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Lubienecki arrested for life-threatening voicemail

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Reading Time: 2 minutesELYSE GRIECO Editor in Chief On Wednesday, Feb. 12, it was announced by The United States Attorney’s Office Western District of New York that Adjunct Lecturer Paul Lubienecki was arrested. Lubienecki was charged with cyberstalking, a charge that carries a $250,000 fine and up to five years in prison. Just......
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Drop in yield for freshmen and transfers costs Fredonia 200 undergraduate students

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Reading Time: 3 minutesALISA OPPENHEIMER Special to The Leader Just last April, everyone was buzzing about Fredonia’s largest incoming freshman class coming in the fall of 2019. We now face a new reality. Over the past year, the drop in yield for both freshmen and transfers has cost the school 200 undergraduate students.......
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President Hefner: Who he is and what he’s done since his return

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Reading Time: 5 minutesAIDAN POLLARD News Editor “I don’t ever describe myself. Other people talk about me — I don’t talk about myself,” said Interim University President Dennis Hefner. It was a lighthearted answer, even though he seemed a little caught off guard by my question asking him to describe himself to the......
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New crustacean species discovered by assistant professor

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Reading Time: 3 minutesANGELINA DOHRE Staff Writer Almost 10 years ago, then-Yale graduate student Thomas Hegna began collaborating on research that would lead to a new discovery of crustacean species. Now a new assistant professor at Fredonia, Hegna recently finalized the project that has lasted since long before he received his Ph.D. The......
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Fredonia to be featured on ‘Small Business Revolution’

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Reading Time: < 1 minuteCHRISTINE WHITECAR Special to The Leader Our small town of Fredonia received some big news Tuesday night at the Fredonia Opera House, as Small Business Revolution co-host Amanda Brinkman took to the stage to announce our town’s victory in the Small Business Revolution Contest. Each day for a total of......
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Search firm takes input from Fredonia campus & community on presidential search

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Reading Time: 2 minutesAIDAN POLLARD News Editor Though the search for Fredonia’s new president may be confidential due to a SUNY-wide policy change, the search firm Storbeck/Pimentel & Associates is still taking the campus community’s opinion into account throughout the process. The firm was on campus Thursday, Dec. 5 and Friday, Dec. 6......
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Culturefest brings together students of all backgrounds

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Reading Time: 2 minutesMADDIE LITTLE Special to The Leader On Monday, Nov. 18, the Intercultural Center (IC) at Fredonia hosted their annual Culturefest in the Williams Center, MPR. This is the fifth year this event has been put on. However, it wasn’t always called Culturefest or designed for all cultures. Culturefest was first......
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Open forums to be held for presidential search

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Reading Time: 2 minutesAIDAN POLLARD News Editor As SUNY Fredonia prepares the confidential search for a new university president, they’ve hired the presidential search firm Storbeck/Pimentel. In November, the firm successfully aided in searches at the University of Wisconsin-Stout, Penn State Brandywine and the University of the Pacific. A piece of the firm’s......
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Pulitzer Prize winner lectures to aspiring journalists

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Reading Time: 4 minutesGIOVANINA VANCHERI Special to The Leader ANALYSIS Fredonia’s chapter of the Society of Professional Journalists hosted their annual conference this weekend. As usual, the event was composed of three special topic speakers and a keynote speaker. For the first time ever, the keynote speaker was a Pulitzer Prize winning journalist:......
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