A compost heap of problems loomed over President Barack Obama on inauguration day. After he became the 44th president of the United States, Obama immediately inherited a to-do list that demanded a fix to the dilapidated economy, health care and education facelifts, the end of two wars, green energy and a strict workout for the obese national debt.
Some alumni come back to campus to attend basketball games. Bill Hammond came back to make a difference in the community.
Courtney Shares stood behind the bar of The Burton Hotel, looking up at the patron who stood on the bar stool in a sort of drunken wonder.
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Have you ever wondered why there was not a place for St. Bonaventure students to express ideas, trade textbooks or simply talk about campus issues? Paul Hakel, administer of the SBU Forum, thought the same thing.
"There were a lot of things going on in those times," Peggy Burke, '69, dean of the school of education, said. "You had the Civil Rights Movement coming up, you had the women's movement, you had an anti-war movement. That particular time period was right at the intersection of those three, and the students here were involved in it. It was an exciting time."
Imagine waking up every morning at 5:30, going to mass at 6, only having an hour of free time per day and then going to bed at 9 p.m. Communication with anyone outside the university is strictly prohibited, all your spending money must be deposited with the treasury department, and you can't leave campus without the president's permission. Glad it's only in your imagination? It wasn't for the first students on campus in the 1800s.
