At a faculty meeting last month about the new benefits package for Harvard faculty and staff, many complained that they didn't have enough input in the decision making process.

"It seems as though we were being treated more as employees of a business than members of a community," McKay Professor of Computer Science Barbara J. Grosz said.

Nothing has yet been officially done to address the faculty members' complaints.

A High Sense of Integrity

University officials spoke glowingly about Slichter's tenure at Harvard.

"He is one of the most thoughtful and fair-minded people with whom I have had the privilege to work," Rudenstine said in a statement yesterday. "Harvard has benefited from his excellent judgment and wise council in innumerable ways."

President of the Board of Overseers, the Rev. Theodore M. Hesburgh echoed Rudenstine's sentiments.

"He was a marvelous guy with enormous dedication to whom Harvard owes a great debt of gratitude," Hesburgh said. "He brought a high sense of integrity and a great sense of the problems which face university."

Slichter, who is the Center for Advanced Study professor of physics and chemistry at the University of Illinois, received an A.M. and Ph.D. from Harvard, where he was the Morris Loeb Lecture in Physics in 1961.

He is currently the chair of the Corporation's Committee on Shareholder Responsibility, a position he has held for the last five years. In that capacity, he has guided University policy on the ethical responsibilities it possesses as an investor.

He had also been a member of the five person Committee on Appointments of the Governing Boards since its inception in 1982-83.

This article was reported with information from the Harvard Gazette.