By Kevin Rogers Managing Editor Students from 10 colleges rolled into St. Bonaventure for a battle of legal know-how as SBU Mock Trial hosted its second annual “Friar Faceoff” tournament last weekend. In mock trial, students play the role of lawyers and witnesses as they develop the best defense or prosecution in a case…
By Majella Shields Staff Writer Hi all, and welcome to this week’s Fashion Focus. I can’t believe we are coming to the end of the first semester. It has gone by so quickly. Time really does fly when you’re having fun. As the semester comes to a close, this means one thing — Christmas…
By Heather Monahan Features Editor Sports is one of the most internationally-recognized pastimes. It can bring people together and form bonds between different groups. That was the idea Unified Sports built upon. The program, funded by the Special Olympics, brings together athletes of the same age, regardless of whether or not they have disabilities.…
By Kerri Linsenbigler Associate Editor Senior capstones are an integral part of many students’ educations at Bonaventure. A capstone is a final thesis, event or other project which embodies all the student has learned here. It is kind of a last “hoorah” before a senior walks across the stage. This semester, a few students…
By Ryan Horan Contributing Writer St. Bonaventure alumni are looking to help ease the stress of Christmas shopping this year for their follow Bonnies with the Alumni Gift Guide. The Alumni Gift Guide is an online listing of St. Bonaventure alumni that make great gifts for the Bonnie in your life. There is a…
By Daniel Leopold Staff Writer College quickly becomes a time in every young adult’s life when school, free time and work become a stressful balancing act. The excitement and adventurous feeling experienced during the first couple of weeks of the semester soon wears down as the prospects of essays and finals draw near. Sometimes…
By Emily Sullivan Opinion Editor On Wednesday, Nov. 13, the Garret Theater opened its doors to a crowd of people, all waiting to be seated and watch SBU Theater’s performance of “The Walls” by Lisa Dillman. The set, skillfully designed by Becky Misenheimer, associate professor of theater, looked normal enough; a few doorways, a…
By Majella Shields Staff Writer Hi all, and welcome to this week’s Fashion Focus. I’m about to jump on the Movember bandwagon here. It is that time of year when some among the male population take pride in not shaving for a whole month to raise money for cancer research. It’s a very charitable month…
By Betsy Pray Staff Writer Writing letters seems to be a thing of the past. But what if writing a letter involved learning about a new culture, changing people’s lives and teaching someone English? BonaResponds is giving people the chance to do just that. The service organization is launching a new pen pal program…
By Amelia Kibbe Staff Writer Keep calm and mustache on! This month, St. Bonaventure University will be participating in “Movember 2013.” This is the second year Bonaventure has taken part in the month-long event, and the goals for this year are twice as high. The idea of “Movember” is simple. In order to raise…
By Jackie Roberts Staff Writer Every day, we pass hundreds of students: in the hallways, in the Hickey, in our dorm buildings and walking from one place to another. Some of these people are our friends; some you may not even know their names. By that glance you make when you pass them, you…
By Majella Shields Staff Writer Hi everyone, and welcome to this week’s fashion focus. Word in the Hickey Dining Hall this week is that there are club/team formals going on over the next few weeks; everybody loves the opportunity to put on a fancy dress or suit up. I’ve never been to one of these…
By Emma Zaremba Features Assignment Editor In the Bona Bubble, we support our family through it all. On Sunday, Nov. 3, at noon, a group of students in marketing professor Michael Russell’s Event and Sponsorship Marketing class will host a memorial dodgeball tournament in honor of Bonnies’ baseball pitcher Andrew Revello. Revello graduated in…
By Heather Monahan Features Editor If you’ve ever wanted to see the sights of the world, you’ll want to make your way over to the Loft on the third floor of the Regina A. Quick Center for the Arts on Thursday, Nov. 7. Photographs taken from all around the world will be displayed for…
By Heather Monahan Features Editor If you don’t live on the East Side of campus, you may not have met Dean Atkins, one of three new resident directors at St. Bonaventure. Even if you have met him, you may not know much about him other than deducing that he’s from the United Kingdom, based…
By Whitney Downard Contributing Writer Do you want to help break a Guinness World Record and raise money for charity? Tomorrow, Headstands for Humanity will attempt to break the Guinness World Record for the most people doing a headstand simultaneously. The current record is 399 simultaneous headstands in Wevelgem, Belgium, back in 2006. The…
By Samantha Berkhead Editor-in-Chief Art doesn’t always revolve around happiness. The Rampallian was born last year when Becky McKeown, ’11, decided to combine her love of literature with her hunger for dark, gritty poetry and prose. “A lot of literary magazines don’t publish dark, experimental works,” McKeown said. “I wanted to create a publication…
By Kevin Rogers Managing Editor Café La Verna transformed from its normal campus coffee stop into a performance space last Thursday night as St. Bonaventure’s Slam Poetry Club hosted its second open-mic night of the semester. More than 40 students packed the café to hear student poets spin tales about childhood, love, friendship, life…
By Daniel Leopold Staff Writer Looking for a great way to feel the passion of Bonaventure sports before basketball season begins? After kicking off its season a few weeks ago, the men’s club hockey team has been hitting the rink rearing to go. The games are excellent opportunities to engross yourself in a fast-paced…
By Majella Shields Staff Writer Here it is, my third-favorite time of year (after Christmas and my birthday, of course). It’s Halloween! Halloween falls on a school night this year, so the celebrations will be in full swing this weekend. Every year, my friends and I begin to brainstorm in August as to what…