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From the Desk Of Maddy Carroll, Layout Editor

Contributor to The LeaderOctober 6, 2016August 16, 2019

October 6, 2016August 16, 2019

Reading Time: 3 minutes Maddy Carroll Layout Editor In a higher learning environment, it can be expected that sometimes disturbing or graphic topics may be covered. The world can be an ugly place, and it would only make sense to be exposed to these things in order to expand our knowledge of......

Opinion

From the Desk Of Maddy Carroll, Layout Editor

Contributor to The LeaderOctober 6, 2016August 16, 2019

October 6, 2016August 16, 2019

Reading Time: 3 minutes Maddy Carroll Layout Editor In a higher learning environment, it can be expected that sometimes disturbing or graphic topics may be covered. The world can be an ugly place, and it would only make sense to be exposed to these things in order to expand our knowledge of......

Opinion

Conservative Corner: Trump’s night of royal screw-ups

Contributor to The LeaderOctober 6, 2016September 2, 2019

October 6, 2016September 2, 2019

Reading Time: 3 minutes CONNOR HOFFMAN Managing Editor The first presidential debate was held on Sept. 26, and Donald Trump was a complete and utter trainwreck the entire night. Honestly, there were so many instances that he could have come up with better replies to questions or retorts to Hillary Clinton’s......

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Campus View: Go visit Iceland

Contributor to The LeaderSeptember 28, 2016

September 28, 2016

Reading Time: 4 minutesCAMRY DEAN Staff Writer For the past two summers, I’ve been able to say that I’ve been in two places at one time. Literally. Last June, I traveled to England with Fredonia’s Literary London program. We visited the Royal Observatory in Greenwich, London, and I made it a goal to......

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From the Desk Of Sam McCagg, Web Editor

Contributor to The LeaderSeptember 28, 2016August 16, 2019

September 28, 2016August 16, 2019

Reading Time: 2 minutesSam McCagg Web Editor “Why did you choose to go to Fredonia?” That was one of the first questions I was asked when I stepped onto campus almost 4 years ago. I was a newcomer to the SUNY Fredonia campus. I wasn’t used to the dog food smell on......

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Editorial: Making a better Fredonia community

Contributor to The LeaderSeptember 28, 2016

September 28, 2016

Reading Time: 2 minutesBetween classes, part-time jobs, extracurricular pursuits and maintaining a healthy social life, college students undeniably have a lot on their plate on any given day. There isn’t a student anywhere who feels that their time, energy and (in particular) money isn’t as precious as it gets. Even so, one of......

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From the Desk Of Travis LeFevre, Lampoon Editor

Contributor to The LeaderSeptember 21, 2016August 16, 2019

September 21, 2016August 16, 2019

Reading Time: 2 minutesIf you asked my freshman self what I wanted to do for the rest of my college years, being a resident assistant probably wouldn’t have cracked my top five. Ask me that question now, and it’d be the first thing that came out of my mouth. When I applied for......

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Editorial: The headphone jack is dead, long live the headphone jack

Contributor to The LeaderSeptember 21, 2016September 2, 2019

September 21, 2016September 2, 2019

Reading Time: 2 minutesEven though it feels like you bought your new phone yesterday, surprise, surprise — the iPhone 7 is being rolled out, and the reaction to the latest iteration of the world’s best-selling smartphone has been mixed at best, for good reason. While there are numerous positives and negatives involved with......

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Conservative Corner: The death of transparency

Contributor to The LeaderSeptember 21, 2016September 2, 2019

September 21, 2016September 2, 2019

Reading Time: 3 minutesCONNOR HOFFMAN News Editor Politicians have never been the most transparent people out there, but oh boy, do the two candidates we have running now seriously lack any kind of transparency. Hillary Clinton had the nerve to tell people that “I’m the most transparent public official in modern times”......

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Guest Op-Ed: It’s not okay

Contributor to The LeaderSeptember 14, 2016September 2, 2019

September 14, 2016September 2, 2019

Reading Time: 2 minutesPRESIDENT VIRGINIA HORVATH Special to The Leader Last weekend, I was alerted to several threads on social media about destruction of property in a yard on Temple Avenue. Most troubling to me, as threads continued to describe other acts of vandalism and disrespect, was a statement from a community member......

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From the Desk Of Maddy Carroll, Layout Editor

From the Desk Of Maddy Carroll, Layout Editor

Conservative Corner: Trump’s night of royal screw-ups

Campus View: Go visit Iceland

From the Desk Of Sam McCagg, Web Editor

Editorial: Making a better Fredonia community

From the Desk Of Travis LeFevre, Lampoon Editor

Editorial: The headphone jack is dead, long live the headphone jack

Conservative Corner: The death of transparency

Guest Op-Ed: It’s not okay