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Campus Crest, a national developer of first-class housing and lifestyle tailored to meet the needs of students who desire an alternative to traditional apartments and dormitories, is adding staff and promoting from within to meet its expanding business. While many companies are experiencing high turnover and the hit of cutbacks and layoffs,

Campus Crest continues to grow and strengthen in numbers and in quality.
Promotions include: Controller, Heather McCormack, promoted to Vice President of Administration; Fixed Asset Accountant, Emily McVann, promoted to Controller; Sales Manger for the Grove at Asheville, NC, Mel Bernard, promoted to General Manager; General Manager for the Grove at Mobile AL, Will Berry, promoted to Area Manager; Business Office Manager for the Grove at Mobile, AL, Ricki Glenn, promoted to General Manager; and Sales Manger for the Mobile, AL, Jason Young, promoted to General Manager for the Grove at Troy, AL.

New additions include: Treasury and Investor Reporting Manager, Matt Mahoney; Real Estate Transaction Manager, Joel Bartis; Roving Sales Manager, Amanda Stewart; General Manager of the Grove at Witchita, KS, Megan Otto; General Manager of the Grove at Jonesboro, AR, Julie Smith Maxwell; and Vice President of Leasing, Yvette St. Pierre.

“Campus Crest’s new dream team has considerable experience,” said co-founder Mike Hartnett. “These vital new additions and people who have just been promoted all possess complementary skill sets and believe in the focused vision of Campus Crest.”

Currently, Campus Crest’s properties, known as the Grove, provide fully-loaded living facilities for college students in Alabama, Georgia, New Mexico, North Carolina, Texas, Colorado, Kansas, Arkansas, and Washington. Additional locations will be developed later this year and 2009 in with plans to expand into the Northeast and Western parts of the country along with growing its presence in the Southeast and Midwest.

About Campus Crest and The Grove: Campus Crest is a vertically-integrated student housing company based in Charlotte, NC. Through its wholly-owned Subsidiaries, Campus Crest Development, Campus Crest Construction and Campus Crest Real Estate Management, it delivers one of the best student housing products in the United States. Through its brand, the Grove, [www.gogrove.com], its projects are both amenity rich and have progressive lifestyle programming to help build the total sense of community.

A twenty-four year old Wheaton, Illinois resident was arrested for making e-mail threats against the University of Illinois-Chicago campus. Mahtab Shirani was nabbed on Tuesday by members of the Chicago FBI’s Joint Terrorism Task Force (JTTF), according to John W. Richardson, Chief of the University Police Department.

Shirani was charged in a criminal complaint filed in federal court in Chicago with one count of making threats through use of interstate commerce, which is a felony offense.

According to the police complaint, an individual subsequently identified as Shirani, who is a student at the University, sent an anonymous e-mail to a university administrator threatening a repeat of the shooting incident that had taken place the previous day at Northern Illinois University . The threat stated that a group of five individuals would carry out the attack sometime during the spring 2008 semester. However, the caller failed to give a reason for making the threat.

Subsequent investigation by the university’s police officers determined that the threatening e-mail was sent from a computer in the campus computer laboratory. It was also determined the user ID for the computer in question was assigned to the suspect, Shirani.

Further investigation eventually led to the identification of Shirani as the suspect responsible for sending the threatening e-mail.

Shirani, a Muslim woman, appeared before US Magistrate Judge Nan R. Nolan in Chicago , on Tuesday afternoon, at which time she was formally charged. She was released on bond, pending her next scheduled court appearance.

If convicted of the charge filed against her, Shirani faces a possible sentence of up to 10 years incarceration.

In announcing this arrest, university officials commended the campus police department and the administrative staff for the prompt and professional manner in which the threat was handled and subsequently investigated.

“The school’s response to this threat not only led to the identification and arrest of the person responsible but also prevented widespread panic from sweeping the campus. The UIC community should be justifiably proud of their campus police force,” said Robert Grant, Special Agent-in-Charge of the Chicago office of the Federal Bureau of Investigation.

The Chicago FBI’s Joint Terrorism Task Force is comprised of investigators and officers from fifteen federal, state and local law enforcement agencies, whose combined resources and expertise are used to investigate and prevent potential terrorist incidents.

Jim Kouri, CPP is currently fifth vice-president of the National Association of Chiefs of Police and he’s a staff writer for the New Media Alliance (thenma.org). Kouri also serves as political advisor for Emmy and Golden Globe winning actor Michael Moriarty.

He’s former chief at a New York City housing project in Washington Heights nicknamed “Crack City” by reporters covering the drug war in the 1980s. In addition, he served as director of public safety at a New Jersey university and director of security for several major organizations. He’s also served on the National Drug Task Force and trained police and security officers throughout the country. Kouri writes for many police and security magazines including Chief of Police, Police Times, The Narc Officer and others. He’s a news writer for TheConservativeVoice.Com and PHXnews.com. He’s also a columnist for AmericanDaily.Com, MensNewsDaily.Com, MichNews.Com, and he’s syndicated by AXcessNews.Com. He’s appeared as on-air commentator for over 100 TV and radio news and talk shows including Oprah, McLaughlin Report, CNN Headline News, MTV, Fox News, etc. His book Assume The Position is available at Amazon.Com. Kouri’s own website is located at http://jimkouri.us