Dr. Khalil Habib stands before his class in a suit coat, blue Oxford, red tie and pressed khaki slacks. The sun generously beams through the windows lining a classroom on the second floor of O’Hare Academic Center. The building overlooks a vast, green lawn extending to the historic Newport Cliff Walk and drops down to the clear blue of the Narragansett Bay.

A few steamy showers run, toilets flush, and half-awake college girls prep themselves for morning classes. Crisp morning air fills the Miley Hall second floor bathroom and blends in with the smell of sanitizer and soap.

Maria Lourdes Goncalves is busy at work sudsing the bathroom with a green and yellow sponge, and grunts as she scrapes down the walls of the vacant showers.

College tuition. Two words that frighten any parent or student during the process of applying to schools or even continuing education at any given college for the next year. It all comes down to finding the right fit for any individual student, regardless of the tuition cost.

Newport-Matt Manchester sits behind the register, reading the newspaper, looking forward to the next person that comes in for a look. Ethnic Concepts, located on Broadway in Newport, R.I., features merchandise quite different than your regular shop. Originally opened up as a tobacco/smoke accessories store, Ethnic Concepts has expanded its range of business throughout the years.

Students will be given the opportunity to take a much-needed breather from all the hoopla of college exams. The student-run organization VIRGO, or Volunteers in Reaching Out and Guiding Others, will host a Stressbuster event for Salve Regina students on Monday May 3, 2010 from 10 to 12 p.