“We’re our own little breed of people,” said junior Samantha Grover as she described the familial environment of Salve Regina University’s Politics Department. “Once we get rolling on something, it’s hard to get us to stop.”

And it was passion like that that led Grover to meet some of the White House’s top contenders for the Presidency.

No one can deny that a valuable experience for college students is to experience life far away from home. It’s courageous enough to choose a school in a different state, but to go study in a different country simply takes adventure to a whole new level.

More American students today seem to be realizing the importance of having learning experiences in foreign countries.

The 2008 Presidential race is steadily gaining speed as the months go on and with Super Tuesday in the recent past this election may be looking for the youth vote more than ever.

Youth oriented television networks like MTV have been pushing the importance of registering and voting in the fall.

The Salve community felt the effects of Hurricane Noel last weekend as windows shook and tree branches fell across wet roads. Power lines were down and the Mount Hope Bridge was closed, but inside of Ochre Court voices sang in harmony and heads turned in unison with the flipping of music book pages.

The editorial written by Ben Lieberman of The Heritage Foundation in the September 2007 issue of the Mosaic (Ozone: the hole story) deserves a rational response from someone within the Salve Regina University. As an environmental scientist I feel compelled to separate fact from fiction.