Minutes 04/30/96

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Present:				

Mike Henry		Edie Lederman		Joe Quaranta		Seth Dailey

Sarita Kaza		Alan Liu		Nayan Sivamurthy	Demetre Daskalakis

Yince Loh		Yolanda Troublefield	Melissa Fischer		Roland Knoblauch

John-Paul Mead		Rich Westreich		Craig Gordon		Jason Kornberg

Diana Yoon

		

Not Present:		 (* = excused)				

Deowall Chattar*	Eric Kim		Stephen Pool

Old Items:

Budget Third Years are going to be over budget because of the Webster Hall party. They subsidized $25/ person, and 250 people attended, less than 1/2 were 3rd years. Earlier it was suggested that the other classes kick in at the end of the year to help them out since so many people came, but the other classes are also nearing the limits on their budget. Diana will approach Dean Scotch to cover the third years so they can have their final party so the other class budgets will remain unaffected.
Diana (once again) says that she needs large check requests at least two weeks in advance. Joe said requests made less than 2 weeks in advance will not be honored.
Fourth years are tracking down money through Don & Carol's that got misplaced into the wrong account after ticket sales, so once again a reminder to make sure sales receipts through Don and Carol's should be collected by the class rep and placed in the correct account.
Officer Turnover (see Bylaws). Joe wanted to clarify the turnover situation. The only positions that turnover May 1 are Council President, Past President, and Chief Advisor. All other positions turn over after the first council meeting after USMLE I, which this year will be June 18. Demetre is filling in for Council President on May 1, so that leaves class of 99 president open, which Sarita will fill. Steve is replacing Diana on May 1 doing treasurer stuff, so class of 99 VP position remains open. Since first year VP is effectively the Council secretary, which will still need to be filled between now and June 18, the fourth year rep that would have done minutes in the summer would be asked if he could help but Yolanda said Patrick is not going to be around; so for the remainder of the year, 1st year Pres and 1st year VP will be filled by the same person, but will not be expected to do Mental Status, but basically minutes and the second set of sweatshirts / shorts orders.
Everyone who has their position descriptions in, plus the new officers, will be able to go to EAST next Tuesday for the $15 dinner buffet; it's on 38th between madison and 5th, people are meeting in Skirball lobby at 6 pm to go.
Lounge On the posted Lounge rules, it says that parties must be cleared through student council before taking place in the lounge. The first year party was not cleared last week so it was canceled. Permission was given today to hold a similar event in the future, and reps will be responsible for cleaning up what York may leave behind. There will not be a council wide lounge-opening party.
Permission was also given to the fourth years to hold a party in the lounge if their central park picnic is rained on. There will be no alcohol at either approved event. Stephen C. Pool will be responsible for cleaning up what York leaves behind.
Rich pointed out that cleaning supplies haven't been made available and he will go to Paul in Housing and find out how to obtain them.
Sweatshirts and Shorts Are in!
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In front of library: 	Wed May 1. 

		11-12 Sarita

		12-1 Howard and Alan

		1-2 Seth and Diana

In office: 		Wed May 1.

		2:30-3:30 Evelyn

		3:30-4:30 Steve

		7-8 Edie

		8-10 Sarita

			Thurs May 2

		7-9 Sarita

		9-10 Yince
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Diana and Seth suggested taking pre-orders, which will take at least another three weeks to come in, for quick selling items like shorts.
Traditionally, Council members got a discount of 10%. Some brought up the issue of whether or not this is ethical, and it was voted on: 6:7:4, so discount remains.

New Items:

Stand For Children Ofer Levy (673-2339) came in a group with 4 other students to request that student council sign a letter in support of Stand for Children. They plan to go and stand in Washington DC and are requesting funds from Dean Scotch for the bus. Dean Scotch suggested that they also get written support from student council when submitting such a funding request, so they brought a letter to sign. Stand for Children is non-political and sponsored by the Children's Defense Fund as well as many other organizations.
Student Council voted unanimously (despite Seth's declaration, this is unreasonable!!!) to support this measure and sign the letter.
Graduate Student/ Medical Student/ MD/PhD Mixer Demetere, Dan and Howard will work with Roland and Sackler Council to plan this event.
MD/PhD Election Demetre is running the MD/PhD election, the first ever in which MD/PhDs from all over will gather and IOI food to hear speeches. Diana noted that MD/PhDs have most of their budget left but Roland says he is planning summer events when most MD/PhDs will not all have scheduling conflicts with one another.
End of the Year Barbecue Traditionally first years run it. Rich will plan it and set the date.
Chairing the Gym Committee Diana is looking for someone to temporarily take over the chairmanship of Gym committee for the next month while she is studying for boards. Chelsea Piers was investigated by her and by Yince, and they decided they want something closer. Potentially, something will be built. When looking into new facilities (either currently built or for future) consider two aspects: personal use and team sport use.
Roland offered to take it over.
Student Space For all the rules that have been pushed for by student council, the enforcement is not there. This is an issue that has continually come up with Stan Price. Demetre will discuss it with him and/or Dean Scotch, specifically about the disappearance of the lunchroom signs.
Karen Brewer, the Director of the Medical School Library, is also director of the Dental School Library which we feel is a conflict of interest that has created some of the unresponsiveness of the library towards medical student needs. Sarita will write a letter to Dean Scotch and ask someone who is on CORE to review it for historical stuff and add to it.
Curriculum Issues for Class of 97 Nayan brought up that his class is being affected by the curriculum changes instituted for the class of 98. For example, electives he scheduled for December can't be taken because of the new system set-up, and some people who have done Honors Research (which does not count towards elective credit) will not be able to fill in their elective time by graduation. Craig estimates that at least 2/3 of their class is being affected and have not been able to get help on an individual basis. Yolanda suggested they meet as a class and determine the extent of the problem and propose, as a class council, a set of solutions to Dean Abramson. John Paul will also meet with them because he has been involved in curriculum scheduling.