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 Vote for the Wolf Pack! Bona's student section, the Wolf Pack, has been nominated for the 2013 Naismith Student Section of the Year Award. The student section that earns the title wins  national bragging rights, and $10,000 toward the university’s general  scholarship fund. You can vote through Facebook or by entering your email address. Vote daily through February 6.  Go Bona's! Vote now! __________________________________________ School of Business alumni - blogging for students Business Management graduate assistant, Lauren Travers, is starting a blog that she hopes will attract high school students to Bona's, by showing them what you can achieve and  how St. Bonaventure can help you get there. Lauren is looking for submissions from Alumni to help get the blog started. Please answer the following questions and email them to Lauren:
 -Where are you now? Job  specifics.
 -What was your major at  St. Bonaventure and year of graduation.
 -Do you feel that St.  Bonaventure helped you get where you are today? If so, how?
 -Favorite  experience/memory/part of being in the Bona Bubble.
 -Anything else you would want to relay to  prospective high school students.
 Email Lauren now __________________________________________ Bona Pride Day 2013 recap A big thank you to all our alumni who participated and sent in pictures for Bona Pride Day. Check out the 60+ pictures on our Facebook page, and visit our website to see all the fun that faculty and staff had on campus. __________________________________________  Reunion 2013 - Registration begins early March Honoring class years ending in 3 & 8, but anyone is welcome to attend! Honored class year members will receive the reunion brochure/registration form in early March.   Keep up with all the current reunion news __________________________________________ Alumni invited on SBU trip to the Emerald Isle There are still a few openings  for the Fr. Mychal Judge Center Ireland Program, traveling to Ireland and  Northern Ireland June 25 to July 4.  To register, please contact Larry  Sorokes, Office of Lifelong Learning, 716-375-2304, lsorokes@sbu.edu Join the Mychal Judge Center and SBU  on a 10-day journey to Ireland as we see the sights, enjoy the culture, hear  from the people, and learn the historic, social, political and religious  lessons that make this region one of the most beautiful, welcoming and  fascinating places on earth. Guests  will visit the cities of Dublin, Galway,  Derry and Belfast on this guided-learning tour of iconic cultural and  historical venues. The cost is $2,580 per person and includes round-trip  airfare from JFK to Dublin. __________________________________________ Schmidt the nation's best basketball coach for the money Forbes ranking of college coaches has put men's basketball coach Mark Schmidt at the top of the list as the nation's best basketball coach for the money.  See how Schmidt made it to the top __________________________________________ VITA helps Cattaraugus County residents for 10th year Students with the Volunteer Income Tax Assistant program have put in a lot of hours the past nine years - 15,000 to be exact. Accounting students have prepared 3,120 tax returns and earned county residents $4.8 million in refunds. You can take that to the bank! Learn more about VITA and where to find them  __________________________________________ Coming soon to a mailbox near you In the newest edition of Bonaventure magazine, alums weigh in on  how the job market looks on Main Street, U.S.A. Also inside: a profile on Jack  Butler, ’51, one of the newest members of the Pro Football Hall of Fame; 10  pages of news and notes about your classmates; and an SBU landmark turns 75. __________________________________________ Interim director honors staff with electronic message board  Francine Z. Schaefer, former interim director of Human Resources, gifted the Office of Admissions with an electronic message board as a way to honor the hard work and excellence demonstrated by her colleagues. See the board and learn more __________________________________________   SPIRITUAL   Respected Franciscan theologian to lecture February 12 Kenan Osborne, O.F.M., will discuss the relational theology of the triune God in his lecture titled “Our Relational World Today: Exploring the Wisdom of St. Bonaventure” at 4:30 p.m., Feb. 12, in the Doyle Chapel. Learn more about Fr. Kenan __________________________________________ ARTS   Textile artist Ruta Butkus Marino's "Riffing on the Masters" is on exhibit at the Quick Center through May 31.
 Learn more about Marino and the exhibit
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