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Summer classes go online, but not entirely By Patrick Cliff The Bulletin

Bend-La Pine students who fail classes have several chances to try again. But the most convenient path to a passing grade likely leads to the district’s Virtual Instruction Program, which is now enrolling students for summer. Though VIP courses are administered online, participating students must attend class four days a week at the district’s downtown administration building. They may also spend extra time working from home. Now in its fifth year, the program typically enrolls about 34 students each summer and generates a wait list with about 20 more, according to Tres Tyvand, the program coordinator. However, students move off of the wait list quickly to fill the spots of other students who have completed the work necessary to receive credit. Movement can happen just weeks into the term, which begins in June and runs through July, says Tyvand. “I’ve always been able to call and offer a spot to every student, though they’ve typically made other plans,� Tyvand said. See Classes / A6

Super student

Jacob Waggoner, 18, is a stellar mathematician and all-around star student.

• Five elite schools wanted this Bend High senior. That’s probably never happened before. Somehow, he manages to stay humble.

Baney fix to tourism turf war stirs anger • General agreement on improving Visit Bend-COVA relationship snags on how to fund facilitation program By Hillary Borrud The Bulletin

Deschutes County Commissioner Tammy Baney hopes a Portland facilitator can help smooth the relationship between a pair of local tourism marketing agencies. But Baney’s effort to bring Visit Bend and the Central Oregon Visitors Association closer together has raised concerns for Bend City Councilor Jodie Baney Barram, who last week accused Baney of “stonewalling� her. Baney said Friday she was just trying to start a “positive, constructive conversation.� “I’m just trying to do what it will take to have it happen,� Baney said. Communication between the tourism groups seemed to hit bottom in recent months when the two worked separately to bring competing triathlons to the area on the same weekend. To address the problem, Baney chose the Coraggio Group to run a one-day workshop on June 5 involving the two tourism agencies and chambers of commerce from across Deschutes County. See Tourism / A4

A rare dementia tests ‘for better, for worse’ vows

VIP info To inquire about the summer Virtual Instruction Program, contact Tres Tyvand at 541-355-1040.

By Denise Grady New York Times News Service

TOP NEWS 9/11 TRIAL: Detainees defiant in first hearing at Guantånamo, A3 POLITICS: As Obama campaign kicks off, a look at what a 2nd term could accomplish, A3 Miss the super moon? B2 TODAY’S WEATHER

Photos by Pete Erickson / The Bulletin

BALANCING ACT

Aside from academics, Jacob Waggoner has become an avid slack-liner, an activity in which people walk and balance on a strip of nylon tied between two trees. (Here, he practices at Jewell Elementary.) It offers the Bend senior time to “get away.� And a 4.47-GPA math wiz — one who has exhausted pretty much every mathematics class in Central Oregon, all while participating in a slew of class projects and extracurricular activities — has plenty to get away from. By Patrick Cliff The Bulletin

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he morning after Bend High School senior Jacob Waggoner accepted a full ride to Stanford University, he wore a T-shirt emblazoned with “FEAR THE TREE� — a reference to the school’s goofy mascot. Stanford was always Waggoner’s first choice, but it was far from his only one. The schools he turned down are among the best in the country: Harvard College, Princeton University, Williams College and Pomona College. According to U.S. News & World Report, each of those schools ranks in the top five nationally among universities or liberal arts colleges. When Waggoner, 18, found out he’d been accepted at Stanford, the first people he told were his sister Emily and his parents, Phil

and Mindi. “I was humbled,� Waggoner said. “I don’t think anybody expects or should expect to get into those schools.� Not only did Williams accept Waggoner, it offered him its most prestigious award, the Tyng Scholarship. The prize, awarded to about eight students in each class of roughly 500, pays for summer research and provides up to $150,000 toward graduate study. The college declined to comment specifically on Waggoner. But its lucrative offer and the collection of universities that accepted him show how badly some of the country’s top schools wanted Waggoner, said Judy Christie, an independent college planning adviser based in Eugene. The schools “rolled out the red carpet,� Christie said of Waggoner, whom she did not advise. See Student / A7

“He’s quite a celebrity here. It’s because of the whole person he is and how helpful he is to everyone.� — Andria Lindsey, math teacher

Michael French threw away tax documents, got a ticket for trying to pass an ambulance and bought stock in companies that were obviously in trouble. Once a good cook, he burned every pot in the house. He became withdrawn and no longer spoke to his wife over dinner. That same failure to communicate got him fired from his job at a consulting firm. By 2006, French — a smart, good-natured, hardworking man — had become someone his wife, Ruth, felt she hardly knew. Infuriated, she considered divorce. But in 2007, she found out what was wrong. French, now 71, has frontotemporal dementia — a little-known and frequently misdiagnosed group of brain diseases that eat away at personality and language. Researchers have been making important discoveries about the biochemical and genetic defects that cause some forms of the disease, a dementia more devastating than Alzheimer’s. See Dementia / A6

With jobs few, grads lured by unpaid work By Steven Greenhouse New York Times News Service

Confronting the worst job market in decades, many college graduates who expected to land paid jobs are turning to unpaid internships to try to get a foot in an employer’s door. While unpaid post-college internships have long existed in the film and nonprofit worlds, they have recently spread to fashion houses, book and magazine publishers, marketing companies, PR firms, art galleries, talent agencies and law firms. Although many internships provide valuable experience, some unpaid interns complain they do menial work and learn little, raising questions about whether these positions violate federal rules. See Interns / A5


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