Salve Regina is helping to bring dancing dreams alive. “The Let Loose Dance Troupe,” sponsored by Salve’s CEC chapter and the SRU Dance Club, offers hour long inclusive dance lessons, free and open to the public. The troupe meets in the Antone Center dance studio Tuesdays at 3 p.

It’s a pretty harsh world out there. Even harsher now that big chains of stores are closing, multi-million dollar companies are requiring bailouts and job opportunities are shrinking everyday. Living in this type of economy is not something that our generation is entirely ready for.

PROVIDENCE R.I. – The audience applauded loudly on Mar. 30, 2009 when Brown University’s President Ruth J. Simmons introduced the former Prime Minster of Italy and former president of the European Commission, Romano Prodi, to talk about the state of Europe in today’s world.

Nestled among the historic winding cobblestone streets of Newport, R.I., is the quaint European- inspired coffee shop, Spring Street Espresso. Noted by the clientele as home to the best quality cup of coffee in town, owner Jack MacDonald has raised the standards for everything from espresso to lattés.

As a college student, naturally I am all about pinching pennies. I work two part-time minimum wage jobs and am searching to get a third. Between insurance money, gas, credit card debt and student loans, I can barely find a couple bucks to spend on a fresh Dunkin Donuts’ coffee.