SOUTH PADRE ISLAND, Texas- As tens of thousands of students make spring-break visits to south Texas, a resurgence of drug-related violence across the border in northern Mexico is forcing the U.S. and Mexico to consider how to court these and other tourists.

A member of Congress making $162,100 a year probably has little comprehension of how difficult it would be to live on less than one-15th of that amount.

That cognition chasm appears to be especially wide and deep for many Republican members of Congress.

Kat Anderson may just have the dream job of all tennis fans. Anderson has worked at the International Tennis Hall of Fame for six years. Being a tennis player herself, Anderson is around tennis all day; she even gets chances to meet some pros, like Serena Williams, (who ranked #1 tennis player in the world in 2002).

In applying to college, Scott Fitzgerald chose to apply to only three schools as opposed to Jenna Ford, who applied to eight schools. The difference between these students was that Fitzgerald paid his own application fees while Ford’s application fees were paid by her parents.

Mosaic’s Senior of the Week is Liz Rossi.

MOSAIC: Where are you from?

LIZ: Bristol, RI

MOSAIC: What is your major/minor?

LIZ: I am double majoring in theatre and secondary education

MOSAIC: How many plays have you been in at Salve?

LIZ: I have been in five plays at Salve.