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A winding path to becomeCOCC's first femalepresident
Lost pet? —Anewapp
By Abby Spegman
uses facial recognition — the pet's face — to help.D1
The Bulletin
Oregon Community College's first female president
bride planned the wedding, a ceremony and reception in Hawaii where they lived. The groom planned the honeymoon, a week at the ski camp. Metcalf still
begins at Bob Beattie's ski
has the trophy she earned
camp onMount Bachelor more than 30 years ago.
for most improved female skier. The couple fell in love with Central Oregon and
The story of how Shirley Metcalf became Central
When Metcalf married
her husband, Wayne, the
eventually bought a vacation home in Bend in 2009. By then Metcalf had ris-
en through the ranks as a teaching assistant, lecturer and business professor at community colleges in
ty College and then a vice president atLakeWashington Technical College
as well as non-credit programs.
in Kirkland, Washington
announced he would retire as COCC president in 2014,
When Jim Middleton
(now Lake Washington Institute of Technology). She arrived at COCC in 2011 as dean of extended learning
Metcalf signed on to serve
Metcalf
as interim president for 10 months; she planned to
the University of Hawaii system. She taught for 13
to oversee the college's
return as dean of extended
years before becoming a
campuses in Redmond,
learning after that.
dean at Hawai'i Communi-
Madras and Prineville
See COCC /A4
A king's funeral — But it's a few centuries late, asEngland reburies Richard III, who was found under aparking lot. A4
LEGISLATION IN SALEM
A HELPING HAND FOR SPRING PLANTING
see s more cas
Freepet —It's nowlegalin the nation's capital, but selling it isn't. The solution: free seeds so it can be grown at home.A6
Twin astronauts — one will spend ayear at the ISS,the other here, as scientists study the effects of long spacejourneys to prepare for Mars. A3
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And a WebexclusiveCross-dressing TVcelebrities have found aniche in Japan. beedbulletie.cem/extras
By Taylor W. Anderson The Bulletin
SALEM — A bill to fund K-12 education
took another step Thursday through the OregonLegislaturedespite opposition from Republicans and local school districts who say the amount is too
EDITOR'5CHOICE
Feds,secret agents now share the glory
small.
Lawmakers passed the $7.255 billion bill along party lines through the joint committee that handles
budgeting. The committee's vote puts the K-12 education budget in line to become the
ByScottShane
first budget passed this session. Legislative
New York Times News Service
Call it the revenge of the nerds, Washington-style. The gun-toting FBI agent and the swashbuckling
leaders have said it's a
priority. But in a session-long
7f
fight for more K-12
CIA undercover officer are
money that has cre-
being increasingly called
ated an alliance be-
upon to share their clout,
tween school groups, teachers unions and Republican legislators, Republicans accuse Democrats of not prioritizing education despite a flush of new revenue, while Demo-
their budgets and even their Hollywood glamour with
C
the humble, desk-bound
intelligence analyst. As the two agencies confront an evolving terrorist threat, cyberattacks
and other challenges, both are reorganizing in ways intended to empower andelicate job of meshing the very different cultures of the streetwise agent and the brainy analyst, who reads secret dispatches, pores over intercepted communi-
the state can afford right now.
cations, absorbs news ac-
House Bill 5017 Ryan Brennecke/The Bulletin
Five-year-old Uriah Matson follows behind a crew of field workers and plants CarrOtS in SPotS they miSSed ThurSday afternOOn. He WaS helPing Out On hiS
would fund full-day kindergarten for the
grandparents' farm near Madras. The carrot seeds are expected to be ready to
remains at the FBI, a tra-
harvestin September.
ditional law enforcement organization that has strug-
By Ted Shorack and Taylor W. Anderson The Bulletin
State legislators introduced a bill Thurs-
day requiring background checks for the private sale of firearms
in Oregon, drawing ire from gun-rights advocates and cheers from proponents of stricter gun control laws. would make it illegal for a private gun owner to sell a firearm without obtaining a criminal background check on the buyer. It also applies to firearms exchanged as gifts. The bill provides exemptions for family members, law enforcement, guns received from an inheritance
first time in the state's
and some temporary
historyafterdecades of talk about the topic.
transfers.
It would also set aside
counts and digests it all. Thebiggest challenge
Bill would tighten private gun sales
Senate Bill 941
crats say it's the most
alysts. That involves the
ALSO
more money to allow students who qualify for reduced-price lunchesto eatforfree. See Schools/A6
Background checks are already required in Oregon for firearm purchases at gun shows and from licensed dealers. See Guns /A6
gledsincethe 2001 terrorist
attacks to remake itself as an intelligence agencythat can prevent attacks and
not just investigate crimes. A report on the FBI's progress, released Wednesday, concluded that despite great strides, the bureau needs to
step up the role of analysts and the respect and resources they get. While bureau officials have long extolled the importance of intelligence analysts, the report, bythe FBI 9/11 Review Commission, found that the bureau "still does not sufficiently
recognizethem asaprofessionalized workforce with
distinct requirements for investment in training and education."
See Analysts/A6
Crash spotlights crew as weak link in air safety By Alan Levin and Mary Schlangenstein Bloomberg News
WASHINGTON — The
suspected intentional destruction of a Germanwings jet by a pilot shows the need for new protections against sui-
in modern aviation, accident sian Airlines Flight 370, there investigators say. have now been three such
InSide
With French
• More on prosecutors the crash, saying the co-piAS lot apparently
cidal crew members, a threat
flew the Airbus A320 into a mountainside and evidence pointing toward the
emerging as one of the worst
intentional ditching of Malay-
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disasters in 17 months. The
incidents killed 416 people. "We have viewed these kind of events in the past
as a one-off aberration and not something that should
generate new policies or new procedures," said Peter Goelz,
former managing director of
own life. Even as safety spe-
the National Transportation Safety Board. "I think this
cialists debate steps such as
has changed all that. The in-
more psychological tests and a possible redesign of cockpit
dustry, worldwide, has to look at this."
doors, the industry confronts the reality that an aircraft
The challenge is how to guard against a pilot willing to destroy a plane and kill others while taking his or her
soaring miles above the earth
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