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Promote the vote Find out how to get yourself registered

Contributor to The LeaderMarch 21, 2016

March 21, 2016

Reading Time: < 1 minute CONNOR HOFFMAN Assistant News Editor New York primary elections for both the Republicans and the Democrats will be held on April 19 this year. With both parties being quite divided this primary season, some have said that the New York primary may be quite important, so this article......

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Transcending Tragedy: Judy Shepard shares her story with the campus

Contributor to The LeaderMarch 10, 2016

March 10, 2016

Reading Time: 3 minutesJORDAN PATTERSON Staff Writer Seventeen years ago, Matthew Shepard was murdered because he was gay. On March 3, his mother Judy Shepard stood in front of yet another audience and attempted to explain what had happened. For the next hour and a half, Judy Shepard would once again have......

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Signs of good things to come? Fredonia changes unisex bathroom signs to all-gender

Contributor to The LeaderMarch 10, 2016August 17, 2019

March 10, 2016August 17, 2019

Reading Time: 3 minutesCONNOR HOFFMAN Assistant News Editor Fredonia has decided this semester that it is going to make certain bathrooms on campus into all-gender bathrooms. These sign changes are the result of a movement to raise awareness of transgender student rights on campus, which began about three years ago, according to......

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What sex ed failed to mention: Women’s Herstory Month begins with Mickey Thomas

Contributor to The LeaderMarch 10, 2016

March 10, 2016

Reading Time: 2 minutes[metaslider id=5912] CAMRY DEAN Special to The Leader Last Tuesday Women’s Herstory Month kicked off with its first event, “Not Your High School Sex Ed,” where students learned about intersectionality, birth control and everything else that they might have missed in health class. Fredonia was fortunate enough to host......

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Stay in school, kids Fredonia chooses to not participate in SUNY walk-out

Contributor to The LeaderMarch 10, 2016

March 10, 2016

Reading Time: 2 minutes COLIN PERRY News Editor Last Friday, students across the SUNY system participated in walk-outs to protest SUNY 2020 and an extension to the incremental tuition increases students face every year. Protests took place at SUNY Brockport, New Paltz, Purchase and Cortland. But one campus where students didn’t march......

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Editorial: We have signs, but how about some more bathrooms?

Contributor to The LeaderMarch 10, 2016

March 10, 2016

Reading Time: < 1 minuteThis week in the News section, Assistant News Editor Connor Hoffman reported on how the university changed the unisex bathroom signs to all-gender bathroom signs. This project, which is to be completed by summer, will cost the university $680. After getting funding for a $60 million science center, it seems......

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‘Go tear some shit up’ Charlene Carruthers talks Beyoncé and oppression of minorities

Contributor to The LeaderMarch 3, 2016

March 3, 2016

Reading Time: 3 minutesJORDAN PATTERSON Staff Writer A mix of students and faculty filled up Rosch Recital Hall right before 6:30 p.m. last Wednesday. Organizer and member of the Black Youth Project, Charlene Carruthers, was in the building. Everyone in attendance came to witness her presentation on student activism, titled “But no......

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The rise, then fall, then rise again of Tapingo delivery: Couriers hired back the day after they were fired

Contributor to The LeaderMarch 3, 2016

March 3, 2016

Reading Time: 2 minutes COLIN PERRY News Editor Last Friday, students who worked for Tapingo as couriers received a surprising message from their managers: The delivery service would be ending in just two days, and their jobs would go along with it. The online food ordering app was......

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Accounting and artwork for the win: Fredonia alumni receive Chancellor’s Award

Contributor to The LeaderMarch 3, 2016

March 3, 2016

Reading Time: 4 minutesLERON WELLINGTON Special to The Leader This year, two professors have won the Chancellor’s Award for Excellence in Adjunct Teaching. Both faculty members, Louann Laurito-Bahgat and Raymond Bonilla, are Fredonia graduates and have returned here after following their own different paths. Laurito-Bahgat has been teaching accounting classes at Fredonia......

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‘Language, housing, employment and low-income’ Panel discusses global refugee crisis

Contributor to The LeaderMarch 3, 2016

March 3, 2016

Reading Time: 3 minutesCONNOR HOFFMAN Staff Writer Since 2013 Syria has been embedded in a civil war, leading to both the rise of ISIS and many citizens becoming refugees. Fredonia held a panel last Thursday to clear up some confusion surrounding the issue and show everyone the troubles these refugees have experienced.......

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Promote the vote Find out how to get yourself registered

Transcending Tragedy: Judy Shepard shares her story with the campus

Signs of good things to come? Fredonia changes unisex bathroom signs to all-gender

What sex ed failed to mention: Women’s Herstory Month begins with Mickey Thomas

Stay in school, kids Fredonia chooses to not participate in SUNY walk-out

Editorial: We have signs, but how about some more bathrooms?

‘Go tear some shit up’ Charlene Carruthers talks Beyoncé and oppression of minorities

The rise, then fall, then rise again of Tapingo delivery: Couriers hired back the day after they were fired

Accounting and artwork for the win: Fredonia alumni receive Chancellor’s Award

‘Language, housing, employment and low-income’ Panel discusses global refugee crisis