By Emily West
ST. BONAVENTURE (May 2)—Flex your left arm and observe the muscle. Now imagine the 58-year-old words of John Steinbeck written across it in permanent ink.
“Such a man doesn’t really die, he seems maybe more alive to me than before.”
Shortly after the death of his father, Steven Kuzara had these words, from East of Eden, tattooed on his upper arm.
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By Emily West
ST. BONAVENTURE (April 28)— “This is your song, my song to you. I love you, yes I do.”
With these lyrics, Sean O’Shea ended his senior capstone performance, “The Evolution of Songwriting.” He sang seven original pieces and played guitar. He began choosing music for the show last summer, but said he really started feeling stressed about it two weeks before the performance.
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By Emily West
ST. BONAVENTURE (April 15)—A small white mouse ran frantically around a plastic container. Aleda Leis reached in and, after a few tries, caught it by the base of its pink tail.
She guided the struggling mouse into a mesh tube. Her lab partner quickly capped the tube, taking care not to catch the tail. They slid the cage into a larger plastic chamber designed to measure oxygen consumption. Her partner swiped a soapy index finger onto a tube attached to the chamber, leaving a film across the opening. Both watched the bubble travel down the tube, carefully timing its progress.
“The point of the lab for the students was for us to learn about metabolic rate and how the hormones from the thyroid gland affect it,” said Leis.
Leis, a sophomore studying math and bioinformatics, does not like testing on the animals. She also said that she feels animal testing is necessary.
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By: Emily West
ST. BONAVENTURE (March 17)— On the first floor of the Murphy Professional Building at St. Bonaventure University, 75 posters hang on the walls. They advertise campus events, club meetings, classes, jobs, scholarships and graduate programs.
“You’ve got to hit them multiple ways, so they’re aware of what programs are going on,” said Stephen Kuchera, assistant director of the Center for Activities, Recreation and Leadership.
According to a 2009 university survey, about 90 percent of responding St. Bonaventure students considered themselves aware of the kinds of activities available on campus. Less than 50 percent of those students said they participated in at least a moderate amount of social activities. About 17 percent said they did not participate at all.
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By Emily West
Posted 2/16/11
ST. BONAVENTURE—Kristy Kibler felt trapped.
“I really missed my family,” said Kibler. “I started looking at transfer forms.”
Kibler, a senior journalism major, said she went home almost every weekend during her first semester at St. Bonaventure University. Though she enjoyed her classes, she missed having close friendships.
“It was all social,” Kibler said. “I felt really isolated.”
According to a 1989 study, between 50 and 70 percent of people have experienced homesickness at some point in their lives, and 10 to 15 percent have had homesickness bad enough to interfere in their daily lives. Though scientists have a difficult time measuring homesickness, they agree that it occurs in all cultures and all age groups, especially college students leaving home for the first time.
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For Carole McNall, the topic of breast cancer strikes close to home.
“I’m a breast cancer survivor,” said the journalism and mass communication professor. “My mom had gone through breast cancer, my aunt died of breast cancer and somebody that was really helpful to me when I was going through chemo just died of breast cancer.”
So when McNall received a Facebook invite for a breast cancer awareness walk on campus last week, she decided to come out and support the event.
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Just how addictive are Facebook games?
While being interviewed for this story, Morgan Mack, freshman English major, pulled out her laptop and checked on her Farmville account.
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