Minutes of the UO Assembly Meeting 7 June 1985

June 7, 1985

The meeting was called to order by President Paul Olum in room 150 Geology at 3:35 p.m.. on June 5, 1985. There being no corrections, the minutes of the May 1, 1985 meeting were approved as distributed.

ANNOUNCEMENTS, MEMORIALS

A memorial for Mr. Graham Hoyle, Biology, who passed away on February 23, 1985 in Eugene, is a part of these minutes and is attached to them. Mr. Hoyle was a member of the University of Oregon faculty from 1961 until his death.

Mr. Ted Stern was recognized to read a memorial for Mr. Homer G. Barnett, Anthropology. Mr. Barnett was a member of the University of Oregon faculty from 1939 until his death, in Eugene, on May 9, 1985. A copy of the memorial is attached to these minutes.

The President recognized Mr. John Baldwin, Chair, Academic Requirements Committee, to read the motion from the Committee for approval of degrees: ''That the faculty of the University of Oregon recommends that the Oregon State Board of Higher Education confer upon the persons whose names are included in the Official Degree List, as compiled and certified by the University Registrar after the close of Spring and Summer Terms, 1985, the degree for which they have completed all requirements." The motion was put to a voice vote and passed without opposition.

The President recognized Ms. Mavis Mate, Chair, Faculty Advisory Council, to read the annual report of that body. A copy is attached to these minutes.

The President recognized Mr. Richard Schmuck, Chair, Faculty Personnel Committee, to read the annual report of that body. The report is attached to these minutes.

The President announced that the budget for the State System was still under consideration by the State Legislature. At this time the funding situation is looking very good and that some inroad on the sparse funding and under funding of the past few years is being made. However, the picture is not all rosy and that some areas of proposed funding have not been funded, i.e., library automation. Tuition is frozen for the second year of the biennium, but a three per cent increase is required for the first year that is 1985-86. The salary increase proposal of $20 million seems to be heading for passage and if this does indeed become available it will be across the board salary increases. A second amoUnt of $20 million, if funded, will be available for merit increases and to use as fighting money to retain faculty being tempted by other institutions to move.

The President recognized Ms. Katherine Eaton, President of the University Senate, to read the motion on Senate reorganization: On behalf of the University Senate, I move that the Faculty legislation establishing the University Senate and detailing its functions be amended as follows:

 
• 1. All notices of motion and motion discussions will originate in the University Senate. (The required timely notice requirements will remain as at present.) Any member of the Faculty or the Student Senate may give notice of motion and speak to it in the Senate. The Senate will discuss and dispose of all motions with the following exceptions:
• a. the motion passes or fails by less than a two thirds majority;
• b. the Senate itself or the President of the University requests referral;
• c. all curricular matters;
• d. petition of 15 or more Faculty members to refer.
Under any of the above conditions, the motion will be referred to the Assembly.
• 2. The Senate will receive annual reports from all faculty committees established under faculty legislation and consider recommendations for action.
• 3. The Senate will establish a mechanism for reporting regularly to the Faculty about Senate actions, reports from the Administration, reports from the Faculty Advisory Council, and other matters of Faculty and Student interest. (i.e., a monthly newsletter.)
• 4. The Senate will meet twice a month when Senate business requires it.

Mr. Lewis Ward, Mathematics, asked that "1" be amended so as to read (at the end) "Any member of the Assembly has the right and privilege to speak on the floor of the Senate for debate and discussion on any issue before that body." This amendment passed by a voice vote. A question as to the meaning  of the words "or fails" in "l.a." was clarified by the President when he stated that it meant less than two thirds in the negative. Mr. Charles Wright, Mathematics, felt that the number of students in the Senate was too many and thus could control legislation with a quorum of 28. A combination of the 18 student members and two faculty could control action. He proposed an amendment to reduce the number of students to two and that they be appointed by the ASUO president and that they did not have to be members of the Student Senate. After a short debate this motion was put to a hand vote and lost 14 in favor and 28 opposed. The question was called for and by a show of hands it passed. The motion was now before the Assembly for a vote and it passed by a hand vote of 33 in favor and 12 opposed. As passed by the Assembly the motion now reads:

• 1. All notices of motions and motion discussion will originate University Senate. (The required timely notice requirements will remain as at present.) Any member of the Assembly or the Student Senate may give notice of motion and speak to it in the Senate. Any member of the Assembly has the right and privilege to speak on the floor of the Senate for debate and discussion on any issue before that body. The Senate will discuss and dispose of all motions with the following exceptions:
• a. the motion passes or fails by less than two thirds majority;
• b. the Senate itself or the President of the University request referral;
• c. all curricular matters;
• d. petition of 15 or more Faculty members to refer, presented to the President of the Senate within fifteen class days following official notification to the Faculty of a Senate action.
Under any of the above conditions, the motion will be referred to the Assembly.
• 2. The Senate will receive annual reports from all Faculty Committees established under Faculty legislation and consider recommendations for action.
• 3. The Senate will establish a mechanism for reporting regularly to the Faculty about Senate actions, reports from the Administration, reports from the Faculty Advisory Council, and other matters of Faculty and Student interest. (i.e., a monthly newsletter.)
• 4. The Senate will meet twice a month when Senate business requires it.

This concluded the agenda and the last meeting of the 1984-1985 academic year adjourned at 4:55 p.m. Keith Richard Secretary, University Assembly

Graham was one of the brains ..drained'' from Britain, coming to the University's Biology Department in 1961, a few years after completing his undergraduate work in Bernard Katz's laboratory in the University of London and his doctoral degree in Otto Lowenstein's laboratory at the University of Glasgow. In these laboratories he developed his strong commitment to studying the neurobiological basis of behavior and brought to Oregon a dedication to research and graduate training in the field that has proved most fruitful. Most of the 27 graduate students who obtained their Ph.D. with Graham have themselves become major contributors to the field. Some of these students are the best ever produced by the Biology Department.

Convinced that the simpler nervous systems of insects were ideal for his studies, he, his students, and his many postdoctoral associates, spent the next 24 years probing into neuronal control circuitry responsible for such behaviors as walking, jumping, flight and oviposition digging. Their contributions were published as numerous original papers and reviews over the years. Even some of the more controversial ones, those that questioned fundamental paradigms of muscle physiology and never saw the light of day, eventually appeared in print in his excellent monograph on ''Muscles and Their Neural Control''.

In the late 60's Graham turned to the fundamental and intractable problem of learning, again using the simpler invertebrate system. He showed in a
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