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[Column] This week in COVID

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Reading Time: 2 minutesALISA OPPENHEIMER  News Editor  This week in COVID, we have had a recent increase in our total number of positive cases.  According to Fredonia’s COVID-19 Dashboard, from Monday, Oct. 26, to Friday, Oct. 30, there were a total of 1,345 campus-administered tests.  Out of those tests, there were 11 positive......
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Petition to bring Black Lives Matter mural to Fredonia

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Reading Time: 3 minutesELLE NUNZIO Special to The Leader  In this ever-changing political and social climate, the students of Fredonia’s Black Student Union are taking a stand. A petition was started in the group’s name that calls for a Black Lives Matter street mural to be added to Fredonia’s campus. This mural is very similar to......
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[Column] This week in COVID

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Reading Time: 2 minutesALISA OPPENHEIMER  News Editor  We’ve made it through our ninth week of classes and Fredonia has kept up the diligent work in preventing the spread of COVID-19. In the past month, Fredonia was required to increase surveillance testing per SUNY guidance on Sept. 4. With this, pool testing went from every other......
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SUNY Fredonia journalism professors host pre-debate meetup for students

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Reading Time: 3 minutesCHLOE KOWALYK Special to The Leader Voting in the 2020 presidential election is as important as ever. To help students navigate the election process, Dr. Angela McGowan-Kirsch, an assistant professor in communication and avid supporter of student voters, asked journalism professors Mike Igoe and Elmer Ploetz to host a pre-debate meetup. Both professors are......
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COVID can’t stop the vote

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Reading Time: 2 minutesKATIE LENDA Staff Writer Election Day is quickly approaching, and Americans are finalizing their voting plan in accordance with COVID-19 precautions.   The pandemic has reinvented the term “voting plan” this election, giving Americans several options in order to cast their ballot.  As of Oct. 1, over 4 million Americans have......
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[Column] This Week in COVID

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Reading Time: 2 minutesALISA OPPENHEIMER  News Editor  As we reach the end of another week in Fredonia, in-person classes are still in session.  With of course, restrictions, guidelines, precautions and new rules that go along with being a SUNY school in the middle of a pandemic.   But compared to various other SUNY schools,......
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Masked man menaces Fredonia residents after dark, students report

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Reading Time: 3 minutesJESSICA MEDITZ Editor in Chief October is upon us and so are the antics. Within the past couple of weeks, there have been multiple reports of Fredonia students encountering a masked individual at nighttime. The individual is said to have stopped people in their tracks, interrupting their walks in the......

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