What it’s like being a small business owner and a full-time SUNY Fredonia student
Reading Time: 4 minutesCLARE NORMOYLE Special to The Leader Inside her cramped dorm room in Gregory Hall at SUNY Fredonia, her light brown cookie-cutter desk not only doubles as a workspace for schoolwork, but also an office for her small business. “Like it or not, being a student is also a full-time job,...
[SATIRE] Horoscopes
Reading Time: 2 minutesJAY BYRONStaff Scallywag Welcome to horoscopes. I’m going to tell you how you should prepare for finals. Aries: skim over everything posted on oncourse and if your class doesn’t have any oncourse posts, just improv it Taurus: create an incredibly believable story (example: my laptop was thrown into the refrigerator,...
[SATIRE] These are my thoughts and you’re going to read them
Reading Time: 2 minutesJAY BYRONStaff Scallywag So, the Scallion, huh? Isn’t it fun? A little silly? Whatever. Anyway, point is, I’m writing some stuff and I don’t care what you think because I’m a little punk. Chicken Fingers. They’re a bit tasty, but you absolutely have to get them from the right place....
A semester in review: The status of clubs on campus
Reading Time: 4 minutesNIKKI INDELICATO Assistant Life & Arts Editor This semester, clubs on campus were finally able to return to normal after restrictions regarding in person gatherings and larger club events were lifted. Unfortunately, some clubs weren’t able to weather COVID-19’s storm unscathed. As a result of the pandemic, many clubs ended...
[SATIRE] BREAKING: Ariana Grande and Starbucks to collaborate even more annoyingly than Justin Bieber and Tim Horton’s
Reading Time: 2 minutesMATTHEW BAUM Scallion Editor In a move that has surprised literally nobody, Starbucks has found another way to bring despair into the lives of consumers everywhere. Following the announcement of the Justin Bieber and Tim Horton’s collaboration — with the pop artist’s agents definitely having spun a wheel of nonsense...
Students and professors raise concerns regarding on-campus quarantine
Reading Time: 6 minutesCHLOE KOWALYK News Editor Many of SUNY Fredonia students’ experiences in on-campus quarantine have been anything but positive. Several students who test positive for COVID-19 find themselves quarantining on campus in Hendrix Hall, the college’s designated quarantine building. Several of these students choose to quarantine on campus rather than at...
New York State college basketball preview
Reading Time: 2 minutesANTHONY GETTINO Sports Editor While most casual basketball fans know about the Syracuse basketball team, New York has quite a few other Division I schools with basketball teams to look forward to, both men’s and women’s. One of the schools closest to us is the University of Buffalo. A fellow...
SUNY Fredonia students create digital projects using one of the world’s largest Stefan Zweig collections
Reading Time: 3 minutesJULES HOEPTING Managing Editor Reed Library is home to one of the world’s largest archive collections of Stefan Zweig. During the 1920s, the Austrian-born storyteller was the most translated author in the world. Dr. Robert Rie, former Fredonia professor in the foreign language department, brought the Zweig collection to campus...
Stefan Zweig-inspired “The Grand Budapest Hotel” film screening
Reading Time: 3 minutesLYDIA TURCIOS Art Director Wes Anderson is a master of color, composition and balancing comedy with tragedy. The jewel of his work is “The Grand Budapest Hotel,” released in 2014, in much the same way that the hotel is the jewel of Zubrowka, the fictional country in which the equally...