Photo: Scott Eddy BY: ANDREW HALE, EDITOR-IN-CHIEF KISSIMMEE, Fla. — The St. Bonaventure men’s basketball team defeated Northern Iowa 68-56 Friday, placing third … Keep Reading
Photo: Scott Eddy BY: ANDREW HALE, EDITOR-IN-CHIEF KISSIMMEE, Fla. — The St. Bonaventure men’s basketball team plays for third place in the NIT … Keep Reading
Photo: Scott Eddy BY: ANDREW HALE, EDITOR-IN-CHIEF KISSIMMEE, Fla. — The St. Bonaventure men’s basketball team picked up its first loss of the … Keep Reading
Photo: St. Bonaventure Athletics BY: ANDREW HALE, EDITOR-IN-CHIEF The St. Bonaventure men’s basketball team plays its opening game of the ESPN NIT … Keep Reading
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… Keep Reading
By Alexandra Salerno Editor-in-Chief As The Bona Venture staff ushers in a new semester, the paper we produce each week features a new look. Despite our cosmetic change, however, our dedication to providing an accurate, reliable and interesting take on Bonaventure news remains the same. We are an editorial staff made up of two seniors,… Keep Reading
By Mary Best Managing Editor One of the best parts about fall is hitting up all the back-to-school sales, no questions asked. Unfortunately, versatile cardigans, owl jewelry and sassy fringed boots are joined by yet another line of controversial t-shirts. The “girls can’t do math” theme from last year’s J.C. Penney t-shirt controversy has morphed… Keep Reading
By Deirdre Spilman Opinion Assignment Editor Almost all schools have zero tolerance when it comes to weapons. When kids are at a younger, more impressionable age, people try to teach them that violence never solves anything. Overall, it’s a good lesson to learn. But when 3-year-old Hunter Spanjers, a deaf child from Nebraska, is punished… Keep Reading
By Sam Wilson Associate Editor It sure doesn’t feel like it, but it’s time for this old guy to leave Robinson Hall for the last time as an editor. Little more than two years after then-sports editor Jake Sonner, flanked by Ryan Papaserge and Tyler Diedrich, took me in a creepily empty… Keep Reading
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… Keep Reading
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.… Keep Reading
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… Keep Reading
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… Keep Reading
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… Keep Reading
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… Keep Reading
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… Keep Reading
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.… Keep Reading
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… Keep Reading
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… Keep Reading
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?… Keep Reading
By Kaitlin Lindahl Associate Editor My first time in The Bona Venture’s newsroom was unpleasant. It was late, and I had scampered sleepily down from my room in 3rd Robinson. It was loud – really loud. I forced my brain to concentrate as I stared back at the swirl of colors and… Keep Reading
By Kyle Zamiara Sports Editor I think it was on the long 12-hour drive back from Nashville playing “The Price is Right” on a cell phone when I realized how lucky I was to have been the sports editor this semester. How many have gone through The Bona Venture and had the chance to see both men’s and… Keep Reading
By Skye Tulio Assistant Sports Editor For brothers Seth, Cael and Asa Johnson, representing Bonaventure athletics runs in the family. The oldest sons of Bruce and Nancy Johnson of Frewsburg, along with their sister Anneli, are all current or former Bona athletes in a family of swimmers and baseball players. “Both our mom and dad were swimmers, and… Keep Reading
By Bob Gallager Contributing Writer Tomorrow, the softball team returns to conference action with a noon doubleheader against George Washington. The Bonnies were scheduled to play against Buffalo Tuesday before heading to Niagara for a doubleheader Wednesday. All three games were cancelled due to the wintry weather. St. Bonaventure swept La Salle last weekend in a Saturday doubleheader. The Bonnies… Keep Reading