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Charter middle school may open next year in Redmond By Erik Hidle The Bulletin
REDMOND — Redmond Proficiency Academy plans to open a middle school next year if terms can be met to lease a building from the Redmond School District.
Airline baggage is ripe for rifling, and smuggling By Mosi Secret New York Times News Service
NEW YORK — It was not so much the crime that was surprising as who was behind it. When federal investigators announced they had broken up a cocaine-trafficking ring, the crime boss was not a member of a Mexican cartel or the Mafia. The ringleader was Victor Bourne, a lowwage baggage handler for American Airlines at Kennedy International Airport. And his associates were other airline employees: baggage handlers and crew chiefs who delivered contraband while they delivered luggage to the baggage-claim area. Their cunning provided luxury watches, cars, tuition for their children and expensive vacations. Now they face prison. Dealing with luggage issues has long been an annoyance of air travel. Bags can get lost or damaged; heightened security has made carryons less convenient; and most airlines now charge for checking luggage. But all of that may pale to what happens outside the view of the flying public. See Baggage / A6
The RPA is a charter school in downtown Redmond that serves 483 high school students from across Central Oregon. It offers a nontraditional high school experience akin to a college campus by offering freedom and unique courses.
An RPA middle school would be similar, with credited classes and specialty coursework, but would not be an open campus like the high school. To become a reality, the proposed school needs room, and the soon-to-be-vacant Hartman building may be the answer.
Redmond School Superintendent Shay Mikalson introduced the plan to the public Wednesday night, saying the school board has discussed the matter in executive session and agrees on the direction of a charter middle school. See RPA / A6
“I just felt this odd sense of responsibility that I just couldn’t be a kid anymore.” — Sydney Bevando, Summit High sophomore
Bringing up ‘baby’ • Summit High students learn what it takes to be a parent by caring for a fussy newborn doll
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Summit High sophomore Sydney Bevando, 16, holds the plastic baby she and classmate Liz Clark, 15, cared for during a weeklong extra credit project for health class. When the doll “needed” food or a diaper change, it cried until the problem was solved. The doll cried out at any time of day or night, during class and the students’ cheerleading practice.
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s Sydney Bevando, a Summit High School sophomore, walked down the halls between classes, she caught nervous glances from classmates.
carrying a car seat with a baby doll buckled in. But this doll, named Kenlie Rose, had more capacity to disrupt than a toy. Essentially a computer, the
Lolita, a killer whale, was captured in the Puget Sound in 1970 and shipped to the Miami Seaquarium. Animal rights activists have sued the federal government using a curious tactic: claiming that the Endangered Species Act of 2005 requires the orca be reunited with her pod. The marine park says Lolita is no longer equipped to survive in the wild. Story on A2.
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doll cried as it demanded food, a diaper change or comforting. Bevando and classmate Liz Clark, 15, decided to carry the baby around for a week for extra credit in their health class. The work, though, was more than the two planned on, emotionally and physically. “I just felt this odd sense of responsibility that I just couldn’t be a kid anymore. It was pretty heavy for a girl my age,” Bevando said. Bevando and Clark are students in Dave Turnbull’s
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• Robert Berdahl says the state board’s firing of Lariviere was a ‘serious and damaging mistake’ By Lauren Dake The Bulletin
PORTLAND — A man who referred to fired University of Oregon President Richard Lariviere as a “dynamic, visionary leader” will replace him as interim president after a Friday afternoon vote by the State Board of Higher Education. Upon accepting the position, Robert Berdahl said in a letter to students, faculty and staff on Friday that he is taking the post “with Berdahl a mixture of excitement, sadness, determination, and gratitude.” “I believe that the UO has made important progress on all fronts under the leadership of Richard Lariviere and I have made it clear that, whatever its reasons, I believe the Board of Higher Education made a serious and damaging mistake in terminating his presidency at the UO,” Berdahl wrote. At the end of last month, the State Board of Higher Education voted to terminate Lariviere’s contract without cause. His last day is Dec. 28. There was an outpouring of support from the UO community for the president, who had been on the job for 2½ years. Board members defended their decision, saying that Lariviere created a dysfunctional dynamic between himself and the board. See Interim / A6
N.C. weighs repaying thousands of victims of forced sterilization
Other than her usual pile of books and a bag, Bevando, 16, was often
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health class. The class, Turnbull said, had been discussing the “consequences of premarital sex,” when Bevando suggested caring for the doll. Turnbull believes the exercise is an effective lesson, one he
hopes to use again. The dolls cost about $300 each, so Summit would likely have to share with other schools. In the past, Bend-La Pine Schools used federal money to buy the dolls. See Baby / A6
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LINWOOD, N.C. — Charles Holt, 62, spreads a cache of vintage government records across his trailer floor. They are the stark facts of his state-ordered sterilization. The reports begin when he was barely a teenager, fighting at school and masturbating openly. A social worker wrote that he and his parents were of “rather low mentality.” Holt was sent to a state home for people with mental and emotional problems. In 1968, when he was ready to get out and start life as an adult, the Eugenics Board of North Carolina ruled that he should first have a vasectomy. A social Andy McMillan / New York Times News Service worker con- Charles Holt, left, with relative vinced his James Williams Jr., was sterilmother it was ized as a teenager in North Carolina’s eugenics program. for the best. “We especially emphasized that it was a way of protecting Charles in case he were falsely accused of having fathered a child,” the social worker wrote to the board. Now, along with scores of others selected for state sterilization — among them uneducated young girls who had been raped by older men, poor teenagers from large families, people with epilepsy and those deemed to be too “feebleminded” to raise children — Holt is waiting to see what a state that had one of the country’s most aggressive eugenics programs will decide his fertility was worth. See Sterilization / A4
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