Mosaic’s Senior of the Week is Liz Rossi.

MOSAIC: Where are you from?

LIZ: Bristol, RI

MOSAIC: What is your major/minor?

LIZ: I am double majoring in theatre and secondary education

MOSAIC: How many plays have you been in at Salve?

LIZ: I have been in five plays at Salve.

In applying to college, Scott Fitzgerald chose to apply to only three schools as opposed to Jenna Ford, who applied to eight schools. The difference between these students was that Fitzgerald paid his own application fees while Ford’s application fees were paid by her parents.

Kat Anderson may just have the dream job of all tennis fans. Anderson has worked at the International Tennis Hall of Fame for six years. Being a tennis player herself, Anderson is around tennis all day; she even gets chances to meet some pros, like Serena Williams, (who ranked #1 tennis player in the world in 2002).

Almost everything about “Fat Actress” is crazily, rudely and recklessly over the top. It’s not just hilarious, it’s also fearless, going where no woman has gone before – or, more to the point, no woman the size and shape of Kirstie Alley.

Alley’s dimensions, which wouldn’t bring a second glance if she worked in a school or an office, are considered shockingly inappropriate – no, make that indecent – for a TV and movie star.

WASHINGTON- The Senate on Monday defeated two proposals to raise the minimum wage, in a test of muscle over what’s expected to be a yearlong struggle to increase an income floor that’s gone unchanged for nine years.

A Democratic proposal to raise the rate by $5.