NEWPORT, RI- Exhausted students roam the campus with coffee in their hands unknowingly making matters worse.

A long line forms at Jazzman’s café as students rush to grab their coffees before and after classes just to stay awake. While a student places an order she rummages through her purse to gather enough change to pay for her latte.

Mosaic correspondent Christina Donovan is blogging the inauguration from Washington, D.C., this week.

Check out her blog by clicking on “blogs” in the left-hand navigation bar of Mosaic’s home page.

As World AIDS Day 2008 approaches, I look back at my experiences as I, along with thousands of others, joined the band Hanson on their quest to “walk around the world” to raise awareness

of AIDS in Africa.

I have been a Hanson fan for over 11 years. Yes, that’s right I said Hanson, as in “MMMBOP” Hanson.

What is that jazz music playing in Newport? Maybe it is the MSD Quintet, a local jazz band. Four of its members are Salve faculty,

including bassist Peter Davis, the music department chair. Michael Johnson, band founder and keyboardist, teaches “Small Jazz Combo” and “Jazz Piano/Theory.

Zealous Twilight saga fanatics rushed home minutes after Breaking Dawn’s midnight release on August 2nd, eager to experience the concluding novel of the series.

Stephenie Meyer’s bestselling series breaks ground, incorporating the typical adolescent

vampire obsession with the dark side in a fashion that takes the entire situation a hop too far.