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Students vote for alternative names for “dead week”

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Reading Time: 2 minutesEMMO Staff Lampoonist   For over a millennium the week before finals has been dubbed “dead week.” Historians have known for a long time now that the history of “dead week” traces back to the Early Middle Ages in Europe. During Charlemagne’s rule, the “Carolingian Renovatio,” also known as the...

Carson on climate change: Who’s to blame?

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Reading Time: 2 minutesTHE FEVER Assistant Lampoonist   The world’s changing, for better or for worse. Soon we may very possibly be living in cities built on ships and barges — which actually sounds really awesome. But even so, we don’t want to be living in an actualized version of the game “Battleship.”...

Volley for Kaity: Delta Phi Epsilon holds volleyball tournament for sister

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Reading Time: 2 minutesMICHELLE HALE Sports Editor   Last Saturday, Delta Phi Epsilon hosted a volleyball tournament in the Dods Hall gymnasium called “Volley for Kaity.” Kaity Coleman is a junior liberal arts major and a member of the Delta Phi Epsilon (D Phi E) sorority at Fredonia. “I wanted to do something...

Fredonia rolls over competition in busy week: Women’s basketball team takes on Alfred, Cortland and Oswego

Reading Time: 2 minutesANDREW RICHARDSON Special to The Leader   This past week was an eventful and telling week for the Blue Devils women’s basketball team. After starting the year 2-1, the team knew it had a challenge coming up — the start of SUNYAC play. The Blue Devils began the week with...

Fredonia makes strong marks at Greg Page Relays Feldman sets school record

Reading Time: 2 minutesJARED HILL Special to The Leader   Friday and Saturday marked the beginning of the season for Fredonia’s Indoor Track and Field team, and the object of the game was all about setting high standards. The season began with an away meet in Ithaca for the Greg Page Relays. “We’re...

Strong start lands men in third place

Reading Time: 3 minutesBROOKE ATKINS Staff Writer         This past weekend, Fredonia held the Blue Devil Invitational for the men’s swimming and diving team. The Invitational consists of nine teams from different colleges that come and compete. Although there was the typical cheering and laughing inside the natatorium Friday, Saturday and Sunday, this...

Rokos sets new school record as women place fifth

Reading Time: 2 minutes  CHARLES PRITCHARD Staff Writer   The Natatorium in Steele Hall stays warm all year round, regardless of the frigid winter temperatures outside. There was a lot of heat during the Blue Devil Invitational — not just from the heated pool. Eight schools from around the country came to Fredonia;...

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