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A conversation with Steve Moses

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Reading Time: 8 minutesAMANDA DEDIE Assistant News Editor   News spread like wildfire when the news broke that Steve Moses, a senior from Gouverneur, New York majoring in music and audio engineering, would be a contestant in season 17 of the reality TV show “Big Brother.” While Steve had a rocky start, Fredonians......
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Biology professor shares thoughts on Daraprim

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Reading Time: 3 minutesCONNOR HOFFMAN Staff Writer   According to the Washington Post, Martin Shkreli, a 32-year-old hedge fund billionaire, became the recent target of enormous criticism. Shkreli achieved this when he decided to raise the price of Daraprim — a new drug his company Turing Pharmaceuticals had purchased — from $13.50 to......
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NASA Learning Comes to Fredonia

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Reading Time: 2 minutesSCOTT DOWNEY Special to The Leader   One may think of Fredonia as primarily an arts college. President Virginia Horvath says that Fredonia is not just an arts institution. She believes that Fredonia has had a long history of science since the 1960s. “We have many graduates that have gone......
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Sustainable fashion? Sustainability Committee to host Adam Rome

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Reading Time: 3 minutesCONNOR HOFFMAN Staff Writer   Today at 4 p.m., Fredonia will be hosting author Adam Rome in the Kelly Family Auditorium in the Science Center. This event is hosted by Fredonia’s Sustainability Committee. The speech is called, “Fashion Forward? The Environmental History of Style from Beaver Hats to iPhones.” Rome......
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The votes are in Announcing the new class presidents

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Reading Time: 3 minutesAMANDA DEDIE Assistant News Editor   The votes are in, and the new Student Association presidents and representatives have been announced. The new class presidents for the 2015-2016 school year are Joshua Ranney, freshman class; Mary Kay Taylor, sophomore class; Eduvijez Sanchez, junior class and Stephanie Willis, senior class. A......
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Students spend $47.7 million in one year Economic impact study shows effect Fredonia has on community

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Reading Time: 3 minutesCOLIN PERRY Staff Writer As students left Fredonia for the summer last May, the university unveiled a study that showed its effect on the local and state economies. According to the University at Buffalo’s (UB) Regional Institute, the college has an economic impact of $157 million in the local area......
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Web Exclusive: From trombonist to half-millionaire Former Fredonia student wins reality TV show

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Reading Time: 4 minutesCURTIS HENRY Distribution Manager   On the surface Steve Moses is a pretty simple guy. He comes off as awkward. All of TV-watching America was able to watch him confess he still sleeps with his teddy bear and still declares himself a “momma’s boy.” He is genuine. He seems harmless.......

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