For the past three years, the spring semester has always been my favorite, especially around March. I looked forward to coming back after spring break for one huge reason, the announcement of the band playing the annual spring concert. Unfortunately this year, in my senior year, I found no such excitement as this is the first time in seven years (as far back as they list bands on the Salve Website) that Rodgers Recreation Center will not become a makeshift concert venue.

This past March, I had the privilege to participate in the Mercy Center for Spiritual Life’s Alternative Spring Break Mission Trip to New York City to serve New York’s homeless population. Seven students participated in the trip, accompanied by two chaperones, Cheryl Lemenager, a graduate student and Salve representative for AmeriCorps VISTA, and Phil Fiadino, campus minister.

Hype has been ruining the simplest of anticipated pleasures for as long as we can remember. At least once as a kid we have all been disappointed by a toy that we have waited to save up enough allowance to pay for. As time goes on, the falsehood of hype has induced many forms of dissatisfaction.

A 9 p.m. curfew on Saturday night, nuns saying the rosary when girls went out on the town, running down the Cliff Walk in bloomers. This is the Salve Regina that Jane Farley remembers.

But, then, Farley was a member of the pioneer class at Salve Regina in 1951 when there was a total of 53 in her freshman class and absolutely no boys.

NEWPORT R.I. – Wind farms, solar panels, home heating oil made from recycled grease. Sounds like a typical San Francisco Bay Area California crunchy dream, right? But it isn’t. Rhode Island is working towards providing residents with more renewable energy.