Sticker from Take Back the Night Courtesy of: Morgan Kilger/The Bona Venture BY MORGAN KILGER, FEATURES EDITOR With October being Domestic Violence Awareness month, Empower, a club based around sexual violence education and prevention on campus, hosted its biggest event of the semester — Take Back the Night. “We need to not shut ourselves in,…
T-shirt on Empower clothesline Courtesy of Isabel Marzullo/The Bona Venture BY: ISABEL MARZULLO, FEATURES ASSIGNMENT EDITOR During the Vietnam War, 58,000 soldiers were killed; in that same time frame, 51,000 American women were killed by their intimate partners. This has been the premise behind Empower’s annual clothesline project. Empower is a group of St. Bonaventure…
A table that shows the number of documented rape cases from years 2016 to 2022 Data compiled from Bonaventure’s 2018, 2022 and 2023 Clery reports BY DAVID SCIBILIA, NEWS EDITOR Students and administrators are split on the efficacy of campus initiatives put in place to lower documented rape cases at St. Bonaventure University after data…
“I would wear what I want!” Hadley Thompson / The Bona Venture thompshp20@bonaventure.edu BY: HADLEY THOMPSON, NEWS EDITOR “I wouldn’t carry pepper spray,” was written on one of the hundreds of small, cut-out pieces of paper shaped like flames. St. Bonaventure University’s Department of Justice Program, Empower, hosted the Take Back the Night Walk on…
By Cassidey Kavathas, News Editor The Yards for Yeardley event, presented by Empower Student Peer Prevention Educator Group in partnership with the One Love Foundation, held their award ceremony yesterday. The event was in memorial of Yeardley Love, who lost her life to relationship violence in 2010 as well as raising awareness of interpersonal or…
By Cassidey Kavathas, News Editor During sexual assault aweraness month, the Empower Student Peer Prevention Educator Group will offer a bystander intervention program. This event, “Lunch & Learning: Bringing in the Bystander,” will be held April 10 from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Registration begins April 6 and is limited to 25 participants. The event…
“I got involved in the event by being a part of the Peer Prevention Educator student group, supported by the Department of Justice Campus Program called EMPOWER,” said Amber Peralta, a junior marketing major and member of EMPOWER. “I signed up thinking I would put my previous skills to use again by facilitating workshops like…
St. Bonaventure University has implemented the Department of Justice program into the 2019-2020 academic school year following the $300,000 grant they received last year. The grant, which spans over three years, works to empower the St. Bonaventure community in relation to gender-based violence and sexual assault. Working in conjunction with McAllister & Quinn, a federal…
By Hannah Gordon News Editor St. Bonaventure University administration began the emPOWER program this week to raise awareness on sexual assault, bystander intervention and Title IX procedures. The emPower campaign is a series of programs and events developed by a specialized team during the summer to educate students about sexual violence and how…
By Hannah Gordon News Editor St. Bonaventure University’s Safety and Security released the Annual Security and Fire Safety Report on Sept. 25, revealing an increase in on-campus sexual assault. According to the report, there was one forcible sexual offense on campus in 2012 and four in 2013. There was one case of dating violence and…