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INVENTERPRISE Several Central Oregon students competed in the contest hosted by Bend Research to invent something to combat their greatest fears. To see interviews with some of the young inventors, visit www .bendbulletin.com/inventerprise

• The state’s plan for independent governance — part of the fired president’s vision — is still unclear

Students face their fears — and win big High school winners

1st place: Kingston Steele • Madras • Age: 18 • Invention: a rock climbing safety device

2nd place (tie): Zach Gielser • Summit • Age: 15 • Invention: a radiation blanket for air travelers

2nd place (tie): Henry Mensing • Summit • Age: 16 • Invention: a vehicle to melt snow

By Lauren Dake The Bulletin

SALEM — The firing last week of University of Oregon President Richard Lariviere made national

headlines and spurred students and professors to protest. It also thrust Lariviere’s vision for the school’s future into the spotlight. Shortly after the State Board

of Higher Education announced plans to oust him, Lariviere wrote a letter to students and alumni, citing an “ongoing difference of opinion over the future of University of Oregon” as a factor in his removal. Gov. John Kitzhaber fired back, saying the board’s decision had nothing to do with a difference in

vision and everything to do with Lariviere’s disregard for directives from him and the board. Now that the protests have died down, and the clock on Lariviere’s last month in office has started ticking, some of the focus has switched to the change in policy Lariviere had been advocating. See University / A7

Cougars, state champs: Bend’s first since 1940

By Megan Kehoe The Bulletin

A rock climbing device that could stop someone from plummeting off the side of a cliff. A blanket that blocks life-draining radiation. A dog jacket to shield pooches from nerve-racking fireworks. These were just a few of the creative and innovative ideas that took home prizes from this year’s Inventerprise contest. The contest held by Bend Research challenged High Desert students to create an invention that would combat their greatest fears. Students entered 813 projects. More than 120 students won honorable mentions and prizes. Winners and honorable mentions at the elementary and middle school levels will receive T-shirts and are being invited to Bend Research’s science night later this month. Winners of the top prize at the middle school level got to choose between an iPod, an e-reader, a digital camera, a mountain bike or a season ski pass to Mt. Bachelor. The winner at the high school level received $1,000, while second-place prize winners won $500 each.

Meet the winners: Kingston Steele Middle school winners

1st place (tie): Alex Moore • Cascade • Age: 10 • Invention: a soothing vest for dogs

1st place (tie): Seth McGuire and Kyle Taylor • Pilot Butte • Ages: 11 • Invention: a sandbag to soak up floodwater

Kingston, 18, is a Madras High senior. Originally from Los Angeles, Kingston moved to Madras two years ago. And as part of the High Desert lifestyle, he’s picked up the sport of rock climbing. “As a rock climber, one of the biggest fears is that the gear will fail, or a belayer won’t do their job,” Kingston said. “A lot could go wrong.” The fear of falling off a cliff led Kingston to develop an invention called a “Multipurpose Climbing Device.” The device can act as a pulley and can automatically lock into place if the rope starts slipping. What makes Kingston’s invention notable is that two ropes can be threaded through the device. “It isn’t a device that’s available by some supplier,” Ed LaChapelle, a scientist with Bend Research and organizer of the contest, said of Kingston’s invention. “It’s a unique product, and it’s a good idea.” See Inventerprise / A4

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he Mountain View Cougars celebrate their 14-13 win over defending champion Sherwood in the Class 5A championship game Saturday night at Hillsboro Stadium. The Cougars overcame early mistakes and a 13-7 halftime deficit to topple the top-ranked Bowmen. Mountain View became the first team from Bend to

win a state football championship since Bend High’s squad in 1940. For more on the Cougars’ title, see Page D1.

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Jerry Sandusky, the former Penn State defensive coordinator accused of child sex abuse, said his work through the charity he founded had been misunderstood and distorted by prosecutors.

the interview, said that Paterno did not speak to him or confront him over the accusation, even though Sandusky had been one of his assistant coaches for three decades and was a regular presence at the football team’s complex for years after the 2002 episode. See Sandusky / A7

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Parrish owns the Crystalwood Lodge just north Liz Parrish owns 16 of Upper Klamath Lake. • Track the No one knows if the sled dogs and has lived wolf’s path howl came from OR-7, a in coyote county for a across the decade, so she knows wolf that has wandered state, A5 their howls. She says across Oregon in recent the howl she heard late months, pausing briefly last month was neither a dog’s in Deschutes County. But Parrish says she spotted the animal nor a coyote’s, but a wolf’s. Parrish wrote in a blog last close to her lodge in October. week about a “distant howl, John Stephenson, Oregon coming from the north toward wolf coordinator for the U.S. Crater Lake.” She described it Fish and Wildlife Service, has as “a long, single-tone, solitary been tracking OR-7 using GPS data beamed regularly from a howl ... much like I’ve heard in wolf country in Northern collar around the animal’s neck. Minnesota or Alaska.” See Wolf / A5 By Dylan J. Darling

The former Penn State assistant football coach Jerry Sandusky, in his first extended interview since his indictment on sexual abuse charges last month, said Coach Joe Paterno never spoke to him about any suspected misconduct with minors. Sandusky also said the charity he worked for never restricted his access to children until he became the subject of a criminal investigation in 2008. The failure by Paterno to act more aggressively after being told in 2002 that Sandusky had molested a 10year-old boy in the showers of the university’s football building played a role in Paterno’s firing last month after 62 years at Penn State. Sandusky, in

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