Minutes 04/23/96

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Present:				

Edie Lederman		Joe Quaranta		Seth Dailey		Sarita Kaza

Alan Liu		Demetre Daskalakis	Yince Loh		Yolanda Troublefield

Melissa Fischer		Roland Knoblauch	Rich Westreich		Jason Kornberg

Stephen Pool	

		

Not Present:		 (* = excused)				

Deowall Chattar*	Mike Henry*		John-Paul Mead*		Nayan Sivamurthy

Craig Gordon		Eric Kim		Diana Yoon*

Old Items:

Dean Haynes Dean Haynes said she enjoyed her visit to student council and is asking for help with the open house on Saturday. Put the announcement in Mental Status
Housing Adele Selik and Joe Miniaci have left the medical center. There is a search committee for replacements, headed by Dale Winston. The search committee includes representatives from nursing but no one from the medical school. Perhaps we could ask if Dean Scotch or someone else might be allowed to represent the medical school on the search committee.
Changes in the waitlist policy were proposed by the housing office but they agreed to let the old system stand for the remainder of this year. They forsee potential problems in May with the incoming students, but are OK with it for now.
MD/PhD Clarifications Clarifications handed out by Demetre on the approved stuff from last week was looked over and accepted by a vote of 9:2:1, with the following changes and further clarification:
- Item 1 will read "expected to attend" instead of "sanctioned to attend"
- Item 5 is designed to give MD/PhDs, who do not get to hear campaign speeches, more information on candidates before voting. It is not agreed upon yet who will run the election, but it will be up to that person's discretion how to define the "letter of intent" to suit the purpose for which it is meant.
Finally Steven offered an objection to the use of "Junior" Representative and placing restrictions on who could run for the two positions. The first he felt implied a future voting role for the "junior rep" position which was not originally intended, and the second he said was not necessary-- the points about semantics are here noted but were not voted on.
Sweatshirts Are coming in at the end of the week. Yince, Edie, Seth, Alan, and Demetre offered to help sell the sweatshirts and shorts in front of the Med Center Library on Wed May 1.

New Items:

3rd Year Rep Opening Only one person in the class seemed interested in running for the position, so it is possible that Stephen may want to simply announce that anyone who is interested contact him and if there is only one person, accept them and forgo a formal election.
Officer Turnover The May 6 meeting will be for turnover, and we'll go out to eat! Anyone who does not have their position descriptions in to Sarita can't go. Sorry! So get them in!!