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When plans for a town center on the former Delphi property were first presented, "junior box" stores were proposed for the eastern third of the 85-acre site, with some city officials and residents skewering the idea of a big box on the site.
Things have changed.
As the team leading the project began shopping the plan, centered on a new downtown for Oak Creek with high-end apartments on the west, one of the first questions often asked by prospective companies was, "who is anchoring the site?"
It became clear to developers they may need a big box store if they want to draw tenants to the downtown, where planners envision shops leading to a town square.
The collection of junior box stores, as first planned, wasn't going to be enough to draw other businesses in, Wispark President Jerry Franke said.
Enter Meijer, which is in talks to anchor the site with a 193,000-square-foot store. Meijer's name leaked out last month, and Franke confirmed negotiations Tuesday night. He said Meijer has submitted a proposed contract that is under review.
"This is by no means a done deal from either party's perspective," Franke said. "Meijer will do its due dilligence process and the city will do its review and site plan approval review process. There will be myraid meetings down the road, at which time the plan will be thoroughly vetted."
And so begins the battle to approve Meijer, which immediately attracted opposition from the community when the possibility surfaced last month.
A public meeting is set for 6 p.m. Feb. 11 at the Oak Creek Community Center in which residents can provide their input to leaders of the Drexel Town Square, to be developed at the corner of Drexel and Howell avenues.
Meijer seen as 'logical candidate'
While many residents have questioned whether Meijer is a good fit, Franke touted the company in a presentation Tuesday to the Oak Creek Common Council.
Michigan-based Meijer, which has proposed several new stores in the Milwaukee area, offers grocery and general merchandise. In addition to attracting restaurant and retail tenants, Meijer would generate tax revenue, create a large number of jobs and establish a high market-rate for the land, Franke said.
Meijer had conversations with the Drexel Town Square team off and on beginning in June 2011, Franke said.
Developers began zeroing in on Meijer after eliminating other possibilities that were either already nearby or planned to enter the Milwaukee market at other locations.
"We went through the process of elimination," said John Melaniphy of Melaniphy & Associates, a retail consultant working with the project team.
"Meijer was the logical candidate ... interested in the market, not in the market (currently), size of the store, sales and performance."
Oak Creek was also affected by its average household income, a huge factor that drives decisions like this one, Melaniphy said. The average household income in the city is $74,666, which is on the low end of comparable cities and limits what stores would be interested, according to Melaniphy.
Other Drexel Town Square components
Also at Tuesday's meeting, Franke introduced other partners working on the Drexel Town Square project.
Rick Barrett of Barrett Visionary Development is on board to develop the residential component of the plan.
Barrett is responsible for some of the most high-profile residential projects in the area. He recently completed the successful Moderne in downtown Milwaukee and was chosen to develop the Courtre, a 44-story lakefront tower planned to replace Downtown Transit Center.
Barrett is enthusiastic about the possibilities in Oak Creek. He said 500 to 600 high-end apartments are planned to be constructed in three phases on the western end of the site. About 170 units will be built in the first phase; the second and third phases will be bigger, with some rowhouses and townhomes, he said.
Along the way, about 4,000 construction jobs will be created over three to five years.
"I feel honored to be part of this team," Barrett said. "I think this project will have great success because of the people that are a part of this.
"This is where we want to put our next project. Multiple people calling me trying to get me to other cities — I want to be here."
Developing the downtown segment of the project is Blair Williams of Wired Properties. He has worked on Bayshore and other town centers, like Shorewood's Main Street.
He said he is dedicated to developing solid local retail for Oak Creek's new downtown. That, not Meijer, is going to be at the heart of this development, Williams said.
"This story is all about that portion of the site that is immediately west of the Meijer parking lot. This is about Main Street, this is about the town square, this is about the city hall, the 500 to 600 new residences that are going to be created at the west end of the site," Williams said.
"That story is completely compelling. It rises to a national-caliber story. It is rare a community the age of Oak Creek can completely redefine itself."


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INDIANAPOLIS — Investigators in the Indianapolis explosion that killed two people and decimated a neighborhood believe natural gas was involved and are focusing on appliances as they search for a cause, a city official said Tuesday.
Indianapolis Homeland Security Director Gary Coons made the announcement after the National Transportation Safety Board said investigators had found no leaks in the gas main or pipes leading into the house that exploded. The explosion Saturday leveled two homes and left dozens more uninhabitable.
Coons said his "investigators believe natural gas is involved" and were "recovering the appliances from destroyed homes to help determine the cause."
"Based on the NTSB statement, our focus is on the houses and appliances," Coons said in a statement.
The blast showed some signs that aren't typical of a natural gas explosion caused by an appliance, experts said, but it still could have been tied to a faulty furnace — if conditions were right.
An owner of the house believed to be at the center of the explosion has said the home's furnace had been having problems. But his estranged wife, Monserrate Shirley, told The Associated Press on Tuesday that the thermostat was replaced recently, correcting a problem heating the home. Shirley, who lived in the house but wasn't there during the explosion, said she had smelled a strange odor outside before the blast, but didn't know if it was natural gas.
But experts said homeowners shouldn't be worried that their furnaces are about to explode.
John Erickson, vice president of the American Public Gas Association, said it would take a far more serious malfunction than just a pilot light going out. And forensic mechanical engineer Richard Schreiber, with Intertek AIM in Sunnyvale, Calif., said it's usually immediately evident whether a blast was caused by natural gas.
Schreiber said that with explosions involving solids such as dynamite, the center of the blast is tightly concentrated, creating a crater. Explosions caused by flammable gas are typically spread out over a wide area, such as throughout the interior of a building filled with leaking gas, he said.
"If the investigators don't find a crater, that pretty much means it was something other than a solid phase explosion," he said, meaning it's likely to be a gas explosion. But he also said such investigations can still take time.
More than a dozen home explosions linked to natural gas have occurred in the last two years. Many involved a single home, though more devastating blasts tied to pipelines have been reported, including a 2011 explosion in Allentown, Pa., that killed five people and a blast in 2010 in San Bruno, Calif., that killed eight people and destroyed 38 homes. A gas leak in a Colorado home last month sparked an explosion that sent five people to a hospital and damaged several homes.
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Report: D-backs, Mariners talk Justin Upton trade
Unfortunately for the Diamondbacks, the Seattle Mariners are on Upton's no-trade list.
The Diamondbacks have felt they have a good potential trade match with Seattle for Justin Upton. But remember: They're on his no-trade list.— Buster Olney (@Buster_ESPN) January 7, 2013
For the last few seasons, Upton has been on and off the trade block. Whether or not to keep the 25-year-old outfielder has been the main discussion surrounding the organization.
The addition of outfielder Cody Ross to an already crowded depth chart that includes Jason Kubel, Gerardo Parra and up-and-comer Adam Eaton -- along with Upton -- likely led to an increased probability of the D-backs parting with one of their outfielders.
Kubel was then thrown into the trade rumors along with Upton, catching the eye of the New York Mets and Baltimore Orioles. However, the D-backs know Upton provides the better return value of the two.
The latest Upton rumors point to the two-time All-Star being moved to either the Mariners, San Diego Padres, Atlanta Braves or Texas Rangers, with the Mariners being the latest front-runner.
The Padres trade rumors involved third baseman Chase Headley for Upton, though talks failed to progress.
While the Braves and Rangers have prospects and talent to offer, it's hard to see from Towers perspective of who the Mariners have that will convince the D-backs to part with the former number one overall pick.
But if Towers and the organization are favoring the Mariners like Olney reports, the Diamondbacks would have to seek the approval of Upton himself.
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Door-to-Door Solicitor Arrested on Suspicion of Burglary
A 19-year-old was arrested on suspicion of burglary after Roseville Police discovered a stolen iPhone in her possession taken from an east Roseville home.
On the afternoon of Oct. 20, police received a few calls from east Roseville neighborhoods about two females going door to door, trying to sell magazine subscriptions without the proper permits to conduct door-to-door soliciting. While in the 2200 block of Sebastian Way, one of the solicitors was talking to a resident at the front door, and the other allegedly entered the home through an unlocked side door to the garage, and stole an iPhone.
Officers responded to the area, contacted the women and recovered the resident's stolen phone. The suspect, a 19-year-old female from Alabama, was arrested on suspicion of burglary.
A tip from the Roseville Police Department: In order to solicit door to door in Roseville, solicitors must have a valid Roseville business license, and must register with the police department prior to soliciting. Ask to see solicitors' permits, and call police immediately if they're aggressive, won't take no for an answer, or otherwise appear suspicious to you.
You can also put a "no soliciting" sign up by your door--by law, solicitors are legally required to respect your wishes and not knock on your door. Never let strangers into your home.
Commercial Burglaries:
Between Oct. 12 and 15, someone broke into a temporary construction office on Kinross Way and stole computer equipment.
Around 7:30 a.m. Oct. 15, someone broke into a store in the 9200 block of Sierra College Blvd., and stole merchandise. They made entry by prying the door of a vacant suite next to the store, and then knocking a hole through the wall to get into the store.
Between 5:30 and 6 a.m. Oct. 16, someone broke into two automotive businesses in the 400 block of Riverside Avenue and took office computer equipment. The burglar was apparently scared off by the burglar alarm activation, because some of the stolen goods were found outside the businesses.
Between Oct. 16 and 17, someone went into a fenced yard outside a tire business in the 700 block of Atlantic Street and took several sets of tires.
At about 11:30 a.m. on Oct. 20, someone entered a healthcare office in the 100 block of North Sunrise Avenue and demanded money from an employee in a threatening, aggressive manner. He took cash and fled on foot. The suspect was described as an unshaven white male in his 40s or 50s, 5'10" tall and 180 pounds, with short brown hair in a crew-cut. He wore a long-sleeved button-up shirt, blue jeans and brown work shoes. No weapons or associated vehicles were seen.
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Between 4 p.m. Oct. 18 and 4 p.m. Oct. 19, someone stole a catalytic converter from a Toyota Tacoma pickup parked on El Rancho Court.
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Saturday, Sept. 29
Just after 10 p.m. Sept. 29, three unknown juveniles were walking in the 700 block of Church Street, and one of them was seen throwing a rock at a parked truck, breaking the windshield.
Wednesday, Oct. 3
Overnight Oct. 3/4, someone rummaged through an unlocked car in the 1500 block of Mill Run Drive and took an iPod cable.
Saturday, Oct. 13
Overnight Oct. 13/14, someone slashed the tires on a vehicle at an apartment complex at 800 Gibson Drive. During the same weekend, another resident reported her vehicle had been deliberately scratched.
Sunday, Oct. 14
Between 12:30 and 6 a.m. Oct. 14, someone smashed the window of a car parked in an apartment complex at 1299 Antelope Creek Drive and took a backpack containing ID and medical equipment.
Tuesday, Oct. 16
During the school day on Oct. 16, someone stole a 1965 red fastback Ford Mustang, with a white stripe on the bottom, from the parking lot of Woodcreek High School. As of this time, the vehicle hasn't been located.
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Between 12:30 and 2 p.m. Oct. 18, someone pried the door of a pickup parked in the 900 block of Pleasant Grove Blvd. and took the stereo, golf clubs, sunglasses and other items.
Saturday, Oct. 20
Overnight Oct. 20/21, someone broke the window of a vehicle parked at an apartment complex at 1451 Rocky Ridge Drive and took a woman's purse from the rear cargo area. The purse contained the victim's ID and several bank cards, which were soon used to make unauthorized purchases.
Overnight Oct. 20/21, someone stole a blue Honda Civic from a parking lot in an apartment complex at 1451 Kingswood Drive. The owner found it the next morning parked in a different part of the lot, with the stereo and some loose change taken.
Between 8 and 10 p.m. Oct. 12, someone stole an unsecured silver Trek mountain bike and a red motorized mini-bike from a front porch in the 600 block of Encinal Avenue.
Around 11 p.m. Oct. 13, someone stole an unsecured and unattended blue Mongoose mountain bike from Kaseberg Park.
Overnight Oct. 15/16, someone broke the lock and stole a bike that had been secured to a bike rack at Cooley Middle School. The stolen bike is a black and white 21-speed boy's bike with red shocks.
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---- — CEDAR RAPIDS — The Fairfield Maharishi (MSAE) boys tennis team finished third at the Warrior Invitational Tournament in Cedar Rapids Saturday.
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The issue of marijuana for medical purposes elicits strong passions both pro and con. When posting as a Local Voice at Lake Forest Patch on January 8, with subsequent postings at other Lake County Patch sites, "Scientific Evidence Against Smoking Pot: Teens and Brain Damage," even I was surprised at the vitriol hurled against me by those on the Left for daring to express what was described as an ill-informed and crazy notion. It didn't matter that links were included to document the facts noted in my article. http://lakeforest.patch.com/blog_posts/scientific-evidence-against-smoking-pot-teens-and-brain-damage
Realizing that most of the mainstream media here in Chicagoland leans to the left on social issues such as gay marriage, amnesty for illegal aliens, sanctify of life, and in pushing for the legalization of medical marijuana, I received a positive jolt of common sense when on January 16 a kindred spirit was found in a Daily Herald editorial, "Towns wise to prepare on medical marijuana."
Although the bill to legalize medical marijuana never made it out of legislative committee in the Lame Duck sessions of the Illinois General Assembly, the issue still has life and will be revisited in the 98th General Assembly where Democrats now vote-proof majorities in both houses.
The Daily Herald related how several communities in Lake County, possibly reading the tea leaves, rather than watching and waiting to see what might happen, they are looking at their zoning regulations as an assist in providing valuable tools in providing controls should the General Assembly decide to place a nonprofit cannabis dispensary in their community. Municipal leaders would not be able to prevent a dispensary from opening, but they could control where it opened through zoning rules. Barrington, Buffalo Grove, Grayslake, Lake Forest, Lake Bluff, and Wauconda are among Lake County towns where officials have discussed proposed legislation in recent weeks.
Although a medical marijuana proposal in the 98th General Assembly when introduced could vary in detail from House Bill 30 which lacked votes to pass during the 97th, following is the gist of House Bill 30:
House Bill 30 focused only on medical marijuana and included a three-year test program in which qualified patients would have been limited to 2.5 ounces of marijuana over a a14-day period. The local focus of that bill was the creation of nonprofit cannabis dispensaries, which would have been allowed to grow, harvest and distribute marijuana. They would have been limited to one per state Senate district. http://www.dailyherald.com/article/20130116/discuss/701169965/print/
Expressed in the Daily Herald editorial was skepticism about the value of medical marijuana "until the board can evaluate the potential effects of a particular bill, but it's not hard to see the momentum for in in legislatures around the country nor to imagine some of the consequences if such a measure becomes law." Also expressed was how local officials are well advised to do some advance planning to be ready should a medical marijuana bill pass in the 98th General Assembly.
Being curious to learn what my own home community of Lake Bluff and neighboring Lake Forest were doing to plan for the eventuality of being informed by Springfield that a marijuana dispensary was deemed a good fit for either community, scooped by the Daily Herald), I checked out my local Lake Forest LEAD website, "Leading Efforts Against Drugs" (www.leadingefforts.org), located on the second floor of the Gorton Community Center at 400 E. Illinois Road. Noted at LEAD's website was a second website, "Speakup! Prevention Coalition" (www.speakupcoalition.org), a division of LEAD. Andy Duran is the Executive Director of LEAD/SPEAKUP.
It was on the "Speakup! Prevention Coalition" site that I found the resolution of the Village of Lake Bluff Board of Trustees approved at its Dec. 10, 2012 meeting which directs its Planning Commission and Zoning board of Appeals to consider amending the Village Zoning Code to include Distribution Facilities as a special use should the 'Compassionate Use of Medical Cannabis Pilot Program Act" be signed into law by the Governor.
Below the Lake Bluff resolution on the "Speakup! Prevention Coalition" site was one Lake Forest unanimously passed by the Lake Forest city Council on December 3rd, 2012, which instructed the Plan Commission to modify the zoning code to make medical marijuana dispensaries subject to approval of a Special Use Permit before opening, with recommendations due to the City Council by the Plan commission early in 2013. A moratorium against the opening of any dispensaries is in place pending the conclusion of the deliberations. www.speakupcoalition.org
On the same website is a letter originally written by Andy Duran, Executive Director of LEAD/SPEAKUP in Lake Forest, for a local and popular website covering LakeForest/Lake Bluff (Gazebo News Reader Forum) on October 31, 2012. It is well worth reading in its entirety. well worth reading. In Duran's letter are enumerated research from other states and municipalities where medical marijuana has already been legalized. www.speakupcoalition.org
Conclusions include (All three points are explained in full in Duran's letter.):
1. A great increase in public safety issues.
2. Decrease in property values.
3. A great increase in youth access and use of marijuana.
Noted also are these three specific steps that can be taken by city councils to prohibit a "registered organization" from opening its doors in your town or community.
1. Exercise a "citizen ballot initiative."
2. Establish a "zoning ordinance" stating that use is illegal as it conflicts with local ordinances, state statutes, and other drug laws.
3. Draft a specific moratorium on allowing use in any zoned area until further research can be done.
Medical marijuana and marijuana legalization efforts send the wrong messages to youth that marijuana is not only safe but that it is a medicine. Legislation and legislative efforts of this kind threaten public health and significantly undermine prevention efforts of community anti-drug coalitions throughout the state of Illinois.
An excellent Toolkit for States Facing Medical Marijuana and Marijuana Legalization can be found at the following link:
As Lake Forest resides within two senate districts (Districts 29 and 30), if legislation were passed unchanged from House Bill 30 which failed during the 97th General Assembly, there could be two dispensaries and two cultivation areas in Lake Forest alone!
Now is the time to act before the 98th General Assembly brings forth a followup medical marijuana proposal which, if passed into law, would become the 18th state with an effective medical marijuana law. States that have fully implemented medical marijuana programs are now experiencing "buyer's remorse."
Be a voice in our own community. According to CADCA (Community Anti-Drug Coalitions of America) there is a direct correlation between "medical" marijuana initiatives and decreases in perception of harm and social disapproval. States that have "medical" marijuana programs have among the lowest perceptions of harm among youth in this nation.
Contact your State Senator and State Representative to urge them to vote "no" on future legislation to legalize marijuana for medical use. Also urge your city council to pass an ordinance prohibiting dispensaries prior to legislation passing at the state level.
Lastly, raise awareness in your community and among your friends about the pitfalls surrounding the legalization of medical marijuana and organize a letter writing campaign.


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NEW YORK (Reuters) – On February 28, during oral arguments at the U.S. Supreme Court in an Alien Tort Statute suit by a group of Nigerians who accused Shell of complicity in state-sponsored torture in their country, Justice Samuel Alito interrupted the Nigerians' lawyer, Paul Hoffman of Schonbrun DeSimone Seplow Harris Hoffman & Harrison. "What business does a case like this have in the courts of the United States?" Alito said.
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In spite of Europe's experience with sky-high taxes, if America could succeed in taxing consumption rather than income from work and investment, this would have substantial benefits for America's economy. Now, Washington raises most of its money from taxes on labor and capital income, thereby reducing incentives to work and save.
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If Congress could be persuaded to move to a de facto consumption tax by expanding both tax-free savings accounts and the expensing of business investment, the economy would be invigorated. Mr. Huckabee is doing a service by opening the discussion with his FairTax proposal.
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on Oct 26, 2012 at 8:38 am
San Ramon has had terrible planning and under-building of public TENNIS COURTS for a population of 72,000 (with many youths and seniors).
In the last 30 years, the addition of only 8 new tennis courts at Dougherty High School?....and no USTA Team play out of public courts.
San Ramon has consistantly let its people down.
on Oct 26, 2012 at 11:45 am
Ah the birth of little Fremont---or as it is now known--"Freakmont"---where your multi-generational families know how to get granny on the government dole even though granny never worked here and doesn't speak English..
on Oct 26, 2012 at 1:20 pm
Ah, the racist code words come out of the woodwork.
Why don't you elaborate on what you really mean?
on Oct 26, 2012 at 2:52 pm
Maybe my math skills have deceived me over the years, but I thought that 36% + 64% = 100%? How does that leave room for increases in the Hispanic and African American population?
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More than 50 times last winter, Napa County residents blew the whistle on their neighbors for burning solid fuel on Spare the Air days, when burning is banned.
But their 51 complaints resulted in just one ticket being issued to a violator, according to the Bay Area Air Quality Management District, which issues Spare the Air alerts and enforces the burn bans.
Last winter, the district received 3,777 citizen complaints about residential wood burning during the season's 15 Spare the Air days. Those complaints resulted in a total of 346 warnings to wood burners in nine counties and 13 tickets carrying a $400 fine (See table below).
Aaron Richardson, a spokesman for the BAAQMD, said by email that the agency has only collected $800 in fines from the previous two winters, but that the chief point of banning wood fires on certain winter days is about improving air quality, not raising revenue. He added that early studies suggest that wood burning may be down by 15 percent from five years ago.
Here's Richardson on how the BAAQMD enforces wood burning bans:
Warnings and Tickets Issued for Wood Burning on Winter Spare the Air Days Winter 2010-2011 (4 days of ban) Winter 2011-2012 (15 days of ban) County Warnings Tickets Warnings Tickets Alameda 5 0 10 0 Contra Costa 5 1 57 4 Marin 5 0 48 3 Napa 0 0 51 1 San Francisco 0 0 1 0 Santa Clara 13 1 32 2 San Mateo 2 0 31 1 Solano 0 0 8 0 Sonoma 29 0 108 2 Total 59 2 346 13
"We have about 70 inspectors on staff, and though not all of them are dispatched at any one time for wood burning duty, we send out patrols of various sizes on Winter Spare the Air days, depending on the day and availability.
"Inspectors must witness and document a violation to issue a citation. We track all complaints received and use those to help plan neighborhoods to patrol.
"They look for smoke, and are trained in smoke plume recognition and opacity, and they must go to the physical location of the fire to determine and document the source before writing a citation."
Source: BAAQMD
This season, first-time offenders, who would have previously received a warning letter, will now be obliged to take an online class on the public health impacts of wood smoke.
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The 2013 All-America City quilt will be on public display in various locations in Garner April 21-27.
Each year, finalists in the All-America City Award program submit quilt squares representing something special about their communities. The squares are stitched together into a quilt that tours the country, visiting each finalist community.
Garner's square was made by Linda Junk with the non-profit group On the Mend, which is based at Garner Senior Center.
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Monday, April 21: Town Hall, building A lobby, 900 Seventh Ave.
Tuesday, April 22: Town Hall, building B lobby, including Town Council meeting starting at 7 p.m.
Wednesday, April 23: Southeast Regional Library, 908 Seventh Ave.
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The house at 1108 Wallis Ave. was boarded up and no utilities were connected to it, fire Chief Joseph Santell said.
Neighbor Jerry Mosley Sr. of 1107 Wallis said he was awakened by the blaze. "I heard a big 'whoof,' looked out my window and saw flames on the porch," said Mosley, who lives across the street. "By the time I called 911, the house was just burning up."
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As firefighters battled the blaze, Southwest Mercer County Regional police dealt with Dennis O. Jaggers, 64, of 941 Sharon-New Castle Road, Farrell, who was arrested at 12:44 a.m. at French Street and Wallis. Jaggers tried to get around police cars and nearly ran over a fire hose, police said. He was charged with drunken driving.


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Clubs, workshops, and other groups organized around current students' interests are an important part of academic -- and community -- life in Swift Hall.
Biblical Students' Association
The Biblical Students' Association provides social events for students interested in biblical studies and sponsors Bible-related field trips, occasional lectures, and lunch discussions on topics related to the study of the Hebrew Bible or New Testament. For more information, contact Cameron Ferguson at email@example.com or Kelli Gardner at firstname.lastname@example.com.
Ethics Club
The Ethics Club provides a forum for intellectual and social exchange for students and faculty interested in the study of religious ethics, ethics broadly construed, or disciplines that have moral or religious concerns. The club sponsors pub nights, receptions, and other events. The Ethics Club works in tandem and complements the Religion and Ethics Workshop. If you wish to subscribe to the email list serve, please write to Michael LeChevallier at firstname.lastname@example.com or Daniel Strand at email@example.com.
History of Christianity Club
Each year, the History of Christianity Club sponsors one or two guest speakers and organizes one social gathering for all area faculty and students, as well as students interested in pursuing work in HC. The club also works to notify students of relevant events both on campus and in the greater Chicago area. If you would like more information about the History of Christianity Club, please email Bethany Lowery at firstname.lastname@example.com.
History of Judaism Club
The History of Judaism Club brings together students and faculty interested in an ongoing interdisciplinary dialogue on the history, culture, religion, literature, and philosophy of Judaism. For more information please visit the site of the affiliated Jewish Studies and the Hebrew Bible Workshop at http://cas.uchicago.edu/workshops/jst_hb/about/ or contact Erik Dreff at email@example.com.
History of Religions Club
The History of Religions Club is devoted to fostering an intellectual community for students interested in HR and related fields. It provides a forum for students to share their work and also sponsors workshops with scholars of interest from the University of Chicago and other institutions. For more information please contact Drew Durdin at email@example.com or Emily Crews at firstname.lastname@example.com.
Islamic Studies Club
The Islamic Studies Club, also known as Majlis, meets almost every week in order to workshop student papers and dissertation chapters, allow students to practice presenting papers before attending academic conferences, and foster an esprit de corps amongst students and faculty engaged in the study of Islam. The Club's vision is to provide a forum for graduate students from various disciplines and areas of study to share what they know about Islam and Muslims in a way that is not methodologically, geographically, or temporally bound. In addition to student presentations, we also discuss best practices for teaching Islam in the classroom, whether by reading articles related to pedagogy or inviting Islamicists to share their experiences teaching. Lastly, the Islamic Studies Club occasionally holds social activities to foster friendships and collegiality amongst students and scholars. For more information, contact Nadia Khan at firstname.lastname@example.com or Timothy Gutmann at firstname.lastname@example.com; you can also visit Majlis online at http://divinitymajlis.wordpress.com/2012/10/18/majlis/
Philosophy of Religions Club
The Philosophy of Religions Club provides a forum where both faculty and students can present current work and receive feedback. Past speakers have included professors Arnold Davidson, Chris Gamwell, and Francois Meltzer. The PR Club also sponsors weekly meetings for presentation, dialogue, and discussion. For more information, contact Davey Tomlinson at firstname.lastname@example.com.
Religion and Literature Club
Each quarter, the Religion and Literature Club sponsors a dinner with speaker for students and faculty. These dinners are the official social events for the R&L program, but all interested students are welcome. For more information, please contact Alison Davis at firstname.lastname@example.com.
Theology Club
The Theology Club provides a forum for discussing current theological research, for building relationships between students and faculty, and for furthering the pursuit of theological study. The club partners with the Theology Workshop and invites students and faculty from all areas of the Divinity School and university to participate in our discussions and dinners. For more information, please contact Bryce Rich at email@example.com or Evan Kuehn at firstname.lastname@example.com; you can also subscribe to our list serve here: https://lists.uchicago.edu/web/info/theology-workshop.
Alchemy in Color
Alchemy in Color is a network created to serve and support underrepresented minority students at the Div School. Founded in the spring of 2012, Alchemy seeks to enrich the social, intellectual, and spiritual lives of students, and offers a platform for events, discussion, gatherings, and fun. While Alchemy in Color is a group dedicated to ethnic and religious minorities at the Div School, Alchemy seeks to involve as much of the Divinity School community (students, staff, faculty) as possible in its mission to help make the University of Chicago an hospitable and warm place for students to work, play, and live. Recent Alchemy events include the winter dance party co-sponsored with the DSA, a three-part dinner and discussion series, and the start of a community service initiative. For more information, please contact R.L. Watson at email@example.com or Elijah Zehyoue at firstname.lastname@example.com.
Becoming Allies
Founded in the fall of 2013, Becoming Allies is a group of white, heterosexual men interested in interrogating and affirming who they are as people and creating meaningful dialogue focused on ensuring that Divinity School is a welcoming home for all. The group meets regularly to discuss topics pertinent to its members as well as working in conjunction with other student groups to explore ways in which we can all come together to know, support, challenge, and enjoy one another as part of unified community. For more information please contact Eddie Vogel at firstname.lastname@example.com.
Buddhist Studies Club
The Buddhist Studies Club is an umbrella group that brings together faculty and students interested in the study of Buddhism from a variety of disciplines, including history of religions, philosophy of religions, and art history, among others. The Club organizes 4-6 faculty lectures each year, as well as faculty-student panels and student-only panels, in which students present their work to and receive feedback from other students. For more information, please contact Justin Henry at email@example.com or Alex Hsu at firstname.lastname@example.com; you can also subscribe to our list serve at https://lists.uchicago.edu/web/info/buddhist-studies.
Greening the Div School
Greening the Divinity School is a group that aims to improve the environmental sustainability of our community, our events, and Swift Hall. Through social norming and facilitating environmentally sound choice-making within Swift and in the everyday lives of our community members we seek to both act as responsible citizens of the earth and set an example for other campus entities to follow. We are a collaborative group that welcomes input from faculty, staff, and students. To learn more, email firstname.lastname@example.com.
The Sacred Flame
The Sacred Flame provides support for the LGBTQ community at the University of Chicago Divinity School. We strive toward an open and respectful dialogue between students, faculty, and staff, offering safe spaces for LGBTQ-identified people, friends, family, and allies. We host regular social events throughout the year and attend campus-wide LGBTQ functions as a group. Sacred Flame via email at firstname.lastname@example.com; check us out on Facebook, or join our list-serve here: https://lists.uchicago.edu/web/info/sacredflame.
The Divinity School Women's Caucus (DSWC)
The Women's Caucus is sponsored by the Divinity Student's Association (DSA). Its members at large span the Div School's 12 subfields and 4 degree programs. The vision of the Women's Caucus is to make the Div School the community of choice for female scholars of religion. Its goals fall into three major categories: professionalization, mentoring, and advocacy. With those goals in mind, our events (weekly tea times, discussion groups, and panels) are structured, among other things, to help our members feel more at home in the classroom or on the job market, build relationship with other students, and learn how to interact comfortably with faculty and administration. For more information, contact the Women's Caucus at email@example.com, or visit DSWC online at http://divschoolwomenscaucus.wordpress.com/
The Council on Advanced Studies sponsors many interdisciplinary graduate research workshops, designed to bring together faculty and graduate students from the University of Chicago and the wider Chicago area to create scholarly dialogue, to encourage cross-disciplinary collaboration, and to foster exchange of ideas. The main emphasis of these workshops is the presentation of graduate student dissertation work in progress. For more information and a complete list of CAS Workshops, visit the CAS page.
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If I could teach only one value to live by, it would be this: Success will come and go, but integrity is forever. Integrity means doing the right thing at all times and in all circumstances, whether or not anyone is watching. It takes having the courage to do the right thing, no matter what the consequences will be. Building a reputation of integrity takes years, but it takes only a second to lose, so never allow yourself to ever do anything that would damage your integrity.
We live in a world where integrity isn't talked about nearly enough. We live in a world where "the end justifies the means" has become an acceptable school of thought for far too many. Sales people overpromise and under deliver, all in the name of making their quota for the month. Applicants exaggerate in job interviews because they desperately need a job. CEOs overstate their projected earnings because they don't want the board of directors to replace them. Entrepreneurs overstate their pro formas because they want the highest valuation possible from an investor. Investors understate a company's value in order to negotiate a lower valuation in a deal. Customer service representatives cover up a mistake they made because they are afraid the client will leave them. Employees call in "sick" because they don't have any more paid time off when they actually just need to get their Christmas shopping done. The list could go on and on, and in each case the person committing the act of dishonesty told themselves they had a perfectly valid reason why the end result justified their lack of integrity.
It may seem like people can gain power quickly and easily if they are willing to cut corners and act without the constraints of morality. Dishonesty may provide instant gratification in the moment but it will never last. I can think of several examples of people without integrity who are successful and who win without ever getting caught, which creates a false perception of the path to success that one should follow. After all, each person in the examples above could have gained the result they wanted in the moment, but unfortunately, that momentary result comes at an incredibly high price with far reaching consequences. That person has lost their ability to be trusted as a person of integrity, which is the most valuable quality anyone can have in their life. Profit in dollars or power is temporary, but profit in a network of people who trust you as a person of integrity is forever.
Every one person who trusts you will spread the word of that trust to at least a few of their associates, and word of your character will spread like wildfire. The value of the trust others have in you is far beyond anything that can be measured. For entrepreneurs it means investors that are willing to trust them with their money. For employees it means a manager or a boss that is willing to trust them with additional responsibility and growth opportunities. For companies it means customers that trust giving them more and more business. For you it means having an army of people that are willing to go the extra mile to help you because they know that recommending you to others will never bring damage to their own reputation of integrity. Yes, the value of the trust others have in you goes beyond anything that can be measured because it brings along with it limitless opportunities and endless possibilities.
Contrast that with the person who cannot be trusted as a person of integrity. Warren Buffet, Chairman and CEO of Berkshire Hathaway said it best:, "In looking for people to hire, look for three qualities: integrity, intelligence, and energy. And if they don't have the first one, the other two will kill you." A person's dishonesty will eventually catch up to them. It may not be today, and it may not be for many years, but you can rest assured that at some point there will always be a reckoning.
A word of advice to those who are striving for a reputation of integrity: Avoid those who are not trustworthy. Do not do business with them. Do not associate with them. Do not make excuses for them. Do not allow yourself to get enticed into believing that "while they may be dishonest with others, they would never be dishonest with me." If someone is dishonest in any aspect of his life you can be guaranteed that he will be dishonest in many aspects of his life. You cannot dismiss even those little acts of dishonesty, such as the person who takes two newspapers from the stand when they paid for only one. After all, if a person cannot be trusted in the simplest matters of honesty then how can they possibly be trusted to uphold lengthy and complex business contracts?
It is important to realize that others pay attention to those you have chosen to associate with, and they will inevitably judge your character by the character of your friends. Why is that? It is best explained by a quote my father often says when he is reminding me to be careful of the company I am keeping: "When you lie down with dogs you get fleas." Inevitably we become more and more like the people we surround ourselves with day to day. If we surround ourselves with people who are dishonest and willing to cut corners to get ahead, then we'll surely find ourselves following a pattern of first enduring their behavior, then accepting their behavior, and finally adopting their behavior. If you want to build a reputation as a person of integrity then surround yourself with people of integrity.
There is a plaque on the wall of my office which reads: "Do what is right, let the consequence follow." It serves as a daily reminder that success will indeed come and go, but integrity is forever.
~Amy (for my daily blogs go to www.amyreesanderson.com/blog)
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Your article is excellent. So many people leave their integrity at the door as they enter their office. All rationalizations, in some cases what they think is making an impression or maintaining a sense of self preservation. They say what happens in Vegas stays in Vegas (or wherever).
The flaw in the argument of no one will know is that the most important person already does know – ourselves. Then we wonder why we have self doubts, are easily short tempered, and may have guilt among other feelings.
A simple philosophy I live by is – "I like to sleep at night" because I am well aware of what I do and have done and must now live with.
Integrity in not deceiving yourself will help live up to integrity with others. It takes conscious effort and courage.
Thanks for sharing this article. This is a familiar theme.
When I think of Integrity I think of its definition…according to Merriam Webster…"14th century: firm adherence to a code of especially moral or artistic values: Incorruptability"
I think that many of the ills that plague our day can be traced to a the general belief of society that one's beliefs and faith do not matter, and that the wisdom of the world can successfully guide a person through mortality. Today (and I speak from experience, trust me I have teens)..the general belief is that you don't need a faith or a belief, as long as you don't hurt anyone; How different is this mentality from say 50 years ago, when faith, belief, a code of conduct, integrity was a prevalent theme in society, and it wasn't hard to recognize even in TV (remember lassie, Bonanza?).
anyhow, thank you. Very well said
Great article Amy.
A lot of people and companies pursue short term success at a cost to their long term reputation.
It is very true, what, has been written here. In this cynical world nobody cares what our inner morals compel us to do. Rather, we are surrendered by that "easy success" model of life. It is not dishonesty with other people, it is, rather, dishonesty with our own self.
This oblivion resides in everybody today and so is that turmoil of life. True success is the one found on the basis of affectionate morals for others and not on the egoistic approach towards life.
Amy, my Dad demonstrated this principle in a way I will never forget. He was an all around building contractor, specializing in masonry work. I was with him when he visited a site to bid on additional work for a customer whose two-story house he had stuccoed the week before. As we walked around the house to look at a concrete pour site, he stopped, touched me on the shoulder and said,"look at that". He pointed to a hairline crack about three feet long. He could have easily covered it with some white wash. But that's not the way he did business. He got the customer's attention, showed the defect to him and told him that he would make it right. Then he apologized that he wouldn't be able to start the concrete pour immediately, because of the crack he had to fix. We left immediately, but were back in less than an hour with ladders, tar paper, chicken wire and our tools. We stripped the entire house down to the sheathing and did the whole job over at Dad's expense! I was only twelve, and this really impressed me, but what is more impressive is the return from this incident. A neighbor who visited our customer commented on the great looking stucco job and learned what Dad had done.
Two months later, the neighbor moved about fifty miles away. The following Spring, he called Dad to stucco his home and paid our commuting expenses. By the time we finished the summer, we had stuccoed thirty homes in that town,as well as contracting to do a number of carpentry, electrical and plaster jobs.


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Millions of holiday packages will arrive on doorsteps Wednesday.
That is because it is the biggest delivery day of the year for postal workers.
An estimated 150-million items will be delivered Wednesday.
Postal workers will not be the only ones hustling.
UPS is also having a hectic day.
Officials say the service will deliver about 240 packages every second through its worldwide ground and air network.