"if anything is said here that needs to go to tom's superiors, lussenhop bears that responsibility as much as anyone else."
Hey Tom, You sneaky devil! You've infiltrated the public community discussion forum to lurk and spy. Good, I'm glad you're here! I'd like you to set up a meeting with Dr. Gutmann so I can introduce the following proposal. The University of Pennsylvania Ethical and Community Engagement Review Board The Board: A multi-disciplinary oversight board is created to monitor all University projects effecting and interacting with the city of Philadelphia and its communities. Members will be drawn from a mix of "liberal arts" disciplines such as History, Philosophy, Literature, Sociology, Fine Arts, etc to monitor and review projects and staff. It will monitor projects to ensure appropriate ethical conduct of Penn staff or associated corporate sub-contractors, and it will ensure that projects maintain processes consistent with standards expected in a democratic society. The Problem: Corporate and financial projects driven by institutional interests can have devastating effects on communities, citizens, and the city. University staff members or operatives from shadowy cloaked corporations whom ignore ethical standards or appropriate processes for engagement in the community, tarnish the reputation of the entire University of Pennsylvania community. As cancer in the body starts from a tiny but powerful source, projects, which harm the communities and citizens of Philadelphia or show contempt for the people's rights to fair and transparent processes, bring backlashes and negative reactions to the reputation of the entire University community. The vast majority of researchers, students and teachers in the University community maintain the highest standards in their fields and must not allow the name of the University of Pennsylvania to be abused. While powerful angry backlashes repeatedly erupt in communities hurt by the conduct of a few, it is not the students, researchers and teachers of the university that are disliked or thought of as anything but good neighbors. Nevertheless, the name, University of Pennsylvania, becomes a name used with contempt and ridicule. Solution: The university leaders reexamine the university duties when conducting business in the city of Philadelphia. They recognize the need for staff engaged in financial business, like the various Departments of Real Estate or associated shadowy corporate entities, to use transparent appropriate processes. All staff or corporate contractors will be held accountable for using honest and accurate information and maintaining the highest ethical standards. Process: Dr Gutmann will hold a series of community forums so that residents and citizens may submit complaints and details about the harm caused by University projects and the contempt shown or ethical problems shown by university associated operatives. Dr Gutmann will present, The University of Pennsylvania Ethical and Community Engagement Review Board. She will present all contact information so that community members will always know that an open door policy will be maintained at the University so that future problems or staff abuses which arise in the community can be reported, investigated, and corrected as needed. Dr. Gutmann will explain that oversight institutional review boards hold other members of the university community to the highest standards of conduct in their work. The financial or business operatives associated with the university must also be held accountable now in the dawn of the 21st century. Examples: Citizen presentations to Dr. Gutmann. 1. The creation of the UCD Board, infiltration of community groups, neo-colonial demands to control and manipulate civic associations. 2. The Campus Inn project 3. UCD involvement with city enforcement agencies, the Fenton Affair and cover-up, violating federal law, contempt for transparency and use of misinformation, the demand for secrecy while dividing and conquering. Thanks Tom. Tell Dr. Gutmann she is always welcome to join our listserv like you did. Hopefully, she will decide to come out of the shadows. Community resident, long time university employee, and US citizen, Glenn Moyer
