More than 48 years ago, standing on the back of a flatbed truck in Indianapolis, IN, a man addressed an anxious crowd. Just hours before, Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated outside of a motel in Memphis, TN. Riots consumed countless cities across the country in an uprising of violent protests not seen since the…
By Shannon West Staff Writer t. Bonaventure will host a CNN 2015 Hero of the Year candidate Dec. 7. Students are encouraged to vote for Maggie Doyne for CNN’s 2015 Hero of the Year. Students can vote once a day through Nov. 15. If Doyne wins the vote, her organization, the BlinkNow Foundation, will receive…
Dr. Carol Wittmeyer, advisor of St. Bonaventure’s Family Business Club, will host a family business event next Tuesday, bringing in experts and current family business owners to talk about the topic. “If you go to work at the New York Times, you are going to work at a family controlled firm,” said Wittmeyer, an associate…
By Lian Bunny Photo Editor American criminal justice system or injustice system? Breea Willingham, Ph.D., a former Bonaventure journalism and mass communication professor, argued the latter in her talk titled “Race, Crime and the American Injustice System.” The lecture, given last Friday in the Walsh Amphitheatre, replaced the All Bonaventure Reads (ABR) author’s talk. Bryan…
By Kerri Linsenbigler Associate Editor Nearly 150 years after the end of the Civil War, the debate over its defining moment still wages on at St. Bonaventure. The Steven Spielberg film “Lincoln,” shown in the Walsh Amphitheater last week, looks at the passing of the 13th Amendment as the defining legislation of the Civil War…
By: Mary Best Opinion and Advisory editor If the last sitting president to visit a college in your hometown was Millard Fillmore, it’s only natural to get excited when you find out the President of the United States is rolling in to talk about the increasing education costs. That’s exactly what happened when The White…
By Jordan Morey Staff Writer Christopher Mackowski walks to the center of the stage, diet Mountain Dew in hand, dressed in black. He speaks with concise diction and masterful emphasis, demonstrating his passion for his subject. The crowd becomes a part of his performance, as he calls them up to act as examples. He dynamically…
By Jackie Roberts Contributing Writer For decades, the Friedsam Memorial Library has been a hideaway for stressed Bonaventure students running on caffeine and adrenaline. The building is not only a place for students seeking silence and solitude, but also symbolizes the Franciscan values held so dear to the Bonaventure community. Tami Attwell, library secretary, raved…
By Marissa Bruno Staff Writer “I am not a woman, just an inmate.” Breea Willingham, a former St. Bonaventure University journalism and mass communication visiting professor, read an excerpt written by an incarcerated woman in New York state Tuesday evening in Dresser Auditorium as a part of her talk called “Write On, Sister!: How Incarcerated…
