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EDITORIAL: Rape culture thrives in isolation: It’s time we speak up

Contributor to The LeaderOctober 25, 2017

by Contributor to The LeaderOctober 25, 2017

Reading Time: 2 minutesRape culture thrives in isolation: It’s time we speak up So, here we are again. Your favorite editorial board is talking about another issue that is really important. The hashtag MeToo. This movement spread rapidly across Facebook and Twitter in an attempt to show the world how common sexual...

Fredonia men’s soccer drop final two games: Miss chance to go to playoffs

Contributor to The LeaderOctober 25, 2017

by Contributor to The LeaderOctober 25, 2017

Reading Time: 3 minutesQUINTIN JAMES Staff Writer Fredonia men’s soccer, coming into the weekend, needed to win at least one game to get into the SUNYAC playoffs. They were looking to secure the sixth and final playoff spot, but they had to face New Paltz and Oneonta on the last weekend of...

Tradition marries competition: Day of the Dead to be celebrated with altar competition

Contributor to The LeaderOctober 25, 2017

by Contributor to The LeaderOctober 25, 2017

Reading Time: 2 minutesMORGAN HENDERSON Staff Writer Day of the Dead will be celebrated on campus this semester by mixing some competition with tradition. On Nov. 1, from 5:30 to 6:30 p.m., an altar competition will take place in the Reed Library Commons. Some of those competing include students from professor Diane...

Coach’s Corner: Jeff Meredith

Contributor to The LeaderOctober 25, 2017August 17, 2019

by Contributor to The LeaderOctober 25, 2017August 17, 2019

Reading Time: 4 minutesAVRIL KING Social Media Manager It seems as though everyone at Fredonia has their favorite Jeff Meredith story. Since he has been the Men’s Hockey coach for 30 years, there are many stories to choose from. The best tales, however, come from his team. Senior Jamie Young’s favorite story...

Homecoming royalty crowned after Fredonia’s Got Talent

Contributor to The LeaderOctober 25, 2017August 15, 2019

by Contributor to The LeaderOctober 25, 2017August 15, 2019

Reading Time: 2 minutes[metaslider id=10167] JAMES LILLIN Staff Writer On Friday night, students gathered in Steele Hall to watch a showcase of talented SUNY Fredonia students in a spectacle that was part pep-rally and part dance show, all of which culminated in the crowning of this year’s homecoming royalty. Although the event...

College junior truly, deeply saddened over bomb threat

Contributor to The LeaderOctober 25, 2017

by Contributor to The LeaderOctober 25, 2017

Reading Time: 2 minutesEMMA PATTERSON Assistant Scallion Editor The Fredonia campus was thoroughly shaken this past Tuesday when a bomb threat resulted in class cancellations in Thompson Hall. The Scallion met up with Pete Yew, a junior, for more details about the harrowing situation. “Well, this is an interesting turn of events,”...

Circling the Wagons: Bills come back late vs the Bucs

Contributor to The LeaderOctober 25, 2017

by Contributor to The LeaderOctober 25, 2017

Reading Time: 3 minutesCURTIS HENRY Sports Editor It had the feel of a game that the Bills would lose. In fact, it was actually a carbon copy of a game that the Bills did lose. Sunday’s game between the Bills and Buccaneers followed the exact same script as a game between the...

From the Desk of Ben Anderson, Copy Editor

Contributor to The LeaderOctober 25, 2017August 16, 2019

by Contributor to The LeaderOctober 25, 2017August 16, 2019

Reading Time: 2 minutesThe fortunate future of Fredonia Philosophy: An introspective Implemented in the Spring of the past academic year, the Right Serving, Right Sizing plan encouraged academic department heads to review their own curriculums in an overall attempt to increase enrollment for future classes. The plan also set out to add...

Harvey Breverman: A decade of drawing

Contributor to The LeaderOctober 25, 2017

by Contributor to The LeaderOctober 25, 2017

Reading Time: 3 minutes[metaslider id=10221] ELYSE GRIECO Special to the Leader University at Buffalo’s own Professor Emeritus Harvey Breverman has brought a decade’s worth of art to the SUNY Fredonia campus this month. Breverman’s collection, “A Decade of Drawing 2005-2015 (Idiosyncratic Amalgams and Disparate Composites)” consists of forty-six portraits of writers,...

Brews Under Review: Spoiler alert: IPAs still suck

Contributor to The LeaderOctober 25, 2017

by Contributor to The LeaderOctober 25, 2017

Reading Time: 2 minutesCURTIS HENRY Sports Editor “Okay this is an IPA, but I promise it’s good.” In those 10 simple words, I was lied to. I was hoodwinked. Strategemed. Flim-flammed. Bamboozled. I had been fooled into thinking that this was it. This was the IPA that was going to change my...

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EDITORIAL: Rape culture thrives in isolation: It’s time we speak up

Fredonia men’s soccer drop final two games: Miss chance to go to playoffs

Tradition marries competition: Day of the Dead to be celebrated with altar competition

Coach’s Corner: Jeff Meredith

Homecoming royalty crowned after Fredonia’s Got Talent

College junior truly, deeply saddened over bomb threat

Circling the Wagons: Bills come back late vs the Bucs

From the Desk of Ben Anderson, Copy Editor

Harvey Breverman: A decade of drawing

Brews Under Review: Spoiler alert: IPAs still suck