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Bomb threat reveals glitch in campus emergency notification service

Contributor to The LeaderOctober 25, 2017

October 25, 2017

CLAIRE O’REILLY Life & Arts Editor While students and faculty filled Thompson Hall on Tuesday afternoon, an emergency alarm sounded and a voice came over the speakers calling for evacuation. Some never heard the alarm. “We noticed there were a bunch of people outside of Thompson, and we wondered if......

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Epistolary sleuthing: A new look into the disputed letters of Robert Frost

Contributor to The LeaderOctober 25, 2017

October 25, 2017

VICTOR SCHMITT-BUSH Staff Writer There are very few, if any, Pulitzer Prize winning American poets with a standing reputation laden with as much controversy as Robert Frost. As a poet of “countrified wisdom” and “yankee stoicism” as expressed by Fredonia English professor Natalie Gerber, little is known of Frost’s......

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Communication department remembers long-time colleague

Contributor to The LeaderOctober 24, 2017

October 24, 2017

ANGELINA DOHRE Photo Editor This past Thursday, a public memorial service was held for long-time communication professor Ann Carden, who died on May 4 of this year, following a lengthy battle with cancer. It was sponsored by Fredonia’s communication department, with the help of Department Chair Mark Kiyak and......

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Democracy 101 seeks to prevent the risks of being an uninformed society

Contributor to The LeaderOctober 19, 2017

October 19, 2017

SETH MICHAEL MEYER Staff Writer “The self is not something ready-made,” suggests American philosopher John Dewey, “but something in continuous formation through choice of action.” Dewey was a strong proponent of civic action in education, and his push for such reforms produced things like classes in civics and sparked interest......

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Fredonia loses mentor, husband, friend, Sunday evening

Contributor to The LeaderOctober 19, 2017August 15, 2019

October 19, 2017August 15, 2019

SETH MICHAEL MEYER Staff Writer Gerald Thomas Gray, associate professor at the Fredonia College of Music since 2002, died Sunday night. An email from Director Melvin Unger went out to the students and faculty of the college Monday morning, informing them of the news of his passing. A Tennessee native,......

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Accomplished Fredonia graduate returns to campus for Writers at Work series

Contributor to The LeaderOctober 19, 2017August 16, 2019

October 19, 2017August 16, 2019

ANGELINA DOHRE Photo Editor Jim Ranney, Fredonia alumnus and Director of Communications for New York State Senator Patrick Gallivan made a recent appearance at his alma mater. Ranney is a 25-year veteran of broadcast journalism and former station manager and news director of WBFO/WNED-TV in Buffalo. This past week he......

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This Fall’s undergraduate enrollment spike relieves department tensions

Contributor to The LeaderOctober 18, 2017

October 18, 2017

VICTOR SCHMITT-BUSH Special to the Leader This Fall marks Fredonia’s second highest undergraduate enrollment in its almost two century legacy. Out of 191 years, this was “the first time since the 2014-2015 academic year that the campus enrolled more than 1,000 first-year students,” according to Fredonia’s campus report today. Dean......

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Delta Chi to host annual charity event

Contributor to The LeaderOctober 11, 2017August 16, 2019

October 11, 2017August 16, 2019

VICTOR SCHMITT-BUSH Special to The Leader On Oct. 12, Delta Chi will be hosting their annual event Miss Delta Chi. “It is a philanthropy event that we put on,” said Delta Chi vice president and political science major Nakib Kabir. “It started about eight years ago. It’s a pageant that......

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WCA Home celebrates its 125th anniversary at Lanford Home

Contributor to The LeaderOctober 11, 2017September 1, 2019

October 11, 2017September 1, 2019

[metaslider id=9956] JAMES LILLIN Staff Writer The Women’s Christian Association (WCA) Home of Fredonia has been a Fredonia landmark since 1892, with its spacious, Victorian halls offering a home to elderly women in Fredonia who have found themselves in need of assisted living. “Our goal during this anniversary year is......

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Feeding Fredonia Challenge returns for its fourth year

Contributor to The LeaderOctober 11, 2017

October 11, 2017

MADELINE CARROLL Editor in Chief Joyce Smith’s office sits on the second floor of the Williams Center. There are boxes piled high in one corner and brightly colored posters lay around them, both waiting to be distributed. These boxes are collection sites for the Feeding Fredonia Challenge, a food drive......

Initiative brings regenerative farming to SUNY Fredonia dining

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Bomb threat reveals glitch in campus emergency notification service

Epistolary sleuthing: A new look into the disputed letters of Robert Frost

Communication department remembers long-time colleague

Democracy 101 seeks to prevent the risks of being an uninformed society

Fredonia loses mentor, husband, friend, Sunday evening

Accomplished Fredonia graduate returns to campus for Writers at Work series

This Fall’s undergraduate enrollment spike relieves department tensions

Delta Chi to host annual charity event

WCA Home celebrates its 125th anniversary at Lanford Home

Feeding Fredonia Challenge returns for its fourth year