Today, collegiate sports are highly competitive, from Division 1 to Division 3. For Nicole Fecteau, a junior on Salve Regina University’s women’s lacrosse team, this means a nearly year round conditioning and training program. After a summer of running distance and sprints on her own, Fecteau looks forward to training with her team.

Pushing his blonde, shaggy hair out of his eyes, Andrew McMahon, 25, perfectly tuned his instrument. Piano rock, as many of his fans have dubbed his style, is what Jack’s Mannequin is all about. Six hours before his performance, on the stage constructed by students earlier that morning, McMahon sound checked the keys of his piano.

By: Kristen Tomaiolo Posted In: Multimedia Whether it’s in the classroom, on stage, or at a piano at 10 o’clock at night, music is always happening in Salve Regina University’s Music Department.

As April is half way over and May is looming ahead many seniors are starting to feel mixed emotions. They are nostalgic and sad to leave Salve Regina University, the place that has been their home for four years, and the friends they have made here that have become family.

When politics professor Mary Anne Clarke attempts to explain the multitude of young voters who have become politically active this year, she immediately points towards political campaigning.

With popular youth-oriented television programs like MTV encouraging younger viewers to vote through promotion of hip media campaigns such as Rock the Vote, younger generations have been more apt to want to learn.