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Pick a card, any card: Students premiere tarot art depictions

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Reading Time: 5 minutesMAISIE STRADER Special to The Leader The Magician, by Julian Santos. Photo by MAISIE STRADER | Special to The Leader Warning: Depictions of violence. All people believe different things; some believe in magic, and others do not. However, just because you can’t see it doesn’t mean it isn’t real.  Tarot......
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Roommates release song on Valentine’s Day in support of domestic violence survivors

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Reading Time: 4 minutesMIA CIECHALSKI  Life & Arts Editor  Warning: This article contains mentions of domestic violence. Music is one of the best ways to let out emotions that are otherwise difficult to express.  To that effect, two best friends and roommates, now creative partners, released their very first single “you should leave......
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[POEM] Inheritance of Fate

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Reading Time: 2 minutesANONYMOUS They decided my fate the moment they picked my name. It means ewe in Hebrew — A symbol of purity and innocence, Timid and dainty. Unlike its male counterpart, A symbol of power and force, Regarded and respected. I wish I were strong and immovable, But I was born......
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[POEM] Ghosts

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Reading Time: < 1 minuteANONYMOUS  She said, “I believe in ghosts. Friendly ones, The kind that wear worn-out sneakers And mysterious corduroy trousers, Frolicking invisibly In once-tidy leaf piles, scattering Orange like sparks through the air. I believe in twilight ghosts In misty mantles, Clinging to their scraps of earth-bound cloud Like Adam and......
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[POEM] Static Bathe Waves

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Reading Time: 4 minutesANONYMOUS Warning: Mentions of blood. There is a radio in the woods. You can hear it if you walk through the creek. It is always on the other side. You have to walk through the creek to find it. That’s important. Part of its plan. It wants you to be......
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Lucas West takes center field with national anthem performance on the Bills’ biggest stage

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Reading Time: 3 minutesGWENYTH KIRKWOOD Staff Writer Lucas West gets ready to perform the national anthem at the Bills game. Photo provided by Lucas West | Special to The Leader If you were to ask a Western New Yorker their dream in life, nine times out of 10, you will be met with......
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Local TV station owner Phil Arno shares insight into reality of news industry

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Reading Time: 3 minutesABBIE MILLER Editor-in-Chief While he spent a lot of his career behind the silver screen, there is nothing two-dimensional about Phil Arno. This is exactly the thought process that led Communications Professor Mike Igoe to choose the WBBZ TV Owner as a guest speaker for his journalism class.  Arno described......
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Natasha McCandless presents Fredonia with a new face and optimistic attitude

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Reading Time: 3 minutesMIA CIECHALSKI Staff Writer Amidst the closed-offness that lingers from what seems like never-ending Fredonia snowstorms, it is rare to see anyone, professor or student alike, become excited by the return to a perpetually snowy Fredonia.  New adjunct professor Natasha McCandless appears to challenge this assumption. McCandless has recently joined......
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A guide to learning about and celebrating Black History Month

Alex Bucknam
Reading Time: 2 minutesALEX BUCKNAM Asst. News Editor  Since 1976, February has been recognized as Black History Month.  First recognized by President Gerald Ford, the concept dates all the way back to the original founder, historian Carter G. Woodson, in 1926. Woodson first started realizing during his educational experience to escape poverty that......
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