Minutes 11/17/98

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By: Brian Keegan (1st Year Vice-President)
Next weeks meeting is canceled (Nov. 24th)


Present:                                                                         

Greg Evangalista		Doug Gauld		Mike Wein		Lee Smith

Evelyn Ha		Margaret Chou		Manish Parikh		Ben Hamar

Nicole Hindman		Eric Silver		Deb Klugewicz		Ethan Cowan		

Tom Garvey		Brian Keegan		Juan Rodriguez		Jess Heller

Dave Poppers		Jeremy Poppers		Demetre Daskalakis	

                                                          

Not Present: (*Excused)

*Sarita Kaza		*Dave Hu

Class Announcements

Class of 1999
December madness as students are getting ready for interviews.
Congratulations to Margaret.

Class of 2000
Class meeting rescheduled for Nov. 30th 6:00.

Class of 2001
The Clerkship Committee meeting was Monday Nov 16th and Dr. Abramson suggested that the new project be rapid dispersal of information to students.
Semi-Formal is scheduled for Dec. 4th.
Rosemary from the Physical Diagnosis class will be scheduling how to do a pelvic exam in Jan, Feb or Mar.

Class of 2002
Pancake dinner… …Nothing official yet…. Again.
The anatomy memorial is scheduled for January 13th. Tom will speak with second years about possible suggestions.

MD/PhD

Old Business:

By-Laws Proposal regarding redefining Representative position: By-Law passed by 15-0-2 (pro, con, abstain) (needs 2/3 to pass) that the two class representatives will jointly have discretion of their classes fiscal budget within the oversight of the Student Council Treasurer.
By-Law failed by 1-16-0 (pro, con, abstain) (needs 2/3 to pass) to change name of "Class Representatives" to "Social Co-Chairs"
By-Law failed by 9-4-4 (pro, con, abstain) (needs 2/3 to pass) to add tie breaking vote to Class President

Mental Status: Brian & Demetre will begin work on an issue of Mental Status tentative press date January.

Reviewing past Student Council Minutes: Tom & Demetre will be scouring the past minutes to update by-laws and make a copy available for printing on the web.

New Business:

NYU All-University Games: Greg is going to find out more information about NYU All-University Games to present at student council.

Proposal to fund an Urban Professional basketball team for 4th years: Budget approved by 12-1-3 (pro, con, abstain) to fund 90% (as per Council policy) of the Fourth Year Urban Professional Basketball team.

Outing Club proposal: Budget rejected by 1-15-1 (pro, con, abstain) to fund an additional $1100 to fund Outing Clubs paintball trip.
Budget approved by 13-3-1 (pro, con, abstain) to fund an additional $600 to fund Outing Clubs paintball trip.

Rubin Lounge reservation request: Rubin Lounge reservation passed by 16-0-1 (pro, con, abstain) for the Christian Fellowship on Dec. 12th from 9a.m – 1 p.m.

Don and Carol's: An e-mail subscription service will be set up in the future to advertise upcoming tickets for Don & Carol. This system will mail students (only those who subscribe, no more spam) first followed by others immediately prior to ticket dates. The timeline and administration of this project has not been determined yet.

Email: The e-mail support staff apologizes for not warning the students about change in remote access.

By-Laws Proposal regarding Representatives benefiting from parties: By-Law rejected by 7-9-1 (pro, con, abstain) to block class representatives from promoting private parties without complete disclosure of independent status
By-Law rejected by 9-7-1 (pro, con, abstain) (needs 2/3 to pass) to block class representatives from promoting any private parties

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Administered by Eric Silver
Student Council President