BY TUCKER REILLY, EDITOR IN CHEIF The St. Bonaventure University department of English hosted visiting poet Jake Skeets, a Navajo-born author and university instructor, in the Hall of Fame Room of the Reilly Center. At an hour-long event held Wednesday night, Skeets read a selection of poems taken from several of his collections, including the…
BY MAX MCAULIFF, STAFF WRITER Many people have a reading phase at some point in their lives. That phase may come as a young adult when the freedom to finally read on one’s own truly becomes available to people. Popular young adult series include Harry Potter, The Hunger Games, Percy Jackson and Twilight. These series…
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 Mary Best Opinion and Advisory Editor My younger sister and I are experiencing our senior years together — hers in high school, mine at Bona’s. While the nerves that come with joining “the real world” surround my everyday activities, fighting the injustice of standardized testing surrounds hers. The dreaded Scholastic Assessment Test, or SAT,…
By Matthew Laurrie Assistant Features Editor Freshman checklist: finalize room assignment information, get dorm necessities, buy school supplies and read the All Bonaventure Reads (ABR) selection. At the end of August, a new pack of Bonnies will pour into St. Bonaventure and each will be expected to have read “In the Sanctuary of Outcasts,” the…
By Heather Monahan Staff Writer It’s no question technology is moving forward at a rapid pace. It is providing the public many advantages, but it could also be the cause of drawing the age of newspapers to an end. Strategically located across campus, students can find USA Today, The Buffalo News and The New York…
By Elizabeth Pray Staff Writer “When you go to places, the things you are supposed to see are not what stay with you.” Peter Makuck said these words while onstage at the Garret Theater Wednesday night discussing how the small details on a trip can become the unexpected details of a poem. Makuck, a nationally…