The Leader

Fredonia sports update 10.10.2021

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Reading Time: 2 minutesANTHONY GETTINO Sports Editor This past week had just three of our sports teams in action. Both men’s and women’s soccer teams and the women’s volleyball team had multiple matches. The women’s soccer team had two home games against SUNYAC competition and ended the week with one win and one...

SUNY Fredonia hosts event for World Mental Health Day

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Reading Time: 5 minutesCHLOE KOWALYK News Editor Oct. 10 is World Mental Health Day, an internationally-recognized day that observes mental health issues around the world.  According to the World Health Organization, “the overall objective of World Mental Health Day is to raise awareness of mental health issues around the world and to mobilize...

[SATIRE] What’s that, Fredonia? What do YOU think about musical theatre majors?

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Reading Time: < 1 minuteJAY BYRONStaff Scallywag Lean Man Mamanda Junior American history “not throwing away my shot” major. “Generally speaking, they blow us all away. Wait for it — history has its eyes on you. One, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine.”  (Scallywag note: I threw up after speaking to him.)...

SUNY Fredonia Women’s March

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Reading Time: 3 minutesCLARE NORMOYLE Special to The Leader Women are fed up. And rightfully so. On Oct. 2, SUNY Fredonia held their very own women’s rights march, alongside many other locations across the country, in an effort to rally for women’s reproductive rights. After the Texas law banning most abortions went into...

[SATIRE] Join the Scallion, you cowards

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Reading Time: 2 minutesMATTHEW BAUM Scallion Editor  Hey. HEY. Listen up, I’m only gonna type this once:  Write.  For.  The.  Scallion.  There is nothing better than taking 45 minutes or less out of your week to write a silly little article that you make up out of thin air for the college newspaper....

Time isn’t real and we are accelerating into Hell

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Reading Time: 2 minutesBRIAN CECALA Staff Scallywag  I was going to write an article about Gavin Newsom and the California recall but it’s been less than a week and it’s already not relevant to the news cycle anymore. The human conscious experience has accelerated to only remembering things that happened in the last...

Two “freshman” classes take on in-person college for the first time

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Reading Time: 4 minutesCHLOE KOWALYK News Editor A year and a half into the COVID-19 pandemic and we are finally beginning to see our lives shift to a new version of what we used to consider “normal.”  As vaccines roll out, more and more aspects of life are beginning to open back up,...

Convocation: Fake news, real consequences

Jules Hoepting
Reading Time: 6 minutesJULES HOEPTING  Managing Editor  “Fake news” is a charged term that has skyrocketed in usage within the last decade. In the age of the internet — where the ability to spread information requires less physical effort than brushing your teeth — misleading and incorrect information has become ubiquitous.  Being able...

Students asked to stay safe after a hooded man attempts to assault students

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Reading Time: 2 minutesCHLOE KOWALYK News Editor On Monday, Oct. 4, all students, faculty and staff received an email from Enrollment and Student Services with a message from Brett Isaacson, the Chief of University Police.  The email told of two separate incidents involving SUNY Fredonia students that had occurred in the early morning...

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