Sneak Peak: Documentary Featuring Bonaventure’s Men’s Basketball Team
BY: MORGAN KILGER/FEATURES EDITOR The St. Bonaventure University’s men’s basketball team has impacted both the university and Franciscan values for decades. The … Keep Reading
Little things carry weight in happiness
There’s a major facet of the human experience that goes unnoticed, existing in our subconscious, but never fully coming to fruition. That portion of our being lies in the subtleties of life and falls to the wayside in our stress-induced choice to focus on avoiding life’s next catastrophe, solidifying our next triumph or generally clouding… Keep Reading
Conservatives: respect and listen
By John Restuccia, Contributing Writer I am one of the most conservative people you will ever meet; I see myself as a mix between neoconservative and tea party conservative. I write this as a wake-up call to my own side of the aisle, to those conservatives who have their heads in the sand. Most young… Keep Reading
Athletes don’t enjoy talking to reporters
In the movie Bull Durham, minor-league baseball veteran Crash Davis mentors young stud Ebby “Nuke” LaLoosh while he is developing into a superstar. At one point, Davis takes time to give LaLoosh advice about interviews. In this lesson, he gives LaLoosh a list of cliché sports sentences, telling him, “They’re your friends.” Although this scene… Keep Reading
President attempts to cover up affairs
By Brandon Sapienza, Staff Writer Of all the recent allegations and scandals that have rocked the White House since January of last year, the newest one seems to be the least significant, yet puts into question the morality of our president. A few weeks ago, the Wall Street Journal came out with a report that… Keep Reading
The Rocket-powered Harden deserves MVP
By Teddy Caputo, Contributing Writer With less than a month left in the NBA season, fans are left wondering how the race for the regular season MVP will end up. Many players have made a case for the award this season, but to me, there’s only one player that stands out more than the rest:… Keep Reading
The great, unknown Emu War
By Noah Powley, Contributing Writer Throughout human history, there is one constant: conflict. In 1932, less than two decades after the Treaty of Versailles, yet another battle would erupt; not World War II, however. My personal favorite, the Great Emu War. In the early to mid-20th century, many nations were not fully industrialized. Australia was… Keep Reading
Lenna committee seeks fall proposals
St. Bonaventure University is accepting nominations from faculty for the fall 2018 Lenna Visiting Professorship until the end of today. Alva Cellini, Ph.D., chair of the Lenna Visiting Professorship Committee, said the committee looks forward to reviewing proposals and choosing candidates. “Proposals are requested [and] we review and evaluate scholarly contributions in the candidate field… Keep Reading
Peer coaching to change for coming year
By Nicholas Gallo, Staff Writer Christopher Brown, director of First-Year Experience & Orientation, has been part of the department for eight years and is shaking things up for welcome days next semester. Brown plans to give peer coaching groups more students this upcoming academic year. Although a typical group of six to eight students is… Keep Reading
SIMM
By Gunnar Schifley, Contributing Writer It was recently revealed that Facebook was inadvertently involved in a political advertising campaign that has shook the faith of their immense user base. An outside company was able to collect data on Facebook users, then used that data to generate ads supporting Donald Trump that were specifically targeted to… Keep Reading
2017-2018 SGA Final Recap
By Haylei John, President of SGA With the final meeting of the 2017-18 Student Government Association (SGA) having taken place on Thursday, and elections for the coming academic year closing, the current Executive Board is preparing to pass the baton to a new set of representatives. The outgoing Student Government Association members have much to… Keep Reading
Bonnies historic season comes to a close
By Joe Ceraulo Men’s Basketball Beat Writer DALLAS – When a school with less than 1,700 undergraduate students has members of their student body travel over 1,300 miles to meet with alumni from all over the country in Dallas for a common cause, something special must be brewing. That something special was St. Bonaventure’s Round… Keep Reading
Bonnies make history
By Mike Hogan, Staff Writer You couldn’t turn left or right Tuesday night in Dayton, Ohio, without hearing “Go Bona’s!” if you were donning the brown and white. While many fan bases, such as the University of California Los Angeles’, would look at the win as just another tournament victory, the St. Bonaventure fan base… Keep Reading
Spaces with stories: Quick Center207
By Natalie Forster, Features Assignment Editor Alecturer of music and piano instructor Laura Peterson, has been at St. Bonaventure University since 1996. Since she came here, Peterson has been collecting books, sheet music, figures and anything else you can think of. Her positively eccentric personality shines through with each unique item placed around her room.… Keep Reading
Spring production combines comedy and theater
The idea to perform “Picasso at the Lapin Agile” by Steve Martin as the spring production came from Dr. Ed Simone, director of the theater program. Not only did he see it Off-Broadway in 1996, he performed in a 2000 production of it. Becky Misenheimer, associate professor of theater and the theater designer and technical… Keep Reading
How to style a St. Patrick’s Day outfit
By Jenna Cosentino, Staff Writer There is no doubt that St. Patrick’s Day is a well-celebrated holiday in college. With fun on and off-campus activities, there’s plenty to do. If you aren’t Irish or you never celebrated St. Paddy’s Day, you’re in luck. Celebrated this Saturday, the day is filled with people dressed head to… Keep Reading
Counselor tackles depression stigma
By Melanie Gerber, Counselor Columnist Is it okay to be sad? Have you ever experienced the emotion of sadness? It seems unlikely that you haven’t; however, sadness tends to get a bad rap. Sometimes, we struggle with the idea of sadness and how, at times, uncomfortable this emotion can be. The emotion of sadness may… Keep Reading
BonaResponds reflects: Part 2
By Jim Mahar, Professor Columnist St. Bonaventure is a very small school. We have fewer than 2,000 students. We are a rural school. Almost everyone knows everyone else. People are involved in classes, clubs, sports and more. You can’t help but know others. At how many other schools does the professor give you their cell… Keep Reading
New SNL members make a memorable entrance
Saturday Night Live’s 42nd season’s ratings skyrocketed, in part due to the material the cast was able to use during Donald Trump’s campaign and election. The departures, however, of Bobby Moynihan, Vanessa Bayer and Sasheer Zamata left the talent scouts of SNL with big shoes to fill for the 43rd season. Just days before the… Keep Reading
An Ode to this Season
The St. Bonaventure Bonnies are in the NCAA Tournament. They got an at-large bid. (They also have to play a play-in game, but who cares; we made it to the big dance!) The small-town team from Olean, New York (I know, we’re actually in St. Bonaventure, New York), who 16 years ago had a basketball… Keep Reading
Contento finds success despite injuries
By Nicholas Gallo, Staff Writer After striking out 11 batters in a 1-0 Bonnies win over James Madison University, redshirt junior Ben Contento earned Atlantic 10 Pitcher of the Week honors. Contento also lead the Bonnies pitching staff with a win over the Dukes on Sunday, March 11. Contento’s main reason for coming to St.… Keep Reading