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Three years ago, the Ohio State Athletic Department began raising money for a $22 million basketball practice facility that coaches Thad Matta and Jim Foster said is vital to their programs. The facility, designed to be adjacent to the Schottenstein Center, was supposed to open this fall. However, the Athletic Department has raised just $4.6 million, said Pat Chun, associate athletic director for External Relations. “When the economy bottomed out, that changed our planning,” Chun said. The Athletic Department must have the entire $22 million committed before it can break ground, said Ben Jay, associate athletic director of ÿnance. “The folks who were able to support Buckeye Nation in the past have not been able to give at the levels that they have been doing,” Jay said. The Athletic Department will not get any money for the project from the university, Jay said. OSU is going to be using its borrowing power for other projects, which Jay said include hospital expansion and student housing renovations. The Athletic Department has its own priorities, as well. Jay listed a 3,500-seat sports pavilion, a new weight room, a rehabilitation center and locker rooms among the things competing with the practice facility for funds. So, a facility that originally was to open in a few months is on the department’s back-burner, Jay said.
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Report: Photographer’s press pass ‘fraudulent’ Lantern adviser, editor: Staffer had valid credential when he was arrested BYRON EDGINGTON Lantern reporter edgington.29@osu.edu The press pass Lantern photographer Alex Kotran had on him when he was arrested April 21 “is not ofÿcial and is fraudulent,” according to a May 6 Ohio State police report. The report says that police received an e-mail May 4 from Melanie Yutzy, administrative manager for the School of Communication, that said Kotran’s pass “does not match those currently issued by The Lantern.” The report says the pass was signed by Lantern Photo Editor Zach Tuggle, and that “passes cannot be signed or issued by student staff members of The Lantern.” In fact, the credential Tuggle signed and gave to Kotran has been used for years at The Lantern, said Tom O’Hara, the newspaper’s adviser. O’Hara said there is no language in The Lantern Handbook that says who has the authority to sign press passes. O’Hara said that if anyone from the School of Communication had asked him or the newspaper’s editors, they could have explained why staffers are carrying different passes. The information in the police report stems from a meeting between OSU Police and School of Communication administrators. The meeting, requested by Chief Paul Denton, took place April 27.
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Carroll J. Glynn, director of the School of Communication, said in a May 13 e-mail to The Lantern: “Chief Denton was concerned that Lantern staff were not aware about how to appropriately interact with law enforcement during an emergency situation.” The meeting was also to clarify Kotran’s status as a photographer with the paper, according to the police report. Kotran repeatedly told arresting Ofÿcer William Linton and other OSU employees that he was “with The Lantern,” according to the report. The report states that Kotran “has no paid student appointment with the university.” However, except for the paper’s photo editor and assistant photo editor, the paper’s 11 staff photographers do not get paid for their work. “What’s bizarre about all this is Alex’s status with
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The Lantern is irrelevant. He was a student taking photographs from public property,” O’Hara said. “Alex moved when the ofÿcer told him to move. Alex may have been impolite, but that’s not justiÿcation for an arrest.” Kotran is a staff photographer with the paper, O’Hara said. He is enrolled in a photojournalism class, was carrying a valid credential when he was arrested, and had been shooting for the paper weeks before he was arrested, O’Hara said. “Before the cow assignment, Alex photographed 16 assignments and had six photos printed in The Lantern,” Tuggle said. As late as May 4, the day OSU announced it would not charge Kotran, Yutzy was still looking into
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Sexting bill goes to vote in Ohio House LAUREN HALLOW Lantern reporter hallow.1@osu.edu Do you sext? The National Campaign against Teen and Unplanned Pregnancy says nearly one-third of young adults (ages 20 to 26) and one-ÿfth of teens (ages 13 to 19) have texted or posted online nude or partially nude photos of themselves. Nearly twice as many in both categories have sent sexually suggestive texts, e-mails and Instant Messages.
Some might not consider sexting a big deal. They see it as the norm among young people, just some harmless ° irting. But others disagree. Jessica Logan, an 18-year-old from Cincinnati, committed suicide last year after she was harassed when a nude photo she sexted her ex-boyfriend was shown to other students. Adult sexters caught exchanging or sending nude photos of minors without the minor’s permission fall under the category of child pornography and can face jail time and mandatory sex offender registration if convicted. However, there are no laws pertaincontinued as Sext on 3A ing exclusively to minor-to-minor and
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It wasn’t until after her left leg was amputated that she considered herself a runner. Now, two years later, Daphne Hegreness wants to compete in the 2012 Paralympics in London. Hegreness, 23, of Columbus, will have to cut 2.6 seconds from her time in the 100-meter dash in order to qualify. But the challenge doesn’t seem to faze her. She is used to challenges by now. After battling a painful cancer for four years, Hegreness’ left leg was amputated
below the knee in January 2008. She was diagnosed with epithelioid sarcoma, a rare soft tissue cancer. She spent the following nine months in physical therapy in Maine, she said. In February 2009, her husband, Jeff Hegreness, taught her how to run on her prosthetic leg in the living room of their apartment. As an Ohio State graduate student in physical therapy, he was assigned to a clinical group of amputees and used what he learned to help his wife. Teaching her to run was something her therapists in Maine hadn’t been able to do. “Everyone says that we’re a perfect
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Daphne Hegreness was taught by her husband, Jeff Hegreness, how to run on her prosthetic leg.
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