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Black Student Union hosts candlelight vigil: Students commemorate black lives lost to police brutality

Contributor to The LeaderOctober 6, 2016

October 6, 2016

JAMES LILLIN Staff Writer Fredonia’s Black Student Union hosted a candlelight vigil on Sept. 28 to remember and celebrate the lives lost to police brutality, as well as to push for change on both a campus and a national level. Attendees were asked to wear all-black in solidarity with the......

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Titus featured as Kasling lecturer

Contributor to The LeaderOctober 4, 2016

October 4, 2016

KELSIE ABBT Special to The Leader On Oct. 4 at 2 p.m. in the Juliet J Rosch Recital Hall in Mason Hall, biology professor Jonathan Titus gave a speech titled “The Forest, Not Just the Trees.” “The Forest” is one of an annual series of lectures in memoriam......

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Student wins international composition competition

Contributor to The LeaderSeptember 28, 2016

September 28, 2016

JACOB SANTOS Special to The Leader Earlier this year, Novus New Music, Inc., a non-profit organization, held a competition, open to anyone under the age of 30, to submit their own music compositions for saxophone. Earlier this month, senior John Secunde was announced their winner. Secunde, a saxophonist majoring in......

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Hispanic Heritage Month returns with a new focus on immigration

Contributor to The LeaderSeptember 28, 2016

September 28, 2016

JAMES LILLIN Staff Writer Each year from Sept. 15 to Oct. 15, Fredonia’s Latinos Unidos (LU) has brought a litany of events to the campus for Hispanic Heritage Month, celebrating the achievements and contributions of Hispanic and Latino Americans, while fostering an increased awareness and appreciation for their histories and......

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Pulitzer Prize winner hosts talk on slavery and early U.S. republic

Contributor to The LeaderSeptember 28, 2016

September 28, 2016

ANGELINA DOHRE Special to The Leader Two-time Pulitzer Prize-winning author Alan Taylor hosted a talk at the Williams Center on Sept. 20. Taylor is the Thomas Jefferson Foundation chair at the University of Virginia’s Corcoran Department of History, and is an expert on the history of colonial America......

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Enrollment crunch: report shows how hard decline in students has hit University

Contributor to The LeaderSeptember 28, 2016

September 28, 2016

CONNOR HOFFMAN News Editor Declining enrollment is a problem that has plagued Fredonia’s campus for the last few years, and a recent report released by Student Affairs confirms that that this trend continues for enrollment and admissions this year as well. According to the report, admissions dropped from 7,325......

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Another year, another lunch lecture: Brown Bag Lecture Series returns

Contributor to The LeaderSeptember 28, 2016

September 28, 2016

JORDAN PATTERSON Assistant News Editor The Brown Bag Lecture Series returns for its 11th year with the start of the school year. Physics professor Michael Dunham and biology professor Nicholas Quintyne will be speaking at the first lecture of the year on from noon to 1 p.m. on Oct.......

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Fredonia College Foundation initiates annual All-Campus Appeal

Contributor to The LeaderSeptember 28, 2016August 18, 2019

September 28, 2016August 18, 2019

KELSIE ABBT Special to The Leader Every year since the mid-1980s, the Fredonia College Foundation has organized a campus-wide appeal of its employees to draw in funds for approximately 500 different schools, programs, scholarships and endowments. The All-Campus Appeal has become necessary, in part, due to......

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First debate watch party draws energized crowd

Contributor to The LeaderSeptember 27, 2016August 16, 2019

September 27, 2016August 16, 2019

COLIN PERRY Editor in Chief The All-In Challenge continued last night, as students, faculty and community members gathered in the Williams Center Multi-Purpose Room to watch the first televised debate between Democratic candidate for president Hillary Clinton and her Republican counterpart Donald Trump. While the free food and refreshments......

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Vandalism in village leaves residents vexed

Contributor to The LeaderSeptember 21, 2016

September 21, 2016

CAMRY DEAN Staff Writer For the past two issues, The Leader has published two Guest Op-Eds from Fredonia faculty, including President Virginia Horvath, on recent vandalism in the Fredonia community. Last weekend, Horvath was included in several threads on social media about the vandalism and property crimes evidently......

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Black Student Union hosts candlelight vigil: Students commemorate black lives lost to police brutality

Titus featured as Kasling lecturer

Student wins international composition competition

Hispanic Heritage Month returns with a new focus on immigration

Pulitzer Prize winner hosts talk on slavery and early U.S. republic

Enrollment crunch: report shows how hard decline in students has hit University

Another year, another lunch lecture: Brown Bag Lecture Series returns

Fredonia College Foundation initiates annual All-Campus Appeal

First debate watch party draws energized crowd

Vandalism in village leaves residents vexed