Brett Keegan Staff Writer Campaign posters laced with Arabic script sailed into gutters, trampled by dog paws and stray cats picking for scraps. Red, white and black ringed trees and utility poles, faded from a year in Cairo sun. Around every corner, I found remains of revolution and the first free election in Egypt’s history.…
In the true Franciscan tradition of St. Bonaventure, two student organizations, VOICES and SBU for Life, have formed selfless partnerships to help get SBU’s To Write Love on Her Arms (TWLOHA) chapter up and running. Both should be commended for their part in helping to bring a club with an immensely powerful message to campus.…
Ryan DeOrdio Staff Writer In the first 2012 presidential debate, President Obama and Mitt Romney debated health care, among other issues. Romney advocated competition between private insurance and Medicare, while Obama stressed Medicare’s superiority. Both positions prove a public option is the solution to health care. President Obama argued, “Medicare has lower administrative costs than…
Kevin Rogers Assistant Opinion Editor When a family faces a budget crisis, one of the first steps to financial stability is to slash non-essential spending. Families eat out less, they buy fewer luxuries and they look to maximize the benefits for each dollar spent. Much like this hypothetical family, the United States government is suffering…
Skye Tulio Sports Assignment Editor Have you ever logged in to Twitter to check the score of a Bonnies men’s basketball game only to find such a page does not exist? Rest assured Bona Nation, the problem has been solved and then some. The latest creation out of the Sports Information Office, a St. Bonaventure…
Taylor Nigrelli Assistant Sports Editor The internet is a wonderfully fascinating invention. You can search any fact from an infinite base of knowledge from nearly anywhere. You can join the more than one billion people who use Facebook, you can share your thoughts with the world via blog or browse countless other sites. Disturbingly, you…
Deirdre Spilman Opinion Assignment Editor I have always been a pretty big fan of Tyra Banks. Her list of accomplishments is a mile long. She’s acted in films like “Life Size” and “Higher Learning,” she started her own production company, hosts her own talk show and, of course, models for a plethora of modeling agencies.…
Kerri Linsenbigler Features Editor As a life-long season ticket holder for the Buffalo Sabres, Tuesday’s surprise National Hockey League’s contract offer thrilled me. I thought I could watch some hockey again. I imagined myself sitting among 18,000 fellow Sabres fans at the First Niagara Center. I pictured the Sabres turning their luck around and making…
Mary Best Managing Editor Jeremiah, Abe, Rebecca, Kate and Sabrina are all names trending on social media. While a few seem rather biblical and one is reminiscent of an endearing teenage witch, it’s all to do with a rather frightening movement behind TLC’s “Breaking Amish.” Disclaimer: I am a fan of the show, but things…
Matthew Laurrie Features Assignment Editor Who says a model can’t also be a role model? The Department of Education in New York City certainly doesn’t think this is a possibility. A high school guidance counselor was recently fired from her position after racy photos of her reappeared on the Internet seventeen years after they were…
By Kevin Rogers Assistant Opinion Editor This past week, dozens of St. Bonaventure students registered to vote for the first time or guaranteed they will receive absentee ballots to cast their votes from school. They’ve taken the first step to participate in the American political process. With the paperwork out of the way, young voters…
By Emily Carson News Editor According to the Center for Disease Control, sexually active adolescents and young adults are at a higher risk for getting sexually transmitted diseases. Nearly half of the 19 million new sexually transmitted diseases (STD) diagnosed each year are among young people aged 15 to 24. This is something Bonaventure, home…
This editorial represents the opinion of The Bona Venture staff. Midterms bring a chaotic atmosphere as most students are sleeping less, consuming more caffeine and spending more time in the library in the hopes that they will do well on their midterm exams. Of course, exams are a big deal, but placing so much stress…
By Emily Sullivan Opinion Editor When I think about a college party, I imagine red Solo cups on the ground and crushed beer cans everywhere. I imagine people acting stupid and music so loud the vibrations can be felt throughout the room. The last thing I think of is people ingesting alcohol through their rectums.…
By Sara Ward Copy Editor Last weekend, California Gov. Jerry Brown took another step toward ending discrimination and hate against the gay community by signing a law which prohibits therapy aimed at turning gay kids under the age of 18 straight, according to a Oct. 2 CNN.com article. After the state Senate passed the bill,…
By Anthony Gannon Contributing Writer Dr. Paul Butler is one of the early initiators of a type of controversy that will become common among high schools and local communities throughout the United States. The issue? Should football be banned? Butler, a first term school board member in the Dover, N. H. district, is a former…
By Mary Best Managing Editor Vote. It’s really not that hard, people. Despite her deep speaking voice and tendency to play questionably scandalous characters in romantic comedies, Scarlett Johansson won my applause in her appeal to young voters at the Democratic National Convention on Sept. 20. “In 2008, less than half of all eligible voters…
This editorial represents the opinion of The Bona Venture staff. Weekends at St. Bonaventure, similar to most college campuses, have become notorious for wild student behavior. There’s no denying what happens on an average Friday night at Bona’s. Many students get dressed up and go out for a night of partying, whether it’s on campus…
By Kevin Rogers Assistant Opinion Editor Twitter can be a tool for good. It can promote the occasional righteous social cause. It can be a quick and easy way to get breaking news updates. Of course, breaking news updates are only valuable when they contain accurate information. If they aren’t, Twitter becomes a tool for…
By Matt Butler Associate Editor With the rise of mobile technology and expansion of wireless data networks in recent years, it seems nearly everyone possesses a smart phone or similar device capable of tasks like social networking and sharing videos. As a result, we are becoming increasingly connected on a global scale never before seen…
