Do you have qualities and talents that can contribute to the growth of the Salve community? Do you want to become more involved and make a difference in the University? If you have answered yes to these questions, then Salve is looking for you.

Salve Regina University offers many programs that give students the opportunity to volunteer at their college and hopefully make a difference.

After a week of extensive therapy and on the advice of many friends, I’m ready to admit that I was one of the 7 people who watched George W. Bush’s “State of the Union Address.” But, in my defense, I really did think it was a Saturday Night Live skit.

Like many Americans each year, I was lucky enough to travel aboard. This winter break I went, with my family, to Peru. We started in Lima, the capital, an old colonial city that now is a sprawling metropolis of eight million. Later, we moved on to the old Incan capital, Cusco, where we saw Incan ruins and later hiked the Incan trial to the massive archeological cite Machu Picchu.

Students at Salve Regina University shared how the words and actions of the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. have inspired their lives through memoirs, inspirational quotes and songs during the Martin Luther King Celebration held on Thursday, Jan. 29 at Ochre Court.

Work-study students at Salve have a little more cash in their pockets this semester, thanks to a rise in the minimum wage in Rhode Island that went into effect on January 1. The former minimum wage, $6.15 per hour, was raised by sixty cents to $6. 75 per hour.