The Lantern 04-27-10

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Lantern photographer handcuffed during last week’s cow chase

When two cows got loose last Wednesday, Lantern photographer Alex Kotran hustled to his room in Lincoln Tower. He had heard about the commotion, grabbed his camera gear and ran to the athletic ÿelds next to Lincoln Tower. Within two hours, Ohio State Police had caught the cows – and Kotran. He was detained, handcuffed and is facing a misdemeanor charge of criminal trespass. As Kotran reached the athletic ÿelds where the cows were being chased by police and OSU workers, a woman wearing a School of Agriculture shirt confronted him, he said. It was 2 p.m. She told him that he was not allowed to take photos of attempts to corral the cattle. She tried to block him from taking photographs, he said. ALEX KOTRAN Kotran explained that he was a photographer for The Lantern, that where he was standing was public property, and that if she wanted him to stop taking photos, she should summon police. That’s exactly what she did. Shortly, OSU Ofÿcer William Linton approached Kotran and told him that he could not take photos from where he was standing because it was dangerous. Kotran explained that he was a member of the media and that it was public property. At the time, several ofÿcers and OSU workers were on the ÿeld chasing the cows. Kotran was nearly 100 yards away from the action. Nonetheless, Linton ordered him to leave that location, and Kotran complied. He moved to the other side of the ÿeld behind a chain-link fence and continued to shoot photos. It was 2:10 p.m. At that location, a female RPAC employee and two male workers with grounds keeping also

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Lantern photographer Alex Kotran was detained by police last Wednesday while he was taking photographs of two cows loose on campus. Ohio State staff members told Kotran he could not take photos at Lincoln Tower Park and Officer William Linton told him he had to leave because it was dangerous. Later Kotran followed one of the cows to Vivian Hall. When he walked through the building and took photos from a parking lot, Linton detained him and said he may be charged with criminal trespass.

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Dogs adopted in spring, then abandoned BEN BROWN Lantern reporter brown.2959@osu.edu

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Molly Stancliff, a second-year animal cognition student, sits with Remington, her six-month-old pit bull, Monday after they visited the vet for a routine check-up. Stancliff adopted Remington with her boyfriend. “They were sitting in a crate in an abandoned apartment in Georgia,” Stancliff said of Remington and his sister.

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Spring howled into campus over panting tongues, past inside-out ears and on four paws before turning around three times and resting on the Oval. This annual puppy-proliferation breeds happiness in passersby and proves that a dog is a student’s best friend. But many students fail to reciprocate when the quarter ends. As living arrangements change for the summer, dogs are abandoned in off-campus housing and streets. Spring leaves whimpering with its tail between its legs. “Once weather warms up, we adopt out more dogs,” said Susan Smith, community relations director for the Franklin County Dog Shelter. Therefore, adoptees ÿnd themselves back where they started. “In the summer, we get calls from landlords about abandoned dogs in campus apartments and houses,” said Cheri Miller, marketing and events manager for the Capital Area Humane Society.

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Arrest warrant issued for female swindler at Ohio Union

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COLLIN BINKLEY Editor-in-chief binkley.44@osu.edu Ohio State Police have issued an arrest warrant for a woman who they say swindled $80 from cashiers at the new Ohio Union. Ofÿcers say that Rhonda L. Talley, 44, tricked two cashiers into giving her more money than she gave them twice in the last month. “She was asking for different change in different manners using different bills,” said Ofÿcer Adam Tabor, who works at the police substation at the Union.

The scheme is known as “short-changing” and is considered theft, police said. The ÿrst theft was reported March 31, only two days after the grand opening of the Union. Surveillance footage shows a woman buying a bag of chips and walking away $20 richer. “We had a report from the Union Market that someone had confused one of their cashiers with multiple requests for change using different bills while they were paying for a bag of chips,” Tabor said. A week later, the same woman did it again, but that time she bought an orange and conned $60 from the cashier. Surveillance footage showed that both times the

woman went to the Union, there was a man standing nearby who appeared to be in on the scheme, Tabor said, but police didn’t know the identity of either of the suspects. While police waited to see if the short-changer would return, a detective at OSU Police submitted the case to a law enforcement information network, asking if other central Ohio police had seen similar schemes. An ofÿcer in Gahanna replied that a shortchanging duo had stolen $100 from a gas station and pizza shop but hadn’t been caught. A Crime

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