On Sept. 29, 2009, Ricardo Lagos Escobar, former president of Chile, presented a lecture entitled “Today’s Latin American Challenges: What Lies Ahead after the Crisis?” as part of the Pell Center for International Relations and Public Policy’s lecture series.

Brand New’s latest release, “Daisy,” opens with some traditional piano, sweetly accompanied by a classic female voice singing along to the lyrics, “knowing when our last does fail, our compassion shall be met” in the opening track, “Vices.” Almost a minute and thirty seconds later, it’s interrupted by a wild guitar riff as lead singer, Jesse Lacey, begins to shout powerful, emotion-driven lyrics.

Anyone who has stepped foot in the women’s locker room lately has noticed the decorative posters and cards that have been plastered to the lockers by Salve’s field hockey team, a group of young women whose spirit and determination just might be enough to take them all the way.

On Oct. 17, 2009, the Glenna Kohl Fund for Hope will host the first Angel’s Masquerade Ball in Ochre Court at 6:30 p.m. The event is being held in memory of Glenna Kohl, a Salve Regina graduate who passed away after a three-year battle with skin cancer.

After her diagnosis in 2005, Glenna Kohl became an advocate for skin cancer awareness.

English professor, Dr. Sally Goma, discussed living as a Muslim at the Mercy Center for Spiritual Life on Sept. 30, 2009.

Goma was born in Egypt and raised as a Sunni Muslim. She came to the United States in 1995 for her education. She said that because Egypt was a secular society in her youth, religion was not strictly enforced in her household.