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Canine behavior expert to speak on human-animal connection HALEY PLAHUTA Lantern reporter plahuta.12@osu.edu COURTESY OF LINDSAY WEISENAUER
Adam Seitz (left) and Dominique Burrell.
According to the Dublin Police Department, there was an altercation between four males — two armed suspects stole the vehicle that the two victims were in. One victim was hospitalized with non-life-threatening injuries and the other was uninjured. Authorities arrested Burrell in Dublin around 1 a.m. Wednesday, and Seitz was arrested near OSU at around 4 a.m. The police were informed through victim interviews after the carjacking that the crime was drug related, and specifically marijuana-related, said Lindsay Weisenauer, senior public information officer with the Dublin Police Department. Weisenauer could not confirm if police found drugs in the car that Seitz and Burrell allegedly stole. The names of the victims are not being released due to the ongoing investigation, Dublin police said. Seitz and Burrell are set to be arraigned Thursday at 9 a.m.
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experience in organization building to better represent the students on campus,” said Reese Brooks, the vice-presidential candidate. Reese Brooks said that the idea for running came after examining the other potential candidates and their proposed policies. “We sort of knew who was going to run for USG president, we spoke with them, we looked at the potential policies that they might have when they were official candidates, and we weren’t necessarily a huge fan of some of the stuff they were proposing. So we sort of put together our own campaign,” Reese Brooks said. “Since we didn’t like the other campaigns, we thought we might as well run our own.” As co-founders of the libertarian student organization Students for Liberty, the duo said their administration would have a heavy focus on student life over bureaucracy, something they said they feel is not currently prioritized within USG. “We’re really running that outsider position,” Reagan Brooks said. “We’re not here to just go to the weekly USG meetings and play politics, we’re here to actually represent the people of OSU and the clubs of OSU. This outsider mindset is something we think is going to be very effective.” Reese Brooks said his and his brother’s outsider status reflects the current political climate for politicians who are not a part of
Applied animal behaviorist Patricia McConnell will promote her new memoir, “The Education of Will,” and inform the public on emotional connections between animals and humans on Thursday at the Ohio State Veterinary Medical Center Auditorium. “The Education of Will,” which was published Tuesday, is about a journey McConnell and her therapy dog, Willy, went on together to overcome past challenges. “The title refers to two things: one is Will, or Willy, who came as a troubled puppy with a vast number of behavioral problems, and also to the word ‘will’ as in willpower — and that it was this puppy that taught me that willpower is not enough to heal from some
of the baggage in one’s past,” McConnell said. McConnell said that while Willy came to her as a therapy dog, at first he contributed to setbacks in her healing process. “Willy when he came to me, rather than being like a therapy dog, in a way he made me worse because his startle reaction and his fears were so extreme that he ended up sending me back,” McConnell said. As the relationship progressed, however, McConnell said that through Willy she was able to put herself back on the path to healing. “I had thought that I had recovered from some of the traumas in my past, but his startle response was so extreme and set me on edge and made me realize that I really hadn’t recovered,” McConnell said. “So in order to help him
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Dr. Patricia McConnell is set to speak on Thursday at the Ohio State Veterinary Medical Center Auditorium. I realized I had to help myself.” can have this close encounter with McConnell is an adjunct pro- individuals of another species,” fessor in zoology at the Universi- McConnell said. ty of Wisconsin, and said she has Doors open Thursday at 5 p.m. committed her life to improving and the lecture is set to go from relationships between people and 5:30 to 6:15 p.m., with a Q-and-A animals. session at 6:30. A book signing “The relationship we have with will follow and there is a requestmany of our companion animals ed, but optional, $5 donation. … it’s a biological miracle that we
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ping, rape and murder of Teresa Halbach by officers trying to connect physical evidence found at the scene to a plausible narrative. Dassey has been incarcerated since his confession at age 16, and will not be eligible for parole until 2048, unless his conviction is overturned. Drizin said Dassey’s situation is one that anyone could find themselves in, regardless of their level of intelligence or privilege. “I’m here to tell you it doesn’t matter if you’re highly intelligent or if you’re of low intelligence, everybody has their breaking point and you or I can be made to falsely confess under the right circumstances,” Drizin said. “The reality is that when you look at the whole numbers of false confessions, about a third of them involve young people, about a third of them involve people with mental disabilities or mental illness, and a third of them are just like you and me,” Drizin said. In a presentation using the videos of Dassey’s interrogations, Drizin broke down the different processes that can set up circumstances that could result in a false confession, which included psychological techniques such as “misclassification,” “coercion” and “contamination.” Misclassification occurs when, during an open-ended interview, the police sense the innocent person is guilty, usually based on behavioral or verbal cues, Drizin said. From there, they begin the the two major political parties. “The political landscape, if you look both nationally and internationally, 2016 is the year of outsiders. You saw that on both the left and the right,” Reese Brooks said. “You get a lot of these outsiders coming in and trying to make actual change, because people are sort of fed up with the political environment and we’re sort
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Steven Drizin, post-conviction lawyer for Brendan Dassey, speaks at the Ohio Union for the Ohio State chapter of the Ohio Innocence Project. more accusatory interrogation process. Coercion, Drizin said, can begin when police claim to “already know” what has occurred and offer promises of help to the suspect. Although this alone isn’t illegal, it can lead to increased pressure on the suspect. Drizin said the final error is contamination, which happens when police give the suspect information that would otherwise only be known by the person who committed the crime. Drizin said this can invalidate any confession of the information later on, because the suspect could have simply regurgitated the information officers gave them.
Drizin also discussed the false confession made by then-17-yearold Marty Tankleff, who woke up one day to find both his parents murdered in his home. He was tried and convicted of the crime after giving a false confession. He has in the past described the interrogation experience as, “like having an 18-wheeler driving on your chest, and you believe that the only way to get that weight off your chest is to tell the police whatever they want to hear … even admitting to murder.” Tankleff’s conviction has since been reversed. McKaila Goodwin, a fourthyear in psychology and criminology who attended the event, said
making a false confession, though it seems unrealistic, seems possible. “I would like to say no, but I have never been in a situation where I have been questioned for hours, so probably,” she said about the possibility of making a false confession herself. One audience member asked Drizin how he keeps his motivation in what adds up to years of legal work. He responded by motioning to pictures on screen of innocent people whose convictions he has helped to overturn. “This is why I keep going,” he said.
of just building off that.”
program that was started at University of Southern California to Ohio State,” Honaker said. “Every time Student Safety Service’s Safe Rides went over 15 minutes on weekend nights, it would send students to a ridesharing app and students would get free rides from 9 p.m. to 3 a.m., Thursday, Friday and Saturday nights within three miles of campus.”
Honaker and Gracia said they see weaknesses on campus that they feel they can address. “I think textbooks. (The current USG administration) did promise a lot of textbook stuff — I think they’re doing a really great job, but I think that’s one that hits home,” Gracia said. “I think paying $600 a semester in textbooks is kind of
Mary Honaker and Carla Gracia
Presidential candidate Mary Honaker, a third-year in international studies, and vice-presidential candidate Carla Gracia, a second-year in political science, are campaigning on diversity, inclusion and college affordability. “Our most attractive policy point is we want to expand a
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