Daily Archives: August 6, 2007

Bradley University

Bradley’s presidential candidate: Joanne Glasser

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Joanne GlasserWe don’t have to speculate any longer. The secret Bradley candidate for president is Joanne K. Glasser. The Journal Star and WEEK are making a big deal out of the fact that Bradley’s presidential candidate is a woman, as if we were living in 1957 when that would be really shocking.

She’s currently the president of Eastern Kentucky University. Here’s a little bit about her from her bio page on EKU’s website:

President Glasser, a native of Baltimore, Maryland, holds a Bachelor of Arts Degree from George Washington University; a Juris Doctorate Degree from The University of Maryland School of Law; and a Certificate from the Harvard University Graduate School of Education’s Institute of Higher Education Management.

In 2004, Glasser was a finalist for president of Illinois State University, but pulled out of the search before a decision was made.

From everything I’ve read about her, she appears to be a perfect match for Bradley. She has the education and the fund-raising skills, and students seem to like her. According to an article in the Lexington Herald-Leader, each year she invites all freshman to her house for a backyard cookout. In 2005, that was 1,800 freshman. “She estimated 75 percent attend,” the paper reported. That certainly sets her apart from Broski, who as I understand it couldn’t be visually identified by Bradley students his entire tenure.

Hopefully, if selected, she’ll come up with a creative way to help the university grow without harming surrounding neighborhoods in the process. That would also set her apart from Broski.

City of Peoria, Southern Gateway

City ready to issue license once Abud meets conditions

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Chicago developer Ahmad Abud complained to the media last week that the city wasn’t moving fast enough in getting him a liquor license for his new south side grocery store, Adams Supermarket.

Abud said, “I never expected to spend one-point-two-million and then having all these problems going through all these hard times. I was expecting that we, investors would be welcomed here. The city’s gonna help us, I mean no headache.”

But the City says he will get his liquor license and Certificate of Occupancy once he meets the conditions the City Council required and to which he agreed. City Manager Randy Oliver says that as of the last inspection, which was July 30, the following conditions have not been met:

  • Parking lot lighting does not work (no power to the lights).
  • Landscaping not complete.
  • Misc. construction items (emergency lighting, exit signs, GFI and open electrical).
  • We have also not verified operation of the security cameras.

Oliver added that the City is “prepared to reinspect and if the items are completed issue the Certificate of Occupancy and Liquor License upon completion of these items.” So it would appear that the ball is decidedly in Mr. Abud’s court.

Frankly, I don’t know what Abud is complaining about; these don’t appear to be unreasonable conditions for getting a permit; are we to believe that the requirements were any lower in Ohio or California (where Abud has other stores)? I think not.

Update: Mayor Ardis, who is also the City’s liquor commissioner, informed me that businesses “can’t get a city liquor license until they have a health department license,” and Abud doesn’t have a health department license yet.