FRS, back-to-back champs in ‘Best Station in the Nation’
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Fredonia battles food insecurity
MONICA MANNEY Special to The Leader At this point in the semester, you may be checking your FREDCard to make sure you have enough points to eat for the week. As embarrassing as it may seem, you’re not alone. Food insecurity, or the lack of access to resources to......
Technology Incubator to hold third annual student business competition
DAN ORZECHOWSKI News Editor For the third consecutive year, the Fredonia Technology Incubator will be hosting its Student Business Competition. The competition is designed to train Fredonia students so that they can present and develop business ideas in a professional, real-life manner. Winners of the competition will receive......
Bike-share program hopeful to start on campus
SETH MICHAEL MEYER Assistant News Editor The way the students of Fredonia commute around and off campus may be changing as Fredonia welcomes the idea of a bike-share program. The project is being spearheaded by Enactus, a club on campus for students interested in business, and coordinated with......
Parking headaches are still concerns for campus leaders
JOSH RANNEY Special to The Leader If you have a car on campus, or have witnessed cars following people walking to their vehicles to take their parking spot, you know parking on campus is a dog-eat-dog world. Early last week, new parking signs were staked into the pavement in......
World War I strikes Reed Library
VICTOR SCHMITT-BUSH Assistant News Editor Way back in the garden area of Fredonia’s Reed library, students, staff and a number of U.S. veterans joined together to commemorate the 100 year anniversary of the war to end all wars. Appropriately titled “World War I Centennial: Ending War, Talking Peace,” the......
What’s next: Hard conversations and the future of diversity at Fredonia
Special to The Leader On Thursday, Feb. 22, Rosalyn Taylor O’Neale visited Fredonia’s campus to give a presentation on “The Power of Diversity and Inclusion.” The conversation began with lessons on similarities and differences but ended with students yelling calls to action to administration. With racial incidents happening semesterly,......
School shooting sparks discussion of campus safety measures
SETH MICHAEL MEYER Assistant News Editor JOSH RANNEY Special to The Leader Two weeks ago in Parkland, Fla., Nikolas Cruz, 19, walked into Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School and opened fire with his AR-15, killing 17 students, teachers and faculty members. Cruz, luring people into the hallways by......
Movements against sexual violence influence Fredonia
DAN ORZECHOWSKI News Editor Once every 98 seconds. According to the Rape, Abuse and Incest National Network (RAINN), that’s how often a person experiences sexual assault. Recently, we’ve seen movements like #MeToo and “Time’s Up” spur serious conversation on sexual abuse. Because of these movements, we’ve seen several people......
100 years later: Fredonia talks World War I
VICTOR SCHMITT-BUSH Assistant News Editor On Nov. 11, 1918, the “War to end all wars,” the long and bloody World War I, had finally come to a close. Germany formally surrendered, signing the Treaty of Versailles alongside the Allied Nations. In recognition of its 100 year anniversary, Fredonia will......