Ohio University says it's investigating allegations of sexism and sexual harassment at WOUB.
OU's student newspaper, the Post, obtained a report accusing male sports journalists of treating women like sexual objects.
The Post reports 11 students were fired and another half dozen suspended after a faculty member exposed a culture of sexism and sexual harassment.
The report obtained by the student newspaper alleges male sports staffers "promoted women" who were "most attractive”, engaged in a group text to talk about women as "sexual objects", and participated in "foul, vile, and egregious" sexual talk that caused some female students to choose "not to participate in sports journalism."
Ohio University declined to talk to 10TV saying it couldn't comment on matters under review involving students.
10TV wanted to talk to OU's Title IX coordinator, the person in charge of combating sexual misconduct on campus, but he was unavailable.
WOUB leadership also declined to comment but a station website says WOUB will now make gender bias and diversity training mandatory for all students.
"There's no magic wand"
10TV did speak with Kerry Soller with the Ohio Department of Higher Education who is leading a statewide initiative to change campus culture.
The goal is for all Ohio college students to take personal responsibility for helping to create a safe and respectful environment for students. Soller says it’s a slow but meaningful task.
“There’s no magic wand. It’s slowly chipping away at it,” she said.
The report obtained by the Post criticizes other WOUB students for failing to report the alleged behavior to paid university employees.
One educator went so far as to call students “cowards”.
Soller says one of the goals of the state’s initiative is to encourage bystander intervention, and that begins by challenging students to question what is tolerable.
"What are those things that they may have thought were okay at one moment, but then they have these ‘a-ha’ moments and all of a sudden they’re awakened to something they see on TV or something they use to laugh at in a movie or some song lyrics they used to sing along to at some point and all of a sudden through this education, they start to have this ‘a-ha’ moment about ‘what am I really laughing about?’ Or ‘what am I really singing about?’ she said. “As those ‘a-ha’ moments start to happen, I think we’ll start to see a change in the culture.”