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OSU-Cascades gets thumbs-up
HIGH SCHOOL RANKINGS
Why Summit made the grade while Bend High got snubbed
• Given a high finance priority, campus moves closer to four-year status By Lauren Dake The Bulletin
PORTLAND — Oregon State University-Cascades Campus moved a small but important step
By Patrick Cliff
toward four-year status Friday when it was given a preliminary thumbs-up by the State Board of Higher Education’s finance and administration committee.
The state’s seven universities requested millions for capital construction projects. OSU-Cascades is ranked 10th out of 31 projects. It looks to be above the cutoff lined —
a positive, though preliminary, step. “It’s ranked pretty high. I think there is a good possibility of it moving forward,” said Alice Wiewel, director of capital planning and construction with the Oregon University System. See OSU-Cascades / A4
Taking aim at nationals
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Summit High School is the top-ranked high school in Central Oregon and one of the best in the state, according to US News & World Report. What does that mean, though? The magazine’s rankings, released last week, represent one of many attempts to measure the quality of American high schools by various publications and government agencies. Such rankings tend to vary, as each emphasizes data from different years and sources. US News, for instance, analyzed 2009-10 data, while the state’s most recent measure of adequate yearly progress, or AYP, looked at 2010-11 tests. AYP analyzed scores on standardized state tests, for instance, but not the results of Advanced Placement and International Baccalaureate tests, as US News did. The US News ranking takes into consideration a number of measures. Summit owes its rating as Oregon’s 13th best high school, in part, to students’ performance on standardized tests (it exceeded state averages) and, in part, to the number of seniors taking — and performing well on — AP tests. See Rankings / A7
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Tianshan Fullop, left, and Carly Fristoe, at Fox’s Billiard Lounge in Bend Thursday, have made the most of their participation on a local high school billiards team. The two met in the finals of a regional 18-and-under tournament in Bend, and will compete in the 9-ball national championships in Wisconsin in July.
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An Iraqi holds a portrait of Grand Ayatollah Ali-Sistani, Iraq’s spiritual leader, in Baghdad. The jockeying to succeed the 81-year-old Shiite leader has begun.
• High school billiards teammates roll through regional competition
Iran joins in jockeying for top Shiite leader
By Megan Kehoe The Bulletin
H
er teammates call her “The Giant Slayer.” Last month, Summit High School student Carly Fristoe, 16, proved why she deserves the nickname. “She was just rolling through people,” said Carly’s billiards teammate, Tianshan Fullop, 17. “She really showed her stripes that day.” After five grueling hours during which she played — and
By Tim Arango New York Times News Service
NAJAF, Iraq — As the top spiritual leader in the Shiite Muslim world, Grand Ayatollah Ali al-Husseini al-Sistani has instructed his followers on what to eat and how to wash, how to marry and to bury their dead. As a temporal guide, he has championed Iraqi democracy, insisting on direct elections from the earliest days of the occupation, and warned against Iranianstyle clerical rule. Frail at 81, he still greets visitors each morning at his home on a narrow and sooty side street here, only steps from the glimmering gold dome of the Imam Ali Shrine. But the jockeying to succeed him has quietly begun, and Iran is positioning its own candidate for the post, a hard-line cleric who would give Tehran a direct line of influence over the Iraqi people, heightening fears that Iran’s long-term goal is to transplant its Islamic Revolution to Iraq. The succession, a lengthy and opaque process in which the outcome is by no means assured, could shape the interplay of Islam and democracy not only in Iraq, where Shiites are the majority, but also across a Shiite Muslim world that stretches from India to Iran, Lebanon and beyond. See Ayatollah / A4
often beat — some of the region’s best billiards players, Carly found herself in the final. Her opponent was fellow Summit student Tianshan. Tianshan beat Carly. But the two, who belong to a team of Summit and Bend high students, walked away with a victory. Both will go to nationals. “When I found out we were both going to nationals, I was in shock,” Carly said. Carly and Tianshan participated last month in the second
regional billiards junior division competition, which took place at Fox’s Billiard Lounge in Bend. About 14 students from Oregon and Washington attended, playing 9-ball for a chance to go to the Billiard Education Foundation’s Junior National Championship in July. The duo from Summit High School took the top two spots in the 14- to 18-year-old division and will attend the championship, which will be held in Wisconsin.
Only the top player in the junior league division was supposed to qualify for nationals. Officials approved an exception to the rule on Carly’s behalf, however, because there weren’t enough girls playing in the regional competition to have a separate girls’ division — and because carly beat every boy except Tianshan to place second. “It was kind of empowering,” Carly said. “I was able to beat all those people. People who I maybe have felt not as good as sometimes.” See Billiards / A7
Guideline revisions may increase addiction diagnoses By Ian Urbina New York Times News Service
WASHINGTON — In what could prove to be one of their most far-reaching decisions, psychiatrists and other specialists who are rewriting the manual that serves as the nation’s arbiter of mental illness have agreed to revise the definition of addiction,
which could result in millions more people being diagnosed as addicts and pose huge consequences for health insurers and taxpayers. The revision to the manual, known as the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, or DSM, would expand the list of recognized symptoms
for drug and alcohol addiction, while also reducing the number of symptoms required for a diagnosis, according to proposed changes posted on the website of the American Psychiatric Association, which produces the book. In addition, the manual for the first time would include gambling as an addiction, and it might
introduce a catchall category — “behavioral addiction — not otherwise specified” — that some public health experts warn would be too readily used by doctors, despite a dearth of research, to diagnose addictions to shopping, sex, Internet use or playing video games. See Addiction / A7
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Correction In a story headlined “Feedback is sought on park projects,” which appeared Friday, May 11, on Page A1, the amount of money the Bend Paddle Trail Alliance has raised for the Colorado Avenue dam spillway project was incorrect due to faulty information provided to The Bulletin. The Bend Paddle Trail Alliance has not committed any funds to the project.
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