Officers Present: Carlos Lopez, President; Ian Richmond, Vice President; Stephanie Abundo, Secretary; Zoltan Maliga, Treasurer; Gabriella Gonzalez and Kyriell Muhammad, Social Officers.

Departments Represented (Note change from previous minutes): Ad-Hoc, Anthropology, Architecture, Landscape Architecture and Urban Planning, Biophysics, Celtic Languages and Literature, Chemistry and Chemical Biology, East Asian Languages and Civilizations, Engineering and Applied Sciences (DEAS) , Germanic Languages and Literature, Government, Health Policy, History and East Asian Languages, History of Art and Architecture, History of Science, Medical Sciences (DMS), Middle Eastern Studies, Music, Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations (NELC), Organismic and Evolutionary Biology (OEB), Organizational Behavior/Decision Science, Public Policy, Regional Studies--East Asia, Romance Languages and Literature, Sanskrit and Indian Studies, Sociology, Study of Religion

1. Announcements
   • GSC Conference and Summer Research Grants: Application deadline is Monday, May 10. Completed applications are due in the GSC Office by 5:00 p.m.

   • Next GSC Meeting: Wednesday, October 6, 5:30 p.m. in the Graduate Student Lounge, Dudley House.

   
   
   
2. Matters Arising from the minutes of April 1999 meeting

   
   
   

3. Election of GSC Officers
   Elections for vacant positions were held. A new election for treasurer was held, since the treasurer elected in April had resigned. The new GSC officers for the 1999-2000 academic year are as follows:
   • Treasurer -- Kenji Schwarz (Regional Studies - East Asia)
   • Secretary -- Matthew McIntyre (Anthropology)

   
   
   

4. Election of Additional Committee Representatives
   • Harvard Graduate Council
     • Chris Wheat (Organizational Behavior)

   • Graduate Student Health Advisory Committee
     • Alicia Walker (History of Art and Architecture), Chair
     • Robert Krikorian (Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations)

   
   
   
5. Treasurer's Report
   The GSC approved the following funding requests: GSAS Christian Fellowship, $50; Harvard-MIT Graduate Philosophy Conference, $500.

   
   
   

6. Discussion: Budget and Grants
   The proposed 1999-2000 GSC budget was approved.

   RESOLVED: That the last five years of GSC budgets be presented at the October 1999 meeting.

   RESOLVED: That up to $3000 in additional funds be made available for the current round of summer research and conference grants. This funding would be at the discretion of the Chair of the Research and Conference Grants Committee.

   RESOLVED: That the Summer Research Grants not be included in the limit of three grants per department per academic year.

   
   
   
7. Committee Reports
   • FAS Library Committee: The Law Library will limit access for non-Law students during the Law School exam period.

   • Committee on Graduate Education: Two new programs were approved, a Ph.D. in Afro-American Studies, and a joint Business School-Division of Engineering and Applied Sciences program in Applied Information Technology Management.

   • Graduate Student Health Advisory Committee: There is a two month wait to see a dentist at Holyoke. Shorter waiting times are available at the Longwood clinic. Some samples of medications are available free at the UHS pharmacy, with a prescription, and if you ask for samples.

   • Harvard Graduate Council: The new HGC president is from the KSG. The School of Public Health is trying to change its academic calendar.

   • Ad-hoc Group Meeting with Dean McCavana and Ellen Fox: The GSAS Student Affairs Office has scheduled several informational sessions for the Fall. If you have ideas for these sessions, contact Garth McCavana.

   
   
   
8. Mentoring Award Reception
   Nine faculty were recognized for their outstanding mentoring with the first annual GSC mentoring award. The awards reception was successful and very well attended. Many faculty and family members attended the reception, as did President Rudenstine. The GSC received 205 applications for 84 nominees. Thirty-six of the forty-seven graduate programs were represented with nominations. Eight of the faculty receiving awards were tenured. The awards were presented to:
   • David M. Cutler, John L. Loeb Professor of Social Sciences and Professor of Economics
   • Charles Hallisey, John L. Loeb Associate Professor of the Humanities
   • Joseph D. Harris, Professor of Mathematics
   • Eric J. Heller, Professor of Chemistry and Physics
   • Lawrence Katz, Professor of Economics
   • Thomas A. McMahon, Gordon McKay Professor of Applied Mechanics and professor of biology (awarded posthumously)
   • James R. Rice, Gordon McKay Professor of Engineering Sciences and Geophysics
   • William Mills Todd III, Curt Hugo Reisinger Professor of Slavic Languages and Literatures, professor of comparative literature, and Dean for Undergraduate Education
   • Laurel Thatcher Ulrich, James Duncan Phillips Professor of Early American History and director of the Charles Warren Center for Studies in American History
   
   
   
9. Vote on Amended GSC Constitution and By Laws
   Major changes to the GSC Constitution were voted on individually:
   • Article III, Section 6: Accepted
   • Article IV, Section 2: Deleted
   • Elimination of Facilities Officer Position: Accepted
   • Article VI: Accepted
   • Article VII: Accepted
   • Article VIII, Section 4: Sentence 2 changed to read: "No member may serve as an officer of the Council for more than three consecutive terms."
   • Article VIII, Section 7: Accepted
   • Article IX: Accepted

   RESOLVED: That all other sections of the Constitution not voted on individually be accepted.

   RESOLVED: That the By Laws be accepted.

   The GSC now has a new Constitution and By Laws.

   
   
   

10. Discussion: Editorship of GSAS Student Survival Guide
    

    RESOLVED: The the President of the GSC be given the power to hire an editor of the Survival Guide, paying the editor no more than $2000.

    
    
    

Respectfully submitted,
Stephanie Abundo