🚨 The Rooster is suing Ohio State 🚨

Ohio State has stonewalled our public records request for over six months, so we're taking their asses to the Court of Claims.

From left to right: Brutus Buckeye, OSU president Ted “Slapshot” Carter and spokesman Ben Johnson.

Special correspondent Max Littman filed a public records request with The Ohio State University over six months ago.

We’re searching for public records regarding university Theodore “Slapshot” Carter unilaterally deciding to select little-known alumnus Chris Pan as the commencement speaker of the spring semester.

Pan delivered an unorthodox speech that embroiled the university in international disgrace. The Rooster dubbed it “The Worst Commencement Speech Ever.”

Pan, who had his speech approved by the university beforehand, peddled the benefits of Ayahuasca, the South American psychedelic elixir, and Bitcoin, the fake internet currency preferred by a wide range of cyber criminals and various flavors of perverts.

While a bizarre tangent nonetheless, the Bitcoin preaching turned nefarious when The Rooster revealed that President Carter held a vested interest in a Bitcoin mining company.

Given the lack of a timely response for the records request as mandated by Ohio law, The Rooster is suing Ohio State in the Court of Claims to obtain the information we seek.

“As a proud 2019 alumnus of Ohio State, it pains me to file this suit,” Littman said.

“This could have been avoided if only Ohio State had returned my request in a timely manner. Unfortunately, due to their tardiness, I firmly believe the university will suffer the same fate as their football coach and painfully lose.”

Maybe there won’t be a smoking gun in those records. But from our vantage point, it seems like Ohio State is stonewalling the records request to put as much time between the speech that ended in international and the release of those documents that further connect Carter to the shitshow.

Thankfully, the Ohio Court of Claims provides a pathway for us to open those books.

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