The man. The myth. The legend. John Gordon will be in our November edition of the newsletter, coming out early next week! We asked you for questions, and we took many of the best ones to Mr. Bluetooth-Gordon, and came up with the most entertaining interview to date! Thanks, Marc Korn for guest-interviewing.

-Joe and your newsletter committee-

Student Senate met with Dr. Bridge on 11/3/11 at 12:30 PM to further discuss the logistics problem pertaining to our last Pharm exam. Dr. Bridge provided us with more information regarding this problem. It was basically a human error made by testing services that we were not given the right amount of time. However, Dr. Booza, the new Director of Testing, is working hard to make sure that this does not happen again in the future. He is placing new checks and balances to avoid mistakes such as this. Student Senate asked for an email that would acknowledge their error. The recent email from Dr. Bridge was a result of this. 

All that being said, Student Senate plans on meeting with Dr. Booza sometime next week to get more insight in testing processes. We also hope to give student input to 

--Pridvi and 2014 Student Senate 

2-3pmMembers present: Joe Tsao, Brandon Busuito, Dana Gingrich (Alumni Affairs)
We discussed how the career advisory committee (headed by Joe and Brandon) can be more involved in alumni career night. Dana is a recent employee and very excited to get involved with us, and will send us things to do as we go along.

-Joe and 2014 senate-

We met from 4:30-6:30 in Maz. Senate members present include Pridvi, Brandon, Peter, Joe. Jess the curriculum committee rep was present. We reached a common goal of promoting the iPad user group, and making this situation into something that will benefit the school. The group together proposed a redistribution of the iPads based off an randomized drawing through an application that included understanding of certain strict objectives such as reports during and at the end of each course. The survey regarding the redistribution of these iPads will soon be provided to the class. It was proposed that curriculum committee oversee users' responsibilities.
Minutes can be accessed >>here<<

-Joe and 2014 senate-

The crazy testing situation that unfolded Monday needed to be addressed, so we met with Dr. Jackson from 3-4pm today to try and get to the bottom of it.  If you didn't catch the email sent earlier, feel free to peruse the meeting minutes >here<

- Brandon and the rest of 2014 Senate

We recently had our post-pharm2-exam party at Detroit Pub, and had a great time! Thanks for everyone who came out - we loved the creative halloween costumes everyone came up with!

-Joe and your 2014 Senate-

Today, we had a class senate meeting at 5:30pm-6:00pm
We also had a general senate meeting from 6:00pm to 9:30pm

Meeting minutes can be found >here<

Members present - Sheri, Dave, Pridvi, Brandon, Rob, Peter, Joe, MonaMet with Sheri Shulz and Dave - apple representatives about possible ways we can work with them regarding iPads. Topics discussed include the wiki that we share, the iPad programs at UC Irvine and Stanford, how the representatives can give presentations to us about using program on the iPad, and bulk purchases.
Meeting minutes can be accessed >>here<<

As you may know, faculty and some senate members and committee reps were recently lent iPads to test out, with the provision of reporting back on how they can be used to help improve our learning in the future. We met with members of the class in an open-meeting to discuss this issue. The major concerns expressed included the distribution of the iPads, the funding behind them, and senate's delayed communication to the class about the project. What we aim to accomplish in the future include the email with an official senate apology about the handling of the situation (which has been sent out), the creation of a committee to define the goals of such a program (which would include anyone interested), and an eventual presentation to Dr. Jackson to discuss the wishes of the class and the members of the newly formed committee. The committee meeting will be in MEC 303 next Thursday, Nov 3rd at 4:30 PM.
The meeting minutes of the meeting can be accessed >>here<<

1:15-2:15 - Discussion of the senate newsletter and what we could improve about it. Views of the class newsletter have decreased over time.  We want to improve the newsletter to have more interesting and entertaining articles that people want to improve about. Suggestions include condensing formal sections such as the policy section, and improving the structure and participation in sections such as the funny section.