Date: Mon, 23 Apr 2007 03:27:01 EDT
Subject: 100 Good Samaritans MAYDAY PROTEST MARCH ON RUSH!
Dear Brothers & Sisters,
I have waited a long time for this opportunity to approach you for help and a remedy for my stolen medical education by this government. I thank you and hope that you will participate in the MAYDAY PROTEST MARCH ON RUSH on Tuesday, May 1st, 2007, at 10:00 am in front of Rush Medical College at the corner of Paulina & Harrison. Approx. march time will be 1-2 hours. This demonstration will be done peacefully and in order. Please arrive by 9:30 am to get instructions & be in position.
The purpose of this march is to draw Media attention and the attention of the Dean and Trustees that my medical education they stole must be returned allowing Martin Lewis to transfer to another medical school and that Rush Medical College make restitution to Martin in the form of making him whole for the past 24 years Rush has intentionally refused to allow him to attend any other med school in the country.
I want to continue and rescue my stolen medical career.
My name is Martin E. Lewis. I was a first year student at Rush Medical College in Chicago and completed the courses of the first year program over a two year period at the school from September, 1983 to June 1985. In my stay at Rush, I was required to repeat the first year including courses already passed. I was dismissed from the program on September 6, 1985 because I had outstanding failures in three courses in the repeat of the first year which I was denied the right to makeup (two of those courses I had already passed the previous year) as allowed by the school's own rules, although my transcript actually shows all passes for all courses.
Discrimination arose from the school's administration in my very first quarter thru-out my entire stay till I was dismissed in September, 1985, allowing an inequitable application of the make-up policy, in which white students, in my same, exact class when in the most egregious case where fellow student, Susan Crifase (Now Dr. Susan Crifase-Lin) was allowed to have 5 additional make-up examinations in her Freshman and Sophomore years. That is 5 more than the make-up policy allowed; to clear and expunge all failures of all courses on her records. In my case, the make-up policy was strictly; fully enforced; even though the courses were not actually failed in the first place as proven by the teaching or course professors' own grade records. Through my above case via discovery, I possess all this in Rush's own documents, proving all this is true and accurate.
Although I am now pursuing reinstatement with Rush, I want to go to another medical school with a different environment to complete my medical education as a Clinical Neurosurgeon.
For these reasons, a protest march on Rush is absolutely necessary!
I cannot attend another medical school going on twenty-one (21) years. Because of my absolute unjust dismissal from Rush Medical College, I have been placed in a highly extenuating and extraordinary circumstance. This is an understatement to say the least.
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There clearly is no other way to complete my medical education otherwise without being accepted for transfer. Attempts to secure my reinstatement and the clearing, reform and resolution of my records of the first year curriculum have consumed the intervening 21
years since my dismissal in September, 1985.
(NOTE: The Dean of Rush Medical College has refused to supply a letter of reinstatement or a recommendation letter for transfer since my dismissal.) As stated above, I seek transfer and advanced standing to the second year class starting in the Fall of 2007.
I have pursued reinstatement with Rush Medical College with a lawsuit of this instant case before Federal Court in Chicago. In my lawsuit, defendants Henry P. Russe, M.D., Rush Medical College, and Rush-Presbyterian-St. Luke's Medical Center have refused to settle in or out of court, despite the revelations of clear & convincing disparate treatment between white and black medical students at Rush; by their own documents and records during my time there. As a pro-se plaintiff by court order, I am seeking relief including immediate reinstatement and readmissability for transfer to another United States medical school.
Brothers & Sisters, I live here in Chicago, Illinois. I am still trapped under the 1989 U.S. Supreme Court Rulings even though I had the law before the rulings narrowed the scope of coverage and my case was pending on the date of enactment of the 1991 Civil Rights Act that overturned these decisions. I need your help now! No human being should have to endure the shame and frustration of having the proof but the Congress knowing these results failed me. I need the necessary language in the 1991 Act for me to apply to my case to restore my stolen career.
I just want my medical career back that Rush Medical College stole from me and the U.S. government sanctions lifted so I can be made whole via the courts.
The time is now to move on this important issue! I need your help.
I look forward for your presence at the MAYDAY PROTEST MARCH on May 1, 2007! Please call me, I need an exact count of the number that will march by April 29, 2007. We hope to far exceed the 100 marchers asked for. Tell your fellow man!
Yours truly,
Elder Marcus E. Lewis c/o Martin E. Lewis--Twin Brother
708-287-7531
PS., A black suit, white shirt, *black tie (for men) and black shoes are required. Rain or shine, come prepared to march for justice!
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Fred L. Nance Jr., ABD, MA, CADC, NCRS
Social Policy Analyst
