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‘mAsk4CampusEquity’ brings lack of stability to light

ANGELINA DOHRE Photo Editor   This past Thursday and Monday, Fredonia’s Chapter of United University Professions (UUP) held its biennial event for Campus Equity Week. This year’s campaign was mask-making events, titled “mAsk4CampusEquity.” Since 2015, Fredonia has been involved with Campus Equity Week. According to an email from UUP’s Fredonia......
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Fredonia’s ‘dream team’ behind the Excelsior scholarship

DAN ORZECHOWSKI News Editor   Starting this week, Fredonia students are once again meeting with their advisors to map out their academic plans. However, many students will go beyond discussing grades and courses. Almost 600 undergraduates received the Excelsior scholarship, a new program initiated by Governor Cuomo, which was designed......
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Epistolary sleuthing: A new look into the disputed letters of Robert Frost

VICTOR SCHMITT-BUSH Staff Writer   There are very few, if any, Pulitzer Prize winning American poets with a standing reputation laden with as much controversy as Robert Frost. As a poet of “countrified wisdom” and “yankee stoicism” as expressed by Fredonia English professor Natalie Gerber, little is known of Frost’s......
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Democracy 101 seeks to prevent the risks of being an uninformed society

SETH MICHAEL MEYER Staff Writer “The self is not something ready-made,” suggests American philosopher John Dewey, “but something in continuous formation through choice of action.” Dewey was a strong proponent of civic action in education, and his push for such reforms produced things like classes in civics and sparked interest......
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Accomplished Fredonia graduate returns to campus for Writers at Work series

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ANGELINA DOHRE Photo Editor Jim Ranney, Fredonia alumnus and Director of Communications for New York State Senator Patrick Gallivan made a recent appearance at his alma mater. Ranney is a 25-year veteran of broadcast journalism and former station manager and news director of WBFO/WNED-TV in Buffalo. This past week he......
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This Fall’s undergraduate enrollment spike relieves department tensions

VICTOR SCHMITT-BUSH Special to the Leader This Fall marks Fredonia’s second highest undergraduate enrollment in its almost two century legacy. Out of 191 years, this was “the first time since the 2014-2015 academic year that the campus enrolled more than 1,000 first-year students,” according to Fredonia’s campus report today. Dean......

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