- Third Year Final Switch Party
Third Years are going to have a boat cruise on June 21 for 150 people, again all classes
are invited. Event will be subsidized $18/ per person from the Student Council general
budget. Pre-event barbecue.
Nayan will work with all new reps to establish a better method of sharing cost for
school-wide parties.
- End of the year Barbecue
Rich set the date for Fri Jun 7th, in the afternoon in Kaufman Courtyard. Everyone is OK
with this. The event should remain closed to students.
- Grad Student/ Med Student Mixer
Roland is planning a summer barbecue with Sackler students to work with their happy hour,
5:00 pm July 12th.
- After hours copy machine
Because of vendor situation etc, it is not possible to put two access cards on the
machine outside the Dean's office. Nayan suggested that a copy machine from the library
be kept in the fishbowl area since it is secure and is already designated as a study
space.
- Gym Committee
Roland is working on
- opening up more space in Rubin basement, exploxing possibilities of
movingout laundry machines and working around boiler room space. The
problems with this were pointed out (new piping, space, safety hazards,
etc)
- Obtaining a survey to gauge student usage preferences and needs
- Looking into the construction of a new building over kaufman Courtyard. It
was pointed out that zoning and cost would likely be prohibitive to this
plan.
Diana suggested to keep the focus more general and look at:
- space needs for personal workouts
- gym space for team sports
- maintaining a pool
She also suggested that someone from the current gym committee work with Roland
and Edie will direct someone (either Mike Pollack or Andy Miller) to him.
- Housing
- The Contract
Several points were made. Roland pointed out that people that are remaining in
their apartments were sent letters saying they failed to sign a contract
when it wasn't ever made clear that you needed to sign one. Yolanda and
Demetre said that you can write "Under protest" on your contract, as
Yolanda with her legal expertise has highlighted key problems in the
contract. Sarita pointed out that you do not receive a copy of the
contract for your own records that lists the agreements you signed. Joe
also explained and incident involving a second year student, who was
asked to move while studying for the boards despite the fact that his
housing contract said he could stay til the end of June. He was
threatened by Laurie Ann who wanted to accommodate a summer student and
use a loophole in the said contract, but these cases will be dealt with
by Dean Scotch and Dean Lesser. The summer student will have to move
into temporary housing until the regular student is prepared to move out,
and then they can switch..
- The Greenberg Mail Situation
A Greenberg Council is being established to deal with housing issues that have
developed in Greenberg. Sean Gunning, a 1st year student, has being
obtaining documentation on the mail fraud in Greenberg so the employee
can be dealt with. This is also being dealt with through housing, both
from the perspective of the postal service (why does it take forever to
get here) and from the inside perspective (when it does get here why
don't students get their stuff). Demetre will direct Sean to Yolanda,
who will be keeping documentation on behalf of Student Council.
- Subletters, Visitors, and General Housing Security
Currently, students who want to sublet their rooms must sublet to medical center
related persons and report it to the housing office. There was an
incident recently where a student in Rubin was "leered at" in the shower
by another person, a subletter. It is unclear what kind of
identification, if any, these persons show to security to be allowed
access.
Further, Sarita reported that for at least 3 weeks now, the Rubin guards desk
has failed to make more copies of the vistor log book, and so have told
students that they don't have to sign up visitors. The responsibility of
making more copies is theirs, not a Student Council's.
- CORE
Met this week, and will be on hiatus for the summer while we regroup and develop
the key issues for the fall. With the absence of Joe Miniaci, CORE lacks a
chair and has proven to be ineffective. The last big projects brought to CORE
included Greenberg study space and the lounge. The issue of installing cameras
in the lounge was brought up at the last meeting. Terry Bischoff arrived after
the meeting and gave us a brief on the talks with Mt. Sinai (they are still
going on) and agreed to meet and discuss student issues in the near future
before another CORE meeting. She may arrange a few summer meetings and
temporarily chair the committee until a replacement is found for Joe Miniaci.
And Joe Quaranta wanted it noted that while CORE approved the bike rack, it had
nothing to do with students, talk to Phillipson.
- Dental Students and Medical Center Access
A letter to Dean Scotch was sent out and cc-ed to other Deans regarding non-medical
center personnel access to the medical center. We are approaching this as a crisis
situation and take a hard stance on behalf of the students. There have been threats made
to Medical students, graffitti, and general harrasment by Dental students. While
everyone agrees that access should be restricted, there are two approaches:
- Address the fact that the medical center library is the only place in the
medical center that is open to outsiders, which generates a problem for
security enforcement. Access to all parts of the medical center should be
restricted to personnel. This may require the stepping down of Karen
Brewer from one of her two library appointments.
- Security enforcement of a general access restricitoin should be revisited.
Roland pointed out that non-medical center personnel using the library create problems
for the graduate students who use the library research space, and will try and recruit
the support of Sackler Student Council on this issue as well.
- Email
Please paste in email, do not just send an attachment because not everyone will be able
to read your document.
- Summer Quorum
There are 16 summer members. Quorum will requirea minimum of 8 members, two from each
class. The MD/PhD representative will count as either a 3rd of 4th yr if needed to have
quorum. Passed 10:0:1
Addendum: No discussion of issues unique to MD/PhD students will occur in the absence
of a MD/PhD representative, and what is deemed a unique issue will be at the discretion
of the Council President. Passed 4:0:4
- New meeting schedule
Next meeting will be June 25th, and every other week thereafter. Additional meetings will
be scheduled if needed.
- Reallocation of funds
The soccer team has an additional $300 they did not need to use for league fees and
wanted to re-allocate to use for uniforms. The precedent is that uniforms are considered
individual equipment, which does not necessarily get passed down, so council will not
fund a club for it, individuals must fund their own uniforms.
- Lounge Issues
It was suggested by Rich that the Lounge rules set down by the reps are not being used in
the spirit they were intended. Specifically, the requirement for class reps to get
pre-approval before holding an event, particularly involving food, in the lounge. The
time lag between a meeting and the planning of the event is problematic.
The counter arguments were that
- Council should follow the same rules it sets up for clubs,
- someone always needsd to be responsible for events held there and
- there should be some limitation on club usage of that space, otherwise it is
no longer a leisure space.
The issue of cleaning supplies and cleaning maintenance was to be discussed with York at this last CORE meeting but they failed to come. The issue of cleaning supplies may need follow-up with Paul in Housing.
- Sweatshirts and Shorts
Yolanda, Edie, Roland, Steve and Demetre signed up to sit in office for an hour each
week and sell sweatshirts, etc.
- Copy Cards
Class Presidents, Secretary, Treasurer, and one per pair of class reps, MD/PhD rep, all
need copy cards. If peole know which ones need to be cancelled or need to pick one up,
see Demetre and then Jack in the Dean's Office.