NEWPORT, RI- Thousands of sparkling white lights illuminate the night sky, among evergreen and wreaths placed outside the entrance.

Once inside the building, pearls are everywhere, wrapped in bright red and white flowers shaped like snowballs, mixed with shimmering snowflakes, white branches, and evergreen, capturing the holiday atmosphere.

NEWPORT-Health Services has contributed to the health care of Salve Regina students since the establishment of the university, yet few know of the many significant

programs and events that Health Services provides.

A Salve Regina University graduate herself, Mary Connell, director of Health

Services, has worked for the university for 25 years.

So I get home from school, work, or errands one day (I have no idea where I was and I guess it was probably Nov. 1, 2, or 3) and walk upstairs.

“Did you see the letter we got?” my roommate asks.

“No.”

“It’s in the bathroom downstairs.”

Curious location for a letter I think, but I go back downstairs, into the bathroom, expecting a noise violation or something equally horrible.

Imagine the most phenomenal dancer you have ever seen perform. Multiply that one master of movement by 32 and you have the ensemble cast of Twyla Tharp and Billy Joel’s Movin’ Out. It is a show that cannot be explained by words from the English language, for there aren’t words expressive or deserving enough of the quality of show seen by an enthusiastic crowd at the Providence Performing Arts Center Wednesday, November 29th at 7:30 p.

The World Series is over, the basketball season is getting underway and football is approaching crunch time in anticipation for the Superbowl. College football is where the action is at right now. As Christmas break approaches so do the NCAA College Bowl games.