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How COVID could affect the College Football championship

Contributor to The LeaderNovember 6, 2020November 5, 2020

by Contributor to The LeaderNovember 6, 2020November 5, 2020

Reading Time: 2 minutesANTHONY GETTINO Sports Editor For the second consecutive week, Clemson football will be without its star quarterback and future first overall pick in the NFL, Trevor Lawrence. The team was able to withstand his absence, if just barely, last weekend against Boston College at home. But will Clemson be able...

We gamers are SICK of politics in our entertainment

Contributor to The LeaderNovember 5, 2020November 5, 2020

by Contributor to The LeaderNovember 5, 2020November 5, 2020

Reading Time: 2 minutesBRIAN CECALA Guest Scallywag What’s up gamers! It’s me, ya boy FazeSmoothie, here back at ya for another hot take. STOP PUTTING POLITICS INTO OUR ENTERTAINMENT. Sheesh, I’m trying to relax over here. It all started when my favorite war game, Kill Gun, came out with a sequel, Kill Gun...

Hot damn, he was right: Joe Biden actually is a bunch of ferrets in a trench coat

Contributor to The LeaderNovember 5, 2020November 5, 2020

by Contributor to The LeaderNovember 5, 2020November 5, 2020

Reading Time: 2 minutesMATTHEW BAUM Assistant Scallion Editor As shocking as it is, one of Donald Trump’s conspiracy theories has been proven true. Democratic candidate Joe Biden is not a man, but instead a hard-working group of ferrets imitating the former vice president. This has come as a shock to the international community,...

The early bird gets the window

Contributor to The LeaderNovember 5, 2020November 2, 2020

by Contributor to The LeaderNovember 5, 2020November 2, 2020

Reading Time: 2 minutesHOPE WINTER Special to the Leader Hearing about an abundance of dead birds around Halloween time may sound like the plot of an Alfred Hitchcock movie, but in Fredonia you don’t have to turn on a screen to experience the scare. Students that walk to class along Three Man Hill...

How the NFL is facing COVID-19

Contributor to The LeaderNovember 4, 2020November 2, 2020

by Contributor to The LeaderNovember 4, 2020November 2, 2020

Reading Time: 2 minutesTYLER PACOS Special to The Leader The NFL is already seven weeks into the 2020 season, and has had quite the challenge to face this year due to COVID. Games are being rescheduled every week and tests are being performed every day. It has been a very busy seven weeks...

[Column] This week in COVID

Contributor to The LeaderNovember 3, 2020November 3, 2020

by Contributor to The LeaderNovember 3, 2020November 3, 2020

Reading Time: 2 minutesALISA OPPENHEIMER News Editor This week in COVID, we have had a recent increase in our total number of positive cases. According to Fredonia’s COVID-19 Dashboard, from Monday, Oct. 26, to Friday, Oct. 30, there were a total of 1,345 campus-administered tests. Out of those tests, there were 11 positive...

[SATIRE] Seasonal depression forces Fredonia students back to their comfort media once again

Contributor to The LeaderNovember 3, 2020November 3, 2020

by Contributor to The LeaderNovember 3, 2020November 3, 2020

Reading Time: 2 minutesMATTHEW BAUM Assistant Scallion Editor Well, it’s that time of year again. The leaves are coming down, the temperature is dropping and the morale of students attending SUNY Fredonia is also taking a nosedive. With the change of seasons into the colder months, there is a perturbing, but not wholly...

Four years later: Election Day 2020

Contributor to The LeaderNovember 3, 2020November 3, 2020

by Contributor to The LeaderNovember 3, 2020November 3, 2020

Reading Time: 3 minutesJAMES MEAD Managing Editor For many of us, today marks the beginning of a waiting game. We’ve voted. We’ve come out. We’ve said our piece. Now, we’ll watch 50 U.S. states tally their votes and declare their pick — Biden, or Trump? Four years ago, I turned 18 on Election...

The questionable effectiveness of presidential debates

Contributor to The LeaderNovember 3, 2020November 3, 2020

by Contributor to The LeaderNovember 3, 2020November 3, 2020

Reading Time: 2 minutesCASEY HUBER Special to The Leader Tens of millions of people watched the 2020 presidential debates. Why? What do the presidential debates actually do for anyone? Who is undecided a month before the election? Turns out, not that many people. An NBC News and Wall Street Journal poll shows 5...

Horoscopes: Election edition

Contributor to The LeaderNovember 2, 2020November 2, 2020

by Contributor to The LeaderNovember 2, 2020November 2, 2020

Reading Time: < 1 minuteHANNAH BLIDY Staff Scallywag This week, we have a special edition of the horoscopes. These are the people that each of the signs would vote for. Aries: You will not be voting at all because you’re pissed off at the establishment. Taurus: You will be writing in Elizabeth Warren, because...

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