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COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) -- Members of the Ohio State University Board of Trustees are opposing a gambling initiative, saying it won't assuage problems with funding higher education.
Proponents of the "Learn and Earn" issue say 30 percent of the profits from placing slot machines at nine locations statewide would go toward scholarships for Ohio students.
Trustee Robert Schottenstein says the issue sounds too good to be true and will be bad for the state.
Learn and Earn supporters say the gambling profits would dump millions into scholarship coffers, but opponents liken the measure to lottery legislation passed in 1973.
That legislation promised lottery profits would benefit schools, but the money went into the state's general budget instead.
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