Anyone who walks into Salve Regina’s Megley Theatre will be surprised with anything but a black box. For the past two months, the Department of Performing Arts has been working hard to pull together the production of Shakespeare’s “Much Ado About Nothing” which ran from Nov.

ALLENTOWN, Pa. – College students graduating in December and May are likely to be the first in a generation to enter a job market featuring double-digit unemployment. That has colleges and universities across America scrambling this fall to revamp their career-placement offerings to help new grads land jobs.

Although it may be hard to believe that only a few weeks remain in the semester, many students are already hard at work writing final papers and putting together presentations. For a number of seniors, thesis deadlines and business project presentations are just around the corner and for everyone else, the dread of final exams is steadily creeping up.

The Mercy Center for Spiritual Life hosted its annual Fall Retreat, “Dive In!” over the weekend of Nov.6-8, 2009 at Sacred Hearts Retreat Center in Wareham, Mass.

As a participant and a member of the leadership team that planned the retreat, I am here to give a first-hand account of an incredible weekend.

On Friday, Oprah Winfrey announced that she is ending her daytime talk show because “it’s time to leave.” The earth continues to shudder.

It’s colossal news, of course. After all, who will now advise us on the proper books to read? Who will tell us what presidential candidate to support? What diets to try? What products to buy?

Without Oprah in the afternoon, won’t we all be lost?

OK, so I exaggerate .