Minutes 03/05/96

Present:				

Mike Henry		Edie Lederman		Joe Quaranta

Seth Dailey		Sarita Kaza		Alan Liu		Nayan Sivamurthy

Demetre Daskalakis	Eric Kim		Yince Loh		Yolanda Troublefield

John-Paul Mead		Rich Westreich		Craig Gordon		Jason Kornberg

Stephen Pool		Diana Yoon

		

Not Present:		 (* = excused)				

Deowall Chattar		Melissa Fischer		Roland Knoblauch		

1. ByLaws Bylaws that were put in place last summer are being revisted to determine how the shuffling of positions has worked. The summary of changes being made are as follows:
   Have one second year serve as "University Rep" and the other as "Class Rep" and the University rep will be responsible for attending meetings downtown and assisting the Class rep with school-wide parties. The Class rep will be responsible for class parties and will manage the school-wide parties with assistance from the University rep. People will run for one or the other position. Voted 11 in favor, 3 opposed.
   The person elected 4th year VP will be responsible for mintues over the summer, followed by the 3rd year VP. It should also be made clear in the bylaws that upper class VPs attend CORE meetings.
   Traditional roles should be written out, but not as part of the bylaws. This can be reviewed at the next meeting (ie sweatshirts may go to the 3rd or 4th year VP instead of 1st year VP)
2. Conference Funding Joe and Sarita met with Dean Lesser, who explained there had been some miscommunication in the Deans' office regarding the conference approval process. The status quo will be maintained for the year, after which the issue of funding abuse may be addressed. One concern is money being used to send students to conferences may or may not be used for other student issues, but it is not clear what type of fund or budget the two money sources are. Over the summer, we may consider approaching Dean Scotch to gain an understanding of how the funding process works. Also Dean Lesser said that her predecessors handled conference approval, and it is unclear how extensive a role she would like to take in that process for the future, but Student Council can take a role in helping to determine the policy.
3. Letter to Dean Haynes Nayan and Seth's letter was approved.
4. Mail Students in Greenberg in the first year class have complained that packages are not being delivered. This is in line with what Stephen brought up earlier this year. Sonya in the housing office, who has shown to be a good person too work with in the housing office, has been informed about the situation, but it will also be addressed through the CORE subcommittee meeting this week.
5. Hunter Gym Dean Scotch has talked to the management of Hunter Gym, and Diana sent out email with the details of the changes. The hours are restricted to medical students and the repairs are being undertaken. We are going to sit down and consider the possibility of discontinuing our affiliations with Coles and Hunter because we may be able to develop our own facilities for the same cost.
6. Cafeteria Signs are in, and security is actively enforcing the rule. Some students who did not have their IDs were asked to leave, and so was an attending. If non-students, such as faculty and housestaff, are lunching with students, security is being fair and allowing them to stay. For employees, etc, that have complained, the rule has always been that the student cafeteria is for student use, and that only now there is enforcement-- they can eat at Tisch.
7. Lounge Update Card access has not been installed in the lounge yet, and already some garbage was found there. Hopefully access will be in place soon, until then we will not hold events there. Once the basement door is closed off, then the lounge should be secure.