By Harrison Leone Editor-in-Chief From the first day of orientation through all of freshman year, the repeated mantra is “get involved”. Get involved, get involved, get involved. You have to leave your room. Whatever. I wasn’t hearing any of that. I wanted to stay in my room, emerge once in a while for a plate…
By Nate West Opinion Editor “But when his father told him on his eighteenth birthday that he needed to start planning his retirement, he felt his future tighten on him like an anaconda.” That’s a line from Christopher Moore’s book Bloodsucking Fiends. This is the place I’ve been for some time now, being a 21…
By Kiara Catanzaro Associate Editor Most seniors write about their experience at The Bona Venture, and how they met their closest friends writing and editing until 4 a.m. Other seniors list the many people who helped them throughout their four years at school and thank them for what they’ve done. Of course, that’s not what…
As assistant features editor, I do a lot of, well, assisting. Each weekend, I meet with the other two features editors, and we come up with story ideas. Our meetings usually consist of laughing, joking and telling stories, but we eventually take the time to discuss ideas for stories and who will be writing them.…
By Rachel Konieczny Assistant News Editor As the assistant news editor at The Bona Venture, I have several tasks each week. Like the other editors, I write weekly and edit the stories in the news section. Although I am not responsible for thinking of topics for story assignments, I sometimes inform our news editor (Lian)…
By Julia Mericle News Assignment Editor When reading The Bona Venture, there is a byline under each story giving credit to the writer. It is easy to assume that each writer just wrote their story by themselves and then all the stories are simply pieced together in the newspaper. However, until I began my adventure…
By Lian Bunny News Editor Finding newsworthy stories within the “Bona Bubble” is a job in itself. As News Editor, I try to focus on assigning stories that students really would benefit from reading. Each news story must directly relate to St. Bonaventure in some way, whether it is through an alumnus or a teacher…