Minutes 8/11/98

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Present:                                                                         

Evelyn Ha		Doug Gauld		Greg Evangelista	Margaret Chou

Jess Heller		Dave Hu			Ben Hamar		Deb Klugewicz

Nicole Hindman		Ethan Cowan		Eric Silver

                                                                                 

Not Present:                                                                     

Demitre Daskalakis	Manish Parikh		Mike Wein		Sarita Kaza

Jeremy Poppers		Dave Poppers

Class Announcements

Class of 1999
There was a problem with the psych clerkship at North Shore so all those who were on that rotation have been transferred to Bellevue.

Class of 2000
Question to the 4th years: Did they get copycards for the library when they became 3rd years? The answer was yes - every class gets a copycard with 250 copies on it at the beginning of each year. Nicole is going to speak to the library about securing copy cards for the classes of '99, '00 and '01.
The scrubs still have not come in, Jack is going to call to find out what happened to the order.
The shuttle to North Shore goes up to Cornell first and then over to North Shore adding about a half an hour to the trip. We are looking into getting Cornell students to come down here to save time on the trip.
Deb met with Dr. Abramson and they discussed ways to get Dean Glickman involved with the students. Eric will bring in a list that he and Dean Lesser had prepared at the last meeting for the council to review.
The summer surgery rotation is meeting some resistance from the surgery department as to whether they will have another summer session next year. We should have a better idea as to the need for it when we look at the 2nd years numbers for the lottery.

Class of 2001
About 103 incoming student have responded to the Orientation letters so planning is well on it's way.
Inquiry as to how we are going to handle the Boards on computers if they are actually going to be administered from March - July. This is something we need to look into.

MD/PhD

Old Business:

BUDGETS: The budgets have been finalized and a copy was given to Dean Scotch. He has informed us that they look good to him and he is going to hand them over to Dean Lesser for review.

LETTER TO DEAN COHEN: We received a response to letter that was written to Dean Cohen . He responded with this letter.

New Business:

BALLY's: We have learned from Dean Scotch that the deal that the administration is trying to get with Bally's gym will require us giving up our access to Coles and probably Hunter. The council decided to write an email to the student body to get their opinion on sacrificing Coles. We are going to ask Dean Scotch for a week to get back to him.

STUDENT COUNCIL BULLETIN BOARD: Deb, Ethan, Dave, and Jess are going to be in charge of redoing the Student Council bulletin board before the incoming class arrives (Aug. 22nd).

COLLECTING EQUIPMENT FROM GROUPS: It has been decided that we are going to inform various groups when we return their budget that there will be certain items that we will require for them to store with the Student Council over the summer so we don't end up buying the same merchandise each year.

CALENDAR FOR THE UPCOMING YEAR: The Student Council President will be in charge of creating a calendar for the entire school for the fall and the 1st Year Class President will be in charge of creating one in the spring. Eric will need to speak to Dr. ALL in order to figure out about the advisory colleges schedule for the upcoming year.

STUDENT COUNCIL POSITIONS: There was a vote to reorganize some of the responsibilities of some of the Student Council representatives. The proposal called for the Student Council President to continue to be responsible for setting up the Student Council meetings. This includes getting the room ordering food, and setting the agenda. The 1st Year Vice President will be required to oversee the publication of Mental Status (along with the Editor in Chief who is either a first or a second year and the Student Council President). The 1st Year Vice President will also be charged with taking minutes and posting minutes to the Student Council webpage as well as organizing the Student Council office. The First Year Representatives will now be responsible for the Spring Clothing Sale, and the First year Class President will be in charge of taking over the calendar on the web page from the Student Council President upon being elected. This vote was to change the by-laws so we needed a 2/3 vote, and the vote was unanimous.
There was also a vote to change the position of University Representative as of the Spring of 1999. As it stands now, one of the 2nd year representatives is also University Representative to the downtown NYU campus. This vote was to include the position, which will now be called Student Senator, in the schoolwide elections for the Student Council President, Past President, and Senior Advisor. This will be an extra Council member who can come from any of the three years (entering 2nd, 3rd and 4th years) and who will be allowed to vote on Council issues. This vote was also unanimous.

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