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Life & Arts

The Leader

Fredonia football: Most popular sport in America unlikely to come to campus anytime soon

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Reading Time: 2 minutesANDREW RICHARDSON Special to The Leader   Football is the country’s most popular sport. Though Fredonia has never fielded a team of its own, the campus did host the Buffalo Bills’ summer training camp in the 1980s and ‘90s. The idea of a football team on campus is appealing to...
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Fredonia Radio Systems found guilty of violating statute

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Reading Time: 2 minutesSETH MICHAEL MEYER Assistant News Editor Fredonia Radio Systems (FRS) was found guilty of violating Statute O-6 Article II of the Student Association in a court case on Nov. 13. The statute violated regards to membership requirements of a club, specifically stating that “membership for Constituted groups shall be open...
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Taylor Swift breaks Pitchfork scale with cripplingly bad album

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Reading Time: 2 minutesAMBER MATTICE Managing Editor   Taylor Swift is out to change her reputation through her new album, “Reputation,” which was released on Nov. 10. Through a different, way-worse sound and standardly whiny lyrics, she has given herself a new image, but not exactly in the way that she had planned....
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From the Desk of Marissa Doing, Art Director

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Reading Time: 3 minutesEver since my freshman year of college, one of my biggest goals was to study abroad at least once during my time here at Fredonia. Later on, I heard about the Arts of Italy trip through friends that previously went and through professor Peter Tucker. I became more and more...
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Sam Smith thrills us all once again: Smith’s second album tops the charts

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Reading Time: 3 minutesTEISHA MCELFRESH Special to the Leader   Sam Smith is possibly one of the youngest old souls that we have in pop music today. According to Biography.com, he is a four-time Grammy winner and has also won an Academy Award. Between his romantically desperate crooning ballads and his impossibly high...
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Brews Under Review: Introducing an IPA that doesn’t totally suck

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Reading Time: 3 minutesCURTIS HENRY Sports Editor   The usual disclaimers regarding this column still apply. I’m not a beer expert, nor am I a food critic. I’m not a professional in the art of the review, and I probably shouldn’t be involved at all with the Life & Arts section. All disclaimers...
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Dynamic Intonation set to perform Fall show

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Reading Time: 2 minutesBETHANY CLANCY Staff Writer   On Nov. 15, Fredonia’s newest and only jazz a capella group, Dynamic Intonation, will be having their Fall show in Mason Hall. The group is accepting of all genders and was started in 2012. According to Nicole Moy, a senior applied music major with a...
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The search for true love, money: Random Acts presents first cabaret night

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Reading Time: 2 minutesELYSE GRIECO Special to The Leader   Fredonia’s Random Acts held their first-ever character cabaret on Nov. 10. Random Acts is an improvisation comedy group on campus that never fails to make their audience laugh. The group has been on campus for quite some time, but they have never held...
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