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A semester in review: The status of clubs on campus

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NIKKI INDELICATO Assistant Life & Arts Editor This semester, clubs on campus were finally able to return to normal after restrictions regarding in person gatherings and larger club events were lifted. Unfortunately, some clubs weren’t able to weather COVID-19’s storm unscathed.  As a result of the pandemic, many clubs ended......
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SUNY Fredonia students create digital projects using one of the world’s largest Stefan Zweig collections

Jules Hoepting
JULES HOEPTING  Managing Editor  Reed Library is home to one of the world’s largest archive collections of Stefan Zweig. During the 1920s, the Austrian-born storyteller was the most translated author in the world.  Dr. Robert Rie, former Fredonia professor in the foreign language department, brought the Zweig collection to campus......
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Stefan Zweig-inspired “The Grand Budapest Hotel” film screening

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LYDIA TURCIOS Art Director Wes Anderson is a master of color, composition and balancing comedy with tragedy. The jewel of his work is “The Grand Budapest Hotel,” released in 2014, in much the same way that the hotel is the jewel of Zubrowka, the fictional country in which the equally......
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Battle of the New Bands finals

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JORDAN BUDD Staff Writer The Music Industry Club (MIC) held Battle of the New Bands Dec. 3 from 7–9 p.m. in the Multi-Purpose Room of the Williams Center. The room was decked out for a memorable musical experience complete with speaker systems and lighting provided by the Sound Services club. ......
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Movie review: “Tick, Tick… BOOM!”

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ERIN MOSHER Special to The Leader The tell-tale life of Tony award-winner Jonathon Larson, as told and adapted by director Lin-Manuel Miranda, was released onto Netflix Nov. 19, 2021. Andrew Garfield portrays Larson perfectly to all extremities, from the personality to the same love of music and work.  Miranda said......
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Music Industry Club’s Battle of the New Bands begins

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JORDAN BUDDStaff Writer The Music Industry Club (MIC) is hosting Battle of the New Bands once again. After missing last year due to COVID-19, the student-run organization is excited to continue the long-running event. This year’s competition started on Thursday, Sept. 23, when MIC held a mixer for the event.......
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Visiting Writers Series: Matthew Salesses

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MEGAN MUNRO Special to The Leader On Nov. 3, the Mary Louise White Visiting Writers Series hosted its last visiting writer of the semester. Students were given the exciting opportunity of hearing from the novelist Matthew Salesses. Salesses received his Ph.D. in Literature and Creative Writing from the University of......
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Halloween Spooktacular Pops Concert: Ode to the night of fright

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Music Review LYDIA TURCIOS Art Director King Concert Hall lit up with the bright sounds of violin strings and the deep resounding call of the organ on Oct. 29. The Halloween Spooktacular Pops Concert was performed by the Western New York Chamber Orchestra and conducted by Glen Cortese, the artistic......
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SUNY Fredonia’s Mainstage Series ‘The Wild Party’

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Theater Review LYDIA TURCIOS Art Director The doors of SUNY Fredonia’s Robert W. Marvel have burst back open with passionate and campy aplomb, thanks to the efforts of the Department of Theatre and Dance in producing Andrew Lippa’s “The Wild Party,” directed by Professor Jessica Hillman-McCord.  Much like the musical’s......

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