photo courtesy of @kamalaharris on Instagram BY MIKE POLCE, STAFF WRITER If Joe Biden decides to run again in 2024, the democrats could be in major trouble. According to a poll on fivethirtyeight.com, Biden’s approval rating is 43.2%, compared to 52% in January, 2021 when he was first elected president of the United States. His…
Photo courtesy of @rondesantisfl on instagram BY MIKE POLCE, STAFF WRITER The 2024 presidential election is 11 months away, meaning voters should start thinking about which candidate they want to support. To many Republicans in 2020, Donald Trump sounded like the ideal person to run this country, and many Republicans still feel this way. According…
BY JUSTIN BOTT, CONTRIBUTING WRITER BUFFALO, N.Y. – Mayor Byron Brown has been in office since 2006 and wants to continue his tenure for an unprecedented fifth term, but his road to victory won’t be as easy as his previous four, as he’s having to run a write-in campaign. Brown was beaten in the June…
By Erica Gustafson, Staff Writer Last Friday, Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg died due to complications related to metastatic pancreatic cancer. She was 87-years-old and had been appointed by President Bill Clinton in 1993. She spent over two decades serving on the court before her death. Following her death, many senators and other government…
By Luke Gobel, staff writer Tuesday, Feb. 11, the U.S. presidential campaign took another step torward the race with the New Hampshire primary election. The election made democratic candidate Sen. Bernie Sanders the official front-runner for the Democratic Party after winning New Hampshire, despite getting fewer votes than his 2016 run, likely due to the…
SGA election ballots are up — and are looking noticeably more scant compared with last year’s ballots. While three groups of candidates ran for Executive Board president and vice president, only one group is running this year. Executive Board president candidate Haylei John, said she feels the student body has been generally disinterested in SGA…
By Lian Bunny Co-Photo Editor This year’s Lenna Visiting Scholars traveled across the Atlantic Ocean to talk about American politics. Journalists Alan and Barbara Mackenzie presented their talk “UK: State of the Nation” on Nov. 9 to the St. Bonaventure community. The late Betty S. Lenna Fairbank and Reginald A. Lenna of Jamestown funded the…
By Diana McElfresh Editor-in-Chief People have told me that it must feel awful to have this election, of all possible elections, be the first one in which I cast my ballot for President of the United States. The gripes against both major party candidates are serious. In some cases, the issues aren’t even about…
By Elyse Kuhn Contributing Writer With the 2016 presidential election fast approaching, tensions are running high throughout America. Everywhere you look, you are bound to see some sort of ad, tweet, post or something. In addition to that, it is virtually impossible to go through the day without hearing something about one of the…
By Jessics Dillon Contributing Writer Two amendments to the Student Government Association (SGA) constitution seek to rectify the issues that arose in last spring’s election for executive board president and vice president. Some feel that the amendments were proposed in an unethical manner. The amendments, proposed by Jessica Laursen, class of 2017 senator, move to…
Two years ago, during the 2012 presidential election, St. Bonaventure was quite the political hotbed. Students and professors pledged their allegiance to either Mitt Romney or Barack Obama, with a few disillusioned folks hoping for some third-party candidates to pull off a miracle. Student political clubs such as the college democrats and college republicans put…
By Amelia Kibbe Features Editor The freshman class elected new student government officials and the results were announced Oct. 6 . Now, the class is busy preparing for their first class-run event. Elected to officer were Denis Riordan, president; Hannah Schaefer, vice president; David Lefebre, secretary and Joyce Tristan, treasurer. Riordan is a history major…
By Emily Carson News Editor Prior to last week’s election, students all over the country were preparing for it in their own way. St. Bonaventure clubs and organizations on campus helped students prepare as well, and planned events in an effort to bring students together to watch history unfold. I would like to think every…
By Kerri Linsenbigler Features Editor After months of ads, speeches, tour stops and campaigning, America elected its president Tuesday night. With 303 Electoral votes, President Barack Obama won a second term in the White House. For many Bonaventure students, this came as no surprise. “Everyone knows the tradition of a president getting reelected for a…
Brett Keegan Staff Writer Campaign posters laced with Arabic script sailed into gutters, trampled by dog paws and stray cats picking for scraps. Red, white and black ringed trees and utility poles, faded from a year in Cairo sun. Around every corner, I found remains of revolution and the first free election in Egypt’s history.…
Kevin Rogers Assistant Opinion Editor When a family faces a budget crisis, one of the first steps to financial stability is to slash non-essential spending. Families eat out less, they buy fewer luxuries and they look to maximize the benefits for each dollar spent. Much like this hypothetical family, the United States government is suffering…
By Nate West News Assignment Editor WSBU-FM 88.3, The Buzz held the first of three viewing parties for the presidential debates between President Barack Obama and Mass. Gov. Mitt Romney Wednesday in the Murphy Auditorium. Bryan Clark, news director, said his motivation for organizing the event is providing St. Bonaventure students the opportunity to become…
By Mary Best Managing Editor Vote. It’s really not that hard, people. Despite her deep speaking voice and tendency to play questionably scandalous characters in romantic comedies, Scarlett Johansson won my applause in her appeal to young voters at the Democratic National Convention on Sept. 20. “In 2008, less than half of all eligible voters…