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Noted sports author to give keynote at Dick Joyce Sports Symposium Acclaimed sports writer Mark Kriegel is the keynote speaker at this month’s Dick Joyce Sports Symposium at St. Bonaventure University.
Free and open to the public, the symposium begins at 2 p.m. Tuesday, April 21, in the auditorium of the new William F. Walsh Science Center. This year’s topic is “How Television Views and Covers Sports.”
After the keynote, Kriegel will join Chris LaPlaca, senior vice president for corporate communications at ESPN, and Steve Arvan, director of Time Warner Cable SportsNet, on a panel to take questions from the audience. LaPlaca is a 1979 SBU graduate.
Other distinguished SBU journalism alums will be on hand for morning workshops, including Adrian Wojnarowski, ’91, who will join fellow Yahoo! Sports writer Dan Wetzel from 10:30-11:45 a.m. in Plassmann 210 to take “A Behind-the-Scenes Look at the UConn Basketball Scandal.”
Mike Vaccaro, ’89, columnist of the New York Post, and Jeff D’Alessio, ’91, editor in chief of The Sporting News, will discuss “How to Succeed in Sports Journalism” from 10:30-11:45 a.m. in Plassmann 202.
Kriegel, formerly of the New York Daily News, is the national columnist for FOXSports.com and the author of two New York Times best sellers: “Namath: A Biography” and “Pistol: The Life of Pete Maravich,” which Sports Illustrated called “the best sports biography of the year.”
Kriegel has been a columnist at the New York Post, New York Daily News, a contributing writer for Esquire magazine, and the author of a novel, “Bless Me Father.” He grew up in New York City and lives in Santa Monica, Calif., with his daughter.
The symposium, held on campus every other spring, is named in honor of the late Richard “Dick” Joyce, a 1960 graduate of St. Bonaventure. Joyce worked for United Press International, NBC and the New York World-Telegram & Sun before joining The Associated Press in 1968.
The Brooklyn native covered horse racing and college basketball for the AP for 20 years. Joyce died in 1988 at the age of 53.
The John Domino Award will be presented at the symposium to a St. Bonaventure graduate who has excelled in the field of sports journalism and communication. The winner won’t be revealed until the day of the event.
Domino graduated from St. Bonaventure in 1984 and worked for NBC Sports before joining ESPN. He was regarded as one of the growing sports network’s brightest personalities when he left to return to the Buffalo area to join the Empire Sports Network.
Domino told friends he was coming back to Buffalo because someone in the family was battling cancer. He never said it was him. Domino died in 1994.
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Students to present program on "Climate Change Awareness'' St. Bonaventure students Alyssa Sparatta, ’09, Morgan Beacker, ’10, and Johnathan Nuttall, ’09, will present a talk on “Climate Change Awareness” at 7 p.m. on Tuesday, April 21, in the auditorium of the William F. Walsh Science Center.
The presenters hope to facilitate a discussion in order to educate the community about a person’s relationship with the environment, and stimulate ideas of how people can make their lives more sustainable.
“We believe that climate change is an important issue facing the world today. Universities in the United States have a special responsibility to address the issue,” Sparatta said.
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VITA exceeds last year's record St. Bonaventure University accounting students have successfully completed another tax season, gaining valuable work experience while helping the local community.
Students in VITA, Volunteer Income Tax Assistance, set a new record with $750,000 in tax refunds for local taxpayers this year, a near 25 percent increase from last year’s total of $600,000.
VITA allows students to provide free income tax preparation and E-filing to local community members with low or moderate income who are eligible for Earned Income Tax Credit.
“VITA is an outstanding educational experience for our students,” said Dr. Susan Anders, CPA, professor of accounting and VITA supervisor. “We are preparing real tax returns for real taxpayers, and bringing real refund dollars into the community.”
Other schools only dedicate a few weekends to VITA, but St. Bonaventure students spend eight weeks in the local community, acting as a commercial tax preparation firm.
“We were comparable to a small- to mid-sized accounting firm for the eight weeks of our tax season,” Anders said. “For those eight weeks, we had the equivalent of five full-time tax professionals working 40 hours a week.”
Each year, VITA works with Students in Free Enterprise (SIFE) and the Bonaventure Accounting Association to gather 80 students who work a combined total of 2,000 volunteer hours during tax season.
The completion of the 2009 tax season marks VITA’s sixth year, totaling 1,500 tax returns with $2.35 million in tax refunds.
VITA also works with the United Way of Cattaraugus County and Department of Social Services to set up an advertised tax preparation site at the Olean Mall.
For more information on VITA, visit http://www.sbu.edu/business.aspx?id=5626&terms=VITA.
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Syracuse Symphony Orchestra returns to SBU's Quick Center with violinist Philippe Quint Syracuse Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Samuel Wong and featuring violinist Philippe Quint, will perform at 7:30 p.m. Friday, April 17, at St. Bonaventure University’s Regina A. Quick Center for the Arts. The concert is being
presented by Friends of Good music in association with The Quick Center.
Quint will perform the rhapsodic Violin Concerto in D-Major by Erich
Wolfgang Korngold. The evening will also feature the popular symphony
“From the New World” by Dvorák. Syracuse Symphony Orchestra began in 1961 as a community orchestra and quickly evolved into a fully professional resident orchestra serving central and northern New York state. An ensemble of national acclaim, the symphony boasts 79 musicians and a conducting staff of international caliber. It performs 193 full-orchestra and chamber ensemble concerts throughout central and northern New York, reaching more than 225,000 audience members during its 39-week season. Guest conductor
Wong first came to international attention with his New York Philharmonic
debut in 1990. In addition to having held music directorships with the
Hong Kong Philharmonic Orchestra, Ann Arbor Symphony Orchestra and the
New York Youth Symphony, Wong has appeared as guest conductor with the
major orchestras of Toronto, Montreal, New York, Seattle, Houston, London
(Royal Philharmonic), Brussels, Prague, Tel Aviv, Tokyo (Japan Philharmonic),
Italy (Milan, Palermo, Rome) and Spain (Valencia, Bilbao). He made his
operatic debut conducting Rossini’s “The Barber of Seville” with the
Canadian Opera Company. In 1997, he led performances of Verdi’s “Rigoletto”
in Beijing as part of the Hennessey Opera Series. He will also release two CDs on the Naxos label: John Corigliano’s world premiere recording of “The Red Violin Caprices,” as well as the Korngold Violin Concerto with Carlos Miguel Prieto conducting the Orchestra de Mineria. His debut album including William Schuman’s Violin Concerto earned him two Grammy Award nominations. This performance is supported in part by the New York State Council on the Arts. For tickets and information please call the QCA at (716) 375-2494. Season ticket holders who are not able to attend the concert are asked to let the box office know so the tickets can be given to students. This performance concludes Friends of Good Music’s Classical Music Series. Its World Music Series concludes Wednesday, May 6, with “Music From India,” featuring sarod player Aditya Verma, a performance rescheduled from earlier this year. For each Friends of Good Music performance, The Quick Center galleries open an hour before the performance and remain open throughout intermission. Regular gallery hours are 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Monday through Friday and noon to 4 p.m. Saturday and Sunday. The museum is open to the public year round at no cost.
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BonaResponds ready for largest service weekend BonaResponds, St. Bonaventure University’s disaster relief group, is at it again and calling all volunteers for its first three-day Local Service Weekend, April 24-26.
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Dr. Robert Amico, professor of philosophy, was an invited speaker at the “Whiteness and Privilege Symposium” at California State University at Long Beach on April 14, 2009. His paper is titled "The Costs of White Privilege."
Student Brianna N. Bricker of Albion, Pa., had a paper titled “Sponsorship in College Football Bowls” accepted in the online version of the new St. Bonaventure journal of student academic writing. Her paper, nominated by Dr. Michael Russell, also received an honorable mention award.
Dr. Carl J. Case, professor of management science, Darwin L. King, professor of accounting, and Kimberly DeSimone, lecturer of marketing, presented their paper “Virtual Worlds: An Exploratory Study of Undergraduate Behavior ” at the Allied Academies 2009 Spring International Conference held in New Orleans, La., on April 8-10, 2009. The paper was also published in the Academy for Studies in Business Proceedings.
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