Beauty abounds at Bona’s
By Angelia Roggie Features Editor In an age of skinny models and tiny sizes, women constantly compare themselves to each other. According to the Media Awareness Network’s website, 50 to 70 percent of...
View ArticleWomen should run cautiously
By Amanda Klein Advisory Editor I love to run. I’ve run four races in the last year, and I’m training for a 10k in May. I zone out, listen to my iPod and look at the Allegheny River. Once I...
View ArticleWomen in Sports Day speaker inspires young recruits
By Angelia Roggie Features Editor Female athletes can feel truly important. At least, author Andrea Montalbano seems to think so. “The very act of signing her up and bringing her to her first practice...
View Article“Scientist in service” shares her story with Bonaventure
By Alexandra Salerno Managing Editor Before Patricia Burlaud spoke at this year’s Mary Devereux Luncheon, Sister Margaret Carney, O.S.F., university president, called her “a women every bit as...
View ArticleWomen deserve a chance to serve on the front lines
By Gwen Furmanek Assistant Opinion Editor We’ve begun a new year, and with it should come progress in policy. Change happened this past week when a historic moment in history occurred. Defense...
View ArticleSBU strikes out early
By Pat Tintle Contributing Writer Even though the softball team has not played in the Atlantic 10 playoffs in three years, Head Coach Mike Treehouse is confident in the program’s future. “If we keep...
View ArticleBonnies fall to Butler, lose sixth straight
By Skye Tulio Sports Editor Second-half woes struck the women’s basketball team yet again last Sunday as they fell to Butler, 64-46. The Bonnies travel to George Washington Sunday for a 2 p.m. game...
View Article‘Orange’ features TV rarity: real women
By Samantha Berkhead Editor-in-Chief In the 1980s, cartoonist Alison Bechdel created a system to test gender bias in media. The Bechdel test is simple in its requirements. A film, television show or...
View ArticleRuggers get clean bill of health
By Gavin Lindahl Staff Writer The women’s rugby club may have dropped its game to Brockport this past weekend, 35-0, but the scoreboard might as well not have existed. According to Coach Tracy Schrems,...
View ArticlePanelists speak: women say inequality still exists in the workplace
By Lian Bunny News Editor My child’s father got paid paternity leave. I did not, and I had the baby.” Eboni Hayes’ statement exemplified the inequality discussed at the second annual women’s panel on...
View ArticleFemale Power
By Lauren Zazzara Features Assignment Editor The word “feminist” has been thrown around in pop culture hundreds of times in the past few years. Emma Watson became an ambassador of HeForShe, a gender...
View ArticleAthletes honor women in sports
By Lian Bunny News Editor St. Bonaventure will participate in a 28-year-old national celebration of girls and women in sports on April 21. National Girls and Women in Sports Day (NGWSD) began in 1987...
View ArticleBonnies race in Rochester
By Amelia Kibbe Editor-in-Chief The St. Bonaventure women’s cross country team continued to work together Saturday, placing fourth out of 20 teams at the Harry Anderson Invitational in Rochester, said...
View ArticleRugby begins states
By Jonathan Sawyer Assistant Sports Editor Heading to the playoffs for it’s second straight year, the St. Bonaventure women’s rugby team looks to continue its success in a match-up against Union...
View ArticleWomen’s soccer loses to Dayton
By Gavin Lindahl Staff Writer As they sit in the basement of the Atlantic 10, the women’s soccer team is nowhere near where it wanted to be at this point of the season. The conference campaign has...
View ArticleWomen’s game recap: Bonnies against Siena
By Jonathan Sawyer Sports Assistant Editor The St. Bonaventure women’s team started its season with a 57-40 win in the Reilly Center tonight against the Siena College Saints in the first round of...
View ArticleMan, I feel like a woman
I spent my summer in Dirksen Senate Office Building in Washington, D.C., listening in on Senate hearings as part of my job. One of the first and most important things I realized as I listened to...
View ArticleLet’s give female athletes our full respect
It has been three months since the beginning of the 2016 Olympic Games. Both the United States men and women’s teams had remarkable performances this year. The two teams combined earned a total of 121...
View ArticleBona’s students participate in Women’s March on Washington
By Julia Mericle Editor-In-Chief On Saturday, the day after Donald Trump’s inauguration, thousands of people will join together in Washington D.C. for the Women’s March on Washington, according to The...
View ArticleIs music not respecting women?
In today’s music, especially the hip-hop genre, you can usually find a derogatory or sexist term aimed towards women. Although this type of language can be found in most music types, it seems that it...
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