BY ANDREW KRUSZKA, STAFF WRITER Hello everyone, welcome back to this week’s rendition of my article. This week let’s focus on something near and dear to the St. Bonaventure community. Well, it is near and dear if you support the one aspect of college that every institution is supposed to provide in however many years…
BY HADLEY THOMPSON, NEWS ASSIGNMENT EDITOR The St. Bonaventure University men’s basketball team competed this past Tuesday in the National Invitation Tournament at Madison Square Garden. The hype of the team being in the final four and the transportation opportunity encouraged students to watch the game live in New York City, leaving classrooms with many…
By Frankie VanSickle, Staff Writer Group projects have always been a big topic in classes at the college level. Why do we always have them or why am I having to be in the group that no one does anything in projects? Personally, I hate group projects. I find them to be the worst, because…
By Richard Williams, Contributing Write Professors at St. Bonaventure University, faculty and staff will be subject to weekly random COVID-19 tests starting the week of Sept. 21 and lasting until the end of the fall semester. According to Bonaventure’s office of human resources, 5% of the employee population at Bonaventure will be selected each week…
By Natalie Forster, Associate Editor While discussing an article in my Internet and the Law class, Carole McNall, assistant professor in the Jandoli School and advisor for The Bona Venture, noted how she strives to create a classroom where students want to show up and succeed. For her, this student involvement is what sets some…
According to Anne Lee, adjunct professor of journalism and mass communication, friendships formed at Bonaventure last for a lifetime. “You can’t get rid of them,” she said, smiling. And that’s certainly the case for Anne, who met and married one of her Bonaventure friends, assistant professor of journalism and mass communication and director of the…
By Julia Mericle News Editor Professor Adam Cook, who graduated with a Ph. D. from the State University of New York at Buffalo last year, joined the finance department as a visiting assistant professor. Cook previously worked as a visiting professor at SUNY Fredonia. He will be teaching macroeconomic principles and statistical apps for business…
For 25 years, Carl Case, professor of management, has been coaching Special Olympics teams. Case has a 31-year-old son with Down syndrome, so his involvement with the organization has a personal connection. The Special Olympics started in the early 1960s, when Eunice Kennedy Shriver saw the unfair treatment people with mental disabilities experienced. She began…
By Amelia Kibbe Features Assignment Editor St. Bonaventure is known for its small class sizes. One of the aspects the school considers most appealing is the student-to-professor ratio. Because of this, students need to participate more often in class. Many of the classes I currently take are largely discussion-based. Professors assign reading for homework and…
Taylor Nigrelli Sports Editor There I sat, two days before the spring semester was set to begin, staring at a list of required textbooks. As a journalism and mass communication major, I admittedly spend far less money on books than a business or science major would. And I’ve been around the textbook block before. I’ve…
By: Angelia Roggie Associate Editor Sitting in my Thursday afternoon class, I can’t help but look out the window rather than listen to my professor ramble on about another story that has only a minute connection to the topic. Why do a majority of my professors drone on for what feels like hours on topics…
By: Zach Waltz Assistant Sports Editor Millions of high school seniors make an important decision – perhaps the most important of their lives – to attend an institution of higher learning each year. According to the U.S. Department of Education, there are 2,364 colleges and universities offering a four-year education. College populations can range from…
By Tate M. Slaven Staff Wrier April 1 marks the one day of the year when pranksters with creative minds can get away with devising ways to punk the people around them. Many people around campus have either planned their fair share of pranks or have been victims of these clever ruses. At St. Bonaventure,…
By Jillian Hammell Assistant Features Editor As the spring semester winds down at Bonaventure, talk of summer activities floods campus. However, Bonaventure will not become a ghost town with tumbleweeds rolling down the sidewalks. Groups of middle and high school students will occupy the grounds from July 21 to August 3 for Bonaventure’s second annual…
By Tate M. Slaven Staff Writer Accomplishing the look of a rebel in today’s society can be especially difficult. Even polite businessmen wear earrings and ponytails, and it’s not surprising to find that there are many college students who are tattooed. Josh Martin, a freshman sports studies major, has three tattoos. With all his tattoos…
By Heather Monahan Features Assignment Editor It’s no secret Bonaventure has an earlier scheduled spring break compared to other colleges. Many students who go home are the only college students present in their hometowns during this time. While the early break can be rationalized by the Easter break Bonaventure also gets, both students and professors…
By Heather Monahan Features Assignment Editor In this day and age, it’s rare to find a college student who isn’t on Twitter. However, with its multiple functions, more professors are joining the site as well. Jim Mahar (@BonaResponds), associate professor of finance and BonaResponds coordinator, said he joined Twitter in 2008. “I joined early on…
By Heather Monahan Assistant Features Editor Bonfires, summer jobs, vacations and internships fill the summers of students. Although professors also get summers off, their breaks aren’t always filled with vacations and parties. Mary Rose Kubal, associate professor of political science, admits while summer is not as stressful as the upcoming fall semester, a lot…