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Stephanie Wojnowski: What it takes to do it all

Contributor to The LeaderApril 23, 2019August 25, 2019

by Contributor to The LeaderApril 23, 2019August 25, 2019

Reading Time: 3 minutesSANDRENE HAMILTON Special to The Leader Stephanie Wojnowski, one of the captains of Women’s Cross Country at SUNY Fredonia, won the chancellor’s award for excellence. Wojnowski said that receiving the award was a great way for her to end her academic career at Fredonia. Wojnowski is a senior with...

Police Notters

Contributor to The LeaderApril 10, 2019August 25, 2019

by Contributor to The LeaderApril 10, 2019August 25, 2019

Reading Time: 2 minutesMonday, April 1 12:30 a.m. Officers responded to a noise complaint in Grissom Hall. After locating the source of the complaint, student Abby Putnam was found with an assortment of dead squirrels arranged in a pentagram. An arrested was completed for using occult methods to perform April Fools pranks ...

Guy who listens to purely classical music excited to be paired with SoundCloud rapper in roommate matching

Contributor to The LeaderApril 10, 2019August 15, 2019

by Contributor to The LeaderApril 10, 2019August 15, 2019

Reading Time: 2 minutesTRAVIS LEFEVRE Editor in Chief Moving in for your first semester can be an intimidating experience, but for incoming freshman Wolfgang Claude, it’s euphoric. For his entire life, Claude has been forced by his parents to listen to the classics. Not like, Black Eyed Peas classic, but...

Let’s not lose our Excelsior Scholarship

Contributor to The LeaderApril 10, 2019June 10, 2019

by Contributor to The LeaderApril 10, 2019June 10, 2019

Reading Time: 2 minutesALEXANDRIA NIEVES Special to The Leader Dan Tramuta knows the Excelsior Scholarship program. He was there when it was created, and he also recognizes problems students can have with it. “There were four [Tramuta, SUNY, New York State Higher Education Services Corporation (NYSHESC) and Cuomo’s office] of us that...

Alumnus Michelle Whittaker discusses debut poetry book

Contributor to The LeaderApril 10, 2019April 9, 2019

by Contributor to The LeaderApril 10, 2019April 9, 2019

Reading Time: 2 minutesELYSE GRIECO Life & Arts Editor The Mary Louise White Visiting Writers Series welcomes visiting poet and alumna Michelle Whittaker to campus from April 9-10. Whittaker, who graduated in 2001, is a West Indian-American writer, poet, teacher and pianist. Her passion for writing started at a young age —...

SUNYSA offers students the opportunity for advocacy

Contributor to The LeaderApril 10, 2019August 25, 2019

by Contributor to The LeaderApril 10, 2019August 25, 2019

Reading Time: 2 minutesSETH MICHAEL MEYER Staff Columnist As a Pennsylvanian that goes to a SUNY school, it needs to be said that New York offers something truly special for its students. The SUNY Student Assembly, a legislative body of students that represent all 1.4 million students of the SUNY system, works...

One Last Dance: A commentary on Dwyane Wade’s retirement as the Heat’s season comes to a close

Contributor to The LeaderApril 10, 2019August 31, 2019

by Contributor to The LeaderApril 10, 2019August 31, 2019

Reading Time: 3 minutesJORDAN-CHRISTOPHER PURVIS Staff Writer British mathematics tutor Geoffrey Parfitt once said, “People say that age is just a state of mind. I say it’s more about the state of your body.” This year we are witnessing several of the best athletes to ever play the game of basketball step...

New location of The Mustard Seed opens April 25

Contributor to The LeaderApril 10, 2019August 30, 2019

by Contributor to The LeaderApril 10, 2019August 30, 2019

Reading Time: 2 minutesERIKETA COST Assistant Life & Arts Editor Lately, there’s been a lot of talk on campus about the new location of The Mustard Seed opening up in the village on April 25. But not a lot of people are aware of the story, or the couple behind it. Bob...

Fredonia Sports Update

Contributor to The LeaderApril 10, 2019August 31, 2019

by Contributor to The LeaderApril 10, 2019August 31, 2019

Reading Time: 2 minutesDante Lasting Special to The Leader The first full week of April is in the books, and it’s starting to feel a little more like spring. Teams are catching up with games that were postponed and field conditions are slowly getting better. Ludwig Field is about halfway there with...

Audience collectively sighs at racist part of ‘Anything Goes’

Contributor to The LeaderApril 10, 2019September 1, 2019

by Contributor to The LeaderApril 10, 2019September 1, 2019

Reading Time: < 1 minuteJOSEPH MARCINIAK Assistant Editor of the Scallion On the opening Friday night performance of “Anything Goes,” the audience was disappointed to see the part where white people impersonated Asian people was still left in. According to reporters present, the audience let out a collective “ewwwww” type noise. According to...

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Guy who listens to purely classical music excited to be paired with SoundCloud rapper in roommate matching

Let’s not lose our Excelsior Scholarship

Alumnus Michelle Whittaker discusses debut poetry book

SUNYSA offers students the opportunity for advocacy

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New location of The Mustard Seed opens April 25

Fredonia Sports Update

Audience collectively sighs at racist part of ‘Anything Goes’