June 19, 2026
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Life & Arts

The Leader

World War I strikes Reed Library

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Reading Time: 4 minutesVICTOR SCHMITT-BUSH Assistant News Editor   Way back in the garden area of Fredonia’s Reed library, students, staff and a number of U.S. veterans joined together to commemorate the 100 year anniversary of the war to end all wars. Appropriately titled “World War I Centennial: Ending War, Talking Peace,” the...
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Fredonia’s icy campus gets students into figure skating: “Who knows? Beijing 2022!”

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Reading Time: 2 minutesJACLYN SPIEZIA Staff Scallywag   The weather has been quite moody recently, and the cold and rainy conditions have led to icy walkways on campus. Some students have decided to take advantage of these conditions by ice skating around campus. Although campus administration is worried about the danger of skating...
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Lawmakers shocked at students’ response to Parkland shootings: “We had no idea they could form a sentence like that”

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Reading Time: 2 minutesEMMA PATTERSON Editor of the Scallion   After Trump’s historic win in the 2016 Presidential election, most Americans soon learned to expect the unexpected. What was unexpected — at least to the general public — was the mature defiance displayed by the students of Parkland who refused to accept only...
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School shooting sparks discussion of campus safety measures

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Reading Time: 4 minutesSETH MICHAEL MEYER Assistant News Editor   JOSH RANNEY Special to The Leader   Two weeks ago in Parkland, Fla., Nikolas Cruz, 19, walked into Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School and opened fire with his AR-15, killing 17 students, teachers and faculty members. Cruz, luring people into the hallways by...
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Movements against sexual violence influence Fredonia

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Reading Time: 3 minutesDAN ORZECHOWSKI News Editor   Once every 98 seconds. According to the Rape, Abuse and Incest National Network (RAINN), that’s how often a person experiences sexual assault. Recently, we’ve seen movements like #MeToo and “Time’s Up” spur serious conversation on sexual abuse. Because of these movements, we’ve seen several people...
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Olivia Miller awarded SUNYAC distinction

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Reading Time: 2 minutesAVRIL KING Social Media Manager and Assistant Sports Editor   After a hugely successful season last fall, junior exercise science major Olivia Miller from the Fredonia women’s tennis team was selected by coaches in the league to receive the SUNYAC Second Team All-Conference award. Miller received this honor after a...
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Acid Analysis: Or are you too basic? – Fredonian acid might just live up to the hype

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Reading Time: 2 minutesPATRICK BENNETT Staff Scallywag   Last weekend, waking up in a raccoon den with a missed text from Richard Simmons asking if I was still awake made me finally realize that I needed to switch up my routine bar-hopping experience and drop one of the holiest jam-band approved psychedelics: acid....
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