Everyone knows that the holiday season is a time to be with your loved ones. It is a period to reflect on the past year of gifts and prepare for another year filled with unexpected treasures. As the year winds down, department stores gear up for crazy shoppers and the university prepares for celebrations of peace.

Next year around this time you’ll be able to cast your vote for the next President of the United States. Are you ready? In the United States, 42,834,082 people fall between the ages of 18 to 30, only 27,913,813 of them are registered to vote. With these alarming statistics it has become obvious that many young adults are not politically active.

The Viennese Waltz, Tango, Cha Cha Cha, Paso Doble, Jive, Foxtrot, Rumba, Samba, and the Quickstep. When you normally think of those dances you don’t think of them as hip or the kinds of dances young people would be interested in. You usually picture American youth in the dance clubs grinding and shaking their booty or hip hop dancing.

‘Tis the season when the holidays are approaching, festive music fills radio waves, and people begin to feel the spirit of the season. What makes the Christmas season as joyous and exciting from year to year remains a mystery. There is always a certain degree of magic that can be felt and experienced throughout the holiday months.

Salve Regina’s efforts to go ‘green’ is making great strides as their advisory group kicks off their environmental campaign by turning their handwritten plans into actions bringing closer their hopes of a more sustainable future.

Assistant professor of Biology and Biomedical Science, Dr.