Being so far from home in a new environment is one of the scariest things in life. You feel uncomfortable, like you don’t belong. You have no family or friends to turn to for advice and you feel alone. You know some people on campus but you’re not sure if you can quite trust them to be there for you yet.

I love the HBO series Sex and the City. Carrie Bradshaw, a well-known New York City columnist writes about relationships. Even though I’m a humble writer in Newport, I’d like to start this feature off in Bradshaw fashion.

As Valentine’s Day approaches and stores stock up on chocolate, stuffed animals and candy; I can’t help but wonder.

Four Salve Regina students are winners of the university’s World Youth Day competition. Each student will receive $2,300 grants for the expenses of attending World Youth Day 2008 festivities July 15-20 in Sydney, Australia.

Ian Kerr ’08, Elissa Slason ’08 , Maura O’Toole ’09 and Katherine Shaw ’10 were the competition winners.

The 2008 Presidential race is steadily gaining speed as the months go on and with Super Tuesday in the recent past this election may be looking for the youth vote more than ever.

Youth oriented television networks like MTV have been pushing the importance of registering and voting in the fall.

WSRU Seahawk Nation, the university’s own Internet radio station, features a plethora of genres so one can rock out to all kinds of music, laugh along to comedy, and get play-by-play action when live sports are broadcast onto the air.

Student run WSRU radio station features “Real Hip Hop” as DJ’s “Aladdin aka Mowgli”, “Jae Radd”, “B-Love” and ” Big Rob aka Chicken Grease” (Kevin Varkey ’10, Jarad Grossi ’10, Bryan Amritt ’09, and Robert Toribio’09 respectively) light up the airwaves on Tuesday nights from 9 until 11.