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Gordon, Eklum and Hartling Nominated for Chancellor’s Award

Reading Time: 3 minutes  JAMES LILLIN Staff Writer The Chancellor’s Award for Student Excellence is one of the highest academic honors that can be received by a student attending a SUNY institution. This year, Fredonia has nominated three students to receive the award: senior biology major Zachary Eklum, senior public relations and Spanish......
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Fredonia marches for women’s rights

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Reading Time: 3 minutes[metaslider id=8122] DAN ORZECHOWSKI Staff Writer A crowd speckled with pink huddled in front of Mason Hall the day after President Donald Trump was sworn in. These people were protesters. Participants bearing signs and flags marched as one throughout Fredonia’s campus. While chanting “women’s rights are human rights,” the parade......
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Cuomo proposes free tuition at state schools

Reading Time: 2 minutesJORDAN PATTERSON News Editor While you were on break from college classes, Gov. Andrew Cuomo announced his plan for free tuition at state universities. On Jan. 3, 2017, Cuomo stood in front of a podium at LaGuardia Community College with none other than Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders seated behind him......
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Black History Month kicks off in February

Reading Time: 4 minutesJACOB SANTOS Special to The Leader Since the presidency of Gerald Ford, the U.S. has federally recognized the month of February as Black History Month. At Fredonia, the Black Student Union will be sponsoring a number of events, open to all students and faculty, highlighting the history, achievements and current......
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Higher ed expert Goldrick-Rab lectures on college costs

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Reading Time: 4 minutes  CAMRY DEAN Staff Writer             Last Wednesday, Nov. 30, Fredonia hosted activist and professor of Higher Education Policy and Sociology of Temple University Sara Goldrick-Rab for a lecture on the price of college. Goldrick-Rab is a national scholar and expert on college affordability and founder of the Wisconsin HOPE......
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Italian chefs in the making: Honors course focuses on Italy’s culinary culture

Reading Time: 2 minutes  CURTIS LORD Special to The Leader Fifteen students are on their way to becoming the next Italian master chefs. Italian Food Culture in Practice is a specialty course that was offered to students in Fredonia’s Honors Program this semester. The curriculum, taught by Chiara De Santi, the coordinator of......
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Love Trumps Hate protest rocks campus

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Reading Time: 2 minutes  JAMES LILLIN Staff Writer On Nov. 16, more than 150 students turned out to march across campus and along Ring Road to peacefully protest the election of President-elect Donald J. Trump. The protest was organized by senior communication major Abigail Everhart and senior psychology major Cassandra Vaccarelli. “We put......

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