“Pardoning the bad is injuring the good,” is a phrase uttered by Benjamin Franklin more than 230 years ago and still holds truth in today’s United States at large. The World Report places the U.S. eighth on the Overall Best Countries Rankings in 2019. With a population of 325-million American citizens and the greatest economy…
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…
By Samantha Berkhead Managing Editor Many see St. Bonaventure as a homogenous, typically Catholic university in Western New York. They don’t, however, notice the growing percentage of a diverse international community on campus. According to sbu.edu, students at St. Bonaventure come from 38 different countries not including the U.S. Jeanette Dietrich, a junior journalism and…
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…
By Alexandra Napoli Staff Writer History buffs, look out. The history department is offering two recently added courses for the spring 2013 semester. Immigration, race and ethnicity have become popular topics in the United States, along with the country’s impact on the rest of the world, the history department has created two courses which discuss…
By Alexandra Salerno Managing Editor Before Patricia Burlaud spoke at this year’s Mary Devereux Luncheon, Sister Margaret Carney, O.S.F., university president, called her “a women every bit as extraordinary as Mary Devereux.” Burlaud is a quark physicist who dedicated more than three decades of her life to the educational and leadership advancements of women in…
