Sunday, December 14, marked final exam day for Salve’s directing students as they presented a scene from a play of choice to a kind yet rigid audience of teachers, family members and friends.

Collectively these six students put together a production of six scenes from six completely different works. They dedicated their production to their hard-working and dedicated teacher, Dr. Shirley Girard.

While the fall semester draws to a close, seniors are busy with finals and contemplating where their future as graduates may lead them. How many seniors can say, though, that they’ve already signed a contract sealing part of their fate for the next four years?

Seniors in the Reserve Officers’ Training Corps (ROTC) like Cadet Capt. Danielle Dippolino can be sure, since she has already signed a contract with the U.S. Army.

BAGHDAD, Iraq _ A top-secret report prepared for the American military command in Iraq just before Saddam Hussein was caught predicted that guerrilla attacks would increase after his arrest, as more anti-Saddam Iraqis joined the resistance.

The report argued that seizing Saddam could provoke more attacks by making the insurgency more acceptable to Sunni Muslims who weren’t members of Saddam’s Baath Party elite, according to senior administration officials who’ve seen it.

Rapper Eminem is in hot water.

So what else is new?

Well it’s official: We’ve got Saddam Hussein, and the war in Iraq is ov…. um well we’ve got Saddam Hussein. I know this because I woke up Sunday morning, and he was at the dentists live on CNN. Apparently, old crazy beard has been living in a hole in Tikrit, the town he grew up in, in Iraq.