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Accomplished Fredonia graduate returns to campus for Writers at Work series

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Reading Time: 3 minutesANGELINA 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

Reading Time: 4 minutesVICTOR 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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Delta Chi to host annual charity event

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Reading Time: 3 minutesVICTOR SCHMITT-BUSH Special to The Leader On Oct. 12, Delta Chi will be hosting their annual event Miss Delta Chi. “It is a philanthropy event that we put on,” said Delta Chi vice president and political science major Nakib Kabir. “It started about eight years ago. It’s a pageant that......
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WCA Home celebrates its 125th anniversary at Lanford Home

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Reading Time: 3 minutes[metaslider id=9956] JAMES LILLIN Staff Writer The Women’s Christian Association (WCA) Home of Fredonia has been a Fredonia landmark since 1892, with its spacious, Victorian halls offering a home to elderly women in Fredonia who have found themselves in need of assisted living. “Our goal during this anniversary year is......
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Feeding Fredonia Challenge returns for its fourth year

Reading Time: 2 minutesMADELINE CARROLL Editor in Chief Joyce Smith’s office sits on the second floor of the Williams Center. There are boxes piled high in one corner and brightly colored posters lay around them, both waiting to be distributed. These boxes are collection sites for the Feeding Fredonia Challenge, a food drive......
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Ambiguity leads to student’s Excelsior scholarship rejection

Reading Time: 3 minutesDAN 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

Reading Time: 3 minutesANGELINA 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

Reading Time: 2 minutesALEXANDRIA 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

Reading Time: 3 minutesJACOB 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

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Reading Time: 3 minutesJAMES 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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