By: Anuja Sanghvi 1st year Vice-President
Present:
Lee Smith Brian Keegan Shirley Bassiri-Tehrani
Marianne Moon Jess Heller Eric Silver
Chirag Kapadia Deb Klugewicz Dave Hu
Sean Burns Steve Mezzafonte Dave Poppers
Doug Gauld Anuja Sanghvi Felix Olale
Jeremy Poppers Mike Wein
Not Present: (*Excused)
*Greg Evangelista *Manish Parikh *Kevin Kaplan
*Nicole Hindman Ethan Cowan
The Match will take place on March 16 at 12 noon. Seniors will be meeting outside Farkas auditorium. There will be a match party later that evening from 8:30-11:30. There will be an open bar and snacks. If you want to bring guests it will cost you $15 per guest and you will be allowed only 2 guests per person. Invitations will be sent out next week. RSVP the invites to Don and Carol. The deadline is March 6.
Rank lists are due by 11:59 pm on Feb. 16.
Class of 2001
Housing lottery forms are due Friday, Feb.18 by noon.
Feb.25 is the last day to switch sub-I's until after the sub-I location lottery.
Class of 2002
The Law/Med School Mixer is Thursday, Feb.17 at Thirteen (on 13th and University Place). It starts at 9:30 and admission is free.
The housing lottery will take place at 8:30 am on March 16.
Class of 2003
The housing lottery will be at 3:00 pm on March 31.
MD/PhD
The MD/PhD program wishes to congratulate Jonathon Benjamin for successfully defending his thesis.
Happy birthday to the one and only Jeremy Poppers! (It was on Feb. 15)
The housing lottery will be on March 17.
Housing - Student Council and the Housing office must take a serious look at the housing policy in terms of domestic partnership. As it is more difficult for domestic partners to show proof of marraige than it is for heterosexual couples to prove that they are planning on getting married, some homosexual students have voiced their concerns over getting into the married student housing lottery. One couple in particular went to great lengths to prove that they were indeed going to get "married" during the next academic school year and were thus given the chance to enter the married student housing lottery. A final decision has not been reached on the issue as a whole. Student Council voted to stall the issue 11-0-3 (for-against-abstain) until we gained some more information.
Modems - Dr. Nachbar, Ilsung, Jeff Berliner, and Brian met to discuss problems with the modem pool since it reached 100% capacity one night and some students living off-campus were turned away. Short term solution: Computing has reactivated the old modem pool and has restricted it to only performing med.nyu.edu operations like gaining access to the curriculum pages or checking email. There will be another phone number to dial to use this pool than the number that will give you access to the big 96 modem pool that can access the entire web. Long term solution: Computing will monitor the current situation and continue to update the system. CORE will deal with issues like wiring the Skirball apartments among other things along that line of improvement.
Pancake Dinner - The money raised from the dinner was donated to Hale House. Hale House provides care for children with medical problems stemming from being drug dependent, HIV+, etc.
MD/PhD funding - Jeremy and Dave requested that they be allowed to use the entire amount of money alotted in their budget towards a future ski trip. They did not know that they were not required to request use of this money and can with it as they please (as long as it is meant to benefit the students in the program). They also requested more funding on behalf of the entire MD/PhD program for next year. Lee and Brian said that it would be discussed when the budget is planned during the summer.
Sexual Health Advocacy Group - Dean Abrahamson suggested that the group outline their ideas and proposals so that Deb can present them to the curriculum committee and see if we can effect real changes in our curriculum to deal more extensively on the sensitive subject of sexual health.
Muscletones Budget - The group emailed Lee a few requests. Student council denied them a new sound system because we have a new one that works. They were awarded and IOI dinner for their Spring Concert and an IOI for 1 lunch. They were also given $40 for their administrative fees. All this was approved 13-0-1 (for-against-abstain).
Administered by Brian Robert Keegan
Student Council President