Minutes 03/26/96

Present:				

Mike Henry		Edie Lederman		Joe Quaranta		Seth Dailey

Sarita Kaza		Demetre Daskalakis	Eric Kim		Yince Loh

Yolanda Troublefield	Melissa Fischer		Roland Knoblauch	John-Paul Mead	

Rich Westreich		Craig Gordon		Jason Kornberg		Diana Yoon

		

Not Present:		 (* = excused)				

Deowall Chattar*	Alan Liu		Stephen Pool		Nayan Sivamurthy

1. MD/PhD Representation Subcommittee Report

   
   Proposal for a bylaws change. 	(see attached)  	For:Against: Abstain
   
   
   
   Part (1): (Reworded)
   
   	A permanent item will be added to the Medical Student Council to address the concerns of each
   
   	class council and the MD/PhD representative and their respective constituencies.
   
   	11:6:2	Not Passed
   
   	Table this for further discussion : unanimous
   
   Part (2): (Reworded)
   
   	All MD/PhD students, with the exception of graduating and incoming MD/PhD students, will vote 
   
   	for the MD/PhD representative in addition to their class representatives.
   
   	8:5:6	Not Passed
   
   Part (3): (Reworded)
   
   	The MD/PhD position will be split in two. One of these representatives will retain a vote on 
   
   	Student Council, while the other will serve as Student Council MD/PhD representative alternate. 
   
   	This representative will be charged with the MD/PhD proxy vote when the primary MD/PhD 
   
   	representative is not present, but will not have his or her own vote on Council. This alternate 
   
   	will be the runner-up in the election.
   
   	15:2:2	Passed
   
   Part (4): (As stated in attached document, listed AGAIN below)
   
   	Both of these MD/PhD representatives will be mandated to attend subcommittee meetings that the 
   
   	Student Council deems appropriate. "Appropriate" will be understood to mean a situation in 
   
   	which MD/PhD representation on a given subcommittee is not redundant. Only one of these 
   
   	representatives will be permitted to sit on each of the specified committees.
   
   	19:0:0	Passed
   
   Part (5: (Reworded)
   
   	There will be a scheduled "pre-CORE meeting" before each CORE meeting. Everyone on Student 
   
   	Council is invited to attend, but attendance is mandatory for the people who sit on the CORE 
   
   	committee and the MD/PhD representative.
   
   	19:0:0	Passed
   
   
   
   

   Item 4 remains to be fleshed out. Demetre has been appointed subcommittee chair and anyone who wants to get involved should see him. The subcommittee will return with a mission statement next week to be voted upon.

2. Lounge Update Class reps did not have a proposal for lounge usage together; this should be done by next week.

New Items:

1. Downtown Party Jason found out about an undergrad party being held Apr 24 at a fancy place on 5th Ave between 8th and 9th. tickets are $7/person, and it is being subsidized. The undergrads asked that graduate students attend, and asked for a donation of approximately $300-$500 to help defray the subsidy cost. If we donate about $300, we should have 40-50 tickets to sell to our class. Council tentatively approved the $300 based on what's available in the budget (TBA next week).

2. Chelsea Piers Yince spoke with a woman from Chelsea Piers that wanted a bunch of students to come down and tour their facilities, hopefully resulting in an agreement on using facilities. Yince went last Thursday, they have indoor field sport facilities and a gym. Yince, Seth, Edie, Diana and Jason will go down and investigate and then ask students whether they would be interested in the facilities.

3. Don & Carol's Office Diana reported that most of the tickets offered through Don & Carol's are not student subsidized, the only ones that are include: Opera & Philharmonic ($20) and movie tickets ($0.50). The office costs are paid for from a non-student, non-Dean's office account, Medical Center account. However, the bulk rate tickets are often obtained from organizations because they go to students; and it should also be considered that in order to sell all the tickets Don and Carol buy in bulk, they need to sell throughout the medical center. Finally, money from selling tickets to class events was not always placed in the correct account, sometimes going to Don & Carol's separate account rather than to the class account. The following proposals were made by Melissa and passed unanimously:
   1. Class representative should collect the ticket money from class events sold at Don and Carol's and put it into the correct account themselves to avoid future error.
   2. Don and Carol should set aside a certain % (To Be Determined later) of the tickets for student use until the day before the event.
   3. Don and Carol should offer a slighlty lower price on certain tickets for students so they have better access to tickets, compared to the employed people who actually have jobs and money.

   Diana wants to also ask Don and Carol to:

   1. Set aside more movie tickets on Friday because they always seem to sell out
   2. Gear more towards events that students will be interested in.

4. Dean Invitations No response from Dean Haynes on the mission statement, and no reply yet from Dr. Farber. Suggest we invite Dean Scotch to talk about the upcoming budget issues.

5. Meeting Cancellations Due to the upcoming spring breaks, meetings for the following dates will be cancelled: April 9 and 16.