June 19, 2026
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Life & Arts

The Leader

Fall fun for all: First Harvest Fest is a hit

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Reading Time: 3 minutesMOLLY VANDENBERG Staff Writer It may have been a gloomy weekend in downtown Fredonia, but that didn’t stop Fredonia’s Habitat for Humanity club from putting on their first annual Harvest Fest this past Saturday, Oct. 8. Despite the rain, club members had to deal with during set up, the weather...
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Don’t think, just dance: Recapping Fredonia’s first Dance-A-Thon

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Reading Time: 2 minutesZOE KIRIAZIS Special to The Leader Fredonia’s Student Dance Organization held its first annual Dance-A-Thon on Friday Oct. 7 in Steele Hall’s Fieldhouse. A charity event for the Dizzy Feet Foundation created and founded by ‘So You Think You Can Dance’ judge, Nigel Lythgoe. The night was filled with an...
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Editorial: State-mandated mental health education is long overdue

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Reading Time: < 1 minuteGovernor Andrew Cuomo recently signed a law requiring that New York’s public schools will have to include information on mental health in health classes. It’s a long overdue addition, one that frankly should have come much sooner. Students are generally not educated about the importance of mental health, and if...
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Remembering Kathleen “Kay” McDonough

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Reading Time: 7 minutesCOLIN PERRY and CONNOR HOFFMAN Editor in Chief and Managing Editor Kathleen McDonough had a hypothesis to test, and as fate would have it, she had found the perfect partner in crime. She was standing in an elevator in McEwen Hall with communication professor Tracy Marafiote and Marafiote’s toddler son...
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Campus View: It’s time to have conversations about racism

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Reading Time: 3 minutesSHENECA SHARPE Staff Writer   As someone who has been living in Fredonia for a year and half, a lot of my opinions have changed about what I naively thought about the town. I thought it was a simple town that didn’t have any discriminatory feelings or ideas about people...
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Ivani the Great: International politics professor receives President’s Award

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Reading Time: 3 minutesJORDAN PATTERSON Assistant News Editor Late Thursday afternoon, the campus was emptying. Most professors and student had left, but Ivani Vassoler-Froelich was still there, busy as usual. Vassoler, a professor in the Politics and International Affairs Department, received the 2016 President’s Award for Excellence in Teaching last spring. She will...
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Feeding Fredonia Challenge returns to campus

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Reading Time: 3 minutes  CAMRY DEAN Staff Writer                         The Feeding Fredonia Challenge began this Monday, Oct. 10 and will run until Friday, Oct. 14.             The campus and community-wide food donation drive, which first started in October 2014, will benefit the Fredonia Food Pantry at the First United Presbyterian Church of...
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