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From the Desk of Taylor Staight, Advertisement Sales Manager

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Reading Time: 3 minutesWhen I was younger I had always wanted a job. At this point, I can not remember if my motivation was responsibility or money, but regardless when I was sixteen I was finally free to work wherever my heart desired . . . and wherever someone would actually hire me.......
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Fredonia and Dunkirk: A tale of two cities

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Reading Time: 2 minutesDAN ORZECHOWSKI News Editor   Driving around downtown Fredonia is a whole different ballgame compared to driving around in next-door Dunkirk. Although Central Street acts as a bridge between the two municipalities, two different atmospheres lie on both ends. This divide is a key factor for why many students at......
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College students were no-shows at the voting booths

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Reading Time: 2 minutesSETH MICHAEL MEYER Special to The Leader In a recent report, Fredonia’s voting percentages for the 2016 presidential election have been marked as below average compared to other SUNY college institutions. In the Nation Study of Learning, Voting, and Engagement conducted by Tufts University, Fredonia’s voting percentage was measured at......
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From The Desk Of: Lauren Finke, Business Manager

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Reading Time: 2 minutesLAUREN FINKE Business Manager    I have always been a very health conscious person. Throughout middle school and high school I swam on the swim team, danced in school musicals and ran in my spare time, all while maintaining a balanced diet. I had toyed with the idea of becoming......
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From The Desk of Jessica Tompkins, Design Editor

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Reading Time: 4 minutesJESSICA TOMPKINS  Design Editor Sculpture is one of the oldest forms of art. For centuries artists around the world have utilized sculpture to form and space reality, emotion and perfect beauty, but the 20th century paved the way for new shape. What started out as an art form used for......
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An apology to DREAMers

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Reading Time: 4 minutesDAN ORZECHOWSKI News Editor   New York is one of several states that have passed the DREAM Act, granting undocumented students the same in-state tuition as their peers. The bill has been introduced to the federal level several times but has failed to pass each time. According to senior attorney......
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Nonviolence Isn’t Always Easy, But We Should Practice It Anyway

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Reading Time: 3 minutesJames Lillin STAFF WRITER   The grotesque violence in Charlottesville, Virginia, has cast a shadow over the lives of many Americans, as a White Supremacist protester drove his car into a crowd of anti-racist protestors, murdering 32-year-old Helen Heyer and injuring at least 19 others. Many argue that the heavily-armed,......
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From the Desk Of Colin Perry, Editor in Chief

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Reading Time: 3 minutes  From the Desk Of Colin Perry, Editor in Chief The other day, I was having class outside in the amphitheater, where other students and I debated the complex ethics of (among other topics) self-plagiarism, personas versus people and public shaming. Behind us, some students from Mason Hall were practicing......
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Conservative Corner: 2020 can’t come sooner

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Reading Time: 3 minutes    CONNOR HOFFMAN Managing Editor   It’s been quite a wild ride from the time that I created this column about a year and a half ago. Barack Obama was president then, and I could have never imagined Donald Trump taking his place. At the time, he was just......
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