Strip Club Ad Appears In Ohio Student Directory
Ad Not Caught Before Directory Given To OSU Faculty
POSTED: 10:13 a.m. MST November 14, 2002
COLUMBUS, Ohio -- After printing thousands of student directories, officials at The Ohio State University have decided that they do not want an advertisement for an adult nightclub in their publication.
OSU spokeswoman Elizabeth Conlisk said that 13,000 of the directories were printed and more than 2,300 of those were already distributed.
Dockside Dolls, a Columbus strip club that has advertised with the university before, purchased the advertisement.
"It suggests that our female students ought to earn money for school by working in a strip club," Conlisk said.
Dockside Dolls employee Cameron Collins said that pulling the advertisement is censorship. He said that the university approved the picture and every word of the ad before the directories were printed.
OSU officials were tearing out the ad, which featured an ad for the Central Ohio Transit Authority on the back, according to the report.
Specifics were not given to the television station about who approved the ad.
Conlisk said that she thinks that part of the issue was that they scanned through all the advertisements at different times, as opposed to looking through them all at once.
The advertisement was not caught until the book was distributed to OSU faculty members.
The same ad was denied before the printing of similar directories at Duke University and the University of North Carolina.
Ohio State officials said that the school would pay back the money in lost advertisement and set new guidelines for future ads.
DISCUSS: Should OSU Pull Ad?
OSU spokeswoman Elizabeth Conlisk said that 13,000 of the directories were printed and more than 2,300 of those were already distributed.
Dockside Dolls, a Columbus strip club that has advertised with the university before, purchased the advertisement.
"It suggests that our female students ought to earn money for school by working in a strip club," Conlisk said.
Dockside Dolls employee Cameron Collins said that pulling the advertisement is censorship. He said that the university approved the picture and every word of the ad before the directories were printed.
OSU officials were tearing out the ad, which featured an ad for the Central Ohio Transit Authority on the back, according to the report.
Specifics were not given to the television station about who approved the ad.
Conlisk said that she thinks that part of the issue was that they scanned through all the advertisements at different times, as opposed to looking through them all at once.
The advertisement was not caught until the book was distributed to OSU faculty members.
The same ad was denied before the printing of similar directories at Duke University and the University of North Carolina.
Ohio State officials said that the school would pay back the money in lost advertisement and set new guidelines for future ads.
DISCUSS: Should OSU Pull Ad?
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