By Skye Tulio Sports Assignment Editor It’s about time. I mean, seriously, how much longer can you beat a dead horse? MTV announced its sixth season of Jersey Shore, set to air Oct. 4, will be the popular reality show’s final season. I must admit to being a fan of the show when it first…
By Emily Sullivan Opinion Editor Growing up, I admired TV show characters like Stephanie Tanner from “Full House” and Rudy Huxtable from “The Cosby Show.” I loved how spunky these young girls were, and I would model myself after them. But kids today don’t get the same role models I grew up with. Today, kids…
By: Kerri Linsenbigler Features Editor During my first day back at Bonaventure, I walked blindly around my familiar campus. I passed by the ivy leaves on Dev, the line at the Hickey and the buzzing Richter Center until I finally reached the Reilly Center. While the business building construction is hard not to miss, it’s…
By: Emily Sullivan Opinion Editor Political propaganda is commonplace with an election rapidly approaching. Whether it’s a sign in your neighbor’s front yard or a TV commercial, candidates are doing whatever they can to reach out and get the votes they need. But when a commercial comes on in support of President Barack Obama, you…
This editorial represents the opinion of The Bona Venture staff It seems like everyday, new technology is being created and makAing the old technology obselete or outdated. There are constantly new updates that make technology easier to use and navigate. Over the summer, Bonaventure students received emails about planned changes in Technology Services. When students…
By Alexandra Salerno Editor-in-Chief As The Bona Venture staff ushers in a new semester, the paper we produce each week features a new look. Despite our cosmetic change, however, our dedication to providing an accurate, reliable and interesting take on Bonaventure news remains the same. We are an editorial staff made up of two seniors,…
By Mary Best Managing Editor One of the best parts about fall is hitting up all the back-to-school sales, no questions asked. Unfortunately, versatile cardigans, owl jewelry and sassy fringed boots are joined by yet another line of controversial t-shirts. The “girls can’t do math” theme from last year’s J.C. Penney t-shirt controversy has morphed…
By Deirdre Spilman Opinion Assignment Editor Almost all schools have zero tolerance when it comes to weapons. When kids are at a younger, more impressionable age, people try to teach them that violence never solves anything. Overall, it’s a good lesson to learn. But when 3-year-old Hunter Spanjers, a deaf child from Nebraska, is punished…
By Sam Wilson Associate Editor It sure doesn’t feel like it, but it’s time for this old guy to leave Robinson Hall for the last time as an editor. Little more than two years after then-sports editor Jake Sonner, flanked by Ryan Papaserge and Tyler Diedrich, took me in a creepily empty…
By Kaitlin Lindahl Associate Editor My first time in The Bona Venture’s newsroom was unpleasant. It was late, and I had scampered sleepily down from my room in 3rd Robinson. It was loud – really loud. I forced my brain to concentrate as I stared back at the swirl of colors and…
By Mike Vitron Associate Editor Well, I’ve been dreading this for a while. Here goes nothing. I came to college knowing exactly what I wanted to do for a living. I was going to make the jump from Bonaventure straight to Bristol, Conn. and be a SportsCenter anchor. End of story. …
By Chris Graham Associate Editor My trip down to Robinson 111 didn’t follow the same path as some of my fellow editors, so allow me to tell a story. I was a bad student my freshman year. Grades weren’t a big deal to me. It was a problem I had dealt with…
By Kait Laubscher Associate Editor This semester, for my senior capstone, I’ve had the pleasure of speaking and exchanging emails with a number of women who have been editors-in-chief of The BV. These women range from one of my new friends Sylvia Burke, ‘59, to one of my best friends, Amanda Klein,…
By Ryan Papaserge Associate Editor There are no words that can possibly do justice to the four years I spent at St. Bonaventure University. It seems pretentious to sum up so many life experiences into a piece that’s fit to run in a student publication, but here goes nothing. As a wide-eyed…
By Kevin Rogers Staff Writer With the nomination all but wrapped up, presumptive Republican candidate Mitt Romney (Mass.) has to carefully consider the next step in his campaign to the White House: the selection of a running mate. In 2008, then-Sen. Barack Obama (D-Ill.) tried to balance his lack of experience in…
By Emily Sullivan Opinion Assignment Editor When I want to buy a present for a friend that I can’t find at Walmart, I shop online. For some, shopping online is a completely different experience. Some people go online to buy people. Seventeen-year-old Megan was coerced by an older man she had…
By Mary Best Opinion Editor The tug-of-war regarding positive body images for women is in the tightest stalemate ever. People shamelessly declare their love for their own bodies but also endlessly complain about the lack of decent representation of real beauty and the average-sized woman. Luckily, Dove Australia is tackling the decidedly…
By Bryan Jackson Associate Editor I didn’t know how to start this farewell editorial. I was going to say something witty about how I dislike farewell speeches and addresses for their inherent cheesiness, then point out the irony of that sentiment, considering I’m now writing a farewell. However, that little witticism didn’t…
As graduating seniors finish off their last few weeks at St. Bonaventure, they are trying to enjoy all the pageantry that comes with graduation. The catch? That pageantry revolves around some pricey expenditures at the end of the year. Recently, graduating seniors had to purchase caps and gowns, which were priced at…
By Amanda Klein Advisory Editor The first time I set foot in St. Bonaventure, N.Y., I was an awkward 17-year-old who had already decided where she wanted to go to school, and it sure wasn’t Bonaventure. But, for the majority of the evening tour that August, I couldn’t take my eyes off the beautiful mountains,…