Eight years ago, my wife and I exited the highway and drove into the Allegheny River Valley in an old maroon VW van. Our first stop was at a farm called Canticle Farm where a farmer and a St. Bonaventure University student were transplanting baby broccoli sprouts into the soil. After a life spent mostly "on the road" and frequently in foreign lands, that initial stop on the South Nine Mile colored our extended stay on this good journey.
Every morning, the sun's earliest rays creep across Route 417, infiltrate Bonaventure's east lawn and climb the storied, ivy-covered walls of Devereux Hall. They've done so since 1926.
As an avid baseball fan, I find it hard to talk about steroid use in Major League Baseball. In 2007, former United States Senator George Mitchell released the Mitchell Report, naming 89 MLB players who used performance-enhancing drugs. Record-breaking players such as Roger Clemens, Sammy Sosa, Barry Bonds, Gary Sheffield and Eric Gagne appeared on the list.
In 2004, The New York Times ran a story about the mistreatment of prisoners being routine in the United States. It appears a prisoner's treatment hasn't improved much since then.
On Jan. 21, the Supreme Court decided to overturn state and federal laws limiting the contributions of corporations and unions to political campaigns. As a result, the coming election year will see more special interest money thrown at politicians than ever before.
When a traumatic event takes place on a college campus, students expect to be kept informed. St. Bonaventure's Office of Safety and Security fulfilled its duties last Saturday morning by responding quickly and efficiently to a devastating and scary alleged rape in Devereux Hall.
The job and internship search has begun for this summer, but with New York unemployment at 8 percent as of December 2009, according to the New York State Department of Labor, jobs are hard to come by. So it's best to make yourself as marketable as possible. Don't give employers another reason to turn you down.
