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Minutes of the UO Assembly Meeting 11 January 1984
REGULAR MEETING OF THE FACULTY UNIVERSITY OF OREGON
the meeting was called to order by President Paul Olum in Room 150 Geology
at 3:37 p.m., January 11, 1984. There being no corrections, the minutes
of the December 7, 1983 meeting were approved as distributed.
UNFINISHED BUSINESS
Just as the meeting of the Assembly was getting underway, Governor Victor
Atiyeh entered the room. President Olum asked the Governor if he wanted
to make a few statements to the faculty and the Governor accepted the invitation.
Governor Atiyah stated that he was in the Eugene-springfield area as he
had delivered his State of the State" address in the area today.
The Governor told the faculty that he had a deep personal commitment
to Higher Education and he has been frustrated by the economic downturn
in the State's fiscal] resources to make his commitment come to fruition.
Currently the economic picture is improving and that by the time the legislature
meets in January of 1985 he hope: to be able to make good on his promise
of increased aid to higher education. After a few more words on education,
the University as his alma mater, the quality of the University of Oregon
and Oregon State University, the Governor departed.
President Olum recognized Mr. Peter Gilkey, Mathematics, who made a
motion for reconsideration of the Proposed Rules of Governance defeated
in the November 16, 1983 meeting. President Olum stated that since Mr.
Gilkey had voted on the prevailing side in that vote he could ask for a
reconsideration. After a second the motion was put to a vote and it passed
by a vote of 106 in favor, 58 opposed and one abstention.
The Proposed Rules of Governance were now on the floor and open to debate.
Mr. Sanford Tepfer, Biology, was recognized to speak in favor of the motion
and he urged acceptance of the proposal as the answer to many of the problems
that face faculty governance. Mr. Dominic LaRusso, Speech, inquired about
the fiscal impact of the proposed rules. The Secretary was recognized to
answer this inquiry. The proposed rules will require a listing of all voting
faculty members as candidates on the first ballot. Three methods of handling
the first ballot were investigated: -
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1) Punch cards, with computer counting, and the expense of printing, envelopes,
etc would total $1450. The second ballot, with the final sixteen candidates
and the statements from each candidate (using the present system of punch
cards for the ballot) would total $245.
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2) List the candidates on paper, the pages of names to the electorate and
hand count the returns. The cost of printing, etc., would be no less than
$355, depend on the personnel time involved in counting the ballots. The
cost of the second ballot would total $245.
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3) Using a scan sheet for the listing of all the candidates and for the
voting on 3 each. Including printing, counting, etc., the cost would be
$730. The second ballot would remain at $245. Elections now cost about
$444.24 per year.
Various other faculty members spoke in favor of the motion and in opposition
to the motion. The points made were: the present committee structure is
left wanting as the committees have no one body to oversee them or for
them to report to; the cost of the new Senate would be justified as that
body would be more efficient in use of personnel time than the present
nine meetings per year of the Assembly; the alternative proposal would
continue the Assembly and not really take care of the problems addressed
in the proposed rules; the proposed Senate would be a small body and thus
faculty members in general would not be able to meet and hear and debate
the issues as they now do; the young, lesser known faculty members, would
have a more difficult time in getting elected to the proposed Senate because
of the lack of exposure allowed at the present Assembly meetings. The question
was called for and the motion, needing a two thirds majority to pass, failed
by a vote of 113 in favor and 78 opposed.
MOTION ON THE ESTABLISHMENT OF A COMMITTEE ON MOTIONS AND RESOLUTIONS
Mr. James Boren, English, was recognized to read the following motion (originally
given by Mr. Stanley Greenfield, English, at the meeting of December 6,
1983):
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"1) The present University Senate be replaced by a Standing Committee on
Motions and resolutions whose functions shall be those of the present Senate;
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"2) The Committee shall consist of eight (8) faculty members appointed
by thE Committee on Committees, four (4) from the College of Arts and Sciences
and four (4) from the Professional Schools, Library, Unaffiliated Faculty
and Officers of Administration, plus the Parliamentarian, the Secretary
of the Assembly, the President and Vice President of the Student University
Affairs Board; i
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"3) The term of office for those eight (8) appointed faculty members is
two years, with two members from each group (College of Arts and Sciences
and Profess Schools, Library, Unaffiliated Faculty and Officers of Administration)
being replaced each year. For the first term of service, lots will he drawn
to detemine which two members from each group shall serve one year, and
which two years;
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"4) Only those faculty members eligible for election to the Faculty Advisory
Council are eligible for appointment to the Committee on Motions and Resolutions;
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5) If this motion is enacted by a vote of the Assembly it shall take effect
after the close of the academic year 1983-84."
As the Senate did not debate this motion no report from the Senate was
made. Mr. Lewis Ward, Mathematics, was recognized and he made a motion
that the "Committee on Motions and Resolutions" motion be referred to the
Senate. The purpose of this referral was to have the Senate debate the
proposal and to suggest options would make the Standing Committee an elected
committee. After a second and little debate, the question to refer was
called for. By a voice vote the motion to refer was passed.
REPORT OF THE COMMITTEE ON THE CURRICULUM
Ms. Mavis Mate, History and Chairwoman of the Committee, was recognized
to bring to the floor the report of the committee. President Olum announced
that the Assembly would, as usual, go through the report page by page.
On page 5 the question was asked if A. CPsy should be "Adlerian Couples
Education and Counseling" or "Adlerian Education and Counseling for Couples"?
The decision was made that the latter was the correct one and would be
the one entered in the Catalog. When page 18 was reached Mr. Walther Hahn,
German, made a motion to remove all minors from I. II, and III as minors
and clusters serve two separate purposes and a minor should not be substituted
for a cluster requirement. The motion was defeated by a voice vote. On
page 19, "II, 199 Special Studies 1-3" credits was amended to read 1-4
credits so science could be included.
Commencing with page 20 and continuing through page 32 (with the supplement
from the College of Business Administration added) a discussion concerning
the name of a minor was undertaken. Mr. Herb Chereck, Registrar, made the
point that minors were recorded on transcripts and thus they had to be
definite. President Olum, after much discussion, stated that the minor
would reflect, in most cases, the name of the department in the College
of Arts and Science and the department within the Professional Schools
and Colleges. The exceptions were "Coaching"; "Health"; on page 24; and
on page 25, "School Health and Community a Health"; page 29, "German";
"Scandinavian"; page 31, "French"; "Spanish"; "Italian"; and on page 32
"Rhetoric and Communication"; "Theater Arts."
During the discussion on the naming of minors a motion to refer the
entire package hack to the the Senate was make and defeated. Another motion
to divide and send the portion under discussion to the Senate and vote
on the portion already processed died from lack of a second. Chemistry,
on page 26-27, has an ungrammatical statement that Mr. Robert Mazo, Chemistry,
wanted clarified. This was to be done in a conference with the Curriculum
Committee after the end of the Assembly meeting. The last change was on
page 28, Geography. The last word in the paragraph should read Geography
and not Geology.
The Report of the Committee on the Curriculum was now ready for a vote.
The Assembly approved the document as edited and altered.
President Olum announced that the motion concerning Search Courses and
the motion to restructure the membership of the Committee on the Curriculum
would be on the agenda of the next meeting, February 1, 1984.
ADJOURNMENT
There being no further lousiness the meeting was adjourned at 5:43 p.m.
K. Keith Richard