Student Assembly General MeetingE9519 12:15 PM – 1:30 PM October 2, 2007
Members Present:
Erin McDonald
Ryan McAuley
Jennifer Deal
Lindsay Barrick
Phillis Kim
Mike Ward
Thaoi Ngo
Mona Rezapour
Krit Pongpirul
Meghan Davis
Jessie Myers
Sandy Eckel
Jean Ko
Hsien Seow
Cherise Wong
Amritha Ramakrishnan
Huseyin Naci
Anne Sawyer
Gila Neta
Dani Saba
George Tsarouchas
Dorothy Kester
Christen Fornadel
Hilary Schwandt
Ji Yi
Rachel Weber
Michal Engelman
TinaMarie Lieu
Seema Menon
Dorina Fersheri
Attia Goheer
Announcements
SET meeting on Wednesday October 3
Pick up a tax card if you’re in SA office
Quality of Life Committee (Anne)
-Shuttle buses concern is being addressed though nothing has been put in action yet.
-Town Hall meeting November 14, Wednesday, Room TBA
-HopkinsOne problems- do all departments have problems with it?
Honors and Awards (Mona)
-Sign up sheet for hooded sweatshirt
-Solicit donations for auction
-Mona to send out template for donations, department Rep’s need to send out this email
Communications
n/a
Finance
n/a
Social
-Fall formal “Soul Train” on Nov. 10
-Email to be sent out for help selling tickets
-SA Social meeting 12:15 SA student conference room Friday
Community Affairs (Erin)
- Baltimore week next week
- Final planning meeting at 4pm Wednesday October 3rd, all invited to attend,
At SOURCE office (2017 Monument)
- copies of flyers will be left in student room- please volunteer to put them up
- Sandy to check on desktop background for computer labs
- Erin to send out email to SA to get volunteers for events
- Gila Neta to send email to students about Baltimore week
- SA in charge of photo contest (self-contained), Josh Sharpstein to be here on Wednesday (Anne and Aworyi), BloomWorks (6pm; Hsien and Amritha)
- Erin to order fruit/sodas/snacks (Jay’s) for WombWorks
- Announcements in Intro to HIV Epi and Biostats
Vote on Two New Student Groups:
Health and the City (Michal)
-Group to bring together different perspectives on health problems in urban cities, esp. Baltimore
-Different from SPARC- Health and the City is at an academic conversational level specifically for urban health
- Unanimous approval
The Confounders: Jose (treasurer)
-School Soccer team affiliated with Baltimore City League
-all students and staff welcome to play
-precedent is for soccer teams to stay affiliated with departments, not with SA
-SA funds to be used for soccer ball, water, etc.
-25 deny
-1 approved
-2 abstained
Strategic Planning Presentation -- Donna Strombino
-Last Oct- Accreditation of JHSPH; Hopkins scored well, met all objectives with the exception of a few (those were partially met)
-School has grown immensely since last accreditation (7 years ago)
-Elizabeth Holt- email if you have questions about accreditation process
-3 general focus areas: scope of school (Bill Spannhake, collaborations (Stephen Gange), technology (Francesca Dominici). SA has students in each committee (Rachel, Pritika, and Hsien).
-Steering Committee on the 9th of October- for update on each committee (drafts by November)
-Submit feedback on strategic planning website (or email Elizabeth/Donna or committee chair directly) comments to committee chairs or subcommittees on any issues or concerns
APHA representative (Lindsay)
- national student board, volunteer for committee (5-10 hours/month)
- good way to get Hopkins into national community
- see if any Hopkins students would be willing to host public health students from other schools
- compiling list of JHSPH students/faculty presenting on APHA to send out to school body (via self-report)
Santa Claus Anonymous (Tina Marie)
- money goes to 2 children organizations
- football at Patterson Park
- Does SA want to take this on as an event/subsidize registration event?
- Decide during exec meeting