Central Michigan

The warm weather that moved through the area Monday night was a rarity, according to the National Weather Service in Grand Rapids.

Wayne Hoepner, National Weather Service meteorologist, said weather officials were paying close attention to upcoming storms Monday night, but did not expect the weather to reach Michigan.

For businesses such as IHOP, opportunity struck at the same time as lightning.

IHOP, the International House of Pancakes, 5245 E. Pickard St., maintained power throughout Monday night and Tuesday morning - even as thousands of students, including those on Central Michigan University's campus, lost power.

City Mayor Jon Joslin has been calling for more stability at his position.

He got it Monday when the Mount Pleasant City Commission re-elected him to a second term as mayor.

“I'm excited,” Joslin said. “I appreciate the support from my fellow commissioners.

Rock band “The Guise” is not expecting to make a fortune from their performance tonight.

But making a profit never was the point.

The band, made up of CMU students, organized the performance to benefit Special Olympics Michigan.

“We are not making any money off of this and Rubbles isn't making anything either,” said Macomb senior Joe Wezner.

The Speaker Series committee has narrowed its list of speakers to bring to CMU to five or six possible candidates.

Officials would not release the candidates' names, but did say what they were looking for.

“We want the candidates to have an overall appeal to both students and faculty,” said John Fierst, Clarke Historical Library assistant professor and Speaker Series committee chair.

By Brian McLean
Senior Reporter

and Nick Persons
Staff Reporter

Snow? No.

This semester's first storm was not a blizzard - it was a rainstorm, more befitting August than January.

Monday night's storm, which turned roads into ponds and darkened much of Isabella County, left a black mark in its wake the next morning that affected 19,876 students and thousands of staff and faculty.

James Barker will lead University Health Services starting this semester.

Barker, who most recently was an executive at an Oklahoma hospital, replaces former director of more than 40 years Sarah Campbell.

He began working alongside Campbell Jan. 2; he will do so until she retires Jan.

Women's basketball coach Sue Guevara was not pleased with her team's most recent loss to Ole Miss.

Despite the fact that the Chippewas took the Rebels into overtime, losing that game meant Guevara would enter the 2008 Mid-American Conference season on a losing note.

Despite losing all three games during the third ranking period, the club hockey kept its fifth spot in the latest rankings.

CMU (10-9 overall) lost twice to Miami University, the No. 2 team in the Southeast Conference and once to No. 3 Michigan State.

“I was surprised when we didn't move down, but not shocked because there wasn't any other teams that did enough in the last ranking to move ahead of us,” said captain Craig Lipar.

The streets are flowing with water, but I slosh through them anyway because I'm already so soaked that it could hardly matter at this point.

I notice that my thin gray hooded jacket and jeans weigh 10 pounds heavier than usual as I begin to run in the general direction of my apartment.

Not many rock bands have the gall to replace real live bass guitar and drums with electronic substitutes.

And of those that do, not many can pull it off with the gusto that Idiot Pilot does on “Wolves,” its sophomore release.

While the band does feature a real drummer when they play live, their studio recordings employ instrumentation more suited to experimental electronic music.