Meet the Professor: Fr. John Coughlin, O.F.M

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The St. Bonaventure University and Mt. Irenaeus communities welcomed a new friar to their families this year.Fr. John Coughlin, O.F.M., sat down to give The Intrepid an interview on how he became a friar and where this journey has taken him.
By Maddie Gionet, features editor, @MaddieGNA
Gionet: You entered the Franciscan Order in 1995. But describe your journey of becoming a Franciscan priest before that.

'We've Got Your Back'

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Peer Coaching Program makes stride on improving students’ first-year experience

By Maddie Gionet, features editor, @MaddieGNA

     ST. BONAVENTURE (Oct. 16) -– It’s like having a superhero for a friend. That’s how Kate Timony would describe a peer coach.

     As an incoming freshman this year, Timony can attest that these so-called superheroes live up to their motto: “We’ve got your back!”

     “I panicked before my first exam,” the freshman biology major said. “I got a hold of my peer coach, who is also a bio major, and she helped me calm down and told me what to expect.”

     The St. Bonaventure University Peer Coaching Program matches incoming freshmen and transfer students with upperclassmen known as peer coaches and peer leaders, said Abby Cohen, assistant director for the First Year Experience. These upperclassmen give them a helping hand and a familiar face through their first year of college.

All For One, One For All

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Starting this semester, on-campus and commuter students no longer have to park in different parking lots
By Maddie Gionet, features editor, @MaddieGNA
     ST. BONAVENTURE, N.Y. (Sept. 26) – Fawn Wilson commutes three days a week from her Olean home to St. Bonaventure University.
     Last semester, even though the junior early childhood education major went to classes like all the other on-campus students, Wilson was limited to a specified parking lot labeled commuters.
     “We all pay the $100 to park, and we all pay tuition,” Wilson said. “Just because I don’t pay to live on campus doesn’t mean I shouldn’t be allowed to park in the same spots.”
     Starting this semester, that won’t be the case for Wilson.
     Vito Czyz, director of Safety and Security, said Safety and Security Services has erased the distinction between commuter and student parking, allowing all students to park in any of the 1,279 available student-designated spots on campus. He said this not only simplifies the parking program but makes it more efficient.

Meet The Student: Kristy Kibler

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     Kristy Kibler, ‘11 alumna, is the 2011 Mark Hellinger Award winner — an award given by the Russell J. Jandoli School of Journalism and Mass Communications to the most promising young communicator.

     Kibler gave Maddie Gionet (@MaddieGNA) an interview talking about winning the award and life outside of the university.

Maddie Gionet: Can you describe your first emotions after learning you had won the Hellinger Award? Were you with anyone?

How Bonaventure Remembers the 10th Anniversary of September 11th

By Maddie Gionet, features editor

The Intrepid, 2011

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Alleged assault on student by campus security official

By Mark Belcher and Maddie Gionet, editors

     ST. BONAVENTURE (Sept. 9) - A St. Bonaventure University student said a security official assaulted him Thursday afternoon, resulting in a call to 911.
     The student said the official took his left arm and pushed him against the wall at Parking Administration. However, Vito Czyz, director of Safety and Security, said no laws were broken, and nobody was assaulted.

     Captain Robert Buchhardt, head of Cattaraugus County sheriff’s patrol division, said an officer responded, but closed the complaint file.

     The campus security official in question declined to comment for this story.

     Around 1 p.m. Thursday, the student said he visited Robinson Hall with two purposes: to receive a parking decal, which he purchased Wednesday, and to negotiate a $50 ticket for not having the decal on his car.

Meet the Professor: Br. Basil Valente, O.F.M.

Br. Basil Valente, O.F.M. has been named director of the Master’s in Integrated Marketing Communications program over the summer. 

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Br. Basil gave The Intrepid’s Maddie Gionet an interview talking about his new appointed position. 

Maddie Gionet: How has the transition been from a professor of the IMC Program to director of the IMC Program?

     Br. Basil: It’s been exciting to jump into a program that more than 10 years ago I had a chance to create from the ground up. It’s been exciting to be on this side of the table of this program. I’ve always enjoyed teaching marketing and communication classes, and I’m excited to begin and really take IMC and the legacy that is IMC to another level.