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H What makes Aletta '*'* Biersack special? See Page 8 Oregon Daily Emerald Tuesday, March 4, 198(1 „ 0 • Eugene, Oregon Volume 87, Number 110 Mayflower; Theater tow down before review By Kirsten Hoiin •-itW.tkfc Kawratd j ; •:,.r .Adeniol i t iori crew ordered-by. Sai r.ed He’act j.pneral Hospital - Be gaftXa a}_i ii gf:’d<jwn t h e ,.*M^nowkr: ^htiator; Mcindtiy kpnijbefore- j’ schbcfuiedC • ? -Hugone ,11 ist"orir>Kev iow *. Btiarb, : hearmfc4 natcoula navi? rpsulted i n "« h e n g iba >n g ,;'\.>^...d«signntei[ifa'^t«Tdf(c;lHndAiAr-k4.v ; ''..“Jt’»;.Hke a .vjgilunl«k:M(WWin-' iiigr kh anif-ionigihgsnhinme :.'1\ before-they. had* a 'chghcii' for a t.ria'1, sailH lamleI My.• , Womans of'Hhe JEugehe‘His t oric Review^barti/.ST’rn'.1 angry we ■ wnreanuhaallqwed,tn do the pro oess.'thatvis set'up At the very . Ieast^wh ut yve|'; would have wanted* iato recojd fhebuUdjng - historically’ with yphotos, draw-, ihgs and artifacts,'."'-.;v;'t' •',! Hut b»k:a.u‘*e ’ Sac:red Heart '.alteady had a ifemdlifipn permit: > forCthe iijte. they legally were notrequired to wait for the - ' review; board'» decision ■•Feelings Kin deep on licith sides," said Alan Ycirdy. Sacred Heart Hospital spokesman * * Hut we want to get to the positive, not taking down the buildings, but putting up something that will hi! more valuable space in the long run.” Sacred Heart plans to build a Joint-venture laboratory at a cost of about $5 million on the site of the theater The laboratory would house the combined staff and equipment of Sacred Heart' si laboratory and; a.lab ' bpeftitod ' by.1 'Pathology V.Q6ri-" { :-..8u Ita ill'snbyts Idea tad '•in' .1 he t Oakway’MaH. •’ . & .'■■•Yordy; • Is.uncertain. when ■■■ demol i t ion -of t fin ;current- st rut-*. J i »re,W.111 be to in pinto a nrf whe n. ; V; pffns t'iu c t loln / oTThe new b»’ildiriH<vvill begin..; ’ /: :,Tfcbugh Yordy said the"final '.' . decision.'’to "t«ar dptori- ;the • / building was' made Monday morning:, others iiivolvoil with^ 1 b°«; proj»t't had prior know ledge’ tho. buildingwas.coming down * Tkhow pretty much since Friday." said Chuck Swinehari. , project foreman forthe Staton Cc»risjlmir.tian;Co.:,*‘But 'they call-\ nil thirmoriiing at nine and said ■ have the crew them at 10.’'.' . -The Mayflower Theater, which opened Sept . 30. i925,Js the second oldest intact theater - in Eugene and the first theater established outside of tile downtown core. The building, located at 788 K. 1 tth Ave., also houses apartments and several small business spaces - "Should (the review board) have chosen to designate the building, we would have lost our demolition permit." Yordy said "We had been asked by our board to keep all .of our op lions open. . .we have testimony for the hearing tomorrow." If Sacred Heart had not pro ceeded with demolition plans Monday or today and the review by Karra Stall wood The screen of what was the Mayflower Theater lootns over a pile of rubble. By 4 p.m. Monday, the building's facade was all that was left standing: board had designated the theater a historic landmark at their meeting tonight. Sacred Heart would have had to appeal the decision to the Eugene Plan ning Commission in order to proceed with their development plans. “The question is. how many times should a building be reviewed? The review has been exhausted." Yordy said. The buildihg was denied historic designation by the review board in 1979. Hut some community members still believe the building has historic value. "The building is very struc turally sound and could be easi ly converted into residential and commercial uses,” said Brad Perkins, owner of Oregonized Design Restora tion/Renovation, a Eugene based company. “The planning department has come out and said it meets two or three re Conti nued on Page 3 ASUO asks court to examine funding of independent groups By Stan Nelson (X Ihr Kmnald The ASUO Constitution Court heard testimony Monday night on a request that could substantially alter the way independent groups, including the Kmerald. receive funding through the referendum prot ess The ASUO-initiated request asks the court to issue a declaratory judgment on the question of whether independent groups should have access to student supported funding via the ASUO elections The request also asks that a judgment be made on the question of whether tin? Kmerald can use itself as a campaign tool in seeking funding support. Currently, a referendum may be placed on the ballot in one of three ways: approval by the ASUO president or the Incidental Fee Committee, or by a petition with signatures from 5 percent of the stu dent body. The proposal asks the court to restrict the Kmerald and other independent groups from the ASUO election process without formal representa tion of the ASUO or the Incidental Fee Committee. ASUO Vice President John Dreeszen, who did not attend the hearing, said in a prepared statement that the Kmerald is benefiting from its independent status without accepting the limitations of a funded group. He also wrote that the Kmerald violates ASUO election rules when it prints advertisements in sup port of its own ballot measure because it receives IFC funds. The Kmerald rec eives Hi percent of its funding from IFC, said jean Ownby. Kmerald assistant to the publisher. She contended however, that IFC funds are tied to production costs. Former ASUO Vice President Marc: Spence, who represented the Kmerald. argued the ASUO Con stitution gives students the right to bring matters to the ballot without regard to the students' relation to the student government. Me also argued the independent nature of the Kmerald should not interfere with a group’s access to the tmllot. He contended that requiring the Kmerald to be dependent on student government for funding is an abridgment of the paper's civil rights. Ownby said the Kmerald is a non-profit, tax paying corporate structure. The 10-member board of directors includes seven students — two appointed by the ASUO, one elected, and four Kmerald representatives. Two faculty members and one com munity member are also included. This enables the editorial Ixmrd and staff to remain autonomous. The Itnard has no jurisdiction over the paper's news content. “We may function independently, yet recognize our affiliation by having University and ASUO members on the board," Ownby said. Election Hoard member Alan Contreras asked the court to interpret a 198K election rule draft that prohibits funding groups that print unpaid en dorsements if the group receives more than 50 per cent of its funds from IKX’. The Kmerald is the only University group that receives less than 50 percent of its funds from IFC. Ownby argued that some form of political adver tising is necessary to inform students that they can obtain a refund of their $1.99 Emerald subscription price if they choose not to read the paper. The court will decide by March 13 on both the status of independent groups that use a petition sponsored referendum for funding, and it will resolve the issue of whether the Emerald can use its pages to campaign for its own funding. Science building funds restored to University By Andrew LaMar Of the Kmerald The University will begin construction of two new science buildings before the end of the year, thanks to Sens. Mark Hatfield and Bob Packwood, University of ficials said Monday. University officials had expected an $8.5-million federal appropriation for the buildings this month. But the appropriation was deferred indefinitely from the 1988 fiscal budget by President Reagan. Hatfield and Packwood made a joint announce ment Monday morning saying they pressed the depart ment to restore the funding after the money was defer red from the 1988 budget, an action that would have postponed release of the funds. Funds should be releas ed by )une 1, said University President Paul Olum. Because of the senators’ intervention, the deferral has been changed to a recision, Olum said. A recision means the funds will be released as planned unless both houses of Congress vote to kill it, Olum said. “We have the assurance from the statements of Sens. Hatfield and Packwood that there will be no ac tion to withhold those funds." Olum said. The senators said it would be "an unlikely, if not to say impossible, eventuality” that Congress would vote to kill the funding. "While we have expressed our gratitude to Sen. Hatfield for getting us this project, I really want to say here we’re enormously grateful to Sen. Packwood for joining in on it," Olum said. This means construction ot me ouildings probably will begin in December instead of the originally scheduled month of October, said John Moseley, the University’s vice president for research. Because of the Gramm-Rudman Act. the University will receive only $8.1 million of the appropriation. Moseley said. University officials, however, expect to eventually receive all of the federal funding. Moseley f'nnliniiarl nn Pauo *1