March 7, 2026
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The Leader
Opinion

[OPINION] Revisiting the “Transgender Issue”: An exploration of trans joy

Contributor to The Leader
Reading Time: 5 minutesJACE JACOBS Assistant Editor of The Scallion In my time writing for The Leader, I chose to be vocal about my personal experiences as a transgender man, specifically concerning the campus of SUNY Fredonia and the United States as a whole. As I reflect on the pieces I’ve written, there’s......
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[OPINION] Lovercolumn: Birth Control

Contributor to The Leader
Reading Time: 5 minutesTHE ELECTRICIAN Executive Producer of Lovercall THE ARCHITECT Lovercall Producer  THE QUARTERBACK Lovercall Producer Hello!  We are The Electrician, The Architect and The Quarterback: producers and hosts of the radio show Lovercall right here at Fredonia. Lovercall is an anonymous late-night talk show about love, relationships and more. Students who......
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Opinion

[OPINION] Lovercolumn: Keeping the Spark Alive

Contributor to The Leader
Reading Time: 4 minutesTHE ELECTRICIAN Executive Producer of Lovercall THE ARCHITECT Lovercall Producer  THE QUARTERBACK Lovercall Producer Hello!  We are The Electrician, The Architect and The Quarterback: producers and hosts of the radio show Lovercall right here at Fredonia. Lovercall is an anonymous late-night talk show about love, relationships and more. Students who......
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Opinion

[OPINION] A proposed plan for trauma-informed care at SUNY Fredonia

Contributor to The Leader
Reading Time: 5 minutesABBY TARTARO Special to The Leader  Trauma-informed care is a therapeutic style approach to assisting those who have endured trauma.  The natural instinct when someone sees something as “not normal” is to wonder what is wrong with the person. Trauma-informed care shifts the question from “What is wrong with you?”......
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Opinion

[OPINION] New townhouse policy has residents fed up

Contributor to The Leader
Reading Time: 8 minutesAISLINN EDMUNDS Special to The Leader It’s no secret that SUNY Fredonia is in financial disarray from program cuts to most extracurricular club budgets being cut in half.  But I fear that Fredonia is beginning to think that the solution to these economic problems is to squeeze even more pennies......
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Opinion

[OPINION] A Playlist for Every Mood: Who runs the world?

Contributor to The Leader
Reading Time: 4 minutesMARISSA BURROpinion Editor Trigger warning: Mentions of sexual harassment, sexual assault and self-harm Lately, I’ve been hearing people discuss the Bechdel Test for movies.  Essentially, the test examines films to see if two female characters a) appear, b) talk to each other, and c) do so about something other than......
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Opinion

[OPINION] A woman’s experience within the video game community

Abigail Jacobson
Reading Time: 4 minutesABIGAIL JACOBSON Asst. News Editor Content Warning: slurs, sexual comments, mentions of sexual assault, threats of violence, self-harm, suicide I grew up playing video games with my father and brother. My sisters would join in too, and it was some of the best times I’ve had with them.  It helped......
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[OPINION] Anything but stereotypical

Contributor to The Leader
Reading Time: 5 minutesMARISSA BURR Opinion Editor Trigger warning: mentions of sexual harassment, sexual assault and self-harm Women are constantly defying expectations with their accomplishments and abilities, but what seems to ruffle the misogynists’ feathers the most is when stereotypes get shredded — as they should be.  Our society is known for treating......
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[OPINION] The women of The Leader

Contributor to The Leader
Reading Time: 2 minutesKRYSTYNA PORTUGUES-KLOS Staff Writer  The Leader has been the newspaper of Fredonia since 1893.  Originally called the Fredonia Normal Leader, it was run strictly by women, an all-women group named the Agonian Literary Society, but then was combined with the men-only Zetesian literary society.  In 1936, the Fredonia Normal Leader......
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