A ruling on whether NU will have to release the commission report should come in the next few weeks, and Lembo said that the public release of the report could hinder the university critically. I think it would hurt any business or corporation, he said. We don t have the power of subpoena. Lembo said the Blue Rib-bon Commission gathered testimony from former and current NU employees with the guarantee of the Commission members that it would be kept confidential. You ll do your best to tell them that you ll keep it confidential, Lembo said.
People are reluctant to come forward if they don t have to do it.
Self-studies are commonly done by private institutions to gauge past and future performance. The commission report, said Lembo, falls under this area of self-study. He said that the release of the Lewis report could have a chilling effect on the future of private internal investigations. This comes in light of detailed reports recently by the Boston Herald of former NU student Wayne Brown s deposition in front of lawyers in July. Brown claimed, according to the Herald, that he smoked cocaine with Lewis 15 to 20 times.