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OREGON STATE UNIVERSITY
‘We love helping people
get back to normal’
Johnson
named
interim
president
She will be the first woman
to lead in the university’s
150-plus year history
By JaCKSON HOGaN
The Bulletin
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People line up to get a COVId-19 vaccination april 8 at the deschutes County Fair & Expo Center in redmond.
By SuZaNNE rOIG • The Bulletin
REDMOND —
W
ind whipped jackets open and tugged papers attached to clipboards as a line of people snaked around the
edge of a building at the Deschutes County Fair & Expo Center. If it wasn’t for the masks and the 6-foot
distance between each person, it could have been a line to enter a rodeo or an exhibit. There was nothing that
underscored the importance of the event: getting a vaccine.
“We get a lot of people who
feel relieved,” said Holle Galyon, a
volunteer. “We love helping peo-
ple get back to normal. I love the
energy. It’s like Disneyland for
adults.”
Since the mass vaccination
clinic opened at the fairgrounds
the week of Jan. 18, about 76,498
Central Oregon residents have
been through to receive a vaccine,
according to Deschutes County
Health Services, which teamed up
with St. Charles Health System to
run the clinic.
Bashia McCarthy, a Bend res-
ident and vaccination clinic vol-
unteer, said she focuses on mak-
ing people feel good about what
they’re doing.
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Sydni Williams administers a COVId-19 vaccine to Colin Brynn during a vaccination clinic at the deschutes County
Fair & Expo Center in redmond.
In 1984, Becky Johnson began her ten-
ure at Oregon State University as an as-
sistant forestry professor.
Thirty-seven years and many career
advancements later, Johnson — currently
serving as the vice president of Oregon
State University-Cascades in Bend —
will become the first woman to lead OSU
in the univer-
sity’s 156-year
history.
The OSU
board of trustees
named John-
son, 65, the in-
terim president
of OSU during
a Friday after-
noon meeting.
Ryan Brennecke/The Bulletin
This caps a
long career at
“My first job is
the university
for Johnson,
to go out ... listen
who has led
OSU-Cascades authentically
since 2008.
and develop
During those 13
years, she trans- relationships with
formed a tiny
people across
branch school
into Oregon’s
campus.”
fastest-growing
Becky Johnson,
university, and
vice president
the first four-
of Oregon State
year university
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in Central Or-
Bend
egon.
Johnson said
after the meeting that her experience
working with local legislators and business
leaders, fundraising and leading research
efforts at OSU-Cascades greatly prepared
her for her new role in Corvallis.
“This campus has all the same research
expectations as the larger Corvallis cam-
pus,” Johnson told The Bulletin. “I’ll be
working with our faculty to make sure
they have the resources they need to be
able to be effective in their research, be-
cause that’s important for solving really
pressing problems.”
See Johnson / A4
By SuZaNNE rOIG
The Bulletin
The Oregon Health Authority
will deploy vaccination vans to
hard-to-reach communities as a
way to eliminate the disparities
created between those with easy
access to COVID-19 vaccines
and those facing barriers.
This comes at a time when
daily case counts of COVID-19
have more than doubled in
just over a month, Dr. Dean
Sidelinger, Oregon Health Au-
thority state epidemiologist, said
Friday at a press conference.
As of Friday, Oregon had
173,626 COVID-19 cases,
Sidelinger said. On March 6 the
seven-day average number of
cases was 249, but now the daily
average is 595 cases.
COVID-19 cases have in-
creased more than 20% for
each of the past three weeks,
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about 3,000 COVId-19 vaccines are administered per day at a vaccination
clinic at the deschutes County Fair & Expo Center in redmond.
Sidelinger said. With such high
case counts, more counties have
shifted from lower risk levels to
more restrictive levels.
At the end of March, 28 coun-
ties were in the lower to mod-
erate risk tiers. On Friday there
were 22 counties listed as lower
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“We’re all tired of fighting
COVID-19,” Sidelinger said.
“Tired of wearing our masks.
Tired of missing our loved ones.
And tired of keeping our dis-
tance. But we must all continue
to fight.”
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Sidelinger highlighted three
social gatherings that caused re-
cent outbreaks: a multi-night
karaoke event that caused 36
people to test positive, hospital-
ized three and left one person
dead, a small indoor concert that
caused 15 people to test positive
for COVID-19, and a backyard
gathering where all 10 people
who attended tested positive for
COVID-19.
Since December 3 in 4 se-
niors 65 and older have been
vaccinated. Starting Monday
anyone 16 and older can sign up
for a vaccination. In Central Or-
egon they can do that by going to
www.centraloregoncovidvaccine.
com.
Oregon Health Authority data
highlights a vaccine disparity
between white Oregonians and
Latinos in particular.
CAMPUS SECURITY
Cop-like views
persist at COCC,
report states
By GarrEtt aNdrEWS
The Bulletin
A new independent review of the police
force at Central Oregon Community Col-
lege, where a student was raped and mur-
dered by a campus officer in 2016, was
prompted by complaints that a “cop-like”
attitude persists on campus, according to
COCC President Laurie Chesley.
While the review revealed some posi-
tives, much work remains in shifting the
public safety culture at the Bend college,
Chesley said Friday after announcing the
review findings.
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