>I'd give him a straight F on the University City Report Card. But you would have done that before the interview anyway, wouldn't you?
I find it fascinating how some people, not necessarily Al -- but you can all troll through the back posts and see who -- saw this incident and said "Holy smokes! UCD did something illegal! They're going to cover it up, stonewall, and whitewash it! And nothing will be done about it!" and then the results of the investigation come out, and sweet barking cheese, UCD says "Something illegal happened, we dealt with it" and the same voices are saying "holy smokes! It's Lewis' fault!" Craig, it seems to me, goes so far as to suggest that Lewis never told anybody not to work on a political campaign "UCD's failure to develop, implement, and maintain the ongoing training of such policies as well as to frequently and effectively audit the compliance with such policies." and that's how this came about. There certainly seem to be some behind-the-scenes machinations between John and Lewis and Councilwoman Blackwell that I'm not privy to, maybe some of the rest of you are, but I suspect that this whole thing was a fairly complicated mess based on relationships between the various parties involved and the seriousness of the allegations. Where still, I wonder, is the testimony of the two students? The only accusers in this whole thing. I, for one, would like to know if the reiterated their stories to this investigation. Though I suppose it's a moot point now. Things seem to have settled in a way that's not the worst possible outcome. UCD will continue along, we all still have John, who may himself now be in a better position to utilize his not insignificant skills to improve a city government that we almost all think is lagging, and hopefully whatever relationship dynamics exist between the various players will work themselves out in a way that continues to improve the community. I'm not sure that anything UCD could have done would have satisfied some on this list, apart from setting fire to their own building and moving to Mannyunk. Kc ---- You are receiving this because you are subscribed to the list named "UnivCity." To unsubscribe or for archive information, see <http://www.purple.com/list.html>.
