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bring on the Hawkeyes 9 Aiissa Edwards and the Ducks are ready to dance with Iowa in the NCAA Tournament PAGE 11 Remember Tijit? Tijit, software to transfer files, is one of the projects of Markum Communications Corporation. PAGE 4 Since 1 900 University of Oregon Eugene, Oregon Friday March 16,2001 Volume 102, Issue 116 Weather TODAY CLOUDY high 50, low 40 . Laura Smit Emerald Withney Workman, 6, has lunch with her classmates at the Child Care and Development Center. Her mother, Kathleen Workman, struggles to pay tuition and child care costs, but a bill proposed in the Oregon House of Representatives may help ease her burden. Bill aims to support student parents Oregon House Bill 2462 would help student-parent families afford school and child care By Lindsay Buchele Oregon Daily Emerald Student parents often juggle bills for items from tuition to child care, but a bill proposed in the Oregon House of Repre sentatives will help ease their burden. There are 936 families on the waiting list for a grant that could help them afford to go to school and pay for child care. These student-parent families will wait up to 15 months to receive one of the 250 grants available each month to assist in paying for child care. House Bill 2462 is designed to increase the amount of money available through the nationally funded Student Block Grant to $3.9 million. The increase in funds would come from state money. Offi cials of the Oregon Student Association, one of the pri TurntoChildcare, page7 Court hearings set to resolve elections mess ■A hearing-filled night beginning at 5 p.m. today will address a number of election grievances By Beata Mostafavi Oregon Daily Emerald The ASUO elections grievance war will finally be fought in court today, and with four back-to-back hearings regard ing various griev ances, the ASUO Constitution Court justices have a long night ahead of them. Tonight between 5 and 11 p.m. in Room 241 of the Knight Law Center, the court will hear the parties involved with the grievances that have sent this year’s election into a tailspin of uncer tainty. At 5 p.m., the court will hear the case of Bret Jacobson and Matt Cook v. Jeff Oliver. Three hearings will follow, in cluding the grievances against the Mul ticultural Center’s ballot measure, the ASUO Elections Board, and Executive candidates Nilda Brooklyn and Joy Nair. Jacobson and Cook’s appeal of the ASUO Election Board’s decision to dis qualify them from the race halted the Ex ecutive general election on March 4. The board voted in favor of Oliver’s griev ance filed against the pair because their campaign distributed fliers in the resi dence halls. The court halted the general elections for the ballot measures after five student senators filed a grievance against the MCC Turn to Hearing, page 7 BAILEY BROOKLYN JACOBSON AutoCraft’s forced relocation may impact University The siting of a new courthouse is forcing the business to move, and it’s considering a piece of property the University leases By Jessica Blanchard Oregon Daily Emerald The recent decision by the Gen eral Services Administration to site a new federal courthouse in Eugene may trigger a domino ef fect that could force the Universi ty off a piece of city-owned prop erty it leases for garbage collection, recycling services and storage. The $70 million courthouse will be built on about four acres just east of the Ferry Street Bridge overpass, on property owned by Chiquita Brands International and neighboring business Au toCraft Body and Paint. The city has already negotiated with Chiq uita to purchase its property for $4.1 million and hopes to have the sale finalized by April. But negotiations are ongoing between AutoCraft owner John Woodrich and the city. Woodrich will have to move his business to make way for the courthouse, and he had protested the forced relo cation when the city first began its campaign for the federal build ing. On Thursday he said that he has no problem with the court house being sited in Eugene; he just wants to make sure his busi ness and his 29 employees are “taken care of.” AutoCraft’s employees and supporters waged a campaign of their own in recent months, writ ing more than one hundred letters in an effort to sway government officials from choosing Eugene as the site for the new courthouse. “We’ve been consistent from the beginning,” said Steve Cor nacchia, attorney for AutoCraft. “AutoCraft does not wish to be a problem for anyone, but they have a unique business and a unique site.” Therefore, any move the busi ness makes will have to be to a site that meets the company’s “particular needs,” he said, which include a large space for doing auto-body work, and a new location that is as visible and con venient to its customers as its cur rent location. Woodrich estimated that 85 percent of his business comes from the University, Sacred Heart Medical Center and car dealer ships located near the Ferry Street Bridge. Woodrich said his busi ness, at 411 E. Eighth Ave., is lo cated on the fifth-busiest street corner in the state, with an aver age of 200,000 cars driving by each day. The city is examining the costs of relocating AutoCraft’s business to a new site, Eugene City Manag er Jim Johnson said. Woodrich confirmed Thursday that the site AutoCraft is eyeing is a city owned parcel of land on Franklin Boulevard, west of Louie’s Village restaurant and across the street from the Phoenix Inn. The land, which has been leased to the Uni versity for a few years, is less than a mile away from AutoCraft’s cur rent location. Johnson said the site has been surveyed recently, and AutoCraft is getting an estimate on the cost of building on the property and remodeling an existing building to render it suitable for an auto body shop. Turn to Courthouse, page 6 (( We’re not quite sure what we’d do if we lost this space. Greta Pressman campus relations manager, facilities services yy
