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Upcoming Social Events

Fall Event with Special Guest Matt Forte
The Chicago club will host an event to welcome Chicago Bears running back Matt Forte (Freeman ‘08) to the Chicago alumni network in late October.  Additional details of the event will follow as they are confirmed.     

Tulane-Related Service Opportunities

Tulane Career Services – Tulane Student Career Mentoring
The Tulane Career Services Center is seeking Chicago alumni to act as career mentors to current Tulane students as they transition into the Chicago workforce.  To become involved or to receive further information, please contact Tom McCauley (tmccauley@meritcapital.com).   

Minds Matter – High School Student Mentoring
Minds Matter is a not-for-profit organization that brings high-achieving and motivated high school students from low-income families together with dedicated mentors to achieve academic excellence and expand educational horizons.  The organization is looking for new, enthusiastic mentors to join it as it double in size this year.  All mentors are young, college-educated professionals who work in Chicago.  For information please visit www.mindsmatter.org or e-mail chicago_volunteers@mindsmatter.org.        

New Orleans Matters
- The acclaimed documentary, Trouble the Water, starts a regular Chicago run at Landmark's Century Centre, 2828 N. Clark, 773-509-4949.  The Times-Picayune gives the film 4 stars.  Read the review here: http://blog.nola.com/mikescott/2008/09/postk_doc_trouble_the_water_is.html
- In a September 13 article entitled, "Reflections: New Orleans and China," New York Times architecture critic Nicholas Ouroussoff contrasts the successful urban planning on display at the Beijing Olympics with the lack of visionary urban planning that still plagues the recovery of post-Katrina New Orleans.   Read the full article at this link: http://www.nytimes.com/2008/09/14/weekinreview/14ouroussoff.html?scp=1&sq=New%20Orleans%20China&st=cse
 
- In August 2008, the grassroots advocacy group, Levees.org, released a 10-minute video entitled, The Katrina Myth: The Truth About a Thoroughly Unnatural Disaster.  View it here:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wln_iq5bc8k 
 
- In August 2008, the Brookings Institution Metropolitan Policy Program and the Greater New Orleans Community Data Center released the third anniversary edition of The New Orleans Index, tracking benchmarks of the recovery of New Orleans and the metropolitan area.  The report indicates that "Greater New Orleans approaches the end of its third year of recovery from a position of strength, with the vast majority of its pre-storm population and jobs. But recovery trends have slowed in the past year as tens of thousands of blighted properties, lack of affordable housing for essential workers, and thin public services continue to plague the region."   Estimates indicate that the metro area has recovered 72 percent of its pre-Katrina households and nearly 90 percent of its sales tax revenues, although the population has been redistributed geographically, with household counts in some areas numbering less than half of the pre-Katrina totals.
 
Read a 23-page summary of the findings at this link:
http://gnocdc.s3.amazonaws.com/NOLAIndex/ESNewOrleansIndexAug08.pdf
Or read an 84-page report with data tables at this link: 
http://gnocdc.s3.amazonaws.com/NOLAIndex/NewOrleansIndexAug08.pdf

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