Arts and Entertainment

Acoustic Night at Wakehurst Features Up-and-Coming Artist

Acoustic Night at Wakehurst Features Up-and-Coming Artist

Activities, Arts and Entertainment, Campus November 17, 2014 at 12:00 am Comments are Disabled

By Lily Jones |  Arts and Entertainment Editor The first floor of Wakehurst, usually loud and overcrowded with hungry students, transformed into an intimate setting last Saturday at 9 pm for acoustic night, an event sponsored by the Wakehurst Student Center. Free coffee, hot chocolate, and cake balls were made available to students, who could enjoy them as they listenedRead More

Ajax uses ancient story to spark conversation on returning veterans

Ajax uses ancient story to spark conversation on returning veterans

Arts and Entertainment November 17, 2014 at 12:00 am Comments are Disabled

By Mark Benedetti | Staff Writer Ajax: A story of depression, post-traumatic stress, honor, and the trials and tribulations of a man, and his family, upon returning home after going to war. This classic story is just as applicable then as it is now, with over 118,000 cases of PTSD among deployed veterans between 2001 and 2014 (according to theRead More

Interstellar: seeing more than just stars in the night sky

Interstellar: seeing more than just stars in the night sky

Arts and Entertainment November 17, 2014 at 12:00 am Comments are Disabled

By Kristin Wilinkiewicz | Co-Editor-in-Chief In short, Interstellar was an incredible film grounded in mind-bending scientific ideas, but is surprisingly easy to process and fiercely human at its core. In fact, it’s such an amazing experience, you overlook a lot of the issues the movie has, and enjoy it for what it is; a feast for both your mind andRead More

Hydroponics is a futuristic method of agriculture.

Hydroponics On Track to be Future of Sustainable Agriculture

Arts and Entertainment November 3, 2014 at 12:00 am Comments are Disabled

By Mark Benedetti | Contributing Writer Deep beneath Hunt Hall there is a bunker-like structure with cool, brick tunnels that lead to an underground scientific laboratory run by a select group of professors and their students. They are spearheading a new technology that they hope will change the world, from the biomedical to the food we eat in Miley. It isRead More

Dr. Montgomery explores the dark side of the romances of the Guilded Age

History Professor Explores Marriage in Newport’s Guilded Age

Arts and Entertainment November 3, 2014 at 12:00 am Comments are Disabled

By Alyssa Hirkaler | Staff Writer   Salve Regina University is honored to have Dr. Maureen Montgomery hold the first position in the McGinty Distinguished Chair, named after John E. McGinty, a former trustee of Salve. This semester, Dr. Montgomery taught a one credit course titled “Gilded Age Newport”, where students learned what and who influenced Gilded Age Newport byRead More