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Oregon Daily
Emerald
Tuesday, March 4, 198(1
„ 0 • Eugene, Oregon
Volume 87, Number 110
Mayflower; Theater tow down before review
By Kirsten Hoiin
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■ 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
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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
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