign and the board accepted.
Even before the shock resignation, which couldn’t have been timed worse for the university from a sheer public relations standpoint, Carter had already cemented himself as one of the biggest assholes in the Buckeye Cinematic Universe.
Carter, then overlord at the University of Nebraska, was the third or fourth pick—at best—for the Ohio State presidency in 2023.
University presidencies in Republican-dominated states aren’t as prestigious as they once were, given the lack of public funding and hostile state legislatures filled with surly grandfathers who blame the mythical blue-haired women’s studies professor for why their grandchildren stopped talking to them months after stepping on campus.
Ohio State’s problems were also compounded by former president Kristina Johnson resigning midway through her first term after clashing with Central Ohio’s teenage anorexia magnate Leslie Wexner over the billionaire donor’s desire to privatize the University Hospital—a decision that looked funny at the time but now looks criminal in light of Jeffrey Epstein having the Wexners’ university gynecologist on retainer.
Coincidentally, kissing Wexner’s ring was one of Carter’s first acts when he became president in Jan. 2024:
From George Shillcock of WOSU:
Carter said he wasn't concerned because there wasn't anything new mentioned about the relationship between Epstein and Wexner that wasn't already known. He called the Wexners "wonderful philanthropic partners" and said he thinks the Wexners will continue to be donors to the university.
Carter wasted little time embroiling the university in international opprobrium.
Carter strong-armed the university’s long-standing spring commencement speaker selection process to install Chris Pan, a barely known entrepreneur who used the opportunity to proselytize about the plant-based DMT drug ayahuasca and, even more bizarrely, Bitcoin.
Public records obtained by The Rooster showed that the university only objected to Pan’s mention of Israel’s slaughter in Gaza and his desire to remove his shirt at the midway point of his speech.
Carter, The Rooster, later revealed, was on the Board of Directors of a Bitcoin mining company.
Less than a month later, Carter installed a policy that banned university students from camping in campus green spaces in protest of Israel’s genocide of the Palestinian people.
When the Columbus Division of Police rebuffed Carter’s request to crush the otherwise peaceful protest, Carter sent the Ohio State Highway Patrol onto campus to do his bidding.
That led to snipers on the roofs with guns trained on students, which university spokesman Ben Johnson lied about happening in real time, before the Highway Patrol unleashed its monopoly on violence with brute force and pepper spray to disperse the crowd.
Carter would close his first year in office by renegging on promised raises for 300 university staffers.
He did so days before Thanksgiving:
It was 6:30 p.m. the Friday before Thanksgiving when Jessica absentmindedly checked her work email from home.
She was surprised to see an email from Ohio State, her employer, stating, “Pay impact to you from recent court decisions on [the Federal Labor Standards Act].”
In that email, she learned that her pay was being reduced by thousands of dollars, effective January 1st.
Carter was set to earn $1.3 million in salary for 2024, with the Ohio State Board of Trustees so pleased by his performance that it approved a 3.5% merit increase, totaling $38,500, and a $164,368 bonus in August.
Carter was also an obsequious patsy while the Ohio State Legislature leveraged its ill-gotten gerrymandered supermajorities, led by State Senator Jerry “Little Mussolini” Cirino (R-Kirtland), to ram SB-1 down the throats of public universities.
The right-wing feverish legislation gutted university diversity programs while installing make-work “intellectual diversity” centers to ensure “conservative thinkers” like Ohio State Assistant Professor Luke Perez played a role in shaping the next generation of “leaders.”
The legislation also acted as a Trojan horse to destroy collective bargaining rights for university faculty.
Carter was so enthused to please the legislative paymasters that he ensured Ohio State complied with SB-1 even before it became law.
Carter continued his servility to Israel in 2025.
He expelled Pro-Palestinian activist Guy Christensen in violation of his basic First Amendment rights, which embroiled the university in another embarrassing lawsuit that’s set for another massive settlement when it’s litigated in court.
He also outlawed “chalking” on university sidewalks, lest Ohio State’s students be informed of what kind of depraved butchery their tax dollars funded in the Middle East.
He did all this while also mandating the usage of “AI” among university students. Despite being responsible for raping the environment and skyrocketing energy costs, Carter could at least sleep easily knowing that university benefactor Leslie Wexner made $2 billion in three months while investing in the speculative pattern-matching technology.
In the end, that cushy salary and prestigious job title weren’t good enough for Carter.
Carter exposed what a “man of integrity” looks like in Republican political spheres: An adulterous leader who, reading between the lines of the resignation, exchanged university resources for sexual favors from a woman who was not his wife.
Who could that ambitious seductress be? Well, The Rooster has its suspicions and will have more as this story develops.
Again, Thank-you for bringing up Kristana Johnson's "resignation". I know that she signed
a NDA, but the stink still surrounds the Board of Trustees and the power brokers of Columbus
who forced her out.
It’s remarkable how many leaders in public higher education transparently loathe public higher education. They hate the ideas. They hate the freedom of expression. The students disgust them. The faculty are a burden on them. Amazing stuff. It’s like appointing a Marxist to chair board of Blackrock. Except that would be rad as hell and very funny.