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).

Harold Mathews, property supervisor at the Elms, one of Newport’s grandest mansions, has battled the sea nearly every day for the past 20 years. The reason? The ocean is a large concern for all those who look after the Newport mansions, especially on warm days.

A little over a month is left until the class of 2004 will walk through the gates in front of Wakehurst to begin their journey into life after college. The university, the caterers, the craftsmen, and especially the tent company have only one thing on their minds: “I hope everything goes perfectly. I hope nothing bad happens.”