[Peace-discuss] Stan Levy for Mayor of Champaign

[Karen Medina]

Thanks John Wason for the letter in the NG!

By the way, I looked up a little more about Stan Levy, the person who spoke 
so well for the subcommittee of the Champaign Police Community 
Relations Committee.

Besides being in the ACLU, Stanley A. Levy was a professor at the University 
of Illinois from 1968 to 1995, and in the University Administration 1968-
1994. Many university people know him from his years as Vice Chancellor. 

At UIUC, his positions were: 
* Vice Chancellor for Campus Affairs (1979-1994), 
* Acting Vice Chancellor for Campus Affairs and Acting Dean of Students 
(1978-1979), 
* Associate Vice Chancellor for Campus Affairs (1974-1978),
* Assistant Dean of Students (1968-1974), 
* Adjunct Professor of Higher Education (1987-1995)
* Assistant Professor of Higher Education (1968-1987),

Before he moved to Champaign, he was at Cornell where he was faculty in 
university administration and student affairs.

-karen medina

---- Original message ----
>Date: Mon, 13 Aug 2007 13:20:05 -0500
>From: Jan  Durl Kruse <jandurl at insightbb.com>  
>Subject: [Peace-discuss] Letter in N-G from John Wason  
>To: peace-discuss at lists.chambana.net
>Cc: announce at communitycourtwatch.org, coalition policereview 
<cprb at lists.chambana.net>
>
>
>Vote ignores review board consensus
>
>Monday August 13, 2007
>
>It was a Champaign City Council meeting that will live in infamy.
>
>There was a bit of humor, though: the joke played by Mayor Schweighart  
>on certain citizens of Champaign.
>
>The Champaign City Council, by a vote of 5-4, recently rejected both  
>the recommendation of its own Champaign Police Complaint Procedures  
>Subcommittee to establish a citizen review board and any further  
>discussion of the matter.
>
>The Champaign Police Complaint Procedures Subcommittee, a 
subcommittee  
>of the Champaign Police Community Relations Committee, consisted of  
>representatives from the police department, the city staff and the  
>community. It met once a month for 12 months, and is final  
>recommendation reflected a consensus among the representatives of the  
>three constituencies.
>
>But it wasn't the consensus that retired police officer Schweighart  
>wanted. So he invalidated the hard work of his subcommittee. Following  
>almost three hours of public input, with all but two speakers in favor  
>of some form of citizen police review, he made a motion to ignore the  
>subcommittee's recommendation and maintain the status quo without  
>further discussion or public input. His own vote was the tie-breaker.
>
>This marks at least the third time in the past nine years that the  
>Champaign City Council has disregarded the recommendation of one of 
its  
>own governmental bodies for some form of citizen police review. At this  
>point, one has to wonder why any citizen would ever serve in a  
>volunteer capacity on a city board or commission.
>
>At least three of the council members who voted with the mayor asserted  
>that they, as elected officials, are the citizen police review board.  
>Perhaps we should put their word to the test.
>
>JOHN WASON
>
>Champaign
>  Find this article at:
>   
>http://www.news-gazette.com/news/opinions/letters/2007/08/13/ 
>vote_ignores_review_board_consensus
>JAN Kruse