Students and professors at Salve Regina University predict that student

turnout at midterm elections will not be as high as during presidential

elections.

“College students are not interested in local politics,” said Dr. Clark

Merrill, a political science professor.

It’s official. John Mayer no longer sounds like a boy band with a guitar. Oh sure, he’s still got the guitar, but for the sake of everyone who was forced to listen to “Your Body Is a Wonderland” and “No Such Thing” 13, 000 times a day for the past couple years, he’s dropped the candy coated pop that made him famous.

With the cool October air, this fall also brings a surprise in Salve Regina’s Megley Theatre. Dracula, adapted by Pip Simmons and directed by Alan Hawkridge, will be performed Wednesday, October 25 to Sunday, October 29 and Thursday, November 2 to Sunday, November 5.

Five years after its launch, the ‘war on terrorism’ is still a sensitive topic among students and faculty at Salve Regina University.

“We did what we had to do. I don’t think that it would be right if we left [Iraq],” said Jessica Delucia, a junior at Salve Regina University.

The sun was out and the monarch butterflies were swarming Brenton Point in Newport, RI that day. I was in a rush to get to work but I was stunned by something I had not seen in a long time on the Salve Regina campus-someone who looked unique. A beautiful blonde in a polka dotted dress riding a bicycle with a basket across the library lawn.