[Peace-discuss] Re: [Peace] Stan Levy for Mayor of Champaign

[John W.]

At 02:48 PM 8/13/2007, Karen Medina wrote:

>Thanks John Wason for the letter in the NG!


Don't mention it.  They edited it just a bit, in ways I of course didn't like.

Has Stan Levy indicated any interest in being mayor of Champaign?  We 
certainly need an alternative to the honorable(?) Mr. Schweighart.



>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, 
> <mailto:cprb at lists.chambana.net>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
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