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.

Dan Titus has one of the busiest jobs on campus. He is in charge of all of the audio and visual set-ups on campus, as well as the computers in all of the classrooms. With the constant commotion that goes down in the University Computer Las, which is located in the basement of the Salve Regina University library, Titus, assistant director of the University Computer Labs, also has what other people have on their minds this time of year.

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.

As you journey over the picturesque Claiborne Pell Bridge, you are not just crossing the Narragansett Bay. You are

about to travel back centuries, to a world of cobblestone streets, horse-drawn carriages, and the emergence of our young country into a great nation.

Flying Kites, a non-profit organization, will host a fundraiser on Thursday, April 24 from 6-9 p.m. at Sardella’s Italian Restaurant on Memorial Blvd. in Newport.

The event will raise funds for a Kenyan orphanage (run by Flying Kites) and plans for a children’s center for orphaned, abused and homeless children in Kenya.