Minutes 04/07/99

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By: Brian Keegan (1st Year Vice-President)


Present:                                                                         

Doug Gauld		Ben Hamar		Lee Smith	Manish Parikh

Sarita Kaza		Nicole Hindman		Eric Silver	Brian Keegan

Jess Heller		Evelyn Ha		Mike Wein	Gregg Evangelista

Tom Garvey		Margaret Chou				

			

                                                          

Not Present: (*Excused)

*Dave Poppers		*Deb Klugewicz		*Ethan Cowan		*Juan Rodriguez

*Jeremy Poppers		Dave Hu			Demetre Daskalakis

Class Announcements

Class of 1999
Senior week events are going to be scheduled in the last week of April and into the first two weeks of May.

Class of 2000
Rodeo Party this Friday.

Class of 2001
Class elections Wed. the 14th at 6:15 in the FDR.
Clerkship lottery next week.

Class of 2002
Congratulations to Felix Olale 2nd Year President, Lee Smith 2nd Year Vice-President, and Chirag Kapadia and Steve Mezzafonte 2nd Year Representatives.
LCME Student Survey Forms will be distributed to 2002 after the Behavior Science Test on Monday April 12.

MD/PhD

Old Business:

Recycling: Tom spoke to Alistair Holder about recycling bins in Coles, Rubin Lounge and Alumni C. No agreement has been established yet due to the logistical differences between collecting at an institution vs. a residence.

NYU Downtown Party: Student Council Approved (10-0-0) (for-against-abstain) for $500 to be given to the Graduate School Party next week. It will be free to all students with an I.D.

New Business:

By-Laws Amendment: By Law amendment passed (11-1-0) (for-against-abstain) adding the clause *All clubs must provide the Student Council Treasurer with the name of the speaker and the title of the lecture at least two weeks prior to the event. Failure to do so may result in cancellation of the IOI or funding for that event.

Students on Search Committees: Deb and Eric sent a letter (three weeks ago) to Dean Glickman expressing our concern that there are no students on either the Medicine or Surgery search committees. Dean Glickman responded that he agreed that this was a concern and offered to have students meet with Search Committees prior to interviewing. In addition, selected students would also meet all potential candidates past the initial screening round. Student Council accepted this proposal (12-0-1) (for-against-abstain) with the stipulation that those students who meet with the committee and candidates would compose a letter to the committee after the meetings. This letter would represent the opinions of the student body.

Missions and Objectives: Student Council had several small concerns about the language and wording of the revised Missions and Objective so the Medical School, however no decisions on changes were made.

Budget issues: Dean Abramson, Dean Lesser, Andy London, Eric, Doug and Lee met to discuss the budgets and developed several solutions while other issues still need to be clarified. The following are the unofficial results of the meeting. An official document is being prepared by the dean's office.

  1. IOI dinners over 50 people will now be approved by Dean Lesser
  2. Travel to conferences will still be approved by Dean Lesser, however more complete records of the numbers of individuals approved will be kept.
  3. Local travel reimbursements will not be given to Coles and North Shore if University transportation is available.
  4. All Invoices need to be signed off by the Student Council Treasurer.
  5. The Student Council account will be kept at a higher level monetarily.
  6. Monthly meetings will take place between the Student Council Treasurer and Andy London to facilitate communication.

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Administered by Eric Silver
Student Council President