The President explained that this meeting would adjourn at or about 5:00 p.m. and unfinished business would be on the agenda of the regular meeting of the University Assembly December 7, 1983. In explaining the procedure for voting on the Governance motion the President said that a majority vote would be required on each of the seven motions individually, but that a two thirds vote on the entire proposal would be required for it to pass. The remaining parts of Motion 3 were now on the floor. II. A. 3)
Mr. Mike Prothe, SUAB , was recognized to make an amendment to several parts of Motion 3. They were: "II. A. Change (46) to (56)." II. A. 2. Replace A,B, with the following:
After a short discussion this amendment to amend was defeated by a voice vote. The question on the SUAB amendment followed, with a short discussion, and by a vote of 42 yes and 86 no, the amendment failed.
Mr. Galen Rarick, Journalism, proposed to amend "II.A.3. a and b., II.C.1. F 2.3., and II. D. 2. 3. 4. and 5." He stated that the purpose of his school and one senator to the library and unaffiliated faculty and officers of administration as elected in even numbered years.
I. E. 3. now reads: "Such Senate actions may he appealed to the Assembly on the written petition signed by forty(40) members of the Assembly within a period of fifteen (15) days (i.e., exclusive of recess periods, academic holidays, Saturdays, or Sundays) after the date copies of the Senate actions have been distributed." The entire Motion 3 was now called for a vote and by a show of hands passes by or of 104 yes and 28 no.
Motion 4 was now on the floor. Transfer of Committee on Committees and Standing Committees to the Senate.
Adjournment There being no further business the Assembly ad adjourned at 5:10 p.m.
Keith Richard Secretary, University Assembly
Annual Report to the Faculty The 1982-83 Faculty Personnel Committee met for the first time on November 23, 5 for the last time on June 9. It held 22 sessions, a smaller number than preceding year, owing largely to the adoption of new procedures for circulating editing drafts of committee reports on the cases under consideration.
The committee reviewed a total of 39 cases, the same number reviewed the previous ear. With the exception noted above, its procedures were identical to those followed in recent years. Although the committee was generally pleased with the way departments, schools, and colleges had prepared the cases it reviewed. By and large the files were lean nd informative. A few files did, however, contain unsigned letters and comments from students, and on several occasions the committee found it necessary to ask department heads and other administrators to submit clearer and more informative mataterial concerning course evaluations.
Although the committee was able to submit its reports on most cases within a few weeks of receiving them, reports were delayed for a month or more for the handfull of cases requiring extensive discussion or considerable amounts of additional information.
For many years the committee has been charged with making recommendations regarding indefinite tenure for outside candidates for faculty appointments. This duty has involved reading each candidate's field and asking a committee member to attend the the public lecture and make a report on it. This year, faced with requests to make recommendations on several such candidates on short notice, the committee came to the realization that the traditional procedures in such cases do not permit a review that approximates in thoroughness the review given to our own faculty. For another, it is hard for someone who is not a specialist in aa candidate's field to make informed judgments about his or her competence by listening to a lecture. The committee recommends that a sounder procedure be devised for evaluating outsiders for tenured appointments. Respectfully submitted,
With the death of Professor Emeritus Gregory Wannier, the Department of P'nysics and University of Oregon lose the man who was regarded by many as the most eminent member of the Physics faculty from the time he joined us in 1961 until his death on October 21, 1983. The signatures on testimonial letters on the quality and importance of Professor Wannier's research contributions constitute 7 a veritable "who's who" of the National Academy of Science members and Nobel laureates working in the area of solid state theory. He was honored last spring by a symposium in which a number of the leading physicists in the U.S. took part. "Wannier functions" were already "tools of the trade" taught to aspiring solid state theorists long before he came here, and this continued to be the case for a whole generation of students. He had also published equally important, though probably less well known, path-breaking work on the Ising model of ferromagnetism and on the law of threshold two electron ionization of atoms.
After joining our faculty he published a series of important papers on difficult and important problems in crystals, along with his students and visiting colleagues, from abroad. His publications were always characterized by their great elegance,: originality, and unerring taste and intuition for essentials. These qualities also shown through clearly in his textbooks on solid state theory and statistical physics.
His lectures to his colleagues and students here were models of clarity, although he never attempted to oversimplify difficult topics. He was an ultimate teacher of physics for many of his colleagues and advanced students, a local intellectual resource for a vast area. He did not participate in the wave of "grade inflation" once prevalent here, as elsewhere. His stewardship of the departmental "Journal Club," in which current publications were described and discussed by both students and faculty, made an important contribution to our graduate teaching program. He was a faithful participant in the departmental colloquium, and in seminars not only in physics but other departments as well, due to the unusual range of his interests and contributions. At these talks he always asked questions which frequently seemed naive but upon reflection proved to be deep and penetration. This made him a hero of all those too timid to ask such questions.
Several of his research students have gone on to distinguished careers, one of the most recent ones having already won a Pulitzer Prize. He participated conscientiously in departmental committees and faculty meetings, always insisting; on high standards of student and faculty performance.
Gregory Wannier had many interests outside academia. Many of his colleagues and students hold warm memories of cross-country and downhill skiing and mountain climbing expeditions which he led or in which he participated actively. He tended to approach these activities with the same originality he applied to his scientific pursuits, giving rise to many "Gregory Wannier stories" which are famous in the Department. Each year he led a climb of Diamond Peak for the Obsidians. His interest in and store of knowledge of recondite details of European history are legendary.
Gregory Wannier had a great and beneficial influence upon our department, which will continue for a long time to come.
Joel McClure Professor of Physics
Mr. Chairman, I move that this memorial be entered into the record of this meeting and copies of the memorial be sent to the family of Gregory Wannier November 9, 1983
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