Wexner name will remain on OSU buildings

By Julie Carr Smyth and Patrick Aftoora-Orsagos • Associated Press COLUMBUS — Retail magnate Les Wexner’s name will not be removed from several Ohio State University buildings, a university official announced Friday, despite hundreds of complaints over his close association with the late sexual predator Jeffrey Epstein. The determination comes in arguably the highest-profile of the denaming protests to arise at U.S. universities this year in the wake of the release of the Epstein files. The documents contained references to numerous wealthy donors — including Wexner, Steve Tisch, Glenn Dubin and Howard Lutnick — whose names appeared on campus buildings across the country. Universities resisted renaming in almost every case. At Ohio State, Wexner’s name adorns the Wexner Center for the Arts, named for his father; the Les Wexner Football Complex, which Epstein himself helped get renamed; and the OSU Wexner Medical Center, a towering research hospital overlooking the Olentangy River. In