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Popularity forces church to move A growing congregation is one reason the First Baptist Church of Eugene is set to relocate to a County Farm Road building By Jillian Daley Oregon Daily Emerald University students of the Trinity Women and Alpha Omega Men Christian co-ops will have their arms full as they load and move 75 years worth of office supplies and church sundries this week. The First Baptist Church of Eugene is making a change after nearly eight decades at its pres ent location on High Street because church membership has skyrocketed beyond capacity. University mem bers are helping the organization get settled in their new locale. “Pretty much everyone here (in the Christian co-ops) has helped to some degree,” Trinity member Sara Herman said. “They had 75 people show up (to help move) and didn’t know what to do with them.” The co-ops share the same Alpha Omega House in the summer, with women and men on different floors. Both co-ops are actively involved with First Baptist, which will even tually move to a new building on County Farm Road. First students are helping them set up temporarily at Eugene Christ ian Fellowship, where services will be held until the new location is complete, and that means keeping years of history in storage. However, church members are hoping that this is the right move. “It’s a mixed bag,” church com mittee member Jay Jones said. “There are both feelings of opti mism and sentimentality. I’ve been at that church for 20 years. It’s really the only church I know. ” A year after their trek along the Oregon Trail, seven pioneers found ed the congregation on July 1,1852, making the group a part of the Eu gene community for 150 years, al though the High Street building has been around for only half as long. Kimball E. Hodge HI delivered his final speech as the church held its last service Sunday at the High Street location. In closing, Hodge asked three questions of the congregation con cerning the church’s relocation ef forts: why, what and how? “Why does God put us through something like this?” Hodge said. Hodge answered his question by calling the move a test of faith. As he addressed the congregation, his voice echoed off the high ceiling, and church members cried openly. A red-robed choir made an appear ance, singing pieces such as “The House that Love Built. ” “What does he expect of us?” Hodge said. “That which he expects is for us to walk by faith. “How must we go on?” he said. “Together. We must go on as a family. We must go on with unity. We must go on—with great expectations. ” Contact the reporter atjilliandaley@dailyemerald.com. Adam Jones Emerald Church members move nearly everything, as Eugene’s oldest church outgrew its original building and is temporarily relocating to the Eugene Christian Fellowship. Autonomy continued from page 1 • Providing each university with the ability to establish its own board of trustees so that each insti tution may meet its needs. While asking for more autono my, the presidents promised to guarantee that student financial needs are still met and to provide equal access to higher education for every qualified Oregonian. ASUO President Rachel Pilliod said she does not have an official position, but there are potential concerns that may surround the presidents’ proposal for autonomy. “There are two sides to this: the individual University of Oregon side and the statewide view, mak ing sure that higher education is accessible for everyone,” she said. “So, those are the things we’re con sidering — quality of education and the faculty.” Pilliod added that she was con cerned that faculty’s pay and quali ty of education might be adversely affected by giving more autonomy to universities. Board member and student rep resentative Tim Young said that the positive aspect is that “(presi dents) will be more nimble and able to respond to their market, which is students.” However, Young said he dis agreed with the proposal because students will have fewer options for amending university policies. “The sometimes conflicting as pects of universities will be al lowed to run amok, splintering our collective efforts to make higher education successful in our legisla ture, in public and in policy,” Young said. University Senate President Gre gory McLauchlan said the propos al would not mean a divorce from the state, and it would give univer sities more freedom. “The basic meaning of (the pro posal) is that there will be greater decision-making capacity, so the University of Oregon will be able to act more quickly and be more flexible in its policies from build ing to admission to setting aca demics,” said McLauchlan, who is also a sociology professor. Young said this “greater deci sion-making capacity” will in evitably lead to higher tuition. “Tuition will go up dramatical ly,” he said. “Presidents will raise tuition to keep the school afloat. We are shifting the burden of run ning the institutions from the state to the student.” The concern is that if tuition is done school-by-school, it will af fect student’s rights to take issues to a higher level. “If the decision begins and ends with students and presidents, stu dents don’t get to talk to state rep resentatives and government to plead with them when tuition rais es come up,” Young said. Despite claims that giving more autonomy to universities could al low for a better education, the Ore gon Student Association may have a problem with such a change. In a July 5 letter to board presi dent Lussier, the OSA outlined steps they believe should be tak en to protect students and their education. These steps included strong opposition to tuition in creases. The letter also stated that OUS should continue to “provide a sense of balance between the missions of Oregon’s universi ties” by maintaining the current system where the state board del egates tuition. Frohnmayer disagrees. “Even if tuition goes up, a por tion will be set aside for financial aid,” he said. He added that tuition would most likely not increase as a result of the proposal. The board’s newly formed com mittee will work to develop a sys tem that will allow OUS and uni versities to work together more efficiently in setting tuition with out disadvantaging students. “We’re not interested in sum marily delegating tuition (power) presidents requested more powers for each university, intruding; ♦ Eliminating spending limits on private university funds and giving universities tie authority to set tuition and fees, as well as to create or expand academic programs. * Granting universities ail authority concerning information technology and telecomm unicat on, and removing legisiativeapproval , requirements and slate bureaucracy for construction when no state funding is used. * Giving universities complete authority to buy. maintain and sell land and property. • Providing universities with responsibility for ail aspects concerning research and intellectual property of faculty and staff. • Providing each university with the ability to establish its own board of trustees so that each institution may meet its needs. ♦ Giving universities complete management authority for financial and legal aspects of contracts and grants, research and technology, transfer activities and intellectual property rights. to seven institutions,” Lussier said. However, “what we’re doing today is not sustainable.” The committee is expected to draft a proposal within two months. Contact the reporters at jilliandaley@dailyemerald.com and janmontry@dailyemerald.com. LUBE, OIL, FILTER Chassis Lube • New Oil Filter • Up to 5 Qts. 10W-30 Chevron Oil • Clean Front Window • Vaccuum Front Floor Boards 1 No Appointment necessary ■ Most light cars & trucks • 3/4 or 1-ton & Extra Cab Trucks Additional Chevron MOTOR OIL POUR IN INC PROTECTION DOWNTOWN 1320 Willamette * 485-2358 2975 West 11th 344-0007* OPEN Sundays 11 -4 visit the house of records...bust a fat move if you feel you must House of Records buy sell trade new and used CDs tapes and Records 25B e 13th ave eugene (541) 342-7975 horecords@qwest.net News brief ASUO Student Senate makes budget adjustments The ASUO Student Senate held its last meeting of the fiscal year Thursday, making routine trans fers to balance budgets of student groups. The senate heard special re quests from the ADFC, Saferide, P&A, KWVA, ESA and DDS, as well as a grievance filed against senate members. Saferide requested a transfer of funds to cover a maintenance bill, office supplies bill and to prevent deficit rollover into the next fiscal year. KWVA requested a transfer of funds to cover a debt in their cell phone account and to buy new supplies, such as new needles for turntables and a floppy disk. The ESA requested a transfer of funds to cover a debt in its tele phone account which resulted when the former director acci dentally ordered a phone line that wasn’t budgeted. DDS requested a transfer of funds to cover a debt in payroll that resulted from a miscommu nication between current and for mer directors. Senators also reiterated that their summer budget of $5,000 is available to student groups for summer activities. —fan Montry Oregon Daily Emerald P.O. 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