Bulletin Daily Paper 06/17/11

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MT. BACHELOR

Summer enrollment up at COCC

Ski resort to reopen for July 4 weekend

For much of the past decade, COCC's enrollment was relatively flat. Then, about four years ago, new recruiting efforts and the recession drove enrollment up.

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By Patrick Cliff The Bulletin

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As enrollment booms, COCC shuts admissions

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Greg Cross / The Bulletin

Closing off admissions early at Central Oregon Community College has become the norm. Over the last three school years, the college has shut admissions early in all but two quarters, and this summer term is

no exception. The college closed summer-term admissions Monday, two days early. College administrators believe the growth has been driven by the recession and a renewed student recruiting effort over the past few years. In 1996’s summer term, 895 students signed up for a credit

class. In 2011, that number jumped to more than 3,400. To deal with that growth, the college has taken several steps. In the past year, for example, the college’s employment grew by 15 percent and class offerings increased by 17 percent. See COCC / A6

By Scott Hammers The Bulletin

Mt. Bachelor will reopen for the July 4 weekend, the first time the ski area has been open to skiers and snowboarders past May in years. A record-breaking 665 inches of snow followed by a cool spring meant that when regular-season operations ended May 29, Mt. Bachelor still had more snow on the ground than was there during the peak of the season. Continued cool temperatures have preserved much of that snow — although the ski area is no longer taking snow depth measurements. A recent look at the midmountain snow stake indicated a depth of 170 inches, said spokesman Andy Goggins. Goggins said Mt. Bachelor’s management had been thinking about reopening the lifts for a while, but wanted to hold off before making the announcement Thursday. “It was definitely something that was in the back of our minds,” he said. “As we came to the close of the season, we were mainly trying to get a good handle on the forecast, and get through the first part of June and see that there wasn’t a big heat wave or a rain event that would make it a harder decision.” The summer season, from July 2 through July 4, will have the Summit Express chair and the Pine Marten Express chair running, with the West Village Getback open to allow riders to move back and forth between the two. See Mt. Bachelor / A6

Training for the ultimate tribute

National Honor Guard Academy students learn how to hold and fold the American flag over a casket during a training session at Deschutes Memorial Gardens in Bend on Thursday.

Greek crisis rocks Europe as markets fear turmoil

Photos by Pete Erickson The Bulletin

By Rachel Donadio New York Times News Service

Correction In a story headlined “Full-on biking blitz,” which appeared Thursday, June 16, on Page A1, a competitor’s name was reported incorrectly in a photo caption. The competitor’s name is Adam Craig. The Bulletin regrets the error.

A SOLEMN CEREMONY Sgt. Troy Gotchy of the Deschutes County Sheriff’s Office, second from right, and firefighter John Goodman of the Humboldt (Calif.) Fire District, third from right, hold the flag over a casket during training Thursday. The National Honor Guard Academy trains police, fire and EMS personnel in ceremonial knowledge, according to its website, www.nationalhonorguardacademy.com.

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Engineer Michael Landry from the Humboldt Fire District, right, and Goodman walk with the coffin after the graveside ceremony. Students in the oneweek class are members of Oregon and Northern California fire, police and sheriff’s departments who will lead any future services for their departments.

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Business

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Calendar

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Local Movies

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Obituaries

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Classified

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Oregon

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Comics

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Science

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Crosswords E5, F2

Sports

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Editorial

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Family

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Horoscope

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TV listings

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Weather

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ATHENS — The instability rocking Greece this week is the latest manifestation of a troubling new phase in the global financial crisis: Political turmoil is sweeping through Europe, toppling governments and threatening to undermine efforts to rescue the financial system and, ultimate- George Papanly, the euro dreou vowed zone itself. to stay on It seems as Greece’s likely that prime minister Prime Min- despite violent ister George protests and P a p a n d r e o u widespread of Greece will discontent. manage to hold together his government long enough to push through the deep cuts required for his debt-ridden country to receive its next installment of international aid. He is expected to shuffle his Cabinet today. But with a rising tide of voter anger against bank bailouts, budget cuts and austerity measures, his popularity is plummeting. And it is not just Papandreou who is feeling the public’s wrath. Across Europe, people are complaining that they are unfairly paying the price for the mistakes of their governments while they are growing increasingly resentful of the international banks and the preferential treatment they seem to receive. And they are getting louder. “They took everything, and we have to pay,” said Katerina Fatourou, 30, an elementary school music teacher in Athens, summing up a common sentiment here after a large and sometimes violent general strike. It is not likely to be the last in Europe this summer. See Europe / A4

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Courting manufacturers, White House’s Daley gets heat By Peter Wallsten and Jia Lynn Yang The Washington Post

WASHINGTON — It was supposed to be the White House’s latest make-nice session with corporate America — a visit by chief of staff William Daley to a meeting with hundreds of manufacturing executives in town to press lawmakers for looser regulations. But the outreach soon turned into a rare public dressing-down of the president’s policies with his highest-ranking aide. One by one, exasperated executives stood to air their grievances on environ-

mental regulations and stalled Daley said he did not have free-trade deals. And Daley, many good answers, appearing the former banker tasked with to throw up his hands in frusbuilding ties with industry, tration at what he called “bufound himself looking for the reaucratic stuff that’s hard to right balance between empathy defend.” and defending his boss. “Sometimes you can’t defend At one point, the room erupted the indefensible,” he said. in applause when Massachusetts Chief of staff The exchange suggests the utility executive Doug Starrett, William Daley limits of the elaborate courtship his voice shaking with emotion, of corporations begun by Presiaccused the administration of dent Barack Obama and his top blocking construction on one of his fa- aides after Democrats’ big losses in the cilities to protect fish, saying government 2010 elections — an effort that has taken “throws sand into the gears of progress.” on new urgency in recent weeks.

Daley and other top aides have been reaching out to business leaders as potential donors to Obama’s re-election campaign, and the White House has hoped that a closer alliance with businesses would help spur job growth. Even as the White House pledges more receptivity to corporate concerns, business continues to spar with the administration on numerous fronts. Wall Street is lobbying to undo many of the new regulations signed into law last year. Manufacturers say environmental policies are hindering growth. See Business / A6


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