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

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

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?

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

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

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

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

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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Fredonia Democrats and Republicans endorse candidates Clubs choose Sanders, Rubio and Cruz

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Reading Time: 3 minutes  GRAPH JAMES T. LILLIN Special to The Leader Fredonia students are outspoken when it comes to politics. Drive around campus and a plethora of bumper stickers, a few T-shirts and various signs in dorm and townhouse windows can be seen espousing student political affiliation. The visibility of student political......
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New guidelines for constituted clubs: Statute O-6 to be finalized by SA

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Reading Time: 2 minutes  COLIN PERRY News Editor   After months of debate and deliberations, a new version of Statute O-6 of the Student Association (SA) constitution is expected to be finalized, setting new standards for what counts as a constituted group. If that sentence meant nothing to you, then that’s okay —......

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