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[Column] This semester in COVID

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Reading Time: 3 minutesALISA OPPENHEIMER  News Editor To say we’ve made it through this semester gracefully would be a false statement.  COVID-19 made its presence known on our campus, but we’ve managed to stick it out.  As we head into our final week of in-person classes, looking back on how we got here......
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[Analysis] Fredonia on election night

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Reading Time: 3 minutesANNA GAGLIANO Copy Editor  Surprisingly, election night was a quiet one on Fredona’s campus.  It was chilly outside, so not many were out and about on a walk, save for two girls outside Mason Hall making a TikTok.  Inside the Williams Center, groups gathered at the socially-distant round tables in......
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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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