While so much of our lives are based on competition, Salve Regina University and Bryant University students were not competing, but instead singing together in harmony.

On Saturday, Nov. 13 Salve Regina’s music department joined with Bryant University’s Chorus to perform the seventh annual “Voices in Harmony” choral concert.

There is more to pursuing a degree in English at Salve Regina University than just reading Shakespeare. The English major helps to expand creativity, it teaches students how to effectively tell stories and it helps students gain a sense of who they are and what they want out of life through studying the literary classics.

The entertainment maverick Ke$ha rose to stardom in 2009 when her debut album, “Animal”, hit charts globally, reaching No. 1. She is best heard blasting out of car windows – but perhaps you may have even met her – or several of her, for that matter, while out trick-or-treating this Sunday evening.

Picture a typical hospital wing: plain white walls, no windows, bustling nurses and the doctor passing through on a tight schedule. Add a multitude of seemingly anonymous patients who have no sense of what is happening around them and who may or may not be talking to themselves.

The goblins were twisting, the witches were laughing and the ghosts were boogieing down. The fruit punch was flowing, the candy was being eaten and the costumes were a spectrum of color and fright at Salve Regina University’s annual fall semester Halloween Dance.