Weird break in cuke tests for membership dropdown

for ed's dojo student ^^^ see above ^^^ the default end date is set to 1.month.ago.to_date

for a phase_5 let's say I want to have a quick membership sign up that allows me to choose a student and quickly assign them to a dojo - this will leave Ed Gruberman in the drop down to select a student because this end_date is set to 1.month.ago.to_date. 

this will break level_6.features in the cucumber tests because the test states that, "And I should not see Gruberman, Ed" ... but you will see him in the dropdown because his end date is not nil i.e. because his membership has expired

please let me know what you want to do about this!

- anthony