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MICHIGAN

Rivers near flood stage

Get out the rain boots, but don’t hang up that winter jacket just yet. Melting snow and rain have caused area rivers to reach near-flood stage, prompting the National Weather Service to issue a flood warning for the Lansing area. Both the Red Cedar and Grand rivers are expected to hit flood stage sometime today.

MSU

Academic Council discusses proposed calendar changes

MSU’s financial future, the academic calendar and the Outside Speakers Policy were among many items discussed during Tuesday’s meeting of MSU’s Executive Committee of Academic Council. Provost Kim Wilcox said MSU will have to make adjustments during the next couple of years to combat the struggling economy.

MSU

Community leaders get tested at HIV event

Leaders from the East Lansing and MSU communities gathered Tuesday to emphasize the importance of HIV testing and awareness by being tested themselves. Organizations including the MSU Residence Halls Association, Black Student Alliance and ASMSU, MSU’s undergraduate student government, teamed with Michigan Equality, Olin Health Center and Lansing Area AIDS Network to host the event.

NEWS

Police Brief 02/10/09

A 32-year-old male student had five fraudulent charges made on his Visa credit card after losing his wallet on a bus Jan. 29, MSU police Sgt. Florene McGlothian-Taylor said.

NEWS

Automakers have 1 week to prove viability

A crucial deadline faced by Detroit automakers to present the federal government with plans showing they’re viable has taken a backseat to the more than $800 billion proposed federal stimulus packages, two MSU professors who follow the industry said.

NEWS

Red, white & green

Criminal justice sophomore Troy Walters, a U.S. Army veteran, spent a year in Iraq when he was 20, but he had always planned on coming to MSU afterward. “The whole time I was in Iraq, especially in 2005 when the basketball team was in the Final Four, I was paying attention to that,” he said.

MSU

MSU recruits Iraqi students with new program

Enrollment by Iraqi students at MSU almost tripled in one year from 2007-08, according to data from the Office of the Registrar. And the number could continue to climb if a new Iraqi government scholarship program, which would send 10,000 Iraqi students abroad, is approved by Iraq’s Parliament.

MICHIGAN

Digital delay has its downsides

Consumer confusion and patchy communications among emergency responders are among the downsides to last week’s announcement the transition from analog TV signals to digital will be delayed to June 12.