Recap: Bonnies MBB add to win Streak With win Over FGCU
Photo: St. Bonaventure Athletics BY: ANDREW HALE, EDITOR-IN-CHIEF The St. Bonaventure men’s basketball team picked up their third consecutive win to begin … Keep Reading
SGA Executive Board runs unopposed for 2022-2023
BY KURT MARTONE, NEWS EDITOR Election season for the 2022-2023 Student Government Association is underway. This year, the SGA president, vice president, secretary and treasurer are running unopposed. This year, Connor Raine is running for SGA executive board president. “This is an extremely important time in the history of our university. After this academic year… Keep Reading
Local businesses reflect on lessons learned throughout pandemic
BY CASSIDEY KAVATHAS, MANAGING EDITOR Falen Whipple started her business journey when the world faced a time of uncertainty. Firefly Bagels opened May 7, 2021 inside the Park N Shop on West State Street in Olean. “When I moved back to Olean due to COVID-19, I noticed there were no fresh bagels. So I made… Keep Reading
Just keep swimming, Lia. You’re crushing it
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
Science itself is not an authority figure
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
Taxpayers shouldn’t pay for Bills stadium
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
A chapter of Bonaventure basketball has ended, or has it?
BY TOM SEIPP, ADVISORY EDITOR It’s no secret that the 2021-22 St. Bonaventure men’s basketball season was a rollercoaster. Of course, it was a fun rollercoaster. Beginning the season nationally ranked and winning the Charleston Classic were the highest of highs, but some crushing losses, including the Atlantic 10 quarterfinal game, created an abundance of… Keep Reading
St. Bonaventure’s NIT run ends with 84-77 semifinal loss to Xavier
Photo: GoBonnies.com BY NATHAN SOLOMON, SPORTS EDITOR NEW YORK — After three consecutive road victories against power conference teams, St. Bonaventure had the opportunity they wished for: a home game. Thousands of students and alumni traveled to Madison Square Garden to root on the Bonnies, who stood just a win away from a berth in… Keep Reading
University holds prayer service for Ukraine
BY HADLEY THOMPSON, NEWS ASSIGNMENT EDITOR On Monday evening, the St. Bonaventure community was invited to attend a candlelight gathering of music, images and reflection to pray for those in Ukraine and Russia. A large Easter candle burned as people walked into the Great Room in the McGinley-Carney Center for Franciscan Ministry. Small prayer cards… Keep Reading
Permanent voting registration booth becomes apart of library
BY KURT MARTONE, NEWS EDITOR A permanent table has been set up in the Friedsam Memorial Library to allow students to register to vote. Organizers hope to have every student on campus registered and ready to vote by November. The idea came together through Thomas Buttafarro, director of government and community relations and Maureen Bernas,… Keep Reading
Hannah Roesch Awarded the Woman of Promise
BY TUCKER REILLY, EDITOR IN CHIEF St. Bonaventure University senior Hannah Roesch is this year’s recipient of the Mary A. Hamilton Woman of Promise Award, courtesy of the Jandoli School of Communications. In a ceremony on Tuesday in Doyle Hall, Roesch was officially recognized for her achievements at Bonaventure. The award ceremony was also significant… Keep Reading
Bonaventure addresses low retention with new program
BY CASSIDEY KAVATHAS, MANAGING EDITOR Sydney Fox, who began her first year of college at St. Bonaventure University in the fall 2020 semester, sat in her freshman dorm lounge with a group of friends. The group met to watch a Buffalo Bills game together. Resident assistants interrupted the group to inform them that someone would… Keep Reading
Concert ticket prices are too high for people
BY FRANKIE VANSICKLE, STAFF WRITER As someone coming up for the age to start going to concerts on my own and start paying for them, as 20-year olds, we look at the prices and question what do we have to sell to get these tickets? We idolize people so much that we are willing to… Keep Reading
People are facing problems without masks
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
Businesses leaving Russia are doing more harm
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
Canva.com is an amazing tool to use
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
Movies over 2.5 hours are way too long
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
Different games are a fun type of learning
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
Four Late-Game Missed Free Throws Eliminate St. Bonaventure From Atlantic 10 Tournament
BY TOM SEIPP, ADVISORY EDITOR. Kyle Lofton has played over 254,500 seconds in a St. Bonaventure uniform. For a long time, Bonaventure fans will only remember Lofton’s final 1.8 seconds of Friday’s Atlantic 10 semifinal game against Saint Louis. Bonaventure climbed all the way back from a double-digit deficit and had multiple chances to seal… Keep Reading
St. Bonaventure loses heartbreaker in Atlantic 10 quarterfinals
Photo: Atlantic 10 BY NATHAN SOLOMON, SPORTS EDITOR With 1.1 seconds left, Kyle Lofton drew a foul off a Jaren Holmes missed layup. Down 57-56, two makes would send St. Bonaventure to the Atlantic 10 Tournament semifinals for the fourth consecutive time. Officials reviewed the clock and added seven-tenths of a second. Lofton stood in… Keep Reading
Do not take your siblings for granted
BY FRANKIE VANSICKLE, STAFF WRITER Having siblings is honestly the best experience you could have for a family. I could not have had a better time with my siblings when I would hang with them. My siblings and I have such a wide range of ages. It goes the oldest at 38, 36, 28, 26,… Keep Reading