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
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• 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.
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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
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when the former director acci
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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.
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