Minutes 8/25/98

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Present:                                                                         

Evelyn Ha		Doug Gauld		Greg Evangelista	Mike Wein

Jess Heller		Dave Hu			Ben Hamar		Deb Klugewicz

Nicole Hindman		Ethan Cowan		Eric Silver		Manish Parikh

Demetre Daskalakis	

                                                                                 

Not Present:                                                                     

Sarita Kaza		Jeremy Poppers		Dave Poppers		Margaret Chou

Class Announcements

Class of 1999

Class of 2000
First off we would like to thank Nicole for temporarily fixing the Student Council Bulletin Board.
Deb, Ethan, Dave and Matt D. from the class met with Dr. Grieco to discuss the physical diagnosis class. Two main things arose from the discussions: 1) there needs to be formal training for the instructors, and 2) there should be a meeting with students a few weeks into the course to get feedback. It was also recommended that any schedule that comes out of the medicine office gets reviewed to avoid the same problems that arose last year.
The book sale for 3rd and 4th years will be next week. It will be run differently from last year; now students have to go through the cashier because other health schools don't get the 10% discount that the bookstore gives us so they don't want to do it at the registers in the book store. We need to consider ways to make it easier for student to purchase books at a discount that aren't necessarily on the list.
No new info on the North Shore shuttle, it still needs to be discussed with Stan Price or Dr. Scotch.
The switch party will be on Friday, August 28th from 6:30 - 10:30. Drink tickets will be sold.
There will be a class meeting on September 16th that will be attended by Dean Lindner to discuss the third year.

Class of 2001
The copy card allocation for each class has been taken care of. The copy cards should be ready by this Thursday (8/27).
The Orientation trip to a Broadway show is on Thursday (8/27) night. Second, third and forth years are welcome at $20 a ticket. Tickets will be available on Thursday. There are tickets for Les Miserables and Miss Saigon.

MD/PhD

Old Business:

BALLY's: Eric met with Dr. Scotch and Stan Price and it is clear that the choice is Bally's vs. Coles, Hunter, and the Rubin Gym. Bally's has facilities to work out in and will offer aerobics classes, etc. but does not have a swimming pool racquetball, squash, tennis or basketball courts. We would also be losing access to the intramurals leagues that many teams take advantage of down at Coles. The bally's right here will not have a swimming pool but there are other Bally's in the city that do have pools that we will have access to. The way that this could work is that Dean Scotch would transfer the Student Activities funds which now go towards Coles and Hunter and put them towards student Bally's memberships. Eric will be sending out another email to the student body to gauge a response. First he will clarify that the Rubin Gym will also be lost in the trade.

BULLETIN BOARD: The bulletin board has been fixed temporarily and Deb, Nicole, Jess and others will more permanently fix it when they can.

BOARD'S UPDATE: As we discussed last week, there is talk that Step 1 of the boards will be given over a period of a few months this year, the first year in which they will be given on computers. We are still trying to gather more information.

New Business:

CHRISTIAN FELLOWHIP: The Christian Fellowship has requested use of the Rubin Student Lounge for this Saturday, Aug. 29th from 9 am - 1 pm for the hosting of an Intermedical School leadership meeting to organize their activities for the upcoming year. We agreed to allow them to use the space under the condition that they clean up after themselves - especially if they have food there. In the future we would also like an estimate of the number of people who are expected to attend and whether the group is asking to reserve the entire lounge or a piece of the lounge.

JSA SPEAKER FUNDS: The JSA requested $300 to pay a comedian to perform. The council policy with respect to the speaker fund is that the fund is actually to pay the travel expenses of speakers, not to actually pay a salary. It is recommended that the JSA take this request directly to Dr. Scotch to try and gain funding. The JSA can also charge admission to the event to either subsidize a sum that they get from Dr. Scotch or pay for the entire event.

SPORTS MEDICINE BUDGET: The Sports Medicine club asked for $100 for each of six journal club meetings to hold the meetings off the medical center for photocopies for advertisements. The council decided by a 9-0-3 vote that we would grant 6 IOI's instead so for the journal club meetings.

HOUSING SUBCOMMITTEE: Ethan expressed interest in organizing a subcommittee to meet with housing monthly to discuss various issues. We agreed that it would be a good idea to have a consistent and formal forum for discussions to deal with various student housing issues. One of the ideas was that Lori-Ann would have to be present at the meetings. Ethan will work on organizing the subcommittee.
We also discussed the issue of a student who was thrown out of school for academic and other issues. He was a fifth year fourth year and was living in Skirball. Prior to his dismissal he was moved out of Skirball and into Rubin, and he was then informed of his dismissal. He is presently living in Rubin with no housing contract, no key, etc. The Student Council voted 7-0-3 in favor of supporting the housing office in removing him from Rubin immediately. A letter will be written to the housing office stating our support in this situation.

EXCUSED ABSENCES: The practice of keeping track of excused vs. unexcused absences will be reinstated. The reason for this is that according to the bylaws there are punishments for various amounts of unexcused absences. Absences due to clinical, academic, or other Student Council responsibilities are considered excused. The Student Council President must be notified at least 2 hours before the Student Council Meeting is to begin if a council officer will be absent and would like to be excused. If the reason for the absence is not due to clinical, academic, or due to a Student Council responsibility it is up to the discretion of the Student Council President to decide if they will be excused.

SC TREASURER ANNOUNCEMENTS:

Ensuring that the SC budgets run through the SC treasurer: In order to ensure that the budgets run through the SC Treasurer all riembursements will run through the treasurer. No other student can go to Andy London for riembursements. There is a form which will be available at the Rubin Guard desk to fill out and give to the treasurer for riembursements.
The SC computer is working well both the printer and scanner are now working simultaneously.
A request to purchase another Nintendo game for the lounge at a cost of $50. The motion was unanimously approved (10-0) for the purchase of Mortal Combat IV.
A request was made for $300 for a foosball table. Housing said that they would pay half of the $600 for the table if we would pay for the other half. We are going to look into what comes of all of the money housing collects from the video games.

POSSIBLE WAYS TO SET UP CORE: There have been informal discussions with Terry Bischoff where interest was expressed on both sides in reestablishing a forum such as CORE to allow for better communication between the student body and the administration. It was agreed that at Eric's meeting in September with Dean Glickman he would raise the issue and ask Dean Glickman who he believes should chair the meetings.

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