BY TUCKER REILLY, EDITOR-IN-CHIEF I joined the editing staff of the BV in the Fall of 2019, less than a month into my freshman year of college. The features editor had resigned and they needed to fill the spot; I’d written three articles for the section and was still listed as a contributor. I knew… Keep Reading
BY EMILIE WEINBECK, FEATURES EDITOR The first week of my freshman year at the annual club fair, I knew I had to find The Bona Venture table and get my name on its sign-up sheet. I started writing for the features section a week later and have never looked back. Over the past two years,… Keep Reading
BY ANDREW KRUSZKA, STAFF WRITER Well, St. Bonaventure. As I started thinking about what the 32nd article I’ve written for the Bona Venture would be about, my editor had informed me that this very well could be the last article I write for this school. Although I began to get a little choked up by… Keep Reading
BY MAX MCAULIFF, STAFF WRITER Society is obsessed with celebrities. The Kardashians, the D’Amelios and Addison Rae are all celebrities who have made a career out of advertising their lives on social media. Famous actors and actresses like Johnny Depp and Amber Heard are also always in the spotlight. The two were briefly married before… Keep Reading
BY MEGHAN BAEHL, STAFF WRITER The mortality rate of student-athletes competing in the NCAA has steadily gone up over the past few years. The cause of this? Stress-related, untreated mental health and overlooked medical conditions driven suicides. Sarah Shutze, a bright track star from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, died by suicide just a few weeks… Keep Reading
BY ERICA GUSTAFSON, OPINION EDITOR “A life full of regrets is not living at all.” Along with the hundreds of other comments and advice, this one sentence stuck with me the most. However, not in a way you may think. After thinking about this time and time again over the years, I can say that… Keep Reading
BY MEGHAN BAEHL, STAFF WRITER I was severely underwhelmed with the attire sported by the A-Listers the past two Sundays at the Oscars and the Grammys, respectively. So let me break it down for you into the goods, the especially bad and the select few in between. First up on the chopping block is the… Keep Reading
BY ANDREW KRUSZKA, STAFF WRITER Hello everyone, welcome back to this week’s rendition of my article. This week let’s focus on something near and dear to the St. Bonaventure community. Well, it is near and dear if you support the one aspect of college that every institution is supposed to provide in however many years… Keep Reading
BY FRANKIE VANSICKLE, STAFF WRITER As we get older and closer to being more alone, do you still get advice from your parents, or do you get it from your friends? As I get older, I want more and more independence for things that I feel like I would not need advice from my parents.… Keep Reading
BY ERICA GUSTAFSON, OPINION EDITOR Baseball is most famously known as America’s National Pastime, even by those who are not necessarily baseball fans. Though we may like to think that baseball started here, it’s origins could be tied to other areas of the world. According to an updated information about who invented baseball on history.com,… Keep Reading
BY MAX MCAULIFF, STAFF WRITER With the debut of “Moon Knight ‘’ on Disney+ last week, the Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU) enters unchartered territory. For the first time in its history, the MCU is exploring Egyptian culture and the various gods ancient Egyptians worshiped. The MCU has previously explored gods with the Thor movies. MCU… Keep Reading
BY ERICA GUSTAFSON, OPINION EDITOR Throughout the past week, a wave has engulfed social media and news platforms regarding Will Smith and Chris Rock. On March 27, celebrities and big names gathered together to celebrate the 2022 Oscars. Within the celebrations, famous comedian Chris Rock made a comment towards Jayda Pinkett Smith saying, “Jada, I… Keep Reading
BY MEGHAN BAEHL, STAFF WRITER Lia Thomas is a Division 1 swimmer at the University of Pennsylvania. She is well accomplished and recently won the national championship in the 500-yard freestyle event. But she is also transgender. On the surface level, there should be no issue. She is fully transitioned, has been on hormone therapy… Keep Reading
BY ANDREW KRUSZKA, STAFF WRITER Let me start off by saying that I am a huge Buffalo Bills fan. I can not count on my fingers and toes the number of times that I’ve cried and screamed because of my love for this team, and I’m only in the early stages of my career being… Keep Reading
BY ERICA GUSTAFSON, OPINION EDITOR I can’t even count how many times I have seen articles, news stories, reports or heard people use science as an authority figure. It usually is phrased similar to, “the science shows that it is impossible for this type of phenomenon to occur.” People generally use it in conversations to… Keep Reading
BY ANDREW KRUSZKA, STAFF WRITER Have you ever played a board game? How about a card game? Let’s see, have you ever played any game? When I ask this question, I mean any game at all? This could be a video game, board game, card game, sports game, or really anything you can think of.… Keep Reading
BY MEGHAN BAEHL, STAFF WRITER My friends and family have raved to me about the new movie, The Batman, but I am not sold on it for one reason. The movie is two hours and fifty-six minutes long. I want to normalize movies being a solid hour and a half situation. I cannot sit still,… Keep Reading
BY ERICA GUSTAFSON, OPINION EDITOR Think back to a time when you were asked to learn a new tool or platform for your job or school. It seems as though I am constantly being asked to learn new online tools, platforms and aids to help with my school and work tasks. However, no part of… Keep Reading
BY NATHAN DASILVA, CONTRIBUTING WRITER There’s been a lot of discourse lately about the violent conflict going on between Russia and Ukraine, and why shouldn’t that be the case? It’s current events, and the public ought to be concerned. However, you and I will not be the ones making the final call. That responsibility will… Keep Reading
BY ADDAM CANSDALE, CONTRIBUTING WRITER Over the past two years, we have been forced to wear masks due to COVID-19. Now, we are facing problematic issues being mask-free. Being required to wear masks was considered to be “beneficial” to the population. The government stated that it is to protect ourselves and others from contracting the… Keep Reading