June 20, 2026
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Life & Arts

The Leader

Recent efforts to strengthen enrollment displays results

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Reading Time: < 1 minuteDAN ORZECHOWSKI News Editor For the first time since Fall 2013, there are over 1,100 first-year students enrolled at Fredonia. According to last year’s admissions report, in 2013 Fredonia saw 1,105 new faces. In that same year, the university received 6,069 applications, and 3,141 (52 percent) of them were admitted....
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Return of Rockin’ the Commons

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Reading Time: 2 minutes[metaslider id=9770] BETHANY CLANCY Staff Writer   Every Fall semester, the Fredonia radio station teams up with WNYF and Sound Services to put on a benefit event, Rockin’ the Commons, to raise money for Roswell Park Cancer Institute in Buffalo, NY. The all-day event takes place in Barker Commons in...
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The Kevin Hines story: Suicide is never the answer

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Reading Time: 4 minutesVICTOR SCHMITT-BUSH Special to the Leader   “He is ancient, yet ageless. He is ticking, yet timeless. He runs not hunted, he chases. He is a man of many faces. He is the darkness. I am the light.” “That was a limerick I wrote in eighth grade about the immense...
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Revolutionizing air craft technology: Fredonia professor approved for patent

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Reading Time: 2 minutesSETH MICHAEL MEYER Special to The Leader   Fredonia professor Junaid Ahmed Zubairi of the College of Arts and Sciences has recently been approved for a patent that will change the way researchers recover data from crashed airplanes and can also prevent airplane catastrophes. Say goodbye to multi-million dollar searches...
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Coach Gondek: A story of soccer and misaligned Gatorade bottles

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Reading Time: 3 minutesAVRIL KING Social Media Manager   Brandon Butts, assistant coach for the Fredonia men’s soccer team, was loading the team’s refrigerator. Focused only on getting the task done as quickly as possible, he fit the bottles of Gatorade into whatever space he could find “with no such order,” and then...
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Blue Devils cross country is coming together: Good performances from top runners bring good placement for both men and women

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Reading Time: 2 minutesAIDAN POLLARD Special to the Leader   The Blue Devils cross country program continued their season this weekend with the second 5,000 meter race for the women and the first 8,000 meter race for the men at Penn State Behrend. In collegiate cross country points are scored by the top...
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