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Ambiguity leads to student’s Excelsior scholarship rejection

Contributor to The LeaderOctober 11, 2017

October 11, 2017

DAN ORZECHOWSKI and TRAVIS LEFEVRE News Editor and The Scallion Editor The announcement of the Excelsior scholarship was intended to pave the way for affordable higher education for middle-class students. Some people, however, fall just short of that. In the Fall of 2015, Caroline Schettler began her collegiate career at......

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Creative writing program creates changes with new hires

Contributor to The LeaderOctober 5, 2017

October 5, 2017

ANGELINA DOHRE Photo Editor This past summer, four new faces were hired to support Fredonia’s creative writing minor. Two full-time lecturers, Eric Schlich and Sarah Green, and two part-time adjunct lecturers, Rebecca Cuthbert and Cornelius FitzPatrick, were welcomed to the English program. The four lecturers are bringing back courses to......

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Bill that would protect students from additional fees is likely to pass

Contributor to The LeaderOctober 5, 2017

October 5, 2017

ALEXANDRIA NIEVES and DAN ORZECHOWSKI Special to The Leader and News Editor A bill passed by the New York State Senate and Assembly could cover the cost of salaries, inflationary costs, collective bargaining and mandatory operating costs, protecting the pockets of SUNY and CUNY students. The “Maintenance of Effort” bill......

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Center for Multicultural Affairs becomes the Intercultural Center

Contributor to The LeaderOctober 5, 2017

October 5, 2017

JACOB SANTOS Special to The Leader During the early to mid 1990s, the administration at SUNY Fredonia pushed to promote inclusion and diversity to their students. This led to what became known as the Center for Multicultural Affairs (CMA) in 1997, catering to various students from different backgrounds. Over the......

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FSA changes operating hours with an eye to the future

Contributor to The LeaderOctober 5, 2017September 1, 2019

October 5, 2017September 1, 2019

JAMES LILLIN Staff Writer Food vendors on the Fredonia campus are currently in a transitory period, with operating hours experiencing an across-the-board cut to combat the falling enrollment of past years. Returning students are particularly irate when it comes to the changes to Tim Hortons, which in past years was......

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Recent efforts to strengthen enrollment displays results

Contributor to The LeaderSeptember 29, 2017

September 29, 2017

DAN ORZECHOWSKI News Editor For the first time since Fall 2013, there are over 1,100 first-year students enrolled at Fredonia. According to last year’s admissions report, in 2013 Fredonia saw 1,105 new faces. In that same year, the university received 6,069 applications, and 3,141 (52 percent) of them were admitted.......

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The Kevin Hines story: Suicide is never the answer

Contributor to The LeaderSeptember 27, 2017August 25, 2019

September 27, 2017August 25, 2019

VICTOR SCHMITT-BUSH Special to the Leader “He is ancient, yet ageless. He is ticking, yet timeless. He runs not hunted, he chases. He is a man of many faces. He is the darkness. I am the light.” “That was a limerick I wrote in eighth grade about the immense......

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Revolutionizing air craft technology: Fredonia professor approved for patent

Contributor to The LeaderSeptember 27, 2017August 16, 2019

September 27, 2017August 16, 2019

SETH MICHAEL MEYER Special to The Leader Fredonia professor Junaid Ahmed Zubairi of the College of Arts and Sciences has recently been approved for a patent that will change the way researchers recover data from crashed airplanes and can also prevent airplane catastrophes. Say goodbye to multi-million dollar searches......

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Fredonia’s biology students are clicking their way to success

Contributor to The LeaderSeptember 20, 2017

September 20, 2017

VICTOR SCHMITT-BUSH Special to The Leader Succeeding as a college student isn’t easy, but teaching and preparing the material in a way that not only engages students, but results in a can-do attitude can be an equally daunting task. According to professor Scott B. Ferguson, in his public lecture,......

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The Science Center Hosts Fredonia’s First-Ever ‘Bat Lab’

Contributor to The LeaderSeptember 20, 2017

September 20, 2017

JAMES LILLIN Staff Writer Last Saturday, Fredonia’s Science Center was transformed from its average, spacious, sleek-white interior into a jam-packed area with tables, posters, pamphlets, cookies and presentations revolving around bats. This is Fredonia’s first year hosting Greystone Nature Preserve’s “Bat Lab,” but students are hoping that Fredonia’s hosting......

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Ambiguity leads to student’s Excelsior scholarship rejection

Creative writing program creates changes with new hires

Bill that would protect students from additional fees is likely to pass

Center for Multicultural Affairs becomes the Intercultural Center

FSA changes operating hours with an eye to the future

Recent efforts to strengthen enrollment displays results

The Kevin Hines story: Suicide is never the answer

Revolutionizing air craft technology: Fredonia professor approved for patent

Fredonia’s biology students are clicking their way to success

The Science Center Hosts Fredonia’s First-Ever ‘Bat Lab’