The Leader

Editorial: Trump’s Twisted Truth

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Reading Time: 2 minutes  Last week, Congress held its first hearing on its investigation into Russia’s involvement in the 2016 election and President Donald Trump’s claim that former President Barack Obama wiretapped Trump Tower. With FBI Director James Comey’s testimony, we finally had hard, concrete evidence that Trump’s wiretap tweet was not true...

New Politics and Joywave headline 2017 spring concert

Reading Time: < 1 minute  Poster courtesy of Marketing & Communications   NUNET CLITANDRE Special to The Leader   On March 8, Spectrum announced via social media the performers for this year’s spring concert. They announced that Danish rock band New Politics would be headlining the concert. Joywave, a band hailing from Rochester, will...

Remembering a dear friend through music: Tribute concert to honor world-class guitarist Roland Dyens

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Reading Time: 4 minutes    CLAIRE O’REILLY Assistant Life & Arts Editor   A tribute concert to Roland Dyens, a famous and renowned guitarist with an intimate connection to Fredonia, will be held on March 23 at 8 p.m. in Rosch Recital Hall. Dyens recently died this past October. “He was brilliant, just...

Forrest receives highest Tau Sigma honor

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Reading Time: 3 minutesANGELINA DOHRE Staff Writer   Just as she is reaching the finish line of her college career, senior communication disorders and sciences major Hannah Forrest was awarded the largest Tau Sigma scholarship ever given to a Fredonia student. Succeeding the largest sum of $2,000 last year, she received $3,000 from...

Conservative Corner: Russia is our enemy, not our friend

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Reading Time: 3 minutes  CONNOR HOFFMAN Managing Editor   The year is 1983, and President Ronald Reagan had just given his famous Evil Empire speech to a gathering of the National Evangelicals in Orlando, Florida. “So, in your discussions of the nuclear freeze proposals, I urge you to beware the temptation of pride...

From the Desk Of Curtis Henry, Sports Editor

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Reading Time: 3 minutesCurtis Henry  Sports Editor   Allow me to preface this in a way that you can actually take it seriously. This isn’t going to be some fluffy Odyssey article written by a freshman girl who is totally obsessed with her roommate’s dog or the fact that the Starbucks guy wrote...

Democracy 101 talk debates bathroom bills

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Reading Time: 4 minutesCAMRY DEAN Staff Writer   Sometimes, the best way to get a point across is to make use of the words of someone else. James Baldwin, a black American writer and social critic once said, “We can disagree and still love each other unless your disagreement is rooted in my...

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