This is a fascinating piece of sports history. It documents a 1968 intercollegiate ice hockey match between two major athletic programs, featuring notable figures from both institutions.
This is an original, authentic 1968 Intercollegiate Ice Hockey Contract between The Ohio State University and the University of Tennessee. Dated June 26, 1968, this 8.5\" x 11\" document formalizes a two-game series held in Knoxville, Tennessee, on December 20 and 21, 1968.
This is a rare look into the era of \"club\" and emerging varsity sports for these programs, signed by legendary Ohio State Athletic Director Richard Larkins.
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[Front of Document] CONTRACT THIS AGREEMENT, Made and entered into in duplicate this 26th day of June, 1968, by and between the Athletic Department of the Ohio State University and the RECREATION OFFICE Athletic Authorities of the UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE or their duly authorized agents, stipulates:
FIRST: That the ICE HOCKEY teams representing the above named institutions shall engage in a contest in ICE HOCKEY at Knoxville, Tenn. on Dec. 20 and 21, 1968, and at ——.
SECOND: That in consideration of engaging in the above named contest, the management for the home team shall pay to the management for the visiting team the sum of One Hundred and Fifty Dollars ($150.00).
THIRD: That the officials shall be agreed upon at least two weeks before the contest and the expense of the same shall be paid by the home management.
FOURTH: [Text mostly struck through] ~~That the contest shall be conducted under the rules of the Intercollegiate Conference of faculty representatives and this contract shall be binding only insofar as it is not in conflict with existing or future legislation by State Legislatures or the governing bodies of their respective institutions or the Intercollegiate Conference of Faculty Representatives~~ their respective institutions.
[Signed in Blue Ink] Ira T. Sliger Jr DIRECTOR for UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE
ATHLETIC DEPARTMENT OF THE OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY. By [Signed in Blue Ink] R. C. Larkins Director of Athletics
Please sign and return one copy. Form 7652
[Back of Document] (The provided images show the document is single-sided with no text on the reverse.)
Historical Significance & Biographies
Richard \"Dick\" Larkins (Ohio State): A titan of OSU athletics, Larkins served as Athletic Director from 1946 to 1970. He is the man who hired Woody Hayes and oversaw the massive expansion of the Buckeyes\' athletic department. He is a member of the Ohio State Athletics Hall of Fame.
Ira T. Sliger Jr. (Tennessee): Serving as the Director of Recreation, Sliger was instrumental in the development of student sports and intramurals at UT.
Context: In 1968, Ice Hockey at both schools was in a transitional phase. Ohio State had recently elevated their program to varsity status (1963), while Tennessee operated as a highly competitive club team. This contract represents the \"business\" side of early collegiate hockey growth in the South.
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NCAA Hockey History, Buckeyes Memorabilia, Volunteers Athletics, Vintage Sports Contract, Richard Larkins Autograph, 1960s College Sports, Knoxville Sports History, OSU Hockey, SEC Hockey, Big Ten C. Larkins (April 19, 1909 – April 5, 1977)[1] was the athletic director at the Ohio State University from July, 1946[2] to 1970.
College YearsLarkins played on the varsity football team and varsity basketball team in his time at OSU. Larkins received a bachelor\'s degree in business administration 1931, then later in 1935, a master\'s degree in commerce. He was a member of both Beta Gamma Sigma and Phi Delta Theta.[2] In his senior year, he was awarded with the Western Conference Medal for scholastic achievement.[1]
CareerIn one of his first acts as Ohio State athletic director, Larkins hired his old teammate, Wes Fesler, to take over as Ohio State\'s football coach.[3] Larkins also became involved in a public feud with legendary coach Paul Brown in 1948. A story in the Minneapolis Times quoted Larkins as saying: \"Brown has started a terrific drive in Columbus and all around Ohio to return as football coach at Ohio State. Brown is not happy in the pro atmosphere. He has a good bank account and wants to coach college kids again.\"[4] Larkins was also quoted as saying that Brown has been \"stealing football players off our campus by the dozen\" and that Brown had \"done everything in his power to hurt Ohio State.\"[4] Brown accused Larkins of conducting a smear campaign, and Larkins claimed he had been mis-quoted.[4]He is also remembered as the Ohio State athletic director who made the decision to proceed with the historic Snow Bowl game against Michigan in 1950. Despite extraordinarily inclement weather, Larkins decided to play the game \"due to the number of people who attended, and the mess it would have created to refund the tickets.\"[5] Ohio State lost the game 9-3.Larkins drew national media attention for his comments in 1951 criticizing big-time college football as a Frankenstein monster. In the remarks, Larkins said: \"Football is being ruined. It\'s getting completely out of hand. It\'s a Frankenstein, a monster. Football is killing itself. ... College football is too big for its breeches. ... These 80,000-90,000 Roman holidays are not good for college athletics. They\'re killing it. You\'ll never know the pressures on us in this coaching situation. The outside pressures, the outside interference! It\'s just terrific. I don\'t know how much longer educators can put up with this stuff. We\'re educational institutions, we\'re not the New York Yankees or Chicago Bears.\"[6]However, Larkins is best remembered as the driving force behind the 1951 hiring of Woody Hayes as Ohio State\'s football coach. Ironically, Larkins\' decision to hire the little-known Hayes, over former Buckeyes\' coach Paul Brown, led to petitions being circulated on campus calling for Larkins\' removal; the petition claimed that Larkins \"has lost confidence of the Ohio State student body\" over his opposition to Brown\'s return as football coach.[7] Larkins became Hayes\' strongest supporter at the university and protected Hayes after numerous clashes and against efforts by university administrators to fire him.[8] Larkins and Hayes became close friends; in 1979, Hayes recalled: \"My greatest friends are always people that I fight with. Bo [Schembechler] was one of those. .... That was true with Dick Larkins (former athletic director at Ohio State). We were always arguing but agreed on everything.\"[9]Larkins also hired Marty Karow to coach the Ohio State baseball team and Fred Taylor to coach the basketball team. Taylor led his basketball team to the NCAA championship in 1960 and Karow did the same with the baseball team in 1966. Those remain the university\'s only national titles in those sports.In 1970, Larkins became the fourth recipient of the James J. Corbett Memorial Award, presented by the National Association of Collegiate Directors of Athletics \"to the collegiate administrator who through the years has most typified Corbett\'s devotion to intercollegiate athletics and worked unceasingly for its betterment.\"
LegacyLarkins Hall on the Ohio State Campus was named for Dick Larkins. The building served as the recreation and physical activity center for a number of years. It was torn down in the early-2000s to build the new Recreation and Physical Activity Center (RPAC). The Richard C. Larkins Plaza was named after the completion of the RPAC. The Plaza is located at the conjunction of the four physical education buildings on campus.
Head coaching record
Year Team Overall Conference Standing Bowl/playoffs
Rochester Yellowjackets (Independent) (1935–1936)
1935 Rochester 1–6
1936 Rochester 2–5
Rochester: 3–11
Total: 3–11 The Ohio State University (Ohio State or OSU) is a public, land-grant research university in Columbus, Ohio, United States. Founded in 1870, it is the flagship institution of the University System of Ohio.[7] Carnegie Classification of Institutions of Higher Education classifies it a R1 institution[8] and it is regarded as a \"Public Ivy\".[9]As of 2025, Ohio State had an endowment of $8.6 billion. It is best known for its political science department, which is one of the most influential globally[10] and a major department within American politics;[11] and applied science programs,[12] where it specializes in artificial intelligence, computer science, biomedical research, and engineering.[12] It is a part of the Association of American Universities.[13]Ohio State consists of sixteen colleges, including of Arts and Sciences, Business, Dentistry, Engineering, Public Affairs, and Law, and has over 400 degree programs at the undergraduate and graduate levels.[14] It has five satellite campuses in Lima, Mansfield, Marion, Newark, and Wooster. The university is one of the largest universities by enrollment in the United States, with over 50,000 undergraduate students and 15,000 graduate students. Its athletic teams compete in NCAA Division I as the Ohio State Buckeyes in the Big Ten Conference for the majority of sports.Past and present alumni and faculty of Ohio State include 6 Nobel Prize laureates, 9 Rhodes Scholars,[15] 7 Churchill Scholars,[16] 1 Fields Medalist,[17] 8 Pulitzer Prize winners,[18] 77 Goldwater scholars,[19] 1 Costa Rican president, 1 U.S. vice president, 7 U.S. senators,[20] 15 U.S. representatives, and 118 Olympic medalists.
History
Main article: History of Ohio State University
19th century
University Hall was the first building on campus, built in 1873 and reconstructed in 1976The proposal of a manufacturing and agriculture university in central Ohio was initially met in the 1870s with hostility from the state\'s agricultural interests, and with competition for resources from Ohio University, which was chartered by the Northwest Ordinance and Miami University.[21] The university was established in the year 1870 as a land-grant university.[21] The university opened its doors to 24 students on September 17, 1873. In 1878, the first class of six men graduated. The first woman graduated the following year.[22] Also in 1878, the Ohio legislature recognized an expanded scope for the university by changing its name to \"the Ohio State University\".[23][24]
20th century
A view of The Oval green space in the early 20th centuryIn 1906, Ohio State president William Oxley Thompson, along with the university\'s supporters in the state legislature, put forth the Lybarger Bill with the aim of shifting virtually all higher education support to the continued development of Ohio State while funding only the \"normal school\" functions of the state\'s other public universities. Although the Lybarger Bill failed narrowly to gain passage, in its place the Eagleson Bill was passed as a compromise, which determined that all doctoral education and research functions would be the role of Ohio State, and that Miami University and Ohio University would not offer instruction beyond the master\'s degree level – an agreement that would remain in place until the 1950s. In 1916, Ohio State was elected into membership in the Association of American Universities.[13]With the onset of the Great Depression, Ohio State would face many of the challenges affecting universities throughout America as budget support was slashed, and students without the means of paying tuition returned home to support families. By the mid-1930s, however, enrollment had stabilized due in large part to the role of the Federal Emergency Relief Administration and later the National Youth Administration.[25] By the end of the decade, enrollment had still managed to grow to over 17,500. In 1934, the Ohio State Research Foundation was founded to bring in outside funding for faculty research projects. In 1938, a development office was opened to begin raising funds privately to offset reductions in state support.In 1952, Ohio State founded the interdisciplinary Mershon Center for International Security Studies, which it still houses. In 1986, Ohio State ended its historic open enrollment policy and moved towards selective admissions.[26]
21st centuryThe 2020s were marked by internal divisions over politics.[27] In 2020, Kristina M. Johnson took office as the 16th president.[28] Her tenure was marked by the university incorporating various diversity, equity, and inclusion policies, which led to criticism from conservatives.[27] Along with other public universities in the state, DEI policies were banned in 2025 with the Advance Ohio Higher Education Act, which passed the Ohio State Legislature and was signed by Governor Mike DeWine. In 2023, Walter E. Carter Jr. took office as the 17th president.[29] His tenure has been described as either more politically neutral or conservative than Johnson\'s,[30] rolling back many of her perceived progressive policies.[27] Protests at Ohio State University by pro-Palestinian demonstrators have occurred during the Gaza War, demanding \"financial divestment, academic boycott, financial disclosure, acknowledging the genocide, and ending targeted policing\".[31] A solidarity encampment was constructed on OSU\'s South Oval on April 25, 2025 during which there were at least 36 arrests.[32]In January 2025, the defense technology company Anduril Industries announced a series of Arsenal Projects, hyperscaling computer facilities for autonomous sensors and weapons.[33] Anduril announced the construction of a manufacturing facility in Columbus, Ohio, to be named \"Arsenal-1\", with subsequent Arsenals planned.[34][35] The facility has been noted for its close ties with Ohio State University, with Anduril Industries sponsoring the football program for the 2025 to 2026 year, close ties to the current college administration, and many of Anduril-1\'s employees hailing from its applied science programs at the university.[36][12]
Campus
See also: List of buildings at Ohio State UniversityOhio State\'s 1,764-acre (7.14 km2) main campus is about 2.5 miles (4.0 km) north of Columbus\' downtown. The historical center of campus is the Oval, a quad of about 11 acres (4.5 ha).[37] The original campus was laid out in the English country style with University Hall overlooking what would become the Oval. From 1905 to 1913, the Olmsted brothers, who had designed New York City\'s Central Park, were contracted as architectural consultants. Under their leadership, a more formal landscape plan was created with its center axis through the Oval. This axis shifted the university\'s street grid 12.25 degrees from the City of Columbus\' street grid. Construction of the main library in 1915 reinforced this grid shift.[38]
Libraries
The East Atrium at the William Oxley Thompson Memorial LibraryOhio State\'s research library system has a combined collection of over 5.8 million volumes. Along with 21 libraries on its Columbus campus, the university has eight branches at off-campus research facilities and regional campuses, and a book storage depository near campus. In all, the Ohio State library system encompasses 55 branches and specialty collections. Some more significant collections include the Byrd Polar Research Center Archival Program, which has the archives of Admiral Richard E. Byrd and other polar research materials; the Hilandar Research Library, which has the world\'s largest collection of medieval Slavic manuscripts on microform; the Ohio State Cartoon Library & Museum, the world\'s largest repository of original cartoons; the Lawrence and Lee Theatre Research Institute; and the archives of Senator John Glenn.Anchoring the traditional campus gateway at the eastern end of the Oval is the 1989 Wexner Center for the Arts. Designed by architects Peter Eisenman of New York and Richard Trott of Columbus, the center was funded in large part by Ohio State alumnus Les Wexner\'s gift of $25 million in the 1980s. The center was founded to encompass all aspects of visual and performing arts with a focus on new commissions and artist residencies. Part of its design was to pay tribute to the armory that formerly had the same location. Its groundbreaking deconstructivist architecture has resulted in it being lauded as one of the most important buildings of its generation. Its design has also been criticized as proving less than ideal for many of the art installations it has attempted to display. The centerpiece of the Wexner Center\'s permanent collection is Picasso\'s Nude on a Black Armchair, which was purchased by Wexner at sale for $45 million.[citation needed]
Aerial view of the main campus, with Drinko Hall and the South Oval in the foregroundTo the south of the Oval is another, somewhat smaller expanse of green space commonly referred to as the South Oval. At its eastern end, it is anchored by the Ohio Union. To the west are Hale Hall, the Kuhn Honors House, Browning Amphitheatre (a traditional stone Greek theatre) and Mirror Lake.Knowlton Hall, dedicated in October 2004, is at the corner of West Woodruff Avenue and Tuttle Park Place, next to Ohio Stadium. Knowlton Hall along with the Fisher College of Business and Hitchcock Hall form an academic nucleus in the northwestern corner of North campus. Knowlton Hall was designed by Atlanta-based Mack Scogin Merrill Elam along with WSA Studio from Columbus. The Hall is home to the KSA Café, the disciplines of architecture, landscape architecture, city and regional planning, and about 550 undergraduate and graduate students. Knowlton Hall stands out from the general reddish-brown brick of Ohio State\'s campus with distinctive white marble tiles that cover the building\'s exterior. This unique wall cladding was requested by Austin E. Knowlton, the namesake of and main patron to the creation of Knowlton Hall. Knowlton also requested that five white marble columns be erected on the site, each column representing one of the classical orders of architecture.[39]The campus is served by the Campus Area Bus Service.
Regional campusesThe university also operates regional campuses in five areas: Ohio State University at Lima – Lima, Ohio, established in 1960
Ohio State University at Mansfield – Mansfield, Ohio, established in 1958
Ohio State University at Marion – Marion, Ohio, established in 1957
Ohio State University at Newark – Newark, Ohio, established in 1957
Ohio State University Agricultural Technical Institute (ATI) – Wooster, Ohio, established in 1969AcademicsOhio State is the flagship university of the University System of Ohio.[7] It is best known for its political science department[11] and applied science programs,[12] where it specializes in artificial intelligence, computer science, biomedical research, and engineering.[12]
Undergraduate admissionsAdmissions to Ohio State are considered highly selective.[40]
Undergraduate admissions statistics
2026 entering
classChange vs.
2021
Admit rate 43.5
(Neutral decrease −23.1)
Test scores middle 50%
SAT Total 1360–1500
ACT Composite 29-34In the Autumn 2025 admissions period, the middle 50 percent of composite scores for the SAT was 1360 to 1500.[41] The composite scores for the ACT were 29 to 34.[41]For the enrolled Spring 2025 class, Ohio State accepted 38,532 students out of 88,508 total for an approximate admission rate of 43.5%.[42] OSU\'s freshman retention rate was 93.9% between 2021 and 2022, with 88% going on to graduate within six years.[43]
Rankings and recognition
Academic rankings
National
Forbes[44] 72
U.S. News & World Report[45] 41
Washington Monthly[46] 68
WSJ/College Pulse[47] 99
Global
ARWU[48] 82
QS[49] 190
THE[50] 108
U.S. News & World Report[51] 66 (tie)
National program rankings[52]
Global program rankings[53]
Ohio State is generally regarded as a Public Ivy.[54] In its 2026 edition, U.S. News & World Report ranked Ohio State as 15th overall among public and 41th among all national universities.[55] In 2026, the Center for World University Rankings ranked Ohio State 29th nationally and 55th out of 21,462 universities globally.[56] The Academic Ranking of World Universities placed Ohio State 39–51 nationally and 82th globally for 2023. Times Higher Education World University Rankings ranks it 108th in the world. In 2024, QS World University Rankings ranked the university 151st in the world.[57]In 1916, Ohio State became the first university in Ohio to be extended membership into the Association of American Universities, and remains the only public university in Ohio among the organization\'s 60 members. Bloomberg Businessweek ranked the undergraduate business program at Ohio State\'s Fisher College of Business as the 14th best in the nation in its 2016 rankings.[58]
Influential and notable departments
The Ohio Union was the first student union at a state university in the United States.[59]In 2023, U.S. News & World Report ranked the college\'s political science, audiology, sociology, speech–language pathology, finance, accounting, public affairs, nursing, social work, healthcare administration and pharmacy programs as among the top 20 programs in the country.[55]
Artificial intelligence, computer science
Main articles: Artificial Intelligence Cold War and Ohio Supercomputer CenterThe university has obtained \"national and geopolitical significance\" during the 2020s Artificial Intelligence Cold War between the United States and China in generative AI.[12]The Ohio Supercomputer Center (OSC) is a supercomputer facility located on the western end of the campus. Established in 1987, it partners with universities, labs and industries, providing high performance computing, cyberinfrastructure, research and computational science education services. In 2023, the university announced that it had obtained four H100 NVIDIA GPUs\'s for AI training at OSC, with a goal of continuous hyperscaling of advanced AI chips for the long term future.[60] By early 2024, Ohio State had added 128 H100 into a new \"Cardinal\" supercomputing cluster across 32 nodes.[61] The ongoing additions have made the OSC one of the most powerful academic supercomputers.[60]In June 2025, the university became the first in the world to require all future students to take courses in artificial intelligence.[62][63][64] In November of that same year, the university announced it would hire 100 tenure-track faculty with expertise in artificial intelligence (particularly in the fields of generative AI, large language models, machine learning, and deep learning) between then and 2030.[65]
Astronomy
Main article: Association of Universities for Research in AstronomyOhio State is a founding member of the Association of Universities for Research in Astronomy (AURA) is a consortium of universities and other institutions that operates astronomical observatories and telescopes. Established in October 10, 1957, with the encouragement of the National Science Foundation (NSF), AURA was incorporated by a group of seven U.S. universities: California, Chicago, Harvard, Indiana, Michigan, Ohio State, and Wisconsin. The first meeting of the board of directors took place in Ann Arbor, Michigan. Today, AURA has 47 member institutions in the United States and 3 international affiliate members.
Wow! Signal
Main article: Wow! Signal
The Wow! signal represented as \"6EQUJ5\". The original printout with Ehman\'s handwritten exclamation is preserved by Ohio History Connection.The Wow! signal was a strong narrowband radio signal detected on August 15, 1977, by Ohio State University\'s Big Ear radio telescope in Delaware, Ohio, then used to support the search for extraterrestrial intelligence. The signal appeared to come from the direction of the constellation Sagittarius and bore expected hallmarks of extraterrestrial origin.[66]The \"Wow! Signal\" is considered by scientists to be one of the few compelling candidates for an intentional extraterrestrial radio transmission ever detected.[67] Despite numerous follow-up searches and hypotheses, the signal has never recurred, and no explanation, terrestrial or otherwise, has been confirmed. While some researchers have suggested it could represent an extraterrestrial transmission, its single occurrence and lack of replication limit the strength of this interpretation.[67] The Wow! signal has inspired SETI targeted searches, scientific discussion about rare astrophysical phenomena, and references in popular culture.[67]
Biomedical researchThe university is a prominent force in biomedical research.[12] The Ohio State College of Medicine is on the southern edge of the central campus. It is home to the James Cancer Hospital, a cancer research institute and one of the National Cancer Institute\'s 41 comprehensive cancer centers, along with the Richard M. Ross Heart Hospital, a research institute for cardiovascular disease.[12]
Engineering
Buckeye Bullet 3 in February 2017Ohio State\'s \"Buckeye Bullet\" electric car broke the world record for the fastest speed by an electric vehicle on October 3, 2004, with a maximum speed of 271.737 mph (437.318 km/h) at the Bonneville Salt Flats in Utah.[68] The vehicle also holds the U.S. record for fastest electric vehicle with a speed of 314.958 mph (506.876 km/h), and peak timed mile speed of 321.834 mph (517.942 km/h). A team of engineering students from the university\'s \"Center for Automotive Research-Intelligent Transportation\" (CAR-IT) designed, built and managed the vehicle. In 2007, Buckeye Bullet 2 was launched.[69] This follow-up effort was a collaboration between Ohio State engineering students and engineers from the Ford Motor Company broke the land speed record once again in 2016. On September 19, 2016, the Buckeye Bullet 3 achieved a new world record with a speed of 341.4 mph (549.4 km/h), beating its own previous record of 308 mph (496 km/h). Roger Schroer was the driver for the record breaking run.[70]
Political science
Derby Hall, photographed in 2009Ohio State\'s political science program is ranked among the top programs globally.[11] Political scientist Simon Hix ranked it 4th in the world in 2004,[10][71] while a 2007 study in the academic journal PS: Political Science & Politics ranked it ninth in the United States.[11]
Research
OSU colleges and schools
College of Dentistry
College of Education and Human Ecology
College of Engineering
College of Food, Agricultural, and Environmental Sciences
College of Medicine
College of Nursing
College of Optometry
College of Pharmacy
College of Public Health
College of Social Work
College of Veterinary Medicine
College of Arts and Sciences
Graduate School
John Glenn College of Public Affairs
Max M. Fisher College of Business
Moritz College of Law
The Wexner Medical Center campusThe National Science Foundation ranked Ohio State University 12th among American universities for research and development expenditures in 2021 with $1.23 billion.[72][73]In a 2007 report released by the National Science Foundation, Ohio State\'s research expenditures for 2006 were $652 million, placing it seventh among public universities and 11th overall, also ranking third among all American universities for private industry-sponsored research. Research expenditures at Ohio State were $864 million in 2017. In 2006, Ohio State announced it would designate at least $110 million of its research efforts toward what it termed \"fundamental concerns\" such as research toward a cure for cancer, renewable energy sources and sustainable drinking water supplies.[74] In 2021, President Kristina M. Johnson announced the university would invest at least $750 million over the next 10 years toward research and researchers.[75] This was announced in conjunction with Ohio State\'s new Innovation District, which will be an interdisciplinary research facility and act as a hub for healthcare and technology research, serving Ohio State faculty and students as well as public and private partners.[76] Construction of the facility was completed in 2023, as one of the first buildings in the District.[77]Research facilities include Aeronautical/Astronautical Research Laboratory, Byrd Polar Research Center, Center for Automotive Research, (OSU CAR), Chadwick Arboretum, Biomedical Research Tower, Biological Sciences Building, CDME, Comprehensive Cancer Center, David Heart and Lung Research Institute, Electroscience Laboratory, Large Binocular Telescope (LBT, originally named the Columbus Project), Mershon Center for International Security Studies, Museum of Biological Diversity, National Center for the Middle Market, Stone Laboratory on Gibraltar Island, Center for Urban and Regional Analysis and Ohio Agricultural Research and Development Center.
Endowment and fundraisingOhio State was among the first group[78] of four public universities to raise a $1 billion endowment when it passed the $1 billion mark in 1999. At the end of 2005, Ohio State\'s endowment stood at $1.73 billion, ranking it seventh among public universities and 27th among all American universities.[79] In June 2006, the endowment passed the $2 billion mark.In recent decades, and in response to continually shrinking state funding, Ohio State has conducted two significant multi-year fundraising campaigns. The first concluded in 1987 and raised $460 million, a record at the time for a public university. The \"Affirm Thy Friendship Campaign\" took place between 1995 and 2000. With an initial goal of raising $850 million, the campaign\'s final tally was $1.23 billion, placing Ohio State among the small group of public universities to have successfully conducted a $1 billion campaign.[80] At his welcoming ceremony, returning President E. Gordon Gee announced in the fall of 2007 that Ohio State would launch a $2.5 billion fundraising campaign. In 2019, celebrating the university\'s 150th year, President Michael V. Drake announced the \"Time and Change Campaign\"[81] with a goal of raising $4.5 billion from 1 million individual donors.[82]
Student life
The Recreation and Physical Activity Center and Scarlet SkywayThe Office of Student Life has partnership affiliations with the Schottenstein Center, the Blackwell Inn and the Drake Events Center. Services supporting student wellness include the Wilce Student Health Center, named for university physician John Wilce, the Mary A. Daniels Student Wellness Center and the Counseling and Consultation Service.The RPAC is the main recreational facility on campus. The Wellness Center within the RPAC offers services such as nutrition counseling, financial coaching, HIV and STI testing, sexual assault services, and alcohol and other drug education.[83]
Diversity
Student body composition as of May 2, 2022 Race and ethnicity[84] Total
White 66% Asian 8% Black 7% Foreign national 7% Other[a] 7% Hispanic 5% Economic diversity
Low-income[b] 18% Affluent[c] 82%
The Washington Monthly college rankings, which seek to evaluate colleges\' contributions to American society based on factors of social mobility, research and service to the country by their graduates, placed Ohio State 61st among national universities in 2023.[85]
Sexual harassment handling
Further information: Ohio State University abuse scandalIn June 2018, Ohio State dissolved its Sexual Civility and Empowerment unit and eliminated four positions in the unit due to concerns about mismanagement and a lack of support for survivors of sexual assault.[86] This occurred after the unit was suspended in February 2018 and following an external review.[87] The Columbus Dispatch and the school newspaper, The Lantern, reported that \"[SCE] failed to properly report students\' sexual-assault complaints\" and that some victims were told that they were \"\'lying\', \'delusional\', \'suffering from mental illness\', \'have an active imagination\', that they \'didn\'t understand their own experience\', and also \'fabricated their story\'\".[88][89] With help from the Philadelphia law firm Cozen O\'Connor, the university will be creating[when?] a new framework to handle sexual assault cases and reevaluating its Title IX program.On July 20, 2018, BBC News reported that over 100 male students, including athletes from 14 sports, had reported sexual misconduct by a deceased university team physician, Richard Strauss.[90] The reports dated back to 1978, and included claims that he groped and took nude photographs of his patients. Four former wrestlers filed a lawsuit against Ohio State for ignoring complaints of \"rampant sexual misconduct\" by Strauss. U.S. representative Jim Jordan was named in the lawsuit and has since denied the former wrestlers\' claims that he knew about the abuse while he was an assistant coach for eight years at the university.[91][better source needed] In May 2020, the university entered into a settlement and agreed to pay $40.9 million to the sexual abuse survivors.[92]
Activities and organizations
Hale Hall was the original home of the Ohio Union.The Ohio Union was the first student union built by an American public university.[59] It is dedicated to the enrichment of the student experience, on and off the university campus. The first Ohio Union, on the south edge of the South Oval, was constructed in 1909 and was later renamed Enarson Hall. The second Ohio Union was completed in 1950 and was prominently along High Street, southeast of the Oval. It was a center of student life for more than 50 years, providing facilities for student activities, organizations and events, and serving as an important meeting place for campus and community interaction. The union also housed many student services and programs, along with dining and recreational facilities. The second Ohio Union was demolished in February 2007 to make way for the new Ohio Union, which was finished in 2010. During this time, student activities were relocated to Ohio Stadium and other academic buildings.[93]The university has over 1,000 student organizations; intercollegiate, club and recreational sports programs; student media organizations and publications, fraternities and sororities; and three student governments.
Student organizationsStudent organizations at Ohio State provide students with opportunities to get involved in a wide variety of interest areas including academic, social, religious, artistic, service-based, diversity and many more. There are over 1,000 registered student organizations that involve many thousands of students.[94] The university\'s forensics team has won the state National Forensics Association tournament several times.[95]Block \"O\" is currently the largest student-run organization on the campus of Ohio State. With over 2,400 annual members, Block \"O\" serves as the official student cheering section at athletic events for the university. According to the Student Organization Office in the Ohio Union, Agricultural Education Society is the oldest student organization on campus. The Men\'s Glee Club often disputes the claim, but after consultation with Ohio Union Staff, Agricultural Education Society was named as the university\'s oldest organization.
Fans celebrating Ohio State\'s victory in the 2019 Rose Bowl with the Ohio State University Marching BandEach year, students may sign up to participate in BuckeyeThon, Ohio State\'s student-led philanthropy. The organization hosts events throughout the year to support the hematology/oncology/bone marrow transplant unit[96] at Nationwide Children\'s Hospital in Columbus.[97] Each February, thousands of students and community members attend BuckeyeThon\'s signature event, a Dance Marathon consisting of two separate 12-hour shifts. In the past 15 years, students have raised over $5 million to support treatment, research, and various therapies at the hospital.[98] Unique to BuckeyeThon is the use of an operational fund separate from the main philanthropic cancer fund. As a registered non-profit, BuckeyeThon is subject to university audit and issues gift receipts through the Foundation.[99]Ohio State has several student-managed publications and media outlets. The Makio is the official yearbook.[100] The Makio\'s sales plummeted by 60% during the early 1970s; the organization went bankrupt and stopped publication during the late 1970s. The book was revived from 1985 to 1994 and again in 2000, thanks to several student organizations. The Lantern is the school\'s daily newspaper and has operated as a laboratory newspaper[clarification needed] in the School of Communication (formerly the School of Journalism) since 1881. Mosaic is a literary magazine published by Ohio State, which features undergraduate fiction, poetry and art. The Sundial is a student-written and -published humor magazine. Founded in 1911, it is one of the oldest humor magazines in the country, but has not been published without large interruptions.[101][102] Ohio State has two improvisational comedy groups that regularly perform around campus and across the U.S.[103][104] There are two student-run radio stations: AROUSE, the music station, is home to over 100 student DJs, streaming music and independent content,[105] and Scarlet and Gray Sports Radio.[106] Students also operate a local cable TV channel known as Buckeye TV, which airs primarily on the campus closed cable system operated by the Office of the Chief Information Officer (OCIO).
Student governmentAt the Ohio State University, three recognized student governments represent their constituents.[107] Undergraduate Student Government (USG), which consists of elected and appointed student representatives who serve as liaisons from the undergraduate student body to university officials. USG seeks to outreach to and work for the students at Ohio State.
Council of Graduate Students (CGS), which promotes and provides academic, administrative and social programs for the university community in general and for graduate students in particular. The council provides a forum in which the graduate student body may present, discuss and set upon issues related to its role in the academic and non-academic aspects of the university community.
Inter-Professional Council (IPC), which is a representative body of all professional students in the colleges of dentistry, law, medicine, optometry, pharmacy and veterinary medicine. Its purpose is to act as a liaison between these students and the governing bodies of the university.Residential life
South Campus GatewayOhio State operates 41 on-campus residence halls divided into three geographic clusters: South Campus (site of the university\'s original dormitories), North Campus (largely constructed during the post-war enrollment boom) and West Campus (\"The Towers\").[108] The residence hall system has 40 smaller living and learning environments defined by social or academic considerations.Separate housing for graduate and professional students is maintained on the Southern tier of campus within the Gateway Residential Complex and the William H. Hall Student Residential Complex. Family housing is maintained at Buckeye Village at the far northern edge of campus beyond the athletic complex.Student Life University Housing also administers student residential housing on the OSU Newark, OSU Mansfield and OSU Agricultural Technical Institute (ATI) campuses.The Residence Hall Advisory Council (RHAC), which is a representative body of all students living in the university\'s residence halls, helps evaluate and improve the living conditions of the residence halls.[109] North Campus: Archer House, Barrett House, Blackburn House, Bowen House, Busch House, Drackett Tower, Halloran House, Haverfield House, Houck House, Houston House, Jones Tower, Lawrence Tower, Mendoza House, Norton House, Nosker House, Raney House, Scott House, Taylor Tower, Torres House
South Campus: Baker Hall East, Baker Hall West, Bradley Hall, Canfield Hall, Fechko House, German House, Hanley House, Mack Hall, Morrison Tower, Neil Avenue, Park-Stradley Hall, Paterson Hall, Pennsylvania Place, Pomerene House, Scholars East, Scholars West, Siebert Hall, Smith-Steeb Hall, The Residence on Tenth, Worthington Building
West Campus: Lincoln Tower, Morrill Tower
Off-campus: South Campus Gateway Apartments, Veterans\' HouseAthletics
Main article: Ohio State Buckeyes
See also: Ohio State Buckeyes football, Ohio State Buckeyes men\'s basketball, Ohio State Buckeyes women\'s basketball, Ohio State Buckeyes baseball, and Ohio State Buckeyes men\'s ice hockey
Ohio Stadium is the fifth largest stadium in the world.Ohio State\'s intercollegiate sports teams are called the \"Buckeyes\" (derived from the colloquial term for people from the state of Ohio and after the state tree, the Ohio Buckeye, Aesculus glabra),[110] and participate in the NCAA\'s Division I in all sports (Division I FBS in football) and the Big Ten Conference in most sports. (The women\'s hockey program competes in the Western Collegiate Hockey Association.) The school colors are scarlet and gray. Brutus Buckeye is the mascot. Ohio State currently has 36 varsity teams. As of 2017, the football program is valued at $1.5 billion, the highest valuation of any such program in the country.[111] The team\'s rivalry against the University of Michigan has been termed as one of the greatest in North American sports.[112]
Men\'s basketball against Duke at Value City Arena in 2021Ohio State is one of six universities – the University of Michigan, the University of Florida, Stanford University, UCLA and the University of California at Berkeley being the others – to have won national championships in all three major men\'s sports (baseball, basketball and football).[113] Ohio State is also one of only two universities to appear in the national championship games in both football and men\'s basketball in the same calendar year (the other being the University of Florida). Ohio State has also won national championships in wrestling, men\'s volleyball, men\'s swimming and diving, men\'s outdoor track and field, men\'s golf, men\'s gymnastics, men\'s fencing, women\'s rowing, co-ed fencing and multiple synchronized swimming championships.[114] The Ohio State equestrian team has won eight Intercollegiate Horse Show Association national championships.[115] Since the inception of the Athletic Director\'s Cup, Ohio State has finished in the top 25 each year, including top-six finishes in three of the last five years.[116] During the 2005–2006 school year, Ohio State became the first Big Ten team to win conference championships in football, men\'s basketball and women\'s basketball. Ohio State repeated the feat during the 2006–2007 school year, winning solo championships in all three sports. In 2007, Sports Illustrated nicknamed Ohio State\'s athletic program as being \"The Program\" due to the unsurpassed facilities, an unparalleled number of men\'s and women\'s sports teams and their success, and the financial support of an impressive fan base.[117]
Traditions
The 1976 University Hall is one of the most prominent buildings on campus.The Ohio State University Marching Band is famous for \"Script Ohio\", during which the band marches single-file through the curves of the word \"Ohio\", much like a pen writes the word, all while playing the French march \"Le Regiment de Sambre et Meuse\".[118]\"Across the Field\", a fight song used by teams of all sports, has been played at events since 1915.[119] \"Buckeye Battle Cry\", the second fight song which was first performed in 1928, is played as the marching band enters via the Ohio Stadium ramp.[120]
Affiliated mediaOhio State operates a public television station, WOSU-TV (virtual channel 34/DT 16, a local PBS TV station), as well as two public radio stations, WOSU-FM 89.7(NPR/BBC news/talk) and WOSA-FM 101.1 (classical, \"Classical 101\") in Columbus.
Notable people
Main article: List of Ohio State University people
AlumniAs of 2014, Ohio State has approximately 580,000 living alumni around the world.[121] Past and present students and faculty include 6 Nobel Prize laureates, nine Rhodes Scholars, seven Churchill Scholars, 77 Goldwater scholars,[19] one Fields Medalist[17] and eight Pulitzer Prize winners.[18] It also includes the current Vice President of the United States, JD Vance, seven U.S. Senators, and 15 U.S. Representatives. 118 Olympic medals have been awarded to those who attended Ohio State.[16][15][122][123][124] Also included are Medal of Honor recipients, ambassadors, Fortune 500 CEOs, UFC champions, and members of the Forbes 400 list of the world\'s wealthiest individuals. Its alumni have been inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame in Cooperstown, New York, the NFL Hall of Fame and the Basketball Hall of Fame. Its athletes have three times received the Sullivan Award as the nation\'s top amateur athlete.Roboticist James S. Albus was named a \"Hero of US Manufacturing\" by Fortune magazine in 1997.[125] Howard Tucker, who as of April 2023 was the world\'s oldest living practicing doctor at 100, attended for both his undergraduate work and medical school.[126]Notable alumni include: George Bellows; realist painter best known for his depictions of urban life in New York City.
George Bellows; realist painter best known for his depictions of urban life in New York City.
Sherrod Brown; politician who served from 2007 to 2025 as a United States senator from Ohio.
Sherrod Brown; politician who served from 2007 to 2025 as a United States senator from Ohio.
Paul Flory; winner of 1974 Nobel Prize in Chemistry.
Paul Flory; winner of 1974 Nobel Prize in Chemistry.
William Alfred Fowler; winner of 1983 Nobel Prize in Physics.
William Alfred Fowler; winner of 1983 Nobel Prize in Physics.
Tyler Joseph; frontman for the musical duo Twenty One Pilots.
Tyler Joseph; frontman for the musical duo Twenty One Pilots.
Donald Kagan; historian, classicist, scholar of Peloponnesian War.
Donald Kagan; historian, classicist, scholar of Peloponnesian War.
Bob Knight; men\'s college basketball coach.
Bob Knight; men\'s college basketball coach.
Roy Lichtenstein; artist who was a leading figure of the Pop Art movement.
Roy Lichtenstein; artist who was a leading figure of the Pop Art movement.
Jack Nicklaus; professional golfer and course designer.
Jack Nicklaus; professional golfer and course designer.
Phil Ochs; songwriter, protest singer, and political activist.
Phil Ochs; songwriter, protest singer, and political activist.
Jesse Owens; track and field athlete known for his participation in the 1936 Olympic Games.
Jesse Owens; track and field athlete known for his participation in the 1936 Olympic Games.
Jean Peters; leading actress of the 1940s and 1950s.
Jean Peters; leading actress of the 1940s and 1950s.
Larry Sanger; generally regarded as the co-founder of Wikipedia.
Larry Sanger; generally regarded as the co-founder of Wikipedia.
Arthur M. Schlesinger Sr.; historian who pioneered social history and urban history in the Progressive Era.
Arthur M. Schlesinger Sr.; historian who pioneered social history and urban history in the Progressive Era.
R.L. Stine; novelist known for the series Goosebumps.
R.L. Stine; novelist known for the series Goosebumps.
J.D. Vance; current Vice President of the United States.
J.D. Vance; current Vice President of the United States.FacultyAs of 2008, Ohio State\'s faculty included 21 members of the National Academy of Sciences or National Academy of Engineering, four members of the Institute of Medicine[127] and 177 elected fellows of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. In 2009, 17 Ohio State faculty members were elected as AAAS Fellows. Each year since 2002, Ohio State has either led or been second among all American universities in the number of their faculty members elected as fellows to the AAAS.[128][129]In surveys conducted in 2005 and 2006 by the Collaborative on Academic Careers in Higher Education (COACHE), Ohio State was rated as \"exemplary\" in four of the seven measured aspects of workplace satisfaction for junior faculty members at 31 universities: overall tenure practices, policy effectiveness, compensation and work-family balance.[130]Notable past and present Ohio State faculty include: Laszlo Adler; physicist, Holocaust survivor.
Laszlo Adler; physicist, Holocaust survivor.
Herman Vandenburg Ames; legal historian, archivist, and professor.
Herman Vandenburg Ames; legal historian, archivist, and professor.
Pierre Agostini; winner of 2023 Nobel Prize in Physics.
Pierre Agostini; winner of 2023 Nobel Prize in Physics.
Paul R. Berger; electrical engineer, computer scientist, and physicist
Paul R. Berger; electrical engineer, computer scientist, and physicist
Kevin Boyle; historian and author. Winner of 2004 National Book Award.
Kevin Boyle; historian and author. Winner of 2004 National Book Award.
Henri Cole; poet and former executive director of TAAP.
Henri Cole; poet and former executive director of TAAP.
Leon Cooper; 1972 winner of Nobel Prize in Physics.
Leon Cooper; 1972 winner of Nobel Prize in Physics.
Harvey Friedman; philosopher, mathematical logician
Harvey Friedman; philosopher, mathematical logician
Tim Griffin; writer, curator and former editor
Tim Griffin; writer, curator and former editor
Ann Hamilton; artist known for her large-scale multimedia installations.
Ann Hamilton; artist known for her large-scale multimedia installations.
Hasan Kwame Jeffries; history professor and author. Brother of Hakeem Jeffries.
Hasan Kwame Jeffries; history professor and author. Brother of Hakeem Jeffries.
John Mueller; political scientist, advocate of liberal institutionalism in IR theory.
John Mueller; political scientist, advocate of liberal institutionalism in IR theory.
Randall Schweller; political scientist, leading realist scholar in international relations.
Randall Schweller; political scientist, leading realist scholar in international relations.
Lonnie Thompson; paleoclimatologist known for his drilling and analysis of ice cores.
Lonnie Thompson; paleoclimatologist known for his drilling and analysis of ice cores.
Alexander Wendt; political scientist, founder of constructivism in international relations.
Alexander Wendt; political scientist, founder of constructivism in international relations.
William E. Warner; academic who pioneered industrial arts education.
William E. Warner; academic who pioneered industrial arts education.
Terry Wilson; known for her work in polar research.
Terry Wilson; known for her work in polar research.See also flagOhio portal Jack Nicklaus Museum – American sports museum in Columbus, OH, USA
List of presidents of Ohio State University
Ohio State University Press – University press of Ohio State University
Senate Bill 1 effects on Ohio State University – Ohio law passed in 2025
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