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The following letter was sent to Dr. Lance Donaldson-Evans, Chair of the Faculty Senate, on October 27 by President Judith Rodin, and to Almanac for publication.

Subcommittee of Public Safety Advisory Board
to Review 10/11 Incident

I received your request, published in the October 24 Daily Pennsylvanian, for a review of the events of October 11th involving Rui DaSilva. I appreciate your sending me a copy of this request in advance.

The University has in place a Public Safety Advisory Board, chaired by Dennis Culhane, a tenured member of the faculty. This Board is charged with overseeing public safety issues on our campus. Given its charge, I believe that the Board provides the appropriate forum to consider the issues raised by the SEC request. For this reason, we have asked Dr. Culhane to convene a subcommittee of the Board, including faculty, students, and staff, to consider the issues that underlie the SEC's concerns in the context of the October 11th event. He has agreed to do so.

Racial profiling is a matter of serious concern to our community, to the city, and to the country. I believe it is important that we continue to address community concerns about public safety and race, openly and forthrightly, to ensure that all members of our community feel safe. I am grateful that the Advisory Board has agreed to consider this issue and I will share the Board's advice with you after it has completed its work.

-- Judith Rodin

 

Subcommittee of the Public Safety Advisory Board

Dr. Dennis Culhane, professor of social welfare policy and psychology, School of Social Work, Chair

Dr. Elijah Anderson, Charles and William L. Day Distinguished Professor of the Social Sciences, School of Arts and Sciences

Dr. William Baxt, professor of emergency medicine, School of Medicine

Dr. Sean Kennedy, associate professor of anesthesia, School of Medicine

Dr. David Mandell, assistant professor of psychiatry, School of Medicine

Rev. William Gipson, University Chaplain

Jeanne Arnold, executive director, Office of Affirmative Action and Equal Opportunity Programs

Sheen S. Levine, WHG '02, graduate student

Alex Breland, C '04, undergraduate student

Amy Gartenlaub, C '06, undergraduate student

Charge: To review the practices, policies and procedures of the Penn Police Department with respect to racial profiling, and investigate the recent incident on campus in support of that review.

 

 


  Almanac, Vol. 50, No. 11, November 4, 2003

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