[2] It had always been a weekly newspaper with the exception of a brief semi-weekly experiment in the early 1980s, and due to budget cuts in 2014.
Referred to in and around the campus as "The BV," the paper is published Fridays throughout the school year.
All editors, writers and staff members of The Bona Venture are undergraduates who volunteer their time and skills.
Lee Coppola, the dean of St. Bonaventure's Jandoli School of Journalism and Mass Communication, and John Hanchette, a Pulitzer Prize winner and an associate professor at St. Bonaventure, each served as editor-in-chief.
The BV has accounts on Facebook and Twitter, where breaking news and announcements are posted.