St. Bonaventure Women’s Lacrosse Preps for Upcoming A-10 Tournament
Photo courtesy of gobonnies.com BY: SAMUEL WEILERT; STAFF WRITER The St. Bonaventure women’s lacrosse team is looking to end its season strong. Its final regular … Keep Reading
Lent offers a time of giving and giving up
By Luis Rodriguez Staff Writer It is time to begin exercising, but not those muscles. Easter is less than 40 days away, which means it is the season of Lent. “Lent is a time of exercise to grow spiritually, and it represents the cycle of life,” Brother Kevin Kriso, O.F.M., said. A hot topic… Keep Reading
Bonnies look to start season on right foot
By Gavin Lindahl Sports Assignment Editor With snow drifts and skin-numbing wind gusts, the first sport that comes to mind probably is not the one that is debuting this weekend. All the same, the baseball team will play its first game today at 2:30 p.m. Luckily for the Bonnies, it won’t be played at home.… Keep Reading
ENACTUS to host the Science of Magic
By Zach Waltz Associate Editor ENACTUS will host the Science of Magic event on March 21 from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. at Allegany-Limestone Elementary School. ENACTUS is a St. Bonaventure club that focuses on using entrepreneurial strategies to benefit the community. The event is being held for a local fourth grader who is terminally… Keep Reading
Internet crashes
By Lian Bunny News Editor St. Bonaventure University experienced a world without Internet on Wednesday, Feb. 18. According to Michael Hoffman, associate provost and chief information officer, Technology Services received a report around 7 p.m. that the Internet was down. By 9:30, Daniel Russo, network services manager, was able to reset and replace some of… Keep Reading
It’s the most stressful time of the year
The deadline for housing applications is today, and students have been rounding up their friends and picking their new homes for the 2015-16 school year. “For me, the actual paperwork and application hasn’t been the difficult part—it’s finding the right people,” freshman journalism and mass communication major Anna Rine said. “My solid friend group has… Keep Reading
Swim team loses big at A-10s
By Emily Mulcahey Staff Writer College-level swimming is not for the weak hearted. Four days a week, swimmers wake before the rest of the world to start training. Holidays cut short and homework brought with them on the road, the women’s swimming and diving team spends six months in the water, all in preparation for… Keep Reading
Student gives grand piano recital
By Kellen Quigley Contributing Writer After four long years of intense practice and preparation, St. Bonaventure senior Griffin Kramer performed his capstone piano recital on Saturday, Feb. 21 in the Regina A. Quick Center for the Arts. Students, staff, family and friends gathered from all over New York and as far south as North… Keep Reading
Everyone dance now
By Lauren Zazzara Features Assignment Editor The Regina A. Quick Center for the Arts “went up” on a Tuesday. The Quick Center faculty hosted a dance party on Tuesday as part of their 20th anniversary celebration. They transformed The Center into a club using colored lights, balloons and music. As guests arrived, photographers snapped pictures… Keep Reading
Let’s hear it for Lets
By Gavin Lindahl Sports Assignment Editor With its season having come to an end, the men’s swimming team may be satisfied with its strong performance at the Atlantic 10 championship last weekend despite coming up short of its third consecutive title. However, it is time to take stock of what will be lost going forward… Keep Reading
Students launch new chapter of national blog
By Riley Eike Staff Writer On March 17, St. Bonaventure University will launch a chapter of Her Campus. Kiara Catanzaro, a senior journalism and mass communication major, and Lauren Zazzara, a sophomore journalism and mass communication major, will lead the new Bonaventure chapter of Her Campus. Although St. Bonaventure is introducing Her Campus to students… Keep Reading
Bonnies to face strong pitching in weekend series
By Pat Tintle Sports Editor After getting off to an 0-4 start in which it was outscored 23-4, the softball team is looking ahead to a busy weekend in North Carolina as it takes on Kent State and Robert Morris. The Bonnies will face each team once both today and on Saturday. Despite coming off… Keep Reading
Lights, camera, fashion
By Lauren Zazzara Features Assignment Editor The Academy Awards is one of the biggest nights for the fashion industry. The night requires luxurious, statement-making and dramatic attire. There’s a reason why hundreds of websites post slideshows of what the stars wore. Reporters always ask the famous question: “Who are you wearing?” There was live online… Keep Reading
Club basketball makes strong impact in first year
By Jonathan Sawyer Contributing Writer In its inaugural season, the club basketball team is looking to compete with the best. “Last year, it was an idea, us playing in the Richter. We thought we could play organized, and we were good enough to compete,” sophomore Student-Coach Amir Dastoori said. The Bonnies are in the North… Keep Reading
Marra gives leadership talk
By Julia Mericle News Assignment Editor On Thursday Feb. 19, alumnus Thomas Marra, ‘80, returned to campus to speak in a series of events for the Building Extraordinary Leaders program. His main talk, titled, “The Art and Science of Leadership,” included a presentation and question-and-answer session for students in the William F. Walsh Science Center… Keep Reading
Bona’s hosts copyright workshop
St. Bonaventure faculty hosted its first copyright workshop on Tuesday, Feb. 24 to inform the Bonaventure community about the importance of copyright laws. Ann Tenglund, associate director of libraries, and Carol McNall, professor of journalism and mass communication, hosted the copyright workshop. The workshop addressed how students, producers of new ideas, need to know the… Keep Reading
Bonnies attend conference at UB
Approximately sixteen St. Bonaventure University students attended the 2015 Western New York Student Leadership Conference (WNYSLC) at the University at Buffalo on Saturday, Feb. 21. The theme of this year’s conference was Cultivate Your Leadership: Grow Your Legacy. The conference included several guest speakers, including representatives from various universities throughout New York State, including… Keep Reading
Bona’s announces Ciesla as 2015 Woman of Promise
By Bryce Spadafora Contributing Writer Each year, a female student in the Russell J. Jandoli School of Journalism and Mass Communication is awarded the Dr. Mary A. Hamilton Woman of Promise Award for her achievements. This year’s recipient is senior Anna Ciesla. According to the school’s webpage, the student who is chosen demonstrates success academically,… Keep Reading
McCannon takes job at West Virginia
This will be the last semester Bryan McCannon, associate professor of economics, will teach at St. Bonaventure University, since he has taken a position at West Virginia University in Morgantown. McCannon has been at Bonaventure for four years teaching multiple areas of economics including intro to microeconomics and macroeconomics, econometrics and managerial economics. McCannon received… Keep Reading
BV Editor’s Blog: The Editing Process
By Amelia Kibbe Managing Editor Because Harrison described the delivery process, I thought I would explain one of the most important steps that get us to distribution: editing. Editing also happens to be my favorite phase, so although I could rant on for hundreds of words about the glories of semicolons and parallelism and the… Keep Reading
Editor’s Blog: Distribution of Labor
By Harrison Leone Editor-in-Chief In an effort to improve our online presence, The BV is rebooting a long-dormant feature of our website: the editor’s blog. Each week, readers of this blog will be offered in-depth access to the life of a Bona Venture editor. The BV is full of talented and dedicated people, and this… Keep Reading