Two days without Twitter is two days too long

The Fast
My Blackberry vibrated twice, alerting me of an email, Facebook or Twitter notifications. I hesitated to check what was causing that red light to blink. Unfortunately, it was Twitter. Any other time I would have loved to see that little blue bird pop up on my home screen but not this time. Who mentioned me in a tweet? What was it about? What if I’m missing something important? Could a friend tell me who tweeted me, or is that cheating? Not being able to answer these questions made the last nine hours of my two-day “Twitter fast” increasingly difficult.

Unknown Reliance
Two days. Forty-eight hours. Two thousand, eight hundred and eighty minutes. One hundred seventy-two thousand, and eight hundred seconds. That’s how long it took me to realize how much I relied on Twitter.

College newspaper editors earn pay – except at Bonaventure

             College newspapers at Syracuse University, Canisius College and State University of New York at Geneseo all have paid positions but St. Bonaventure University does not.

            The Bona Venture, Bonaventure’s student-run newspaper, would never have paid positions, said Ryan Lazo, a news editor.

            “We barely have enough funds to print the newspaper,” said Lazo, a Bonaventure sophomore.

Mt. Irenaeus supplements a Bonaventure education, fostering students' growth

            ST. BONAVENTURE (April 18) – Barry Gan, a St. Bonaventure University philosophy professor, refused to participate in an on-campus active-shooter emergency drill two years ago, conducting class off campus that day.

            Gan and his students met at Sprague’s Maple Farms in Portville that morning. After breakfast, he conducted class at his house in Olean, said Gan, director of the Center for Nonviolence.

            “I would’ve happily done that at Mt. Irenaeus,” said Gan.

Bonaventure avoids coed housing, yet Canisius cultivates it

ST. BONAVENTURE (March 21) – On the last selection day of their freshman year, St. Bonaventure University juniors Marissa Morill and Cassie Stubbs entered the Reilly Center, thinking they would be choosing their housing.

            With no more rooms available, Morill, Stubbs and about 30 other students wrote their desired roommates on a list, said Stubbs.

            “We didn’t know where we were living until August – when bills came out,” said Stubbs, a journalism and mass communication major.

            That year Morill and Stubbs lived on Falconio Hall’s first floor – on which both men and women lived.