The Leader

Split doubleheaders Fredonia softball finally begins its season

Reading Time: 3 minutesBROOKE ATKINS Social Media Manager         After a long wait due to weather cancellations, the Fredonia softball team finally played its first home game of the season. The game was against Oswego, in which the team split its doubleheaders to begin the season.         Sophomore outfielder Lauren Pixley hit her...

A turning point? Women’s lacrosse splits weekend’s slate of games

Reading Time: 2 minutesCURTIS HENRY Distribution Manager The Fredonia women’s lacrosse team was able to split its two games last week and notch its first win in SUNYAC play of the year. The team was within minutes of winning both contests. The week began on Thursday when the Blue Devils played host to...

Editorial: Take marijuana off Schedule I, please

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Reading Time: 2 minutesOne of these things is not like the others: heroin, marijuana, LSD, ecstasy. The date April 20, better known as 4/20, means different things to different people. But The Leader wanted to take this opportunity, on this particular date, to discuss the most talked about 4/20 correlation: cannabis. (By the...

‘Coach Hojo’: remembering senior Howard Jones

Reading Time: 5 minutes                 RILEY STRAW and COLIN PERRY Managing Editor-elect and Editor in Chief-elect   Head Coach Travis Wells of the Jamestown Community College (JCC) women’s basketball team will never forget the first practice he ever had with Assistant Coach Howard Jones. New to the...

Web Exclusive: Bernie Sanders should run, run, run

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Reading Time: 4 minutesCommentary   COLIN PERRY News Editor   The dust is settling from the New York primary on April 19, where former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton beat out Sen. Bernie Sanders in her adopted home-state 58-42 percent. New York, with 247 delegates up for grabs, was seen on both sides...

The price is right GA Day results in largest Student Activity Fee increase in history

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Reading Time: 3 minutesL. FULLER Editor in Chief   If there are only $1.3 million available, but $6,150 more are needed, what can be done about it? For the Student Association (SA) that problem presented itself on General Assembly (GA) Day when balancing the budget for the 27 constituted clubs for the 2016-17...

Eating healthy in college made possible Enactus introduces AgriMobile

Reading Time: 2 minutesCHARLES PRITCHARD Staff Writer   With the hustle and bustle of everyday college life, it can be difficult for students to get out to the local farmers market. AgriMobile.org, a joint product of Fredonia Enactus and the Fredonia Farmers’ Market, is taking steps to help bring the farmers market to...

An award-winning ‘queer, disabled femme of color’ WSU presents Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha

Reading Time: 2 minutesMARIA MELCHIORRE Staff Writer   Lambda Award-winning author Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha — who identifies as a queer, disabled femme of color — served as the third annual Women’s Herstory Month keynote speaker on the evening of April 6. Lakshmi is a winner of a Lambda Literary Award for her poetry...

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