Minutes 9/15/98

Present:                                                                         

Sarita Kaza		Doug Gauld		Mike Wein		Margaret Chou

Jess Heller		Dave Hu			Jeremy Poppers		Dave Poppers

Nicole Hindman		Eric Silver		Manish Parikh		Deb Klugewicz

Greg Evangelista	                       

                                                          

Not Present: (*Excused)

*Evelyn Ha		*Ben Hamar		*Ethan Cowan		*Demetre Daskalakis	

Class Announcements

Class of 2000
THE SCRUB ISSUE HAS BEEN RESOLVED (we hope). Deb and Dave met with the director of management for Building services and it was stated that:

	1st years - get 1 pair of scrubs, a long coat and a short coat

	2nd years - get nothing

	3rd years - get 2 pairs of scrubs

Class of 2001
The party at the Joshua Tree for the class of 2002 is finishing up now and it was very successful. The turnout was about 100 people. The class of 2001 will do the same deal on Oct. 1st. There is also a party at Union Bar on this Saturday (Sept 19).
The first years class election is on Thursday (Sept 17th) at 11:30 in Schwartz F. So far there have not been any petitions submitted for running for office but that's probably because they had their "quiz" today.

MD/PhD
The potluck dinner that is being planned was tentatively scheduled for Oct 1st in the Sackler Student lounge will probably be rescheduled due to conflict with the second year's party and the JSA event.
Further information was requested on the ratio of male:female applicants for MD/PhD positions:

			male:female

	Applicants 	1.69:1

	Accepted	 1.6:1

	Matriculating	 3.5:1

Old Business:

The Big Curriculum Committee:

• The Senior Advisor
• One of the second years from the Basic Science Subcommittee
• The Third year at large from the Clinical Clerkship Subcommittee

• Three first years
• Three second years
• Three third years
• Three fourth years

• The Third Year Class President
• The Fourth Year Class President
• A Second year at large
• A Third year at large
• A Fourth year at large

CURRICULUM COMMITTEE VOTE FOR 3RD YEAR AT LARGE POSITION: The three essays were read and a vote was taken on who would be the third year at large representative. Normally this would be a decision of the 3rd year class council but they requested not to decide the issue because there were difficulties last year where they were accused of favoritism. Although we lacked quorum, we decided to have the Student Council members who were there, other than the third years who voted for last years representatives, vote to elect a representative.

New Business:

MEETING WITH DEAN LESSER: Eric and Doug will be meeting with Dean Lesser with regards to the budget. We don't know what this concerns but we will report back next week.
Dean Lesser also expressed interest to Eric in looking more closely at how many people we are sending to conferences. She pointed out that it was money that was coming from Student Activities fees and perhaps that money could be better spent if we sent, for example, 12 people instead of 15 people to a conference. Dean Lesser suggested that Doug and Eric sit with her on these decisions and we decide as a group. The council decided this was not a good idea. We decided to continue to support sending more people on the conferences and to leave her responsible for the actual decision.

GOLF CLUB: Since we didn't have quorum we will have to wait till next meeting to vote on their budget.

LCME: Eric met with Associate Dean Levin last week to discuss the upcoming self-study for reaccredidation the school will be undergoing in the upcoming year. Dean Glickman Dr. Levin will be attending a council meeting in the future (probably in October) to formally present the process.
Dr. Levin gave Eric information on how the process works and expressed the desire to establish a better relationship between the students and the administration for the purpose of allowing everyone's voice to be heard and gathering input from all sources. Of the numerous committees being formed in the near future many will have students on them. He expressed the desire to use this process to set in place solid lines of communication between the students and the new administration.
Two concerns that he brought up were:

1. The faculty's continual anger with regards to way the merger process occurred.
2. The difficulty in getting an accurate assessment of this medical school during a time when such drastic changes will occur with the start of a new administration.