Archive for December, 2009

Campus Coffee Craze

Uncategorized December 22, 2009 at 12:00 am Comments are Disabled

At 9:40 a.m. Jazzman’s Café in O’Hare goes from the quiet conversations of few to the dull roar of many as classes begin to let out. With hands in pockets, purses and backpacks, students and professors line up to place their orders. Sounds of smoothies being made and milk being steamed into foam can be heard echoing throughout the room as a small crowd of customers wait for their personal concoctions to be finished.

Don’t Text and Drive

Don’t Text and Drive

Uncategorized December 22, 2009 at 12:00 am Comments are Disabled

If u r guilty of txting while drving, u mite want 2 think twice b4 u take ur eyes off the road. You may think that typing in this type of text shorthand will only cost you a few seconds, but those few seconds can cost you your life, or a fine for breaking the law.

Will the Wheels Keep Turning?

Will the Wheels Keep Turning?

Uncategorized December 22, 2009 at 12:00 am Comments are Disabled

Newport, R.I.- Jay Nippert, a Salve Regina University security officer, still remembers that day in 1988 when he was skateboarding in Freebody Park on Middleton Avenue in Newport. It was a sunny and warm day, the perfect conditions for skateboarding. As he was enjoying his skateboard a cop passed by Nippert, got out and ripped the skateboard out from under his feet giving him a ticket and a court date.

Students Overcrowd Library During Finals

Uncategorized December 22, 2009 at 12:00 am Comments are Disabled

It is not surprising to any veteran Salve student to experience extreme over-crowding at McKillop library during finals week and the week preceding it. Friends and classmates often need to plan ahead in grabbing a table before none are left. When times become so desperate, some students resort to taking advantage of the Newport Public library or even find some haunts downtown, like Empire, which often takes on extended hours for the Salve finals week.

Disney Raises Brows With New Princess Movie

Disney Raises Brows With New Princess Movie

Uncategorized December 22, 2009 at 12:00 am Comments are Disabled

Most Salve students can admit to having childhoods consisted of watching Disney Princess films within a cozy living room. It’s true; Disney highly dominated the 1990s. It is almost impossible for me personally to reminisce growing up in Bristol, R.I. without “Aladdin’s” “A Whole New World” echoing in my head.