Law professor George Dent talks about Cedar Point owner’s management struggleJuly 7, 2011Media· Fun park owner on a roller-coaster ride NPR: Cedar Fair, which owns Cedar Point and other amusement parks, is in a desperate struggle for control of the company. George Dent, Schott-van den Eynden Professor in the School of Law, said it’s a common struggle. “Usually, disputes are between managers who want to hang on to the profits and re-invest them, versus the investors who want to have those profits paid out by dividends or repurchases of the company’s stock,” he said.