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president. In the next week, COCC
resources at McHenry County Col-
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officials, including a board member, a faculty member and two
dates: Leah Bornstein, president of Coconino Community College
members of the President's Advisory Team, will visit Miksa at his current campus. He is the vice president of academic and student
lege in Illinois. COCC spokesman Ron Paradis said the board liked Miksa's emphasis on student success and thought he would fit in w ith the culture at COCC, which he called
its top candidate to be the college's affairs and also oversees human
student-centered and collaborative.
success at Northwest Vista College in San Antonio. SeeCOCC /A4
The board of directors at Central Oregon Community College thinks it found its man — again. The board on Thursday announced it chose Tony Miksa as
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in Flagstaff, Arizona, and Jimmie
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WES COOLEY 1932-2015
Lawmaker beset by controversy has died
And a Wed exclusiveObama's unlikely pick for drug czar — a recovering alcoholic — is emblematic of a new approach to drug enforcement based on rehabilitation. bendbulletin.cem/extras
By Scott Hammers The Bulletin
Congressman Wes Cooley, repeatedly hounded by controversy for the last two
decades of his life, died Wednesday in j„.et
EDITOR'5CHOICE Cooley
Incoming freshmen party less, eye success By Larry Gordon
death Thursday. She said her mother, Cooley's wife, Rosemary, is preparing a public statement. Elected to Congress to represent thesprawling2nd District covering Central and Eastern Oregon in 1994, Cooley served out
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LOS ANGELES — The
ment from politics, Cooley's
currentcropofcollege freshmen showed up at school as less experienced older peers but with more mental health and emo-
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Central Oregon Nordic Club member Susan Sullivan looks over the shelter a few miles from the Swampy Lakes Sno-Park west of Bend. The club wants to replace the aging shelter, possibly in a new location, at a cost of about $30,000.
tional issues, according to a
national survey by the University of California, Los Angeles, researchers. At the same time, the new
college students — who entered their teens when many
of their parents grappled with the recession's economic fallout — are more
concerned about financial successand aspiretoattend graduate schools to enhance
their career prospects, the annual American Freshman study found.
The survey suggests that the incoming freshmen "were buckling down prior to college and taking their academics more seriously," said Kevin Eagan, interim managing director of UCLA's Higher Education
By Dylan J. Darling eThe Bulletin A swift kick of the
logs holding up the roof at the Swampy Lakes Shelter reveals rotted
wood. The aging shelter's foundation is weak, too, so the time has
come for a replacement. "It's falling apart," said Gary Kelley, co-president of the Central Oregon Nordic Club. Built in the early
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high school may mean they couldbe more tempted to binge drink and get into other trouble as social newbies away from the
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relative abstinence during
The Central Oregon Nordic Club and the Deschutes National Forest plan to build a new Swampy Lakes Shelter, potentially at a new location. The new shelter would be about 1 1/2 miles from the Swampy Lakes Sno-park parking lot while the current shelter is about 2 miles.
a deteriorating wood
has administered the poll for 49 years.
similar scrutiny, earning him aprison term of one year and one day for his participation in a scheme that defrauded investors out of $10 million. SeeCooley/A4
New shelter atSwampy
1980s, the shelter has
Research Institute, which
unclear whether these students will prove on average to be a tame group, Eagan said. In fact, he said their
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stepdaughter, confirmed the
Los Ange(es Times
party animals than their
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That risk, along with reportedly higher levels of
a single customer," he said. SeeRadioShack/A5
depression and other emo-
tional problems, will challenge colleges to provide enoughcounselingsupport and substance abuse education, he said. SeeFreshmen/A4
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