By: Anuja Sanghvi 1st year Vice-President
Present:
Lee Smith Brian Keegan Nicole Hindman Mike Wein
Ethan Cowan Manish Parikh Marianne Moon Felix Olale
Eric Silver Chirag Kapadia Deb Klugewicz Dave Poppers
Greg Evangelista Sean Burns Steve Mezzafonte
Shirley Bassiri-Tehrani Kevin Kaplan Anuja Sanghvi
Not Present: (*Excused)
*Jess Heller Doug Gauld
*Dave Hu *Jeremy Poppers
Your personal pages are due on Dec.20. They require a Mac computer and disks and instructions can be picked up at the Rubin guard desk.
Thank you to all the fourth years who signed up to give tours to the interviewees. It is really going to help the Admissions office a lot. You guys are great!
There will be 3 Deans/Discussion meetings for fourth year students. The dates are Dec.14 from 5-6pm, Jan.11, 2000 from 5-6pm, and Jan.18, 2000 from 5-6pm. You will receive more information via e-mail about signing up.
The December bowling event has been postponed until January.
ACLS sign-up was very successful. The only ACLS training dates left to sign up for are April 18 and April 20.
Class of 2001
The holiday semi-formal will take place on Dec.4. All classes are welcome.
There will be a class meeting on Dec.14 in Schwartz F starting at 6:30. Dinner will follow in FDR at 8:00. Dean Cantanese and Ms. Maureen Doran will be there. Sample CVs, packets, and new timelines for the class of 2001 will be handed out at the meeting.
There will be two dinners in February that Student Council is helping to sponsor. A lawyer named Kevin Porter will talk about Medical Malpractice on Jan.19 from 6:30-8:00 in the FDR. He will come again on Jan.26 to talk about Health Regulatory Law. This meeting will take place on Jan.26 from 6:30-8:00 in the Student Cafeteria.
Class of 2002
There will be a Hannakuh party on Dec.8 at the Kavehaz. The party is being co-sponsored by the Class of 2002. Stay tuned for more details.
Class of 2003
The Champagne Dinner celebrating the end of the first years' second block went very well. Many faculty members even joined in on the fun. Thanks to everyone for coming!
MD/PhD
No new announcements.
Rubin Gym - The renovation continues. The scale has been sent away. New small items have been bought already. Come down and check out the new bench press.
Clothing Drive - Ethan Cowan will be selling the extra NYU logoed clothing sitting in the Student Council office on Dec.9. Proceeds from the sales will go to charity.
E-mail - The new e-mail system will tentatively be up by the beginning of January. It will not allow anyone outside of the university to send e-mail to "class of . . ." among other new features.
Shirley and money from downtown - The medical school was not awarded any money from downtown due to a technicality that Student Council was unaware of. Dean Lesser has agreed to help us appeal this decision.
Unionizing - A couple weeks ago there were some e-mails sent out telling the school about graduate school unionization efforts and websites that have more information on the issue. Please take the time to read some of the websites. All NYU graduate schools will eventually vote on whether or not graduate students be allowed to unionize. Issues include access to adequate and inexpensive health care, benefits for partners, etc. Please be aware that whatever happens at NYU will set the precedent for other private universities. If you have questions talk to the senators (Greg or Shirley).
Operation Smile - A group of students came to Student Council with a proposal to start a student chapter of Operation Smile (non-profit organization that performs volunteer reconstructive surgery on indigent children). Their proposal was approved 11-3-3 (for-against-abstain).
Clinical Clerkship Sub-committee of the Curriculum Committee meeting - Nicole and Deb went to the meeting during which the following issues were discussed. A task force on student abuse will be led by Kate Henry and Mel Rosenfeld. Another item the committee discussed was cutting the number of weeks required for general surgery and medicine. Lastly someone brought up adding an advanced science selective (e.g. - Molecular Biology, etc.) to the fourth year curriculum. As a selective it would be required of all students but there would be courses to choose from.
Student Council Meeting for 12/14/99 - Due to conflicts with the class of 2001 meeting/dinner and a meeting that Brian has to attend, this meeting date has been tentatively changed to Wed., Dec.15. This will be the last meeting before winter break.
Administered by Brian Robert Keegan
Student Council President