Cracks: LSU is monitoring the parking lot behind the Nicholson Gateway apartment complex on Skip Bertman Drive after a large area of asphalt broke down because of a depressions in the pavement as a result of high river levels, WAFB-TV reports. LSU and the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers have moved vehicles from that area and barricaded the lot after cars began to sink into depressions in the pavement. Read the full story.
Translator training: UNO is launching a new non-degree program aimed at preparing students for careers as professional translators and interpreters of Spanish in both legal and health care fields. The university says its Department of English and Foreign Languages is accepting applications for admission into its new Certificate Program in Translation and Interpreting. Read the full story.
Not again: IHOP is back at it again, after briefly changing its name to IHOB (for International House of Burgers) last year in a much-mocked publicity stunt. Now, as Fast Company reports, IHOP is keeping its acronym the same, with the “P” for “pancakes” being switched out with another “P” word. What that new word will be is anyone’s guess. Read the full story.
