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Fredonia Feminists provides space for supporting women’s rights

Chloe KowalykApril 11, 2024April 11, 2024

April 11, 2024April 11, 2024

CHLOE KOWALYK Editor in Chief With the rise of changing legislation surrounding bodily autonomy and women’s rights, feminism stands as a relevant topic across the United States today. However, feminism isn’t just a national topic — it’s also a local topic, as Fredonia has its own club on campus dedicated......

Jasmine Johnson’s continued fight for student advocacy

Contributor to The LeaderApril 11, 2024April 10, 2024

April 11, 2024April 10, 2024

MIA CIECHALSKI Special to The Leader Jasmine Johnson is a senior art history, drawing and painting major at Fredonia. That itself gives the public an insight into who she is, her life and what she has been up to recently in the face of the university program cuts. Johnson has......

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History of the Fredonia Guitar Quartet

Contributor to The LeaderMarch 30, 2024March 26, 2024

March 30, 2024March 26, 2024

LUKE VILLAVICENCIO Asst. Life & Arts Editor With the countless student performance groups that exist here on campus, it can be easy to go through your college career and miss out on a heaping handful of them. The Fredonia Guitar Quartet (FGQ), organized by distinguished Professor James Piorkowski, is one......

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The Solar Eclipse at SUNY Fredonia: Preview

Contributor to The LeaderMarch 30, 2024March 28, 2024

March 30, 2024March 28, 2024

ROSEMARIE RAPISARDA Staff Writer After more than 100 years, SUNY Fredonia will once again experience a solar eclipse in the path of totality. “Totality is an awe-inspiring phenomenon that includes darkness in the middle of the day,… [an] effect that only can be witnessed during totality,” said Dr. Michael Dunham,......

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HitGRL Profile

Contributor to The LeaderMarch 30, 2024March 26, 2024

March 30, 2024March 26, 2024

LEE PYE Staff Writer Jamming their way into the local music scene, HitGRL is making their way to the stage. HitGRL is a new band led by two female-presenting artists, Sarah Burke (she/her) as the lead singer-songwriter, and Kathrine Wynn (they/them) as the backup singer and cellist, The addition of......

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Students behind the art: Jasper Glow

EJ JacobsMarch 27, 2024March 26, 2024

March 27, 2024March 26, 2024

EJ JACOBS Life & Arts Editor Every student has personal and unique experiences and feelings towards the 13 programs up for potential discontinuation. With the changes to Fredonia’s academic offerings, some students are thinking about what got them to the SUNY Fredonia campus in the first place. “I actually originally......

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(ART-icle) Laylah Ali in the Marion Art Gallery

Contributor to The LeaderMarch 26, 2024March 26, 2024

March 26, 2024March 26, 2024

JIMMY KELLER Staff Writer You and I are essential to art. Declaring a piece as art relies on us. With our involvement in experiencing it, the piece that was merely an object advances into artwork. At midnight, when an art gallery is resting behind locked doors, the objects inside only......

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FRS wins awards at Intercollegiate Broadcasting Systems

Contributor to The LeaderMarch 26, 2024March 25, 2024

March 26, 2024March 25, 2024

ISABELLA INZINNA Staff Writer Fredonia Radio Systems (FRS), SUNY Fredonia’s student-run radio station, is now nationally recognized following the Intercollegiate Broadcasting Systems Conference. During the first weekend in March, FRS attended the conference, which consisted of panels with successful broadcasters. The first day consisted of six sessions, each session having......

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QUEER LITERATURE BROUGHT TO CAMPUS:

Contributor to The LeaderMarch 9, 2024March 9, 2024

March 9, 2024March 9, 2024

“Rainbow Rainbow” author Lydia Conklin visits Fredonia MARISSA BURR Opinion Editor Every four years, there’s an extra day in the calendar year; on Leap Day 2024, the campus welcomed writer and graphic artist Lydia Conklin. As part of the English Department’s Mary Louise Wright Visiting Writers series, Conklin came to......

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The students behind the art: Henry Domst

Contributor to The LeaderMarch 7, 2024March 7, 2024

March 7, 2024March 7, 2024

DAN QUAGLIANA News Editor Every student at Fredonia whose major has been proposed to be cut is upset about it. But very few of them, if any, are doing more about it than Henry Domst. Domst is a senior double major in graphic design and art history with a minor......

Natasha McCandless presents Fredonia with a new face and optimistic…

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5th Quarter Column: Marked short… again

[OPINION] Lovercolumn: Finding Your Safe Space

‘Super’ rematch between Chiefs and Eagles? Many say ‘no thanks’…

[SATIRE] Horoscopes: Which New Year’s resolution is right for you?

A guide to learning about and celebrating Black History Month

5th Quarter Column: Chapter Four

5th Quarter Column: Quell the Raven

5th Quarter Column: Fifth Time’s a Charm?

Fredonia Feminists provides space for supporting women’s rights

Jasmine Johnson’s continued fight for student advocacy

History of the Fredonia Guitar Quartet

The Solar Eclipse at SUNY Fredonia: Preview

HitGRL Profile

Students behind the art: Jasper Glow

(ART-icle) Laylah Ali in the Marion Art Gallery

FRS wins awards at Intercollegiate Broadcasting Systems

QUEER LITERATURE BROUGHT TO CAMPUS:

The students behind the art: Henry Domst