At 9:40 a.m. Jazzman’s Café in O’Hare goes from the quiet conversations of few to the dull roar of many as classes begin to let out. With hands in pockets, purses and backpacks, students and professors line up to place their orders. Sounds of smoothies being made and milk being steamed into foam can be heard echoing throughout the room as a small crowd of customers wait for their personal concoctions to be finished.

NEWPORT, R.I.-The seaside view, beautiful mansions, and cobblestoned downtown cannot be beat. Salve Regina’s picturesque New England campus is pulling in students from all over the United States.

This fall semester, students have transferred from the University of Maine, Worchester State College, and San Diego State University, to name a few.

You go to this website multiple times a day, and before you log in you see, “Facebook: A place for friends.” Sometimes when I catch this, I giggle to myself. Is it really? It seems to be more like “Facebook: A vulnerable place where your enemies can harass you” or “Facebook: A place to upload pictures of every party you’ve ever been to.

Guy Ritchie’s sometimes entertaining, mostly uneven reboot of Sherlock Holmes drops us into the universe of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s famed detective Holmes (Robert Downey Jr.) and his trusted friend Dr. Watson (Jude Law) with little in the way of explanation.

During my last trip to FYE, I noticed a “New Moon” poster and thought nothing of it. As I proceeded into the store, I noticed an entire shrine devoted to the “Twilight” series, including candy hearts with a picture of Edward on the box, life-size cardboard cut-outs of each character and t-shirts galore.