By Julia Mericle News Editor St.Bona.Venue, an initiative of the Office of Events and Conferences, plans to attract more people to campus through venue rentals, leadership and professional development, conferences, speaker series, concerts and camps, according to Jennifer Pulver, event sales and marketing manager. “We don’t want Bonaventure to be as removed, to be set… Keep Reading
By Shannon West Staff Writer t. Bonaventure will host a CNN 2015 Hero of the Year candidate Dec. 7. Students are encouraged to vote for Maggie Doyne for CNN’s 2015 Hero of the Year. Students can vote once a day through Nov. 15. If Doyne wins the vote, her organization, the BlinkNow Foundation, will receive… Keep Reading
Player: Gabby Richmond Height: 6-1 Year: Junior Hometown: Chicago, Ill. Position: Forward What does the team need to work on? “Not getting in our own way, not letting one game affect the next and just playing together as a team.” Keep Reading
Player: Katie Healy Height: 6-1 Year: Senior Hometown: Lancaster, N.Y. Position: Forward “I think together, as a team, we want to be better than last year for sure, but we also want to make it far. We want to impress people—we want to prove people wrong. A lot of people have doubts about us and… Keep Reading
By Hannah Gordon Managing Editor The #RaceMatters program hosted talks on the American judicial system, racial bias in society and cultural appropriation in Halloween costumes. The latter was lacking a crucial detail, according the Pauline Hoffmann, dean of the journalism and mass communication school. “I guess I thought (Wicca) would be touched on a bit,… Keep Reading
By Julia Mericle News Editor On Oct. 4, a student reported the second alleged sexual assault on campus this academic year. In response to this incident, Sister Margaret Carney, O.S.F., university president, said there might need to be a larger campus discussion about sexuality. “By a larger campus conversation I mean that we do not… Keep Reading
By Rachel Konieczny News Assignment Editor “For 16 years, I leaned on death row for something that I didn’t do. For 16 years, the state of Alabama refused to retest the bullets because they didn’t have to. For 16 years, it was as though my life didn’t matter.” Anthony Ray Hinton was exonerated from death… Keep Reading
‘Tis the season.’ For Michael Myers, Jason and Carrie that is. These three classic characters make their appearance on AMC only a few times a year, but it’s always right around the same time: Halloween. They are the embodiment of horror and fear, invented to terrify you to the point of sickness, but for some… Keep Reading
For decades, Halloween has been called a dangerous, immoral and unnecessary holiday by parents and other adults. They argue that kids shouldn’t be consuming so much candy, that people may drug the candy before giving it to kids and that dressing as monsters and ghosts is sacrilegious. While these are understandable concerns for parents, I… Keep Reading
In this day and age, it seems society has become obsessed with defining every aspect of life with some specific label or category. One only needs to look at someone’s Twitter bio to see that people are a “craft beer enthusiast/Taylor Swift megafan/avid reader/netflix account haver.” The world may be a more positive place if… Keep Reading
By Alexis Young Contributing Writer The Individualized Major program is one of the smaller programs on campus. However, the program has been a part of the school for at least two decades, originally having been called Interdepartmental Studies, said Anne Foerst. Foerst, an associate professor of computer science, recently was announced to be the new… Keep Reading
By Julia Mericle News Editor Campus Safety and Security continued to monitor the police search for federal parole violator Randall McFadden, who has family ties to the Olean area, according to Gary Segrue, director of Safety and Security. McFadden, 60, recently completed a 30-year federal prison sentence. He walked away from the Renewal Center in… Keep Reading
By Julia Mericle News Editor Despite the snow flurries, admissions was pleased with the the open house’s success on Oct. 17, according to Monica Emery, director of volunteer relations and events. The first of three open houses attracted 45 prospective students. Emery said she believes more students will attend the next two open houses, but… Keep Reading
By Joseph Ferencik Contributing Writer Since 1936, high school students from around Western New York have come to campus to be exposed to media professionals and to get a taste for the excitement a career in journalism can bring. On Oct. 16, students from 10 schools came to St. Bonaventure for the 2015 Communications Day… Keep Reading
By Shannon West Staff Writer First-Year Experience’s Supplement Instruction (SI) program continued to work to revamp for the spring semester by announcing it will hire students to serve as Supplemental Instruction Leaders. SI is an academic support service modeled by the University of Missouri-Kansas City. The program incorporates peer-assisted study sessions into historically challenging courses… Keep Reading
By Amelia Kibbe Editor-in-Chief Police continued to search Friday for a man who on Oct. 9 robbed the Northwest Savings Bank in Olean, about a mile east of St. Bonaventure University. Around 4:10 p.m. on Friday Oct. 9, a white male entered the bank located at 2513 W. State St. and handed the teller a… Keep Reading
By Rachel Koniecny News Assignment Editor The second annual Bona Fan Jam will be held Saturday and, according to Seth Johnson, director of marketing and promotions of athletics, there will be some differences from last year, including the unveiling of the new Bona wolf mascot suit. Johnson said the event begins outside at 4 p.m.… Keep Reading
By Hannah Gordon Managing Editor Nearly 50 students and faculty packed the Devereux Hall main lobby Wednesday night to discuss cultural appropriation in Halloween costumes. The second installment of the Residential Life Civil Dialogue Series, entitled, “Halloween Costumes: Offensive or All in Good Fun,” was led by Rebecca Wager, assistant director of residential living, and… Keep Reading
By Amelia Kibbe Editor-In-Chief Two electrical problems led to an approximately three-hour power outage for the west side of St. Bonaventure University’s campus last Friday night and early Saturday morning, said National Grid’s Western New York spokesman Steve Brady. He added much of the Town of Allegany and Village of Allegany also lost power and… Keep Reading
By Rachel Konieczny News Assignment Editor Flavia Pietrobattista said she knew from the minute she visited St. Bonaventure in 2008 that she would want to return to the university her great-great-great-great uncle founded. Pietrobattista, the great-great-great-grandniece of founding university president, Panfilo da Magliano, O.F.M., is a student at St. Bonaventure for the 2015-16 academic year.… Keep Reading