Alyx Kellington, a retired combat photojournalist spoke at Salve Regina on March 23, 2004, in Rogers Recreation Conference Room. She spoke about the role of the media in today’s society and her experiences on the front line.

On the morning of April 24, approximately 250 athletes will arrive at the track and field facilities at Rogers High School in Newport. During the next few weeks, Special Olympics teams from around Rhode Island will be preparing for the East Bay Area Games to be hosted this year by the Salve Regina East Bay Area Games Special Olympics Committee, chaired by Carla Lyder.

If you’re searching for a job right now, you are certainly not alone. According to the United States Department of Labor, the number of unemployed persons was 8.3 million in January and the unemployment rate was 5.6 percent.

That number will create a competitive job market for graduates in the next few years. To help students prepare for the job market, the Career Development Center offers workshops and the Gateway to Success Job Fair (Mar. 31).

The play “Little Shop of Horrors” will be presented by the Salve Regina University theater department Wednesday through Sunday, March 31-April 4 at Megley Theater in Mercy Hall, on the corner of LeRoy and Lawrence avenues.

There is a new student group on campus and they want to bring political awareness to the Salve community. President, Brendan McQuade, and advisor, Sr. Virginia Walsh of the sociology department, lead the group Students for a Democratic Society (SDS).