Schmidt to Retire After 19 Seasons; What’s Next for Bonaventure?
Photo courtesy of gobonnies.com BY: SEAN WALLACE; SPORTS ASSIGNMENT EDITOR After St. Bonaventure University’s regular-season finale with Davidson College on Saturday … Keep Reading
Recyclemania promotes friendly competition
By Heather Monahan Staff writer The grass isn’t going to be the only thing turning green on campus in the next few weeks. Students and others around St. Bonaventure will have their own unique chance to help the environment. Recyclemania, which began March 5, runs until March 30. Sister Suzanne Kush, C.S.S.F., director of the Franciscan Center… Keep Reading
Muslim Student Association comes to fruition
By Angelia Roggie Features Editor St. Bonaventure University has a new and unique religious-affiliated group, whose members are coming together and sharing their personal ideologies. This particular club is the Muslim Student Association. The group, created by seniors Usman Jilani, Mahmuda Khan and Myra Khan, held its first interest meeting Feb. 21. The group discovered through its meeting that… Keep Reading
Serving faithfully
By Kerri Linsenbigler Features Assignment Editor Community service is an honored tradition at St. Bonaventure. So when the White House invited 260 schools from across the country to promote interreligious service, Bonaventure accepted. “(The White House) really wanted campuses to get more involved in terms of religious diversity and volunteering,” said Simone Bernstein, a White… Keep Reading
Kinder Kinetics connects recreation with learning
By Heather Monahan Staff writer Learning how to throw and catch a ball is not only a rite of passage for children, but it also gives them the basic foundations of perseverance, cooperation and teamwork. Kinder Kinetics provides local preschool children with a fun opportunity to learn these basic skills from Bonaventure students. The program… Keep Reading
Saving the view does matter
We all have a duty to nurture and protect the glorious history and the marvelous campus of this fine university. We do that to honor those who have come before us, many carrying huge sacrifices to establish our fine institution. Whether it is placing a new School of Business complex in an inappropriate setting or… Keep Reading
Conservatives miss point with “Lorax”
By Deirdre Spilman Assistant Opinions Editor The controversy surrounding Universal Studios’ newest animated film, “The Lorax.” is completely uncalled for. “The Lorax” — a film adaptation of a 1971 Dr. Seuss book — arrived in theaters last Friday, and since then many anti-environmentalists have been griping about the film’s not-so-subliminal messages. Claims as ridiculous as ‘Dr. Seuss… Keep Reading
Bounty endangers players
By Kyle Zamiara Sports Editor Football is a physical sport, plain and simple. Players will get hurt whether injuries are inflicted intentionally or not. It’s part of what is one of the most brutal sports out there. But getting paid to purposely blow out a knee is a different story. ESPN shocked the nation last… Keep Reading
Catholic school and church wrongly fired gay teacher
By Mary Best Opinion Editor As a Catholic elementary school alum, it’s appalling to hear about blatant discrimination from a place that heavily promotes treating everyone with respect. Especially when the victim didn’t do anything wrong. Music teacher Al Fischer was fired from both his job at St. Ann Catholic School in Normandy, Mo. and… Keep Reading
Grandmother’s heinous crime justifies harsh punishment
By Emily Sullivan Opinion Assignment Editor When I was a kid, sneaking candy resulted in either an eye roll from my mother or being sent to bed without dessert. For Joyce Hardin Gerard, however, sneaking some chocolate is a capital offense that warrants death. Too bad Gerard herself is now facing her own death sentence.… Keep Reading
ARAMARK sets record straight about unionization
To the readers of The Bona Venture: Recently, articles have been published in The Bona Venture that present false information about the operations of the university’s contracted food service provider, ARAMARK. Since many readers of this publication rely on ARAMARKdaily, we thought it important that we communicate directly with you to set the record straight. You trust ARAMARK every day to… Keep Reading
Public transportation needs to be reliable
By Kerri Linsenbigler Features Assignment Editor The U.K. is significantly smaller than North America, in both land and population. Yet the amount of miles traveled by nationwide transportation in the U.K. is almost 10 times greater. But why is nationwide transportation use so low and declining in the U.S.? Three words: it is unreliable. In… Keep Reading
American power shouldn’t lead to war
By Samantha Berkhead News editor The tension has built up gradually during several months, and noticing it has become as easy as opening to the international section of a newspaper. In the last three months alone, The New York Times has printed more than 32 stories that foreshadow it, according to dawn.com. The United States… Keep Reading
Super Tuesday points to boring choice
By Kevin Rogers Staff writer If Super Tuesday told us anything, it’s that the GOP primary season has been reduced to a stupor-inducing crawl to inevitability. The magic of waiting up into the wee hours of the night for the final tallies of the early primaries and caucuses is over. In the end, a single… Keep Reading
Charging for ambulance is small price to pay
Staff Editorial No one likes to pay an expenditure they weren’t previously paying, but when health and safety are at stake, an exception must be made. Allegany Rescue and EMS Inc. recently approved a decision to begin billing medical insurance companies for transports and services as of Jan. 1, according to a Feb. 15 letter sent… Keep Reading
Seniors plan Rathskeller Renovation
By Emily Carson News Assignment Editor The class of 2012 announced it will be raising funds to renovate The Rathskeller as its gift to the university. “Logistics are still being worked out, but we will be putting concrete ideas into plan soon,” Courtney Cobb, senior class secretary, said. “We’re currently researching different options that would… Keep Reading
SGA debates lunchtime changes
By Elizabeth Pray Staff writer The Student Government Association (SGA) met Monday night in the Doyle Trustees’ Room to discuss updates on the Hickey Dining Hall’s overcrowding issue and the Zimride carpooling proposition, followed by numerous club presentations. Emily Deragon, SGA vice president, provided an update regarding the ongoing overcrowding at the Hickey. The proposal to have the lunch hour… Keep Reading
English department sponsors Writers Series, inviting literary voices to campus
By Matthew Laurrie Assistant Features Editor Life is like a work of literature. You never know what you’re going to uncover. “Your poems are always smarter than you are,” Jonathan Skinner said. Skinner, a poet, editor and ecocritic, dubbed the previous quote a line in the poem of his life. He said it was the main… Keep Reading
Students pioneer carpool program
By Marissa Bruno Staff writer Two weeks ago, seniors Sinead Coleman and Bryan Jackson proposed their student carpooling service to the Student Government Association (SGA) and will find out Monday how the SGA votes on this plan. Coleman and Jackson presented a program called Zimride that promotes sustainability and a safe opportunity for students, faculty and staff to create a social… Keep Reading
Reilly Center to host Selection Show special
By Tyler Diedrich Editor-in-chief St. Bonaventure will host an NCAA Selection Show party Monday in the Reilly Center. The women’s basketball team is expected to earn its first-ever NCAA Tournament bid despite losing in the Atlantic 10 championship game last Monday to Dayton, 56-53. Doors open at 6:15 p.m., with a highlight video and player introductions… Keep Reading
Reflecting on the ride
By Tyler Diedrich Editor-in-Chief St. Bonaventure is back down to earth this Sunday morning. The #BonaNation wishes it was still in Nashville, awaiting an NCAA Round of 32 game between the Bonnies men and Cincinnati, but it’s instead reflecting – on what this last week has been, and on what it could have been. I can’t attest to… Keep Reading