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Student safety: Is it a priority?

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Reading Time: 3 minutesBRIANNA HOWARD Special to The Leader Student protest turned into student discussion — is campus safety a priority at Fredonia? Student safety on campus has been an ever-growing subject to the student body and how the university can better listen to the concerns of students. With recent events of the...

Activities Night: A once in a semester experience

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Reading Time: 2 minutesHEATHER OCCHINO Special to The Leader The semesterly-held Activities Night event was hosted in the Steele Hall Fieldhouse on Saturday, Jan. 29 from 6 p.m. to 7:30 p.m. Many students visited to check out what tables representing different clubs had to say.  SUNY Fredonia offers a variety of clubs for...

Fredonia Sports Update (02.07.2022)

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Reading Time: 2 minutesANTHONY GETTINO Sports Editor The men’s hockey team lost to Potsdam Friday 2–6 Kieran Furlonger and Johan Zollner each scored a goal The team lost to Plattsburgh 1–13 Saturday on the road Parker Brakebill scored Fredonia’s only goal of the game The Blue Devils travel to Geneseo Friday before a...

SUNY Fredonia alumna Dr. Lori Ana Valentín set to speak at Writers @ Work events

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Reading Time: 2 minutesLEE PYE Special to The Leader Dr. Lori Ana Valentín, a 2009 SUNY Fredonia graduate with a B.S. in Biochemistry, is coming back on Feb. 7 to educate current Fredonia students about her experiences. She will speak at a science writing workshop, how writing relates to every career path, including...

SUNY Fredonia students respond to the Kershnar situation and share their experiences

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Reading Time: 5 minutesALYSSA BUMP  Editor in Chief  CHLOE KOWALYK  News Editor  After hearing of the controversial views discussed by Dr. Stephen Kershnar, a philosophy professor at SUNY Fredonia, many students were enraged. They took to Twitter, Instagram, Snapchat and even Yik Yak, an anonymous social media forum that shows posts by people...

SUNY Fredonia professor “under review” for defending pedophilia, sexism and slavery

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Reading Time: 4 minutesALYSSA BUMP Editor in Chief  CHLOE KOWALYK News Editor Professor-student sex, torture, pedophilia, slavery and sexism are among the views defended by SUNY Fredonia philosophy professor Dr. Stephen Kershnar.  While Kershnar claims to not directly support these views himself, he has published many articles, books and blog posts in which...

The Bills make me wanna shout (in anguish)

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Reading Time: 3 minutesANTHONY GETTINO Sports Editor In what was one of the best weekends of playoff football in recent memory, the Buffalo Bills played in arguably the best game of the bunch.  Traveling to Arrowhead Stadium to face the Kansas City Chiefs, Buffalo was narrowly defeated in a score of 36-42 in...

SUNY Fredonia’s updated COVID-19 guidelines for Spring 2022 semester

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Reading Time: 6 minutesCHLOE KOWALYK News Editor  With booster shots, rising case numbers and new variants of COVID-19 in the news lately, many students have been wondering what guidelines SUNY Fredonia will set in place. On Jan. 6, SUNY Fredonia’s President Stephen Kolison sent out an email to all students, faculty and staff...

“Spider-Man: No Way Home” movie review

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Reading Time: 7 minutesNIKKI INDELICATO Assistant Life & Arts Editor Note: Contains spoilers. The famous web-crawling superhero made his way back to the silver screen in one of 2021’s most anticipated film releases.  Jon Watt’s “Spider-Man: No Way Home” was surrounded by numerous rumors and hype to be one of the biggest movies...

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