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By Abby Spegman

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

Miksa beat tw o

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in Flagstaff, Arizona, and Jimmie

Bruce, vice president of academic Miksa

Moms' depressionForget the post in postpartum depression. A study finds it's more complicated.A3

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Harper Leeupdate —The author addresses skepticism over whether she really wanted another novel published.A5

Typewrlters —A gallery in Bend opens a show featuring them — andart inspired by them.GO!

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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his two-year term, buthe dropped his re-election bid inmidcampaignbecause of allegations he'd lied about

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his military record and academic credentials. In retire-

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-

business practices attracted Joe Kiine/The Bulletin

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

Current Swampy lakes Shelter

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structure will have a concrete foundation, metal reinforcement in the walls and a metal

roof, Kelley said. SeeSwampy/A4

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during 2013 suburban Phoenix. It was dull, but Hill, a 19-year-old

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go from six to nine, three whole hours, without seeing Greg Cross/The Bulletin

Source: Central Oregon Nordic Club

months

and 2014, he worked at stores in two strip malls in

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ting roof supports and weak foundation. The club, working with U.S. beefier shelter. The shelter sees visitors in win-

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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stove, as well as the rot-

plans on building a

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

C arl i n , Cooley's

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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