By: Brian Keegan (1st Year Vice-President)
**This meeting did not have quorum**
Present:
Doug Gauld Deb Klugewicz Lee Smith Manish Parikh
Dave Poppers Nicole Hindman Eric Silver Brian Keegan
Dave Hu Juan Rodriguez Mike Wein Evelyn Ha
Jeremy Poppers Tom Garvey
Not Present: (*Excused)
*Ethan Cowan Demetre Daskalakis *Ben Hamar *Margaret Chou
*Greg Evangalista *Jess Heller *Sarita Kaza
Class of 2000
Feb 24th class meeting, Sub-Internships lottery and the LCME Student Survey will be distributed at this meeting.
Switch Party at Joshua Tree January 28th.
Class of 2001
Feb 2nd will be a Q&A about lottery from 6-7 in student caf.
Kaplan came to visit Jan 19th and offered $100 off their full-length course or $200 to take two full-length practice tests.
Class of 2002
Anatomy service is Jan. 21st.
Ski trip is set for Jan. 22nd-24th.
Pancake supper raised $431 for to Doctors Without Borders Central American Hurricane Relief.
MD/PhD
James Goldman an MD/PhD NYU graduate came on January 13th to speak about his research, his experience and field questions from current students.
The New Student Handbooks are available.
A news letters should be ready soon.
Library: Carol Wu and Stuart Spore from the library came to ask a few questions and answer student council questions.
They inquired about our study space. We replied that although we have gained Alumni C that only replaced the 15th floor and that we couldn't afford to lose any study space.
They asked if we wanted e-mail stations outside of Alumni C. We replied that it would be an added convenience. They will look into the feasibility.
They inquired about constructing a survey for the upcoming LCME. We replied that a library section will be included in the upcoming survey and if they would like input into the questions that they should speak to the committee developing the survey.
We asked if the fines for reserve books have deterred students from using them? Is usage of some of the titles great enough to need more copies? They are looking into these statistics.
We asked if is possible to keep the four medical student priority stations? They said these stations are over due for conversion back to regular workstations. When they are, Microsoft office will be removed from them. This will require students to use the computer media center to print word documents.
We then asked if we could get another printer somewhere in the medical center (e.g. Coles, Alumni C, Breeze way above library) that would be 24-hour medical student printing only? They will look into this.
We asked about security checks when entering the library or access codes to the computers and printers? They said none of these options were feasible as the library is organized now.
We asked about funding for the library and cooperation with the NYU main campus for cost sharing? They said that we do share some computer resource costs and titles. They also said funding was stable for the library materials but the staff resources are deficient and no revenue is being generated for building a new library.