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FRIDAY, MARCH 13, 2015
139th Year, No. 106
Your Weekend
WINNER OF THE 2013 ONPA GENERAL EXCELLENCE AWARD
Judge sides with Oregon
Sends Oracle case to state court
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Celebration in Heppner
Oregon East Symphony
Saturday at the Vert
Wildhorse Anniversary
fi reworks show Saturday
For times and places
see Coming Events, 5A
Catch a movie
One dollar
By JONATHAN J. COOPER
Associated Press
SALEM — The state of Oregon
has notched another victory in its
high-stakes legal battle with Oracle
Inc. over the failure of the Cover
Oregon health insurance website.
U.S. District Judge Anna Brown
this week rejected Oracle’s attempt
to try the case in federal court. The
decision means dueling lawsuits
workers.
In its own federal lawsuit, Ora-
cle accuses Oregon of copyright in-
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A spokeswoman for Oracle,
will proceed separately in state and
Deborah Hellinger, declined to
federal court.
The state’s lawsuit accuses Or- comment on the judge’s decision.
The judge’s ruling, dated Tues-
acle and its executives of corrup-
tion. State attorneys prefer to try day, says Oracle missed a deadline
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Court in Salem, where legal experts move” the case from state court to
say jurors in the state capital may federal court. The notice was Ora-
be more sympathetic. Oracle’s de- cle’s second attempt to remove the
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jected on other procedural grounds.
Kristina Edmunson, a spokes-
woman for Attorney General Ellen
Rosenblum, said the state is pleased
with the ruling. “We have always
believed this is a case about Ore-
gon, and it is best suited in a state
courtroom,” Edmunson said.
The judge’s ruling is the latest
victory for Oregon over Oracle in
the multifront legal battle. Last
month, a state judge in Salem also
sided with Oregon in ordering Or-
acle to continue hosting computer
systems for Medicaid.
Dawgs
one
win
away
AP Photo/Disney, Jonathan Olley
Disney releases live-action
feature inspired by classic
fairy tale, “Cinderella.”
For showtime, Page 5A
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Hermiston’s Tavin
Headings gets a
hug from team-
mate Abi Drotz-
mann after the
Bulldogs’ beat
Corvallis 56-49 on
Thursday in the
state semifi nals
at Gill Coliseum
in Corvallis. Head-
ings scored 19
points and was
named OSAA
player of the
game.
For more on Girls
state tournament
games see Sports
Page 1B.
Police try to
tamp down
tensions in
Ferguson
FERGUSON, Mo. (AP)
— With measured remarks
and a conciliatory tone, po-
lice, political leaders and civ-
il-rights activists on Thursday
sought to tamp down tensions
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shot in front of the Ferguson
Police Department during a
protest.
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released from the hospital,
but St. Louis County Police
Chief Jon Belmar said they
could have easily been killed
and called the attack “an am-
bush.” Several people were
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ter a SWAT team converged
on a Ferguson home near the
shooting site, but they were
later released, and no arrests
were made.
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See FERGUSON/12A
Staff photo by E.J. Harris
PENDLETON
Pint-sized principals
Sherwood fifth
graders become
administrators
By ANTONIO SIERRA
East Oregonian
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as assistant principal at Sherwood
Heights Elementary School, Andrew
Reyburn has already dealt with a dis-
ciplinary problem.
After a student was caught push-
ing another child, Reyburn walked
the misbehaving student through the
school and talked to him about mak-
ing good choices.
The student eventually calms
down, and it’s a good start to Rey-
burn’s day.
It will also most likely be his last
day as assistant principal, which is all
by design.
Every Tuesday and Thursday, two
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selected to act as “associate princi-
pals” for the day.
After they’re selected, the newly
minted associate principals are ex-
pected to dress professionally, facili-
Staff photo by Kathy Aney
Lexi Chandler talks to Principal
Theresa Owens on the radio during
her day as assistant principal at
Sherwood Elementary School.
tate recess and lunch, make observa-
tions and deal some light discipline.
In exchange for their duties, the
kids get all the perks of being an ad-
ministrator, like a scheduled coffee
break, use of the staff lounge and
bathroom and personal radios to com-
municate with other staff members.
See PRINCIPALS/12A
Staff photo by Kathy Aney
Andrew Reyburn visits a kindergarten classroom during his day
as assistant principal at Sherwood Elementary School. One of his
tasks was to observe classroom activity and make notes on an
iPad about positive things he noticed.
Canceled sexuality conference painted as ‘perverse’
Local health educators lament loss of informational seminar
By KATHY ANEY
East Oregonian
The cancellation of a
conference on adolescent
sexuality has some people
cheering and others shaking
their heads in consternation.
In the latter group are
two Umatilla County public
health educators. Umatilla
County Public Health Ad-
ministrator Meghan DeBolt
and School-Based Health
Centers Coordinator Alisha
Southwick blame media
spin and well-meaning but
overzealous members of the
public for unfairly painting
the conference as perverse.
Last April, protesters
picketed the 2014 confer-
ence in Seaside because
of allegations that some of
the material presented was
inappropriate and possibly
illegal. Though most who
attended were adult, some
younger than 18 came with
chaperones.
In the cross-hairs of crit-
ics such as Parents’ Rights
in Education was a 22-
page pamphlet created by
the Cascade AIDS Project
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text, sexting and other top-
ics. At the bottom of one
page is a warning: “Before
you send anything, imag-
ine your mom seeing it, or
your principal, or your little
brother. And one word ...
DELETE!”
Keynote speaker Cory
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he discussed what teens and
tweens see when they visit
various porn sites.
The town of Seaside
hosted the conference,
which started 30 years ago,
for the last two decades.
The Seaside City Council
discussed whether to de-
cline this year’s conference
because of the controversy,
See CONFERENCE/12A