To many college students, studying abroad may seem like the experience of a lifetime. Bonaventure offers study abroad programs in over 30 countries, during both fall and spring semesters and short-term trips during the summer. But before students decided to burst the “Bona bubble” and spend a semester away, they are faced with months of…
Over 75 years ago Woody Guthrie wrote one of the most seminal pieces of Americana ever produced, “This Land is Your Land.” While not a discourse on “American exceptionalism,” the song celebrates the vast beauty of this nation. Every day I hear my peers discuss how they can’t wait to escape the United States, that…
With many students traveling south for spring break this semester, Thomas Delaney, Ph.D., wellness center director, and Becky Seefeldt, Ph.D. of health services want to spread awareness about the Zika virus and what students can do to protect themselves. According to the CDC (Center for Disease Control and Prevention), Zika is a disease that is…
By Hannah Gordon Czech Correspondent At this time two years ago, I was on a 10-day excursion through France, Monaco and Italy with about 40 girls from my small, Franciscan high school. We went to Mass on Easter, and I remember writing in my travel journal how lucky I was to be there. I thought…
By Hannah Gordon Czech Correspondent If there is one thing I’ve learned from my study abroad experience so far, it’s that some things will stick with you for a lifetime and others you just hope will remain. Two weeks ago, my friends and I traveled to Poland with a group of students from our university.…
By Harrison Leone Czech Correspondent The 11:30, or 23:30, if you prefer, bus from Prague to Munich pulled in to the outskirts of the capital of Bavaria before the sun was up and, unfortunately for me, before the trains into the heart of town were running. So I set up camp on a chilly train…
By Harrison Leone Czech Correspondent I think I caught something in Berlin, something besides the lung-throttling cough that wakes my roommates up at 4 a.m. I think I’ve been infected with an incurable case of wanderlust, and the only treatment is travel. A self-prescribed trip to Vienna seemed to be an appropriate antidote. Luckily, there…
By Harrison Leone Czech Correspondent When I prepared to come to Prague, I made a list of places in Europe that I wanted to visit over the next four months. In no particular order, I decided Krakow/Auschwitz, Naples, Dresden and Bruges were the absolute non-negotiables. Obviously, I wanted to go anywhere and everywhere possible, but…
By Harrison Leone Czech Correspondent Lamentably, classes began last week. After more than two months off from school, I had almost forgotten I was still in college. Eight weeks of self-indulgent squalor had softened my academic skills considerably, and my reintroduction into the world of syllabi, plagiarism warnings and strictly regimented time slots was a…
By Harrison Leone Czech Correspondent It was a dismal, rain-soaked morning, and my roommates and I had just spent the better part of an hour wandering around southern Budapest looking in vain for our bus to Prague. It was 8:45. Our bus was scheduled to leave at 9. We happened upon a young couple…
By Harrison Leone Czech Correspondent From the air, central Bohemia sharply resembles Kansas. Flat and barren, with the only signs of human development being arrow-straight roads crossing through the snow-covered landscape. Things changed dramatically once my British Airways flight touched down at Vaclav Havel Airport. Vaclav Havel, which services more than 11 million passengers a…
By Alexandra Salerno Advisory Editor I’ve lived in London for five months, but I’ll call it home forever. In a perfect world, I would blend the best parts of my London home with my Bonaventure home and my hometown in Pennsylvania. I’m already dreading the pain of missing England in a few weeks. London has…
By Kiara Catanzaro Staff Writer Do you aspire to travel and learn world history in other countries? Bonaventure offers numerous opportunities to study abroad. Students will have the opportunity to visit Uganda this summer for a 12-day program. Chris Mackowski, professor of journalism and mass communication, will host a trip that will give students credit…
By Elizabeth Pray Staff Writer This past fall semester, I didn’t see the iconic bell tower, hear the roar of the Reilly Center or order hot chocolate from Café La Verna. Instead, I spent three months on an island halfway around the world, exploring European cities and culture while furthering my education at an English…
By Kiara Catanzaro Staff Writer Students from St. Bonaventure’s theater department participated in the Kennedy Center American College Theater Festival (KCACTF) at Towson University in Towson, Md. last week. The festival is an opportunity for theater students to partake in various workshops and participate in different productions. Multiple students from the theater department were nominated…
By Samantha Berkhead Associate Editor Virtually anyone who has stepped foot on St. Bonaventure’s campus will wax poetic about the “Bona Bubble” — a figurative entity insulating the university’s students, faculty and staff from the outside world. Even a year ago, I had little intention of leaving this distinctive place. There was so much I…
By Samantha Berkhead Associate Editor Before this weekend, I was convinced that only one song had ever been written for the bagpipes. You know the one. Its brash cacophony of opening notes ringing out ubiquitously at Memorial Day parades across America every summer. Blame it on cultural isolation, my own ignorance or merely the fact…
By Alexandra Salerno Editor-in-chief Last week, St. Bonaventure hosted two teenagers whose relationship with the University reads like a storyline from a movie script. In 2005, Sr. Margaret Carney, O.S.F., university president, received an email from an Italian woman named Laura Pietrobattista. She introduced herself as belonging to the family of Fr. Panfilo (Eng: Pamphilo)…
By Matthew Laurrie Features Assignment Editor St. Bonaventure’s spiritual outreach extends beyond meetings held in the Thomas Merton Center, hymns heard in the university chapel and the majestic peacefulness of the Allegheny Mountains. The Bonaventure connection stretches far and wide across the country, and one program has made its mission to unite alumni and students…