Forgiveness: The personal journey of letting go

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                Picture a mother forgiving a 17-year-old high school student for killing her son.

                Picture an Amish community forgiving a milk truck driver for killing five of the community’s young girls.

                Picture a former pope forgiving the man who shot him and almost ended his life.

Childhood: A time we all deserve to experience

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                Children play pretend, dressing up in their mom’s red high heels and their dad’s striped ties.

                They pump their little legs on the swing set, pushing so hard to touch the clouds.

                Children love unconditionally, sharing a toy or giving a hug to a friend.

                They show off their latest arts and crafts masterpiece, beaming with pride and joy on a job well done.

Inspiration

     Running releases 99 percent of the stress and tension that builds up in my life.

I'm not photogenic (as you can blatantly see), but it was the
only recent running picture I could find.
Taken by Jenna Jones in Oxford this past summer.

     It’s the one time I’m OK with being alone. Usually, I’m fearful of solitude. But hearing my heart beat in my chest, feeling my lungs expand and contract with each breath and placing the balls of my feet oh-so gently on the ground and lifting off again absorbs all the fears, nerves and negativity cycling through my body. I escape from reality to clear my head.

Faith

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What can a grilled cheese sandwich do for you?

Fill you up? Make you happy? Keep you satisfied for a few hours?

What can a grilled cheese sandwich do for a child in India who goes to bed hungry?

Before 2004, that grilled cheese sandwich would have done nothing for that child. Now, thanks to FeelGood, an organization that fights hunger, you can help people all over the world have a meal to eat. It’s as simple as buying a grilled cheese sandwich on certain college campuses.

Hope for the Hickey

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New residential dining manager takes student opinions into account

By Mark Belcher, News Editor @markbelcherjr and Maddie Gionet, Co-Editor in Chief/ Features Editor @MaddieGNA

ST. BONAVENTURE – (Feb. 1) In the first St. Bonaventure University Food Committee meeting in two semesters, Hickey Memorial Dining Hall management took away a list of both criticisms and refinement points -- and only two weeks later, students have already seen positive change.

Perseverance

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     It’s America’s oldest and most prestigious pre-college science competition. It could lead to a $100,000 four-year college scholarship. It’s the Intel Science Talent Search. And Samantha Garvey was one of 300 semifinalists in the running for that $100,000.
     Although Garvey might not have gone on to be one of the 40 finalists in the contest, she stands out from her peers. What makes Garvey different? Well, for one, her project. She spent more than two years studying the effects of Asian short crabs on mussels in salt marshes in her home city of Long Island.
     A second reason – Garvey, her parents and her two siblings have been homeless since New Year’s Day this year after being evicted from their home.

Q&A with Elyse Kosakowski

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It’s an honor no St. Bonaventure University student has been recognized for before this semester – being named a finalist for the Most Promising Minority Award given out by the American Advertising Federation. But now, senior Elyse Kosakowski can proclaim she is the first St. Bonaventure student to receive this recognition.
Named one of twenty finalists for the award, Kosakowski, a journalism and mass communication and integrated marketing communications dual-degree major, sat down with The Intrepid’s Features Editor Maddie Gionet, @MaddieGNA, for a Q&A.

Gionet: How does it feel to be the first Bonaventure student to be honored in this way?