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VANDALISM? CORRUPTION? HAVE NO WHERE ELSE TO TURN? NO STORY TOO BIG OR SMALL THE OSN WILL INVESTIGATE! Please email news tips to Hildelysiak@gmail.com
May 9, 2016
By Hilde Kate Lysiak
With thirteen days to go before his son’s graduation, a Selinsgrove man who was banned from Susquehanna University for being a suspected creeper while looking for his lost dog is still waiting to hear if he can go.
“I’ve haven’t heard anything from SU,” Candace Peterson told the Orange Street News.
The family is worried because the graduation is May 22nd, according to Peterson.
The trouble began last September after Peterson and her family lost their beloved family dog. The family drove all around Selinsgrove in their van in search of their beloved family pet, including the University where they believed their dog may have wandered.
But when students saw the van instead of helping the family find the missing canine they instead became upset and reported Peterson to the campus police, who put out an alert. Soon everyone was looking for the van, including police and many local news outlets ran with the story.
When Peterson saw all the trouble she came forward to police thinking she could clear up the mix-up, but instead of apologizing to her husband for getting the story wrong they banned him from the University and threatened to press charges.
Days later, the beloved family dog was found dead on Route 15.
Last month Peterson thought she had received good news when she read online that Angela Burrows, the Susquehanna University communications director, told Reason Magazine:
“The University strives to keep its private campus safe for all students, faculty, staff and visitors. While privacy considerations dictate that we cannot share more information at this time, the University stands by its decision to issue a no-trespass order to Mr. Petersen. We will provide a one-time exception for Mr. Petersen to come to campus for preschool graduation. The no trespass order will otherwise remain in effect.”
“We just want to know what is going on,” Peterson told the OSN last month. “They told the reporter he could attend but it would be nice if someone could at least talk to us.”
“My husband has the right to be there for his own son’s pre-school graduation.”
Burrows has refused to comment to the Orange Street News.
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