Mosaic

ALLENTOWN, Pa. - College students graduating in December and May are likely to be the first in a generation to enter a job market featuring double-digit unemployment. That has colleges and universities across America scrambling this fall to revamp their career-placement offerings to help new grads land jobs.

CHICAGO - Untested? No. Rushed into production? Not really. Full of substances that do harm? Hardly, and especially not compared to the dangers of the H1N1 flu virus. That is the retort of researchers, scientists, federal health authorities and others familiar with how swine flu vaccine is being made, as they listen - at times with disbelief - to the debate about it unfolding around kitchen tables and over the Internet.

Anyone who walks into Salve Regina's Megley Theatre will be surprised with anything but a black box. For the past two months, the Department of Performing Arts has been working hard to pull together the production of Shakespeare's "Much Ado About Nothing" which ran from Nov.

Although it may be hard to believe that only a few weeks remain in the semester, many students are already hard at work writing final papers and putting together presentations. For a number of seniors, thesis deadlines and business project presentations are just around the corner and for everyone else, the dread of final exams is steadily creeping up.

SRU Dance presented its fall performance "Blame it On the Boogie"on Nov. 21,2009 and Nov. 22, 2009. SRU Dance is one of the largest clubs on campus and has more than 100 performers. "Blame it On the Boogie" had 26 dances and featured a special tribute to Michael Jackson.

NEWPORT R.I. - It started as an art project gone wrong in their freshman year of college at Salve Regina University, but today Salve students Matt Maynard and Ben Aalvik have made their clothing line, SP Anchor, into a burgeoning local business. Aalvik and Maynard started making designs for fun, but later realized they could turn their hobby into a successful enterprise.