Legacy ending on good note
Ruthie Harper
Issue date: 5/1/09 Section: Opinion
For the majority of St. Bonaventure University's student body, The Bona Venture is just a newspaper that comes out every Friday.
For the past three years, that newspaper has been like another home to me. I've written more articles than I care to count. Someday they might help me land that special job, but in the end, they're just words. And, pardon the cliché, but words can't explain what The Bona Venture has been for me the past three years.
Coming to the interest meeting first semester of my freshman year, I was scared to death. I didn't think I could do it, but with help from some amazing Class of 2008 editors, I realized my potential.
Not only did they teach me how to write like a journalist, they showed me how to laugh and have fun like a journalist.
Seeing the Class of 2008 graduate and move on with their lives was painfully difficult. It seemed like it would be impossible to have a BV without them.
But it wasn't. In reality, things are always changing, and people always have to move on. As the Class of 2008 moved out, the classes of 2011 and 2012 moved in.
Eventually the sophomores and freshmen who came to have new roles at The Bona Venture also came to have new roles in my heart. The young editors' humor and dedication not only helped make everyone's jobs easier, but also helped me to realize why anyone becomes an editor, or a writer for that matter. Yes, we all want to learn, and we all love Bonaventure and journalism. But it's more than that. Anyone who's here on a Wednesday night can see that.
It's not just about writing a Bona Editorial, it's about arguing over the Backstreet Boys or speaking with a certain coach's accent. It's not just about writing a news story about this meeting or that meeting; it's about turning on that disco ball once the clock hits midnight and belting out all the words to 'You're So Vain.'
It's not just about staying up until 4 a.m. reading and editing pages. It's about the laughs and funny things people say when they are up at that hour. Honestly, the things that come out of a person's mouth after little-to-no sleep are funnier than any comedian I can think of.
For the past three years, that newspaper has been like another home to me. I've written more articles than I care to count. Someday they might help me land that special job, but in the end, they're just words. And, pardon the cliché, but words can't explain what The Bona Venture has been for me the past three years.
Coming to the interest meeting first semester of my freshman year, I was scared to death. I didn't think I could do it, but with help from some amazing Class of 2008 editors, I realized my potential.
Not only did they teach me how to write like a journalist, they showed me how to laugh and have fun like a journalist.
Seeing the Class of 2008 graduate and move on with their lives was painfully difficult. It seemed like it would be impossible to have a BV without them.
But it wasn't. In reality, things are always changing, and people always have to move on. As the Class of 2008 moved out, the classes of 2011 and 2012 moved in.
Eventually the sophomores and freshmen who came to have new roles at The Bona Venture also came to have new roles in my heart. The young editors' humor and dedication not only helped make everyone's jobs easier, but also helped me to realize why anyone becomes an editor, or a writer for that matter. Yes, we all want to learn, and we all love Bonaventure and journalism. But it's more than that. Anyone who's here on a Wednesday night can see that.
It's not just about writing a Bona Editorial, it's about arguing over the Backstreet Boys or speaking with a certain coach's accent. It's not just about writing a news story about this meeting or that meeting; it's about turning on that disco ball once the clock hits midnight and belting out all the words to 'You're So Vain.'
It's not just about staying up until 4 a.m. reading and editing pages. It's about the laughs and funny things people say when they are up at that hour. Honestly, the things that come out of a person's mouth after little-to-no sleep are funnier than any comedian I can think of.
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