Minutes 03/19/96

Present:				

Deowall Chattar		Mike Henry		Edie Lederman		Joe Quaranta

Sarita Kaza		Alan Liu		Nayan Sivamurthy	Demetre Daskalakis

Eric Kim		Yolanda Troublefield	Melissa Fischer		Roland Knoblauch

John-Paul Mead		Rich Westreich		Craig Gordon		Stephen Pool

Diana Yoon

		

Not Present:		 (* = excused)				

Seth Dailey*		Jason Kornberg*		Yince Loh*	

1. MD/PhD Representation on CORE Subcommittee Proposal: (Melissa) Add MD/PhD rep and remove two other positions, into bylaws.
   Voted to split the issue in two parts, passed.
   Proposal (Melissa, 1a) Add MD/PhD 11:7:3 NP
   Proposal (Melissa, 2) Add MD/PhD rep and remove 3rd & 4th yr VP 8:12:1 NP
   Proposal (Melissa, 1b) Remove 3rd and 4th year VPs 9:5:4 NP
   Agreed to establish a subcommittee of council to discuss issues and present to general meeting. Includes: Roland, Melissa, Craig, Diana, Demetre, Joe; represents classes.

2. Position Descriptions Only four people have handed in job descriptions: Melissa, Edie, Diana, Sarita. Get these to Joe and to Sarita for records.

3. Lounge Update Pool table and Ping Pong table have been put in place, and cable is being installed. One TV is in, another is being repaired. A system has been set up with York for maintainence. A proposal on how we want to determine space usage (ie eliminating keg parties from the lounge) will be developed by class reps and brought back next week. It is unclear when the furniture will come in, so next week when we have more information we will determine how and when we want to open the lounge up for use.

4. Student Representation on Curriculum Committee Members of the administration are concerned about our decision to designate a specific student council office position as the curriculum representative as well. They feel this would "lock them into" dealing with someone that might not be an asset to the committee. Since the representative would be selected by us anyway (not subject to veto or anything) and the position turns over every year, it may be that the administration is still having difficulty adjusting to having a student representative on that committee. As a result, we have agreed to make the more vague designation of "a 4th year Council member" and not write anything into bylaws until next year, to give the administration time and space to adjust to the additional representation.

New Items:

1. Absences Absences are only excused if you notify Joe before the meeting, and only for academic reasons.

2. Don & Carol's Office Rich brought up the issue over obtaining tickets through Don and Carol. The office is supposedly subsidized by Student Activities fees, but everyone in the medical center has access to services. This is in itself an issue, but it is compounded by the fact that medical students, who pay the activities fees, do not even get first priority on tickets, events, etc. This involves administrators as well, and may be a sensitive issue. Rich and Diana will try and obtain more concrete information and report back.