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Fredonia experiencing little effect from worst flu season in decade

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Reading Time: 4 minutesSETH MICHAEL MEYER Assistant News Editor   Wash your hands, cover your mouth and stay home if you feel ill. Few messages are more important than these as people across the country continue to brace themselves against an influenza season that, according to the New York Post, is “as bad......
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Students push for gender neutral bathrooms in Mason Hall

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Reading Time: 4 minutesMACI COSMORE Special to The Leader   Transgender students are slowly gaining more rights on colleges campuses. Even so, people have begun taking steps to advocate even further, with one student starting a petition for gender neutral bathrooms in Mason Hall. “I have heard people complain that they have to......
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President Horvath responds to racial incident

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Reading Time: < 1 minuteCLAIRE O’REILLY Editor in Chief   President Virginia Horvath released a statement regarding the latest racial incident that occured in our community last weekend: “Dear Campus Community, Some of you may be aware that another incident of racial bias has occurred this weekend within the Fredonia community. After an alleged......
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Vice President Cedric Howard wins award for outstanding performance

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Reading Time: 4 minutesJAMES LILLIN Staff Writer   Vice President of Student Affairs Cedric Howard has only been working at Fredonia since August of 2016, but in that time he’s been busy making waves in admissions, enrollment and residential life. In recognition of his work, Howard has been named as the recipient of......
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‘Flipping the switch’: Dr. McNair encourages Fredonia to become a student-ready college

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Reading Time: 4 minutesVICTOR SCHMITT-BUSH Assistant News Editor   According to Fredonia’s “Right Serving, Right Sizing” final report of Fall 2017, with more than 30 percent of students enrolled from minority groups, Fredonia’s diversity is reaching new heights. More students than ever are expressing their interest in ethnic clubs, and they are making......
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Fredonia on ice: A look into how campus deals with winter weather

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Reading Time: 3 minutesCHELSEA ANN BARON Special to The Leader   What’s the deal with all the ice around campus? If you haven’t seen it, you’ve probably heard about students slipping in parking lots and on the sidewalks. Alex Wagner, a sophomore international studies and Spanish major, has experienced the ice firsthand. She’s......
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New clubs debut at Activities Night, but bad Wi-Fi becomes problematic

Reading Time: 3 minutesVICTOR SCHMITT-BUSH and MELISSA FUCHS Assistant News Editor and Special to The Leader   As the Spring semester unravels, the campus community rushed back into Spectrum Entertainment’s bi-annual program, Activities Night. Although there were no grand marriage proposals this time, many club leaders insisted that it still prevailed as a night......
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Boosted enrollment could re-extend dining hall hours

Reading Time: 2 minutesALEXANDRIA NIEVES and DAN ORZECHOWSKI Special to The Leader and News Editor   This year’s number of incoming students has made a major impact in Fredonia’s Faculty Student Association’s (FSA) decision-making. Last semester Tim Hortons and Centre Point saw their hours trimmed, but now that student enrollment has bounced back,......
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Still phishing: those ‘phishing scam’ alerts aren’t going away, and for good reason

Reading Time: 3 minutesSETH MICHAEL MEYER Assistant News Editor Since the beginning of the Fall 2017 semester, the Information Security Office (ISO) has been sending out emails en masse alerting students about the various “phishing scams” that have been circulating the internet. All across the globe, people have become more and more dependent......

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