The Lantern 4-22-10

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Thursday April 22, 2010 year: 130 No. 95 the student voice of

The Ohio State University

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Slideshow: cows loose on campus

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Two cows escape en route to Veterinary Hospital, run loose near Lincoln Tower

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Two cows escaped from the ohio State Veterinary Hospital wednesday. Both cows traveled as far east as Lincoln Tower Park before getting caught. KIrK MCeLroY Lantern reporter MCELROY.41@osu.edu

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Two cows escaped from their owners Wednesday at Ohio State’s Veterinary Hospital. The animals followed John H. Herrick Drive southeast, ending up at athletic fields south of Ohio Stadium. One of the cows retraced its path north and continued past Woody Hayes Drive to Vivian Hall.

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Two cows being transported to Ohio State’s Veterinary Hospital escaped Wednesday afternoon and caused a chaotic two-hour round-up on the campus athletic fields next to Lincoln Tower. OSU Police and university officials used at least seven police cars, a university tractor, a cattle prod and tranquilizers to corral the cattle. Kaylee Smith, a fourth-year in interior design, saw cows as she left work and tried to get into her car at Lincoln Tower. “One of the cows charged one of the female veterinary students and flipped her up in the air, but she was unharmed,” Smith said. Police and OSU officials spent more than two hours rounding up the two Belted Galloway cows. The cows were being brought to the

veterinary school to have their hooves trimmed, a regular procedure among some breeds of cows. However, they were not used to being in trailers, the animals’ owner told police. When the owner opened the trailer to get the cows out on his own, one of the cows knocked him down. Once they had escaped the trailer, the cattle followed a route that took them southeast along John Herrick Drive and eventually onto a series of athletic fields south of Ohio Stadium. The field “was actually a good place for them to be in because three quarters of that area is fenced in,” said OSU Police Deputy Chief Richard Morman. When police arrived at the fields shortly after 1:30 p.m., officers tried to use their cars to barricade the animals while veterinary students tried to subdue them. But before officials could contain either cow, one escaped and retraced its path north, ending up at Vivian Hall. Both cows were very aggressive, police

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Sycamore tree living on borrowed time KATHY CUBerT Lantern reporter cubert.1@osu.edu

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OUAB will bring the famous blogger to the Union’s Archie Griffin Grand Ballroom at 6 p.m. Friday.

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The pink ties on wooden stakes winding around the landscape of an Ohio State soccer field are cold, hard proof that change is coming soon. A towering sycamore behind the Biomedical Research Tower on 12th Avenue is living on borrowed time. The tree is in the way of progress via One Framework, a university initiative, and the creation of a permanent road. And it’s not just any old tree — it is one of the largest trees left on campus and is 150 to 200 years old. The sycamore is one of two large ones in the area and is located in the Medical Center. The one to be removed is near outdoor seating and offers shade or cover from the rain. Lauren Tilley, a clinical research data coordinator, works near the other large sycamore with an Ohio Staters historical marker, and seeing it throughout the day gives her a much-needed boost after being in the lab. She’s in labs almost all the time while working at Tzagournis Medical Research facility. It’s a cause that has given her a focus and an energy she did not know she had. All for a tree. Tilley is not an avid environmentalist. “It was a call to action, and I felt like no one else was going to say anything,” Tilley said. She started writing editorial letters to The Lantern and The Columbus Dispatch.

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KATHY CUBerT / Lantern photographer

Lauren Tilley and Josh Mcelhaney are working to save two towering American sycamores located behind Tzagournis Medical research Facility and the Biomedical research Tower off of 12th Avenue. The sycamores are 150 to 200 years old, and at least one of them is currently scheduled for removal to create a permanent road. “I never thought I would be so upset over the fate of a tree,” Tilley said. Tilley is a clinical research data coordinator and Mcelhaney is a lab assistant—both work at Tzagournis.

Ticket plan ‘not a home run for students’ After four months of debate about more than a dozen proposals, the university Athletic Council will vote early next month on a proposed reallocation of football tickets after Ohio State switches to semesters in 2012. The Finance and Facilities subcommittee of the Council presented its recommendation April 6, but before the full council votes to accept or reject the subcommittee’s recommendation, other issues are quickly filling up the agenda. In the final article of a three-part series, The Lantern explores proposed ticket packages for students, as well as faculty and staff, after the semester switch.

JACK Moore Lantern reporter moore.1732@osu.edu When a subcommittee of the University Athletic Council presented its recommendation for how football tickets should be redistributed after Ohio

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State’s semester switch in 2012, students on the council were less than thrilled. “If I had to grade it, I would give it a low B or a high C,” said Peter Koltak, one of the students on the council. The plan, which the full council will vote on in May, didn’t add any tickets to the total number available for students, even though under a semester calendar, they will be on campus for more early football games. Students on the council had advocated for 20,000 more tickets to be added to their group. “It’s not a home run for students,” said Micah Kamrass, a student member of the council and the president-elect of USG, when he first learned of the recommendation. The plan didn’t change the total number of tickets available for the faculty, staff or alumni, either. But one thing that will change, said Karen Mancl,

chair of the Finance and Facilities Subcommittee, is how tickets are organized within each group. “We’re having lots more meetings and gathering lots more data to make decisions … about how tickets will be distributed within each constituency group,” she said. Now, most student tickets are purchased as part of a “short season” package that generally contains all four Big Ten games and a non-conference game. If students want to attend all the home games, they have to purchase the rest of the early non-conference games individually. Under the subcommittee proposal, there would be a full-season package, containing every home game, and a Big Ten package containing just those four games. Koltak said the current short season and the proposed Big Ten season are “very similar.” Another option that the committee had considered was a three-game split-season for students. From the outset, students were against that, he said, because it reduced the number of students at Big Ten games.

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