[Cprb] letter and some questions

[John Wason]

At 12:30 PM 09/26/03 -0500, Walling, Jennifer wrote:

>Hi Everyone,
>
>So from some questions that John asked I thought that maybe I should explain
>the Campus Greens plan for garnering support for this campaign.  Most of it
>is from a meeting that Dave Sacks (campus greens president) and I had with
>Al and John Paul.
>
>In the next week, we will be e-mailing the letter I sent last e-mail to any
>relevant groups on campus to ask them if we can present the info to them.
>I'll maybe direct them to the web page so that they can have more
>information?  Student Peace Action already put us on the agenda for Wed. of
>this week.  We'll also be asking students to spread the complaint forms.  I
>think this will be more effective with the fraternities and sororities than
>with activist groups, but we'll see.  
>
>After we have a whole bunch of co-sponsors, I think it would be super-cool
to have some sort of lecture where anyone that has questions could come and
learn more about CPRB.  I would like the audience to be members of our
co-sponsoring groups, members of groups that weren't sure about
co-sponsoring, interested city council
>members, and most importantly, members of the community.  I'd like to have
>the event somewhere on campus where there is good parking so that community
>members would come. It would be a small lecture, probably 20-50 people,
>maybe, but I think it would help get support for our campaign.  Especially
>if the speaker is particularly engaging.
>
>How does that all sound?  Maybe we'll talk about hosting such a lecture at
>the next greens membership meeting??
>
>-Jen

Sounds like a fine plan, Jen, except that I still can't imagine who the
speaker would be.  Elaine Gehrmann comes to mind now, since she worked with
an attorney this past summer in Cincinnati who was involved with crafting a
CPRB there, and heard Dr. Samuel Walker speak in St. Louis.  Elaine is a
law student here at UIUC - second or third year, I've lost track - and also
a Unitarian minister, so public speaking is not exactly a foreign concept
to her.  You'll love her, if you don't already know her.

Elaine, are you reading this?  :-)  Interested in addressing student and
community organizations on the topic of CPRB's?

John