June 11, 2026
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Life & Arts

The Leader

I’m an acting major in quarantine. This is my story.

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Reading Time: 2 minutesMATTHEW BAUM Staff Scallywag Before I begin, I have to preface this article with the fact that everything I’m about to say is true. There is nothing in this article that has been fabricated or exaggerated in any way, and I am living in Hell.  I am an acting major....
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Highlighting Fredonia’s all-black student government

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Reading Time: 5 minutesALYSSA BUMP Assistant Life & Arts Editor Fredonia is a predominantly white institution. According to statistics from Fredonia’s website, it’s a 70 percent white institution; only 9 percent of students are African-American.  With that being said, where can black students find representation? For the first time in Fredonia history, the...
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Nurse responds to COVID-19

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Reading Time: 3 minutesSAMUEL LEWANDOWSKI Special to The Leader In her 33 years working as a nurse, Nancy Lewandowski — my mother  — said that COVID-19 is the scariest thing she’s ever seen.  Lewandowski’s career began at Millard Fillmore Suburban Hospital, where she worked as a graduate nurse. After receiving her license and...
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WHO exactly is to blame for a worldwide pandemic?

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Reading Time: 5 minutesHOPE WINTER Special to The Leader It’s been yet another week of COVID-19 holding people hostage in their homes, and while Americans are beginning to go stir-crazy with their families, Trump continues to wave his finger guns. Every night at six o’clock, while American families sit down for dinner, Trump...
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The school bully and the popular kid: An analysis of the relationship between Andrew Cuomo and Donald Trump

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Reading Time: 2 minutesCASEY HUBER Special to The Leader As the president of the wealthiest, most powerful nation on Earth dragged on about how many ventilators New York State needed, I had a thought. How does the popular kid in school interact with the school bully? There seems to be a mutual respect...
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My take on Fernway’s ‘Welcome to the Ground’ EP

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Reading Time: 2 minutesBRENTON NEWCOMB  Staff Writer Last week, Fernway released their long-awaited second EP: “Welcome to the Ground.” On the EP, the group channels popular alternative group, The 1975, and infuses many different styles including funk, jazz and punk to create a cohesive work that solidifies their sound and achieves their goal...
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Uncle Sam is cutting us a check, but will it work?

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Reading Time: 3 minutesSETH MICHAEL MEYER Staff Writer If you are like me and about 70 million other Americans, by the Treasury Department’s estimates, you may have, or will be receiving a check from the Federal Government in a compensatory consolation for the world being on shutdown. The direct payment to the people,...
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