Present:

Rich Westreich Alan Liu Sarita Kaza Demetre Daskalakis

Joe Quaranta Eric Kim Yince Loh Yolanda Troublefield

Mike Henry Craig Gordon Seth Dailey Nayan Sivamurthy

Edie Lederman Diana Yoon Roland Knoblauch

Not Present: (* = excused)

Melissa Fischer Stephen Pool John-Paul Mead* Deowall Chattar

Jason Kornberg*

Corrections to Minutes 10/3:

Attendance: All members absent at last meeting were excused by President. In future minutes, excused absences will be distinguished from unexcused absences by an asterisk (*).

New Items:

1) Meeting with Housing Dept. mentioned last week will take place this Wednesday, 10/11.

A topic to be added to discussion at this meeting: new NYU housing on 25th street. Two new buildings will be ready in February. Ask if this housing will be available to medical students, and how this figures into lottery.

2) Debbie Gutman from AMA requested Diana to bring up at the meeting the possibility of offering an honorarium of $500+ for a one-night journal writing seminar. As it is against Council policy to offer such honoraria, this request is denied.

3) Bylaw Change Regarding Committee Representative Selection: UNANIMOUS

Previous Bylaw: All committee appointments will be made by the Student Council as a whole. Positions must be advertised and open to the entire class, and candidates must submit a written statement of interest.

New Bylaw: Committee appointments that are class specific will be made by the class councils and presented before the entire Student Council. The conditions regarding written statements of interest and class wide recruiting for open positions will still hold. If a class council member chooses to run for a committee position, they must abstain from voting.

4) AAMC Conference in Washington, D.C.

Dr. Farber will be receiving the Abraham Flexner Award at the AAMC conference in Washington, Oct. 27 - Nov. 2. If funding can be obtained through Dean Scotch, we will try to send a group of students to the conference in support of Dr. Farber.

5) Pancake Breakfast

Charity event to raise money for the Coalition for the Homeless. Traditionally organized by the first year class reps. Food is donated by companies (handled through food services), food services staff donates time, and faculty members volunteer to serve breakfast one evening to students. First year class reps should pick a date for the event soon.

6) Copy Cards

Who should have one:

Each Class should have 2: one for the president, one for reps.

3 more for Council officers: President, Treasurer and Secretary

We need:

2 for 1st year class

1 for 2nd year reps

1 for the 4th year rep

Unaccounted for cards: Jenny Silverman and Caleb

7) CORE

Over the summer, the following priorities or goals for CORE were suggested: attendance by women and minorities, tuition, and quality of life in housing. However, some of these priorities may overlap with what other committees in the medical center are working on and may be overreaching the mandate of CORE. Joe Miniachi will bring up these issues before Dean Farber, and if it is resolved that some issues are outside of the scope of CORE, the gap in the CORE priority list must be addressed.

8) Computer Issues

It appears that computer issues are going to be a high priority through CORE, but council members do not currently have experience with logistics, etc., to determine the specifics of the priorities to be set. Suggested that each class meet and determine what to present to council as a whole the computer needs of their class and what they see as a priority. Someone should be invited to the next meeting that has computer experience (i.e., Dr. Nachbar, Roy Smith, etc.) and can facilitate a debate over what specific priorities should be set through CORE.