JULIAN WYLLIE | Columnist

President James Danko may not want to admit this, but he is a businessman.

Should students be worried or concerned, frightened or skeptical?

Yes, they should, but not for reasons that you think.

Students should question if Butlers leader is considering their opinions when the university decides to make drastic changes.

In 10 to 15 years, Danko wants students to look back and believe their degrees are more prestigious and nationally recognized.

We need to make sure that we are up there with the other well-known, residential, private universities, Danko said.

Danko said that elite class of universities includes Georgetown, Wake Forest and Villanova.

Achieving this will not be easy, and students will experience growing pains as the university continues to make changes.

I think there will be inconveniences when new construction breaks ground in the coming months. I expect the cost of attending Butler University will also have to rise to fund any additions to campus.

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Not content to cater just to Southern Californians, the Rincon Indian tribe is getting ready to debut an ambitious $160 million expansion of its Harrahs-branded resort that it hopes will help elevate it as a world-class destination.

Now at 1,065 rooms, the newly named Harrahs Resort Southern California on Valley Center Road just south of Highway 76 will be the fourth-biggest hotel property in the county, just edging out the Sheraton Hotel and Marina on Harbor Island. It will also be the largest American Indian casino/resort in California in terms of hotel rooms, said Bo Mazzetti, chairman of the Rincon Band of Luiseo Indians.

The North County resorts new name, which no longer includes a reference to the Rincon reservation, will also go a long way toward more widely marketing the property, said Mazzetti.

This was a business decision made by the full council, he explained. If were going to do what we set out to do, which is to be a world-class facility and attract people from Russia, China, the United States, you have to have something attractive, something that people will understand. How many people are familiar with Valley Center or Rincon?

The Rincon band decided to move forward with the project only after careful research and monitoring of occupancy rates, which have hovered around 97 percent year-round. Mazzetti noted that the resorts pool parties had become so popular the resort had to turn people away.

The debut last July of the hotels swim-up bar and a 400-foot-long lazy river pool, which circulates through grottos and waterfalls, marked the first phase of the renovation. The Baja-inspired ritas Cantina also opened at that time, and due to open next month is a wine and craft beer bar called Corked, which has a 15,260-square-foot patio and will have live music.

Corked is the resort's newest wine and craft beer bar, which is due to open in April. Nelvin C. Cepeda

The resorts biggest additions, though, are a new 21-story tower opening in April with 403 guest rooms and a 53,000-square-foot convention and entertainment venue that can accommodate up to 2,200 in concert-style seating. Its part of the resorts effort to expand its customer base and better market itself as a destination not only for leisure travelers but also for smaller conventions and meetings, said Janet Baronio, regional president and general manager of the resort.

We began to see customer visitation pick up and move to a higher level and customer spending and visitation from outlying areas also began to pick up, Baronio said. We draw a lot of customers from Southern California counties, and we have national customers, as well. As that continued to grow, those discussions about the master plan continued to evolve to the point that now is the time to move forward.

The last major expansion and renovation was in 2004 two years after the resort opened when the Rincon band spent $168 million on a new 465-room hotel tower, parking garage and spa; an expansion of the pool area and a remodel of its smaller Garden Tower. Come this fall, an additional $20 million will be invested in a renovation of the hotels other larger tower.

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Imagine paying $1 million or more for a home -- and then destroying it.

That's what's happening in some upscale Bay Area communities as homeowners and wealthy buyers have no interest in upgrading aging houses but instead want to start from scratch and build all-new custom homes stocked with the latest features.

While the demolition and rebuilding trend is heaviest on the Peninsula and the most affluent parts of Santa Clara County, it extends to East Bay communities as well -- anywhere it makes more sense financially to tear down the existing structure and start fresh. That includes sought-after neighborhoods with no vacant lots, where prices of small, aging 1950s-era houses have soared.

Interviews with architects, contractors and homeowners make clear that tear-downs are becoming more common.

"We're wrecking 3,000-square-foot houses and erecting 14,000-foot houses," said Hal Nelson of O. Nelson & Son excavating and demolition company in Woodside. He said he has 20 tear-downs scheduled in Los Altos, Palo Alto, Menlo Park and Atherton. Business was up 20 percent last year, and up 15 percent in 2012, he said.

Last week, Nelson supervised the destruction of a 2,600-square-foot suburban rancher in Menlo Park as owners James and Teresa Bergeron and their four children watched from across the street.

As an excavator's demolition claw bit into the roof, the Bergeron kids cheered. In the new house, they'll each have their own bedroom.

"It started as a remodel," Teresa Bergeron said. "We were going to add one more bedroom."

They lived in the house for two years trying to make it work. But after finding major termite damage even after a $5,000 tenting, problems with heating and plumbing, and a persistent tobacco smell from a previous owner, they decided to tear it down.

A full-blown remodeling job with a second story would have been just over $1 million, and it wouldn't have been their dream home. Their new 3,551-square-foot home will have four bedrooms and a 1,884-square-foot basement. James Bergeron declined to say how much it will cost.

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