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Jonny Walk(er)s out of the BV

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BY JONNY WALKER, EDITOR-IN-CHIEF A couple weeks into the first semester of my freshman year, I told the BV’s then sports editor that I wanted to write for his section. But when assignments were emailed out later that week, I didn’t receive one. The rest of the year came and went — and still no…

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A home away from home: a new writer saying goodbye

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BY CONAN LYNCH, STAFF WRITER photo courtesy of Meghan Baehl As I look back on my time at St. Bonaventure University, it’s hard not to smile. This place is my home. I had no idea how much it would mean to me by the end of it all. I almost ended up going somewhere else.…

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The end of an era: a bittersweet farewell

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BY BIANCA BILLONI, STAFF WRITER photo courtesy of Bianca Billoni Hello, dear readers. It feels a bit surreal to be writing this, but this will be my last article for The BV. I’ve struggled a lot trying to figure out what I wanted to write about in this piece.   How do you properly say goodbye…

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Solly waddles out of the BV room

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BY NATHAN SOLOMON, EDITOR-IN-CHIEF photo courtesy of Meghan Baehl The Bona Venture – it’s been a great ride.  I came to St. Bonaventure University in fall 2020 and the campus newspaper immediately caught my eye. Within a week, I joined and I wrote my first sports article. But at that time, COVID-19 pandemic and all,…

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BV, you can’t get rid of me that easily

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Will and Cassidey’s first BV feature Freshmen year /photo courtsey of Cassidey Kavathas BY CASSIDEY KAVATHAS, EDITOR-IN-CHIEF In the summer of 2020, I sat in Zoom orientation while my orientation leader, Cammie Duchess, spoke about how she was the Editor-in-Chief of The Bona Venture. As a bright-eyed and bushy-tailed freshman, I jumped on this connection…

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A big thank you to the BV

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The editorial board working hard in the newsroom / Photo courtesy of Cassidey Kavathas BY KELSEY PURCELL, FEATURES EDITOR I can’t believe my time as features editor as come to an end. It’s been a great semester. I’m so glad that I decided to start writing for the BV at the beginning of my freshmen…

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Goodbye to the Bona Venture, see you soon

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BY TUCKER REILLY, EDITOR-IN-CHIEF I joined the editing staff of the BV in the Fall of 2019, less than a month into my freshman year of college. The features editor had resigned and they needed to fill the spot; I’d written three articles for the section and was still listed as a contributor. I knew…

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Bye bye to BV news, I need to do more news

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BY KURT MARTONE, NEWS EDITOR I know how you feel. You have an entire page of these thank you’s in front of you, and as you skim my headline you are muttering to yourself: “Oh no! Another?” Do not worry dear reader, because I felt a similar disdain when I was told that I had…

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Farwell to Features, you’ve been great

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BY EMILIE WEINBECK, FEATURES EDITOR The first week of my freshman year at the annual club fair, I knew I had to find The Bona Venture table and get my name on its sign-up sheet. I started writing for the features section a week later and have never looked back. Over the past two years,…

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EIC says goodbye to The BV Newspaper

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By Cammie Dutchess, Editor-in-Chief I was first inducted into The BV during the fall semester of my sophomore year when Dr. Denny Wilkins suggested that I write for the school’s newspaper and introduced me to Natalie Forster during one of his infamous pizza parties. I wrote my first features story a few weeks later and…

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Goodbyes will pop my “Bona Bubble”

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By Olivia Boyd, Staff Writer I am sure that most people who attend St. Bonaventure University has heard of the “Bona Bubble.” As the light at the end of a very dark tunnel approaches, with about a month left until graduation, I am left to contemplate on my time here at this lovely university and…

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I will miss the BV, but I’ve missed the Oxford Comma

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By Matthew Villanueva, Features Editor Well, after 30 opinion articles, 13 features, three news and one (attempt) for sports, this piece may be the hardest to write. When I took the job as the opinion editor to start my sophomore year, I had little-to-no clue what it would entail. As an English major, I’ve always…

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Thank YOU BV, for the friendships

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By John Pullano, Editor-In-Chief Am I ready to write this? Probably not. Will I ever be ready to write this? Definitely not. But we do not want to delay yet another BV Wednesday so here goes nothing. Off the top I want to thank all the editors that worked by my side. I took the…

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Good night, and keep watching the skies

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You know that spiel the university loves to give about alums sprinting through airports to meet up with other alums they don’t even know just because they went to the same school? That’s not going to be me. You know an alumnus who plans their entire year around making trips up to Bonaventure to get…

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Zach Waltzing Away

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As my time at St. Bonaventure comes to a close, it’s hard for me to reminisce without bringing up The Bona Venture. Since my first week on this campus, I have been involved with this publication, and I’m unbelievably proud of how much it has progressed in my brief time here. I remember being undeniably…

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Home sweet home

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The first few weeks of freshman year of college can be a scary time. For most, it is the first time they are permanently away from home, living with complete strangers in a town that they are unfamiliar with. However, my parents kept reminding me in the weeks leading up to move in day to…

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Mulcahey makes memories

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“All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given to us” —J.R.R. Tolkien. Because, how could I not end my senior year with a quote from Gandalf? But also because, the best decision I made in the time given to me at Bonaventure was, without question, joining The BV.…

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