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Included in OSU-Cascades'enrollment estimates: University will need landoutside 10-acre plot within 5 years

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By Tyler Leeds

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OSU-Cascades plans to grow no bigger than 5,000

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students, but estimating how

quickly it may approach that limit is a mix of art and science.

With a new campus slated to open in fall 2016, the uni-

Steadyenrollmentgrowthprojected > For the first time, OSU-Cascadeswill be offering freshman courses this fall. In a year, the school plans to open anew campus on thecity's west side. As it becomes astand-alone, four-year university, OSU-Cascades has projected enrollment to grow by 263 percent by the 2025-26 school year. The projections are based on anumber of factors, including enrollment trends across the state andwhen newprograms will be launched in Bend.OSU-Cascadesadministrators say the campus population will be capped at5,000 students.

versity's internal projections

call for increasing growth through the 2017-18 academ-

After that, the university is

anticipating slower growth of

students, the school is projecting 549, or about 15 percent of

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around 11 percent each year

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student population to reach 1,550, an increase of about 50

through the 2025-26 school year, at which point it would

percentover this school year.

have 3,735 students. Of those

state. Beyond that point, projecting growth gets tricky. SeeCampus/A6

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STUDENT DEBT

GARY BONACKER

Soaring oans coud pose a risk to economy

And a Wed exclusive› How muchmathdoesacollege graduate need?Schools are rethinking the answer. bendbunetin.comlextras

EDITOR'5CHOICE

By Jim Puzzanghera

Hit on ref: an iso ated incident?

Los Angeles Times Photos by Joe Kline/The Bulletin

He's a founder of the Cascade Cyding Classic, a Bend charity organizerand a cancerpatientwho says he suff’ ered dangerous seizures until he tried pot. 'This," he says, "is medicine."

WASHINGTON — Jorge

Villalba was a construction worker when the housing market began slowing in 2005, so the Glendale, California, resident changed jobs and decided to invest in his future by going to college. So far, the invest-

By David Montgomery New York Times News Service

Above, Gary Bonacker, at home in Bend, shows the marijuana tincture he uses to help with

ment hasn't paid off. Villalba, 34, owes

SAN ANTONIO — In a state where football rules the sports world, where Fri-

seizures resulting from his brain cancer. Since starting the tincture, he says, he hasnoticed

$158,000 in student loans

an improvement overall and a decrease in the number of seizures he has in a month.

for his four-year degree in multimedia, 3-D animation

day night lights blaze over hundreds of high school sta-

By Tare Bannow

and graphic design at ITT Technical Institute. He isn' t

diums at the start of every

The Bulletin

earning enough to keep up

autumn weekend, the John Jay Mustangs have seldom been on center stage. The San Antonio high

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school that bears the name of the nation's first chief

estimates it happened four or five times a year — but

justice has not posted a re-

something felt different this time.

way," said Villalba, who is married with two young

It was the end of July, and Bonacker — nearly

children but can't afford to

t wasn't the first time

with the payments, so the

Gary Bonacker's hourplus-long seizure landed

amount keeps rising with interest. He figured he'd get a great job and pay off the loans.

him in the hospital — he

cord better than 4-6 in the

last five years. But a violent hit by two players on an unsuspecting referee has again made bad behavior as much a part of a football game as kickoffs and extra points, and is making people ponder whether there

"It hasn't happened that

move from their cramped one-bedroom apartment.

12 years into a battle with

brain cancer — said he felt ready to give up, to end the cycle of seizures and hospitalizations.

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"I was to the point where,

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'We can't just keep doing what we' re doing,'" he said. Bonacker recalls falling in and out of consciousness. At

is a broader lesson about

the dark side of high school sports here or just an isolated incidence of terrible

behavior. At John Jay, the are more critical. SeeRef /A5

parents — have racked up so much college debt since

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the recession that it now

into a medically induced

Bonacker keeps track of the days he has a seizure on this calendar. He marked down several

threatens the nation's economic growth. The debt weighs down millions of Americans who might otherwise buy homes or start businesses. And the financial horror

coma, a practice that slows the brain activity that caus-

seizures in July; since he began using amarijuana tincture in early August, he recorded only one

stories of debt-saddled stu-

seizure for the month.

dents, combined with continued increases in tuition,

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one point, his wife, Susan, asked if he wanted to be put

view tends to be the latter. Elsewhere, some observers

Students around the country — and often their

es seizures and allows the

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brain to rest. Doctors commonly did this for Bonacker

of that line — both of us

The coma was his best

were," Susan said. "To do

But getting to that point

chance of avoiding asphyxi-

that repeatedly is awful."

ation and death.

Almost a month later, Bonacker recounted those

inspired him to try one last thing his wife and others had encouraged, but which he nonetheless hesitated about. Something,he

They decided toholdoff subsided. But something had changed.

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vol.113, No. 25e, 4e pages, 7 sections

Kim Suozzi died of cancer

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at age 23, it fell to her boyfriend, Josh Schisler, to follow

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In the moments just before

through with the plan to freeze her brain.

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moments over coffee. The 62-year-old Bend resident said they marked a low point

thought, that was worth at

least a shot, now that chemotherapy and radiation were

no longer options and, in his mind, even the anti-seizure medications didn't appear to

be doing much good. That thing was medical marijuana.

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attending college and could produce a less-educated workforce.

"The impact on future (economic) growth could be quite significant," said Cristian deRitis, who analyzes consumer credit economics

for Moody's Analytics. SeeLoans/A6

Some hopesciencewill offer another chance at life By Amy Harmon

An Independent Newspaper

among years of battling seizures.

during his longer seizures.

on it. Eventually, the seizure

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coulddeter others from "I think he was at the end

ed its alarm and her breath

grew ragged, he fumbled for his phone. Fighting the emotion that threatened to

paralyze him, he alerted the cryonics team waiting nearby and called the hospice nurses to come pronounce her dead.

Any delay would jeopardize thechanceto maybe,someday, resurrect her mind.

It was impossible to know on

that cloudless Arizona morning in January 2013 which fragments of Kim's identity might survive, if any. Would she remember their first, fumbling kiss in his dorm room five years earlier? Their private jokes and dumb arguments? The seizure, the surgery, the

fancy neuroscience fellowship she had to turn down? More than memories, Josh,

brain could be preserved in subzero storage so that de-

then 24, wished for the crude

science advanced, her billions of interconnected neurons could be scanned, analyzed

procedure to salvage whatever synapses gave rise to her dry, generous humor and inspired her to write him poems. They knew how strange it sounded, the hope that Kim's

cades or centuries from now, if

and converted into computer

code that mimicked how they once worked.

SeeScience/A6


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