By Jillian Hammell Contributing Writer Imagine walking to class and hearing someone yell your name. You turn around, and the person is none other than your sibling who spent countless years caring, looking out for and, of course, embarrassing you. Julia and Carter Anderson know exactly how that feels. Julia, a junior sports studies major,…
By Makeda Loney Contributing Writer After an entire semester of anticipation, the day finally came. School was out, and summer shined its golden rays on me. The season greeted me with opportunities and excitement. Along with 29 other Bonnies (both graduate and undergraduate), my summer adventure awaited me in beautiful Oxford, England. The thought of…
By Matthew Laurrie Assistant Features Editor Freshman checklist: finalize room assignment information, get dorm necessities, buy school supplies and read the All Bonaventure Reads (ABR) selection. At the end of August, a new pack of Bonnies will pour into St. Bonaventure and each will be expected to have read “In the Sanctuary of Outcasts,” the…
By Kevin Cooley Contributing Writer Words arranged deliberately have the power to entrance masses. The English Department’s Writers Series proved this claim, as two more professional writers read their works on campus within a week of one another. Gregory Betts, a contemporary Canadian poet, performed selections of his work in the Dresser Auditorium April 19.…
By Elizabeth Pray Staff Writer Some students had more on their minds than Spring Weekend plans over the last few weeks. Fifteen students fulfilled their Honors Program requirements with presentations in Plassmann Hall to an audience of students, faculty and staff April 18-24. Francesca DiCillo, a senior English major, chose to do her project, titled…
By Heather Monahan Staff Writer “Sincerity, truth and design.” Sigma Tau Delta, the international English honor society, lives by this motto. This semester, a group of St. Bonaventure students will start following this motto as well. Theta Rho, the Bonaventure chapter of Sigma Tau Delta, founded in the 1980s ceased to exist by the end…
By Alexandra Salerno Managing Editor Earlier this week, Sports Locker in Olean contacted Rob DeFazio about a T-shirt design it deemed too inappropriate to produce. Welcome to Spring Weekend. Starting yesterday and culminating in a championship game Sunday, 56 student softball teams will take part in the 14th annual Rick Farina Softball Tournament. The games…
By Angelia Roggie Features Editor Flashing lights, sparkling costumes, melodic music and sweeping, hard-hitting dance moves enchanted audiences as the SBU Hip-Hop Team set off to see the Wizard. The 31-person team danced away to a production titled “A Wiz Through Oz,” a hip-hop take on the original “Wizard of Oz” movie, Tuesday and Wednesday…
By Matthew Laurrie Assistant Features Editor It may be a wrap for the 2011-12 SBU Theater season, but in just four months, it will return from intermission and draw open its curtains to reveal its newest play. Next year isn’t just any ordinary year for the theater department, as it will be performing three productions…
By Kerri Linsenbigler Features Assignment Editor “There’s just a different connection between Bona alums and Bonaventure. Other schools don’t have that connection.” Lucia Scotty, coordinator of electronic communications for alumni, has been organizing reunion weekends throughout her 15 years at Bonaventure. Reunion Weekend honors different class years, just like a high school reunion, Scotty said.…
By Samantha Berkhead News Editor Throughout the last few months, the Trayvon Martin case has ballooned from a quiet story of a shooting in suburban Florida to a national media controversy. By the time editors at The New York Times asked Dan Barry, ‘80, and Serge F. Kovaleski, Campbell Robertson and Lizette Alvarez to cover…
By Heather Monahan Staff Writer It’s no question technology is moving forward at a rapid pace. It is providing the public many advantages, but it could also be the cause of drawing the age of newspapers to an end. Strategically located across campus, students can find USA Today, The Buffalo News and The New York…
By Marie Dirle Name: Lauren Caputi Year/Major: Junior/English and Journalism and Mass Communication What are you wearing? Jacket— The Gap Dress — Pac Sun Ballet Flats — Famous Footwear What’s your style? “I’d describe my style as 1950s pin-up girl. I try to incorporate classic hairdos, makeup and clothing patterns. How is your clothing unique?…
By Alexandra Salerno Managing Editor Before Patricia Burlaud spoke at this year’s Mary Devereux Luncheon, Sister Margaret Carney, O.S.F., university president, called her “a women every bit as extraordinary as Mary Devereux.” Burlaud is a quark physicist who dedicated more than three decades of her life to the educational and leadership advancements of women in…
By Kerri Linsenbigler Features Assignment Editor Vito Czyz, director of safety and security, has been working with student organizations to promote nonviolence during “Enough is Enough Week,” which ends today. “My role is really education, prevention and getting people to understand we have to work together and live together in the St. Bonaventure community,” Czyz…
By Elizabeth Grady Promotions Coordinator Twenty-four hours of teeter-tottering proved to be a success for raising awareness and money for the Gift of Life Bone Marrow Foundation. The event attracted approximately 200 participants and more than $1,000 in donations last Friday and Saturday. Lauren Caulfield, a senior psychology major, Faith Bain-Lucey, a senior special and…
By Kerri Linsenbigler Features Assignment Editor For the third time, the U.S Department of State chose St. Bonaventure to host a five-week program for Central and South American students, according to Maddalena Marinari. “This is such an exciting opportunity to get to know other cultures by not going anywhere,” said Marinari, associate professor of history.…
By Alexandra Salerno Managing Editor Jess Rehac, WSBU-FM 88.3, The Buzz station manager, never imagined her favorite YouTube channel would one day make a video for her favorite radio station. Sorted Food, an online United Kingdom food hub that publishes weekly how-to cooking videos on its YouTube channel and website, emailed Rehac during winter break…
By Margaret Seitz Photographer Name: Kathryn Cole Year/Major/Minor: Junior/Fashion Management/Business What are you wearing? Dress with tights and Oxfords. What is your style inspiration? “It varies every day. It can be really girly one day and then ‘rocky’ the next. It depends on how I feel.” How is clothing in the United States different from…
By Angelia Roggie Features Editor Female athletes can feel truly important. At least, author Andrea Montalbano seems to think so. “The very act of signing her up and bringing her to her first practice … tells her she can do it and that she is important,” Montalbano said. “You are telling her that you believe…