Times are changing for Campus Ministry. With the addition of Philip Fiadino and Michael Joy to the staff, the structure of the organization has been altered to revolve around prayer, community building and service. This new organization, what Fiadino describes as the three foundations of Campus Ministry, were implemented in a desire to strengthen the focus of the group.

Students and faculty eagerly pull up their sleeves for a blood drive on Feb. 7 and Feb. 8, raising 94 pints to help people in need.

The blood drive was put on by the American Red Cross. Salve Students and faculty exceeded expectations of the goal set by the Red Cross of 35 to 45 pints of blood, by more than doubling that amount with a grand total of 94 pints.

The road stretches beyond us as my twin and I drive toward the ocean. We let the music fill our cracked hearts. Another fight, another slammed door, another tear shed, and another dysfunctional family born. Kariana turns the volume up higher and we let the music seep through us because there are no words for our numbness and there is no destination for our tears, no other warm home to walk into, just each other, the road and the ocean waves.

Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. once said, “All progress is precarious, and the solution of one problem brings us face to face with another problem.”

If you have listened to sports talk radio or turned on ESPN over the past month, you have most certainly heard that for the first time in history, two African-American coaches played against each other in a Super Bowl.

Call me cynical, but lately, I’ve noticed the world I so readily pay allegiance to shift among the threshold of fear under the oddest of circumstances.