RECAP: Bonaventure WBB Loses by 51 to Bowling Green
Photo: St. Bonaventure Athletics BY: ROGER WEBSTER, STAFF WRITER The St. Bonaventure women’s basketball team traveled to Bowling Green, Ohio to play … Keep Reading
Media needs to stop 2016-crazed coverage
By Kevin Rogers Managing Editor It’s election season. I’m not referring to the Election Day that came and went on Tuesday. I’m not talking about the 2014 midterm elections next year. I speak of the next presidential election, now just less than three years away. I wish I wasn’t. But media outlets have been framing… Keep Reading
Va. Tech ruling undermines student safety
By Mary Best Opinion and Advisory editor While I’ve had my qualms with e2Campus texts in the past, I couldn’t be more thankful we have them. Besides the convenience of being informed about important school and weather information, it makes me proud to go to a school that prioritizes student safety. Until a few days… Keep Reading
Don’t skip Thanksgiving to get to Christmas
By Emily Sullivan Opinion and Associate editor I love Christmas time. There’s nothing quite like watching the snow fall onto the lights outside my house while listening to Bing Crosby croon some Christmas carols. But when stores go from spooky decorations and costumes to Christmas trees and Santa decorations before Halloween is even over? I… Keep Reading
Critics who pick on classic Disney can’t feel the love tonight
By Emma Zaremba Features Assignment Editor Disney’s great, stop the hate. A pro-life lobbying group (American Life League) criticized the Disney Company in 1995 of their supposed subliminal messages hidden in a variety of their films, according to Subliminal TV. Numerous critics have made jokes about the inappropriate messages and imagery, so people believe it… Keep Reading
Freshman class making care packages for troops
By Amelia Kibbe Staff Writer The freshman class may not have been at Bonaventure for a full semester yet, but many students are already beginning to understand just how important service is to the school. During Welcome Days, incoming freshmen performed some sort of community service. This activity introduced students to the idea of Bonaventure… Keep Reading
Bona’s community takes pledge to volunteer
By Kiara Catanzaro News Assignment Editor St. Bonaventure students, faculty, staff and alumni are pledging to volunteer in their communities. The University has a goal of 2,000 pledges and the community is coming together with a goal to bring Buffalo Bills linebacker Arthur Moats to campus. Moats will visit campus and talk about the importance… Keep Reading
College Democrats to host 2014 hopeful Robertson
By Kiara Catanzaro News Assignment Editor On Wednesday, Nov. 20, St. Bonaventure’s College Democrats will host Democratic House candidate Martha Robertson for two lectures with students and the Olean and Allegany community. If she wins the Democratic nomination, she will challenge Republican Rep. Tom Reed in 2014. The first lecture will be located in the… Keep Reading
SGA Highlights: Nov. 12, 2013
By Emmariah Holcomb SGA Representative The Student Government Association (SGA) held a meeting Tuesday night in the Doyle Trustees room. Topics discussed included the Bona Responds Haiti Initiative, club presentations, Clare 401 classes and semester evaluations. Bona Responds is continuing its Haiti initiative with a food-packing day; the items collected and packed will be sent… Keep Reading
Sister Margaret serves as panelist at Catholic education symposium
By Nate West News Editor Sister Margaret Carney, O.S.F., university president, recently served as a panelist at the 2013 Catholic Higher Education Symposium. According to Sister Margaret, she and the rest of the panelists came together outside of Boston to read and discuss expert papers scholars of Catholic theology and higher education wrote. “We spent… Keep Reading
Butler’s feats worthy of recognition
By Harrison Leone Sports Assignment Editor Walk along the hallway at the southern end of the Reilly Center, just outside Bob Lanier Court, and you will see trophies and displays celebrating our most famous and successful alumni and teams. Brown and White legends such as John McGraw, Leo Keenan and, of course, Bob Lanier himself,… Keep Reading
Guards seize opportunity
By Taylor Nigrelli Sports Editor As the men’s basketball team (2-0) turns its collective attention to Saturday’s matchup against rival Canisius, two of its veteran guards have a more specific focus: taking care of the basketball while still maintaining an aggressive style of play. Junior Jordan Gathers and senior Charlon Kloof have followed the third… Keep Reading
Bonnies split weekend slate
By Harrison Leone Sports Assignment Editor Life on the road was not kind to the women’s basketball team last season. Away from the friendly confines of the Reilly Center, the Bonnies lost 12 of 14 games, only recording victories against Little Three rivals Buffalo and Niagara; in conference play, the team was winless away. The… Keep Reading
Bona b-ball star returns in new role
By Alexandra Salerno Advisory Editor In her final year at St. Bonaventure, Megan Van Tatenhove helped lead her undefeated regular season women’s basketball team to the NCAA Sweet Sixteen. Since graduating with a degree in elementary education in 2012, Van Tatenhove worked as a substitute teacher, coached high school basketball and worked at a cheese… Keep Reading
Bona’s doubleheader victory sends team to playoffs
By Zach Waltz Assistant Sports Editor The men’s rugby team came away from the weekend with two wins over Iona (90-5) and the United States Merchant Marine Academy at King’s Point (55-14). The victories allow the Bonnies to travel to Shippensburg, Pa. to face Shippensburg University in the American Collegiate Rugby Championship’s (ACRC) quarterfinals tomorrow… Keep Reading
Bonnies ball with kids for a cause
By Heather Monahan Features Editor Sports is one of the most internationally-recognized pastimes. It can bring people together and form bonds between different groups. That was the idea Unified Sports built upon. The program, funded by the Special Olympics, brings together athletes of the same age, regardless of whether or not they have disabilities.… Keep Reading
Brown and White season ends at home
By Chris Gilbert Staff Writer The men’s soccer team saw its season come to an end Sunday with a loss to George Mason at home. The Bonnies needed to win one of their last three games to earn an Atlantic 10 tournament bid. They lost three games down the stretch to three major conference foes.… Keep Reading
Capping off college
By Kerri Linsenbigler Associate Editor Senior capstones are an integral part of many students’ educations at Bonaventure. A capstone is a final thesis, event or other project which embodies all the student has learned here. It is kind of a last “hoorah” before a senior walks across the stage. This semester, a few students… Keep Reading
Alumni shopping spree
By Ryan Horan Contributing Writer St. Bonaventure alumni are looking to help ease the stress of Christmas shopping this year for their follow Bonnies with the Alumni Gift Guide. The Alumni Gift Guide is an online listing of St. Bonaventure alumni that make great gifts for the Bonnie in your life. There is a… Keep Reading
Lady booters fall in A-10 playoffs
By Heather Monahan Features Editor The women’s soccer team’s season came to a close Friday in Richmond, where they lost the semifinal game of the Atlantic 10 tournament. The top-seeded Dayton Flyers (14-5-2) handed the fourth-seeded Bonnies a 4-1 loss despite SBU holding a 1-0 lead for the majority of the game. The women finished… Keep Reading
Back to Buff
By Daniel Leopold Staff Writer College quickly becomes a time in every young adult’s life when school, free time and work become a stressful balancing act. The excitement and adventurous feeling experienced during the first couple of weeks of the semester soon wears down as the prospects of essays and finals draw near. Sometimes… Keep Reading