Serving Central Oregon since 1903$2
SUNDAY September13,2015
a ’s naura woners
Lossesfor Ducks,Beavs SPORTSD1
NORTHWEST TRAVEL C1
MORE $+ ~ ~ THAN I / ~
IN COUPONS
INS IDE
bendbulletin.corn
m us ro
TODAY’ S READERBOARD Ladnr shortage Alook at the reasons that jobs in Central Oregon can be tough
u en ro
Included in OSU-Cascades'enrollment estimates: University will need landoutside 10-acre plot within 5 years
to fill.E1
By Tyler Leeds
Rowdy wine tasting›
The Bulletin
OSU-Cascades plans to grow no bigger than 5,000
Howcan tour operators encourage customers to tone down their behavior without overdoing it?C1
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
MOdel patientS? These
ic year, when it expects the
around 11 percent each year
the total, will be from out of
actors have a tough job: Hands-on subjects for training medical professionals.A3
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
3,735 total
4,000 students---- im pregnn reSidentS 3,5OO im NnnreSldentS 3,000 2,500 2 000 ---.—.—.— .— .-
-
"
-
—
—
—
—
—
—
—
-
I,500 ---. — .— .— .— .- " 1,0005000 ~b
~% < P
Source: Oregon State University
q ~ ~% nb
nt; Pete Smith/The Bulletin
Trophyhunting The other side of the controversy: When it's banned, villagers can suffer.Al
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
t
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.
se
"I was to the point where,
22
'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
23
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,
uv
28
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
TODAY'S WEATHER ~r Sunshine High 81, Low42 Page B6
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.
Business E1-6 Milestones C2 Calendar B2 Obituaries B4-5 Classified G1-6 Opinion Ft-6 Comm. Life C1-8 Puzzles C 6 Crossword C6,G2 Sports 01-6 Local/State B1-6 TV/Movies C7 The Bulletin
New York Times News Service
vol.113, No. 25e, 4e pages, 7 sections
Kim Suozzi died of cancer
Q I/I/e use recyclenewspri d nt
at age 23, it fell to her boyfriend, Josh Schisler, to follow
0
II Ill I
8 8 2 6 7 0 2 33 0
In the moments just before
through with the plan to freeze her brain.
As her pulse monitor sound7
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.
See Bonacker /A4
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
INDEX
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