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THE DAILY ASTORIAN • FRIDAY, OCTOBER 21, 2016
Oregon State, Eastern Oregon
see growth in online programs
City holds
open house on
revitalization
of Bond Street
The Daily Astorian
The city of Astoria will
hold an open house 4:30 to
6 p.m. Tuesday at City Hall
for residents to share their
thoughts about the revitaliza-
tion of Bond Street.
The city is conducting a
study to expand the Astor West
Urban Renewal Area. The
potential expansion includes
a section of Bond Street that
would fund the reopening of
the street to two-way trafic.
In addition, the city could
potentially assist residential
property owners with mak-
ing improvements to revitalize
the neighborhood and preserve
affordable housing.
Attendees are invited to
share ideas for calming trafic
on the street and new or ren-
ovated housing opportunities.
They will also have a
chance to:
• Learn more about the slide
area above Bond Street and the
types of street improvements
planned;
By ANDREW THEEN
Oregonian/OregonLive
• Meet neighbors and share
ideas for how to improve the
Uniontown Neighborhood;
• Find out about potential
funding opportunities to ix up
their property;
• Ask city staff about other
potential projects in the Union-
town area such as the new
“Extreme Makeover” Store-
front Improvement Program for
West Marine Drive businesses.
The Astoria Planning Com-
mission will hear a presenta-
tion at 6:30 that evening from
city staff on this project, and
consider the Urban Renewal
Area Plan and Report.
If the Planning Commis-
sion recommends approval,
the City Council will hold a
hearing and irst reading of
an ordinance to approve the
boundary expansion.
For more information, visit
the project website www.asto-
ria.or.us/projects. Or con-
tact Community Develop-
ment Director Kevin Cronin
at kcronin@astoria.or.us or
503-338-5183.
PORTLAND — In 2002,
Oregon State University’s
distance education program
looked sort of like a Block-
buster video store.
The school had a storage
room in Corvallis with lec-
tures on VHS tapes, which
staff would mail to students
enrolled at OSU who rarely
set foot on the main campus.
Today, OSU’s so-called
“Ecampus” is a juggernaut,
routinely recognized on
national lists as one of the
best online curriculums in
the country. If the program
itself were a university, it
would be the fourth-largest
in Oregon. More than 5,000
full-time OSU students take
classes exclusively online,
compared with 24,500 stu-
dents on campus.
Enrollment at Eastern
Oregon University is smaller,
with about 1,200 students
on campus, but another 800
study exclusively over the
internet.
Students take courses
from the same professors
who would lecture in Cor-
vallis or La Grande and have
easy access to advisers and
other campus services. Both
schools target students who
started college but never
inished.
Flexibility is the name of
the game in the online class-
room. For the most part, the
education is on-demand. Stu-
dents can watch videos of
recorded lectures at their lei-
sure and participate in inter-
active assignments from
home. Both schools give stu-
dents the option of taking
inals in person but at loca-
tions off-campus.
More than double
Oregon State expects
online enrollment to more
than double in the next
decade, while creeping up
roughly 15 percent on the
ground in Corvallis.
OSU sees the online pro-
gram as a way to expand its
brand and visibility nationally.
Currently, nearly three-quar-
ters of its online-only students
live outside Oregon.
“We’re not just a land
grant for Oregon,” said Steve
Clark, OSU’s spokesman of
the university’s roots as a
university with a foot print
in every county in the state.
“We think of ourselves as a
land-grant for the world.”
Eastern Oregon Univer-
sity, the state’s smallest pub-
lic school situated in rural
La Grande, is also all-in for
online education.
Roughly the same num-
ber of students take classes
full-time at Eastern online as
in person. “I see it as a major
part of our strategic growth,”
President Tom Insko said, “as
well as our service mission as
an institution.”
Eastern began teaching
distance education courses in
1979. Despite the localized
branding, it has ofices dis-
persed across the state - from
Gresham, to Roseburg, to
Ontario.
The university says it’s a
hybrid model, where students
can go to one of the 11 centers
for some coursework if they
desire, or to meet face-to-face
with faculty or staff, depend-
ing on the location or program.
More than half of the fac-
ulty members teaching classes
this fall have at least one
course online.
Insko said the school,
which has endured enroll-
ment declines and numerous
leadership changes, is trying
to offer more options for stu-
dents to inish degrees. The
state wants 40 percent of Ore-
gonians to hold at least a bach-
elor’s degree by 2025.
OSU, too, says it is helping
fulill the state’s graduation
goals. A record 692 completed
one of the university’s more
than 45 online degree options
last year.
Lisa Templeton, the Ecam-
pus executive director, said
online learning is not for
everyone.
“You have to be self-mo-
tivated,” she said, “It’s dei-
nitely not easy.”
The
online
program
employs 65 designers, devel-
opers and administrators.
Coursework is vetted through
the same academic process as
other classes, and instructors
go through training with Tem-
pleton’s staff to develop online
curriculum.
Costs more
Oregon State classes online
cost more than on campus. A
full course load of 15 credit
hours for an undergraduate
student online is about $4,200,
some $750 more than for
on-campus Oregon students.
But the online program is
a bargain for out-of-state stu-
dents. Whereas on-campus tui-
tion is higher for non-Orego-
nians, online classes cost the
same regardless of where a
student lives. Non-Oregonians
can save more than $5,400 per
term by taking courses at home
rather than in Corvallis.
Templeton said OSU can
continue to grow because there
will always be students who
want to take a class or inish a
degree, but can’t uproot their
whole lives to do it.
“They might have a job,
they might have kids,” she
said, “and getting to Corval-
lis at 10 a.m. on a Tuesday for
class just isn’t in the picture.”
Record high 60 percent of Americans back legal pot
Lyra Fontaine/The Daily Astorian
Owner Jason Johnson at a ribbon-cutting for Tonquin
Trading.
Tonquin Trading store
set to open in Seaside
Gear for hiking,
backpacking,
preparedness
By LYRA FONTAINE
EO Media Group
SEASIDE — A new out-
door apparel business in Sea-
side has a tie to local history.
Its name was inspired by the
Tonquin ship owned by John
Jacob Astor, who established
the Fort Astoria fur trading
post in 1811.
A year and a half ago,
owner Jason Johnson relocated
to Oregon from North Dakota,
near a historically signiicant
stop in the Lewis and Clark
expedition.
“I feel like we followed
the Lewis and Clark Trail,” he
said.
The new business aims to
offer high-quality backpack-
ing, hiking and emergency
preparedness gear.
“Ultimately, it’s to bring
more stuff to Seaside so people
don’t have to go to Portland,”
Johnson said, adding that Ton-
quin Trading carries unique
brands and items that could be
hard to ind in Portland.
As Johnson got ready for
the store’s grand opening ear-
lier this month, racks were
illed with coats, backpacks of
various sizes, and hiking cloth-
ing and shoes. The shop also
offered solar-powered char-
gers, freeze-dried food, cook-
ware, water puriication sys-
tems and other products that
could be used for both back-
packing and emergency
preparedness.
Johnson’s goal is to cre-
ate video tutorials that
explain the store’s products
to customers.
“It’s about knowing what
you’re going to get and how
to use it,” Johnson said. “The
more we dig into the business,
the more we want to ield test
the products in the store.”
By DAVID CRARY
AP National Writer
NEW YORK — A record
high 60 percent of Ameri-
can adults support legaliza-
tion of marijuana, according
to a new Gallup poll released
three weeks before voters in
nine states decide whether to
expand legal access to pot.
When Gallup irst asked
about this issue in 1969, 12
percent of Americans sup-
ported legalization. By 2000,
support had increased to 31
percent and has continued
climbing since then, reaching
58 percent last year.
Recreational use of mar-
ijuana is currently legal in
Alaska, Colorado, Ore-
gon, Washington state and
the District of Columbia.
Depending on the Election
Day outcome, they could be
joined by Arizona, Califor-
nia, Maine, Massachusetts
and Nevada.
Three other states —
Florida, Arkansas and North
Dakota — will be deciding
whether to permit marijuana
for medical purposes. Mon-
tanans will vote on whether
to ease restrictions on an
existing medical marijuana
law.
According
to
Gal-
lup’s new poll, released on
Wednesday, 67 percent of
Democrats support legaliza-
tion, compared to 42 per-
cent of Republicans and 70
percent of independents.
Support among adults aged
18-34 was 77 percent, com-
pared to 45 percent among
The Daily Astorian
The Clatsop County Char-
ter is up for review in 2017,
and local residents can be part
of the process.
The County Board of Com-
missioners is appointing an
11-member citizen committee
to examine the document, take
public input and put forward
any recommended revisions.
The board is seeking appli-
cations from county residents
for four at-large seats on the
panel, which is expected to
meet once or twice a month for
roughly six months beginning
January 2017. The board will
make the appointments.
Applicants are asked to list
any experience with local or
county government, areas of
the current charter of particular
interest or concern, and their
expectations for the review
process.
Application forms are avail-
able online at www.co.clatsop.
or.us or at the county manag-
er’s ofice, 800 Exchange St.
or call 503-325-1000.
The application deadline is
5 p.m. Nov. 4.
Any revisions proposed by
the review committee will go
to the Board of Commission-
ers for approval and possible
placement on the November
2017 ballot.
A charter is similar to a
constitution and prescribes
how the county government is
set up and operates. The cur-
rent charter, adopted in 2006,
calls for review every 10 years.
Clatsop County’s irst char-
ter was adopted in 1989 fol-
lowing citizens’ vote to estab-
lish “home rule,” which allows
the county to choose its own
government structure and craft
its own laws rather than rely
on state statute.
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Judge-elect Dawn McIntosh has rejoined Campbell &
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ported legalization of mari-
juana, up from 32 percent a
decade earlier.
Tom Angell, chairman of
the pro-legalization group
Marijuana Majority, said the
two polls suggested that pros-
pects were good for the state
ballot measures.
“More politicians — pres-
idential candidates included
— would do themselves a big
favor to take note of the clear
trend,” he said in an email.
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Astor Street Opry Company
County invites residents
to review, revise charter
those over 55.
The poll was based on tele-
phone interviews conducted
Oct. 5-9 with a random sample
of 1,017 adults living in all 50
states and Washington, D.C.
Gallup said the margin of error
was plus or minus 4 percent-
age points.
Gallup’s indings were
similar to those in a survey
released Oct. 12 by the Pew
Research Center. It found that
57 percent of U.S. adults sup-
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