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Prank mars a local school's annual
MaSS ShOOtingS —Police give advice onhow toreact: Fighting back is alast resort. A3
Plus: ln Oregon — More details about the Troutdale school shooting suspect.B6 DrulleS —The Navyis reluctant to movebeyond reconnaissance, but Congress wants the drones that launch from aircraft carriers to be cutting-edge bombers.A6
By Hillary Bonud The Bulletin
Bend officials will ask the
City Council to offer two cityowned parcels of land for sale next month, as a short-term
option to ease the shortage of affordable housing.
FaCednnk —Userswill get a look under the hood at how ads are targeted at them.C6
The parcels are both in northeast Bend: one on Butler Market Road and the other on Daggett Lane. A third potential
affordable-housing site — two
pieces of land near the Cascades East Transit operations
to sell those for the maximum amount of money available,"
changesthat would increase
building on Northeast Bear
Long said. In the meantime, the housing
the affordable housing supply. They will then be presented to
Creek Road — will take abit m ore work to prepareitfor MaP sale, Affordable Housing ManagerJim Long said on On A4 Wednesday. The city will put out a request for pro-
posalsfrom developers forthe first two properties in mid- July, Long said. "It's going to be up to council whether they want
committee will continue to
discuss additional options to increase the supply of affordable housing, and rental housing for all income levels, throughout the summer. Long said City Manager Eric King recently asked him to develop recommendations by the
end of the summer for policy
the City CounciL
By Megan Kehoe
City planners and members of the Affordable Housing
The Bulletin
Advisory Committee acknowl-
cade Middle School
edged that any increase in rental housing could also bolster
were told to leave
Students at Cas-
the city's case for the state to
allow Bend to expand. SeeHousing/A4
Odituary —RubyDeewas an actress and acivil rights activist.A2
their backpacks at home Thursday, as the only thing they needed to bringto school was a pen to sign each other's yearbooks. But they didn't realize they wouldn't be
And a Wed exclusive-
able to take theiryearbooks home on the final day of dass, after school officials discovered inappropriate
on arewe or summer
Oil boom produces job bonanza — for archaeologists. bentibulletin.com/extras
material inserted into
thembyhackers. "This is definitely a disappointing lesson for the students in-
EDITOR'SCHOICE
Colleges crack down on frats
volved," said Julianne
Repman, communications director for Bend-La Pine
Schools. "It's a sad way to end the school year." About 750 Cascade
Middle School year-
By Richard Perez-Pena and Steven Yaccino
books were confiscated from students
New York Times News Service
Thursday after some
EVANSTON, Ill. — At the
students hacked into
University of Tennessee this year, some fraternitypledg-
the yearbook design file and put inappro-
es had hot sauce poured on
priate material under
their genitals. At Emory in Atlanta, pledges were
multiple student and staff photos. SeeAnnual/A5
required to consume items
"not typical for eating" and to engage in fistfights. And at Wesleyan in Connecticut,
a fewmonths after the university reached a settlement
America scrambles to aid Iraq
with a woman who said she
was raped at afraternity house, another woman said she was raped at a different
fraternityhouse. Facing abarrage ofbad publicity andlawsuits, a growingnumber of federal investigations and a recent White House report, col-
leges are under intense pressure to curb sexual assault,
binge drinking and hazing. They have increasingly focused efforts on fraternities.
Joe Kiine/The Bulletin
Students in Bend and La Pine wrapped up their school year Thursday. Lybe Crumpton, a teacher at
By Mark Landler and Eric Schmitt
Ensworth Elementary in Bend, got a special send-off for her summer vacation with a group hug from
New York Times News Service
some of her third- and fourth-grade students at the end of the day. School is set to resume during the
WASHINGTON — The White House,
first week of September.
confronted by an unexpected crisis on a
See Fraternities /A4
battlefield it thought it had left behind,
scrambled Thurs-
Correction In a graphic that accompanied a story headlined "Howwe voted" which appearedThursday, July12, on pageA1,the total votes for the Deschutes County District Attorney's race and U.S. SenateRepublican primary were listed incorrectly. Patrick Flaherty received 13,972 votes for district attorney, or 40.16percent, while JohnHummelreceived20,695 votes, or 59.48 percent. In the Republican Senateprimary, Monica Wehby received4,738 votes, or 28.95 percent, while Jason Conger received 10,619 votes, or 64.88 percent. Wehby won 54.7 percent of the vote statewide. Listed precinct results were correct. The Bulletin regrets the error.
Will droppingteacher tenure payoff in dass? By Howard Blume Los Angeles Times
LOSANGELES—When
the Los Angeles school district was rocked by the largest abuse scandal in its history two years ago, Superintendent John Deasy wanted one thing from the Legislature: the ability to quiddy fire offending teachers. He didn't get it from lawmak-
ers. He got it this week from an
ANALYSIS Los Angeles County Superior Court judge who ruled that school districts should have
more authority over who they hire and fire. With this authority, the super-
intendent said: "We can rectify a catastrophe." Now, the question is: Will this
strategies to recruit and retain the best and quickly remove the worst teachers.
"There's been abig national experiment taking place," said
Jesse Rothstein, an associate
professor of public policy at the University of California, Berkeley, who testified for the state
evidence yet that these changes have had a beneficial effect." If the ruling stands, the chal-
lenge for California willbe to craft a system that offers stability to teachers but also gives
districts the ability to manage their workforce so that the best
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and now threaten
Baghdad. Recognizing what one official described as an "urgent emergency situation," Obama and his aides moved on multiple fronts.
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fend off militants
President Barack
teachers reach the students who need them most.
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beleaguered army who have overrun much of the country
which lost the suit. "There's no
victorypay off in the classroom? and its largest teacher unions,
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Across the country, states have wrestled with various
day to reassure Iraq that it would help its
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