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A writer’s reunion: NYT bestseller Wendy Corsi Staub and Lucia Macro return to SUNY Fredonia

Contributor to The LeaderNovember 3, 2017

November 3, 2017

VICTOR SCHMITT-BUSH Staff Writer To some graduates, their time at Fredonia lives on only as a story. A good read it might have been, but it remains a memory, nonetheless. For others, the story is still being written. Staff and students alike will be pleased to know that Fredonia......

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Water boiling advisory has FSA quick to respond

Contributor to The LeaderNovember 3, 2017

November 3, 2017

SETH MICHAEL MEYER Assistant News Editor On the morning of Oct. 21, the students of Fredonia woke up to an email advising them not to consume the tap water without it being boiled and to conserve water. The effect of what the email described as a water main break......

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Excelsior by the numbers

Contributor to The LeaderNovember 3, 2017

November 3, 2017

TRAVIS LEFEVRE The Scallion Editor The Excelsior scholarship went into full effect this semester with approximately 12 percent of Fredonia’s 4,631 undergraduates qualifying for the program. In order to be deemed eligible for the scholarship for this current academic year, your aggregated gross income, or (AGI) must be below......

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Ten Fredonians leave big impact on scholarship application

Contributor to The LeaderNovember 3, 2017

November 3, 2017

DAN ORZECHOWSKI News Editor On Jan. 3, the first day back to work after winter break, Dan Tramuta’s phone rang. Virginia Horvath, president of SUNY Fredonia, was on the line asking if Tramuta knew that Sen. Bernie Sanders and Gov. Andrew Cuomo were about to announce the blueprints for......

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‘mAsk4CampusEquity’ brings lack of stability to light

Contributor to The LeaderNovember 3, 2017

November 3, 2017

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

Contributor to The LeaderOctober 25, 2017

October 25, 2017

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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Gerald Gray: A legacy of fighting mediocrity

Contributor to The LeaderOctober 25, 2017August 15, 2019

October 25, 2017August 15, 2019

SETH MICHAEL MEYER Assistant News Editor On Oct. 15, Fredonia lost a great mentor, a loving husband and brilliant musician. Gerald Thomas Gray, associate professor at Fredonia’s College of Music, died after a valiant fight against pancreatic cancer at the age of 51. An email from Melvin Unger, the......

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Bomb threat reveals glitch in campus emergency notification service

Contributor to The LeaderOctober 25, 2017

October 25, 2017

CLAIRE O’REILLY Life & Arts Editor While students and faculty filled Thompson Hall on Tuesday afternoon, an emergency alarm sounded and a voice came over the speakers calling for evacuation. Some never heard the alarm. “We noticed there were a bunch of people outside of Thompson, and we wondered if......

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Epistolary sleuthing: A new look into the disputed letters of Robert Frost

Contributor to The LeaderOctober 25, 2017

October 25, 2017

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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Communication department remembers long-time colleague

Contributor to The LeaderOctober 24, 2017

October 24, 2017

ANGELINA DOHRE Photo Editor This past Thursday, a public memorial service was held for long-time communication professor Ann Carden, who died on May 4 of this year, following a lengthy battle with cancer. It was sponsored by Fredonia’s communication department, with the help of Department Chair Mark Kiyak and......

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Bomb threat reveals glitch in campus emergency notification service

Epistolary sleuthing: A new look into the disputed letters of Robert Frost

Communication department remembers long-time colleague