By Karolina Dombaxi, Contributing Writer March is best known for March Madness and the Spring Equinox, but it is also Women’s History Month. It is a month designated for appreciating and acknowledging the accomplishments and struggles women have gone through worldwide. Here at St. Bonaventure University, Dr. Kimberly DeSimone and Dr. Pauline Hoffman of the…
By Matthew Villanueva, Features Assignment Editor As February rolls around, we as a country celebrate Black History Month yet again. Starting in 1926 by the Association for the Study of African American Life and History (ASALH), they chose the second week of February to coincide with the birthdays of Abraham Lincoln and Frederick Douglass. The…
By Matthew Villanueva, Features Assignment Editor This past week, American composer Lin-Manuel Miranda announced that Disney would release a full feature of his hit Broadway musical, “Hamilton,” with the original cast. Throughout the historical hip-hop opera, the title founding father beseeches the audience to remember, “History has its eyes on you.” The past week of…
Above the entrance to De La Roche Hall, a painting of three oil rigs memorialize the vital role oil played in the history of Olean. Considering the Franciscans’ activism against climate change today, artwork honoring oil rigs seems quite out of place at a Franciscan institution. Yet, in the summer of 1627, Joseph De La…
By Alexis Young Staff Writer This Sunday marks the 156th anniversary of Abraham Lincoln’s legendary log cabin birth. Many today don’t seem to recognize that Lincoln’s election severely divided the country, and the atmosphere around his inauguration was not hopeful, as I believe many of us like to envision it to be. There is much…
By Yoselin Person Staff Writer The Blessed Virgin Mary, located next to the Hickey Dining Hall, is known to be one of the oldest statues with a long history at Bonaventure. The statue came from Italy in 1877, and it has been on campus ever since. The statue was originally situated in a niche that…
By Michael Rickicki Contributing Writer Last Saturday’s rugby match drew a lot of attention on campus. There was a lot of chatter in the stands about what was going on. Many people don’t know what rugby is or how it is played. Some were also asking why someone would want to play such a seemingly…
By Simone Robinson Staff Writer Take a look at the history of Fashion Week, where thousands of people migrate to the style capitals of the world, including New York, Paris and Milan to get the scoop on the latest runway trends. According to a TIME article by Erin Skarda, Paris, France was the primary source…
By Lian Bunny News Editor Although historians are known for studying the past, St. Bonaventure history professors Dr. Maddalena Marinari and Dr. Phillip Payne returned from a series of workshops ready to plan for the department’s future. The professors participated in the American Historical Association’s (AHA) Tuning Project for the History Major from Jan. 2…
By Hunter Sameulson Staff Writer For years, critics have argued that Thanksgiving is a holiday of hypocrisy and lies. They believe it has dark historical roots dating back to the European invasion that culminated the death of millions of Native Americans. The lies and hypocrisy behind Thanksgiving is a lie itself. According to Dr. Karen…
By: Jason Klaiber Staff Writer St. Bonaventure history professors Dr. Maddalena Marinari and Dr. Phillip Payne have been selected for the American Historical Association’s (AHA) Tuning Project for the History Major, a nationwide, faculty-led initiative devoted to reimagining the history degree program. The AHA, which is the United States’ largest professional organization dedicated to the…
By Kiara Catanzaro News Editor Eleven St. Bonaventure students traveled to New York City to participate in a journalism history conference to discuss the role of advocacy in journalism. The conference, on Saturday, March 8, was located at New York University’s Arthur L. Carter Journalism Institute. The students who presented at the conference included three…
By: Harrison Leone Sports Assignment Editor If anyone were to ask why I became a history major, the answer would most accurately be “my dad.” Between feeding me a steady diet of the History Channel and taking/dragging me to hundreds of museums, national parks and monuments for many of my formative years, my father groomed…
By Kristie Schiefer News Assignment Editor The history department initiated six new student members into its national honor society, Phi Alpha Theta, on Thursday during a ceremony in University Ministries. Inductees included seniors Jason P. Mahar and Maria C. Swieciki, junior Samuel R. Moore and sophomores Shannon K. Conheady, Harrison J. Leone and Alexandra E.…
By Mary Best Editor-in-Chief Maddie Gionet has made Bonaventure history. The senior is the first Bonaventure student to win the both the Mark Hellinger and the Woman of Promise Award. Gionet said she was surprised when Pauline Hoffmann, dean of the Russell J. Jandoli School of Journalism and Mass Communication, told her last week. “My…
By Matthew Laurrie Features Editor Perched atop the shelves in the rare books collection of the library sit thousands of stories spanning the course of history. The Holy Name Library for the Franciscan Institute, which was built as an addition to the Friedsam Memorial Library in 2008, houses the university’s archive of rare books. The library…
By Samantha Berkhead Managing Editor As St. Bonaventure’s vibrant student body rushes past in ephemeral bursts of energy each day, stoic white figures frozen in stone stand watch across campus. These statues, while easy to overlook in their silent stillness, symbolize the university’s spiritual and historic heartbeat. “One of the things that I noticed when…
By Kiara Catanzaro Staff Writer Cheesy rhymes and dull performances might come to mind when a person thinks of a poetry reading. However, slam poetry is different. The excitement that awakens the crowd is contagious, especially for a slam-poet novice. The poet can swear, scream, stomp or sing at any point to communicate his or…
By Jackie Roberts Contributing Writer Students and staff from every corner of St. Bonaventure gathered to celebrate Black History Month. A mix of emotions flooded campus after the Black History Month show put on by the Black Student Union (BSU) in The Regina A. Quick Center for the Arts on Monday. Students Troy Deweever and…
By Alexandra Napoli Staff Writer History buffs, look out. The history department is offering two recently added courses for the spring 2013 semester. Immigration, race and ethnicity have become popular topics in the United States, along with the country’s impact on the rest of the world, the history department has created two courses which discuss…