PROVIDENCE R.I. – The audience applauded loudly on Mar. 30, 2009 when Brown University’s President Ruth J. Simmons introduced the former Prime Minster of Italy and former president of the European Commission, Romano Prodi, to talk about the state of Europe in today’s world.

As a college student, naturally I am all about pinching pennies. I work two part-time minimum wage jobs and am searching to get a third. Between insurance money, gas, credit card debt and student loans, I can barely find a couple bucks to spend on a fresh Dunkin Donuts’ coffee.

Salve Regina is helping to bring dancing dreams alive. “The Let Loose Dance Troupe,” sponsored by Salve’s CEC chapter and the SRU Dance Club, offers hour long inclusive dance lessons, free and open to the public. The troupe meets in the Antone Center dance studio Tuesdays at 3 p.

Just last week on Mar. 2, 2009, history was made in California, but it is a day that will be remembered with mourning, anger and hurt. Three Oakland officers were fatally shot and a forth was left brain dead and later died from his injuries, all at the hand of a parole violator pulled over for a routine traffic stop.

The crowd piled in and took their seats in the small, but intimate Megley Theatre as they waited for the large production of A Little Night Music. The cast of 20 controlled the stage from beginning to end, and the play was a complete success.

A Little Night Music is based on a book by Hugh Wheeler, and was adapted into musical form by Stephen Sondheim.