I’d like to personally thank you, Northern Star, for doing your job and alerting the public to the rumors about Chief Grady. Some rumors can be warranted, some unwarranted. As a news team, your job is to report the possibility of foul play so the public or people in charge can determine what rumors are or are not warranted and you have done just that.

What some students and citizens fail to realize is that the committee that is reviewing Chief Grady will either find evidence that he has done, or failed to do, certain things that we as a public deem a minimum requirement for his job description, or if he has done anything beyond what we as a public consider as acceptable.

It’s true there are rumors that Grady is an egotistical maniac. If the review committee fails to find any wrong-doing, or failure to follow an obligation of duty, then Chief Grady deserves to sit on a high horse because he will have been scrutinized by an all-star committee and found clean. The failure of the committee to find fault with Chief Grady will only further prove to everyone how great he is, and how wrong we were to question the job he has done and is doing.

However, it’s a good thing the Northern Star has pointed out potential wrong-doing or failure of duties. This is reinforced by the fact that enough evidence and complaints were present to warrant our school putting together a review committee of a former supreme court justice, the vice president for safety from the University of Chicago and a retired, yet distinguished, educator from the South Suburban College in South Holland. It would be a major blow to the Northern Star as well as the people making the rumors about Chief Grady if none of those rumors come to be true. So I think given that so much action has been taken to review Chief Grady, I would doubt this action would be based off of little to no evidence as many students are claiming. So my vote is that people should quit complaining, and blindly supporting a chief by looking only at the positive things he’s done. Give the board a chance to find fault with Grady because if they don’t, he will have “crawled through a river of [expletive] and came out clean on the other side” ( Red- Shawshank Redemption).

As for the BSU and protestors insinuating the Northern Star is a “Lynch mob,” I’m shocked and appalled at the accusations of racism and the manner to which you are attempting to gain public support for your beliefs. It’s an insult to the public to make such outrageous comparisons, and I, for one, am offended. To all those who wish to support Chief Grady, I beg you to find better and more positive means than slandering his accusers. Should the committee find suitable evidence to relieve Grady of his command, I would love to see you all outside on the corner with signs of apology for being ignorant mud-slingers who stood up for a (insert true rumor here) and attempted to manipulate the public with outcries of community racism.

Andrew Holmblad
junior

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