June 14, 2026
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Life & Arts

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Biology professor shares thoughts on Daraprim

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Reading Time: 3 minutesCONNOR HOFFMAN Staff Writer   According to the Washington Post, Martin Shkreli, a 32-year-old hedge fund billionaire, became the recent target of enormous criticism. Shkreli achieved this when he decided to raise the price of Daraprim — a new drug his company Turing Pharmaceuticals had purchased — from $13.50 to...
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Guitar professor releases new CD

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Reading Time: 2 minutesRIANNA SEELIG Staff Writer   One of Fredonia’s own was recently involved in an exciting project. Composer and SUNY Distinguished Professor of the School of Music James Piorkowski had his newest recording, “NINE: The Guitar and Beyond,” released by Centaur Records. The recording is a collection of nine new works....
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Musicians conduct impromptu jazz improv during “An Evening of Ella and Ellington”

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Reading Time: 3 minutes[metaslider id=3336] STAFF REPORT   With the exception of a few scattered seats, Harry A. King Concert Hall was packed last Saturday night for An Evening of Ella and Ellington, the first concert in the DFT Communication Pops Series, which featured the acclaimed Cleveland Jazz Orchestra. The night started off...
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Fredonia Radio Systems Rocks The Commons

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Reading Time: 4 minutes[metaslider id=3356] SCOTT DOWNEY Special to The Leader   It was a beautiful day in Barker Commons this past Sunday, where Fredonia Radio Systems (FRS) presented its 25th annual Rockin’ The Commons. The event ran from 11 a.m. until after 9 p.m. and all proceeds, which totaled over $4,500, benefited...
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Review: Making A Difference Through Music

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Reading Time: 3 minutesAMBER MATTICE Special to The Leader   There was an extremely successful turnout this year for Fredonia Radio Systems’ Rockin’ The Commons. Barker Commons was alive with the strumming of various acoustic guitars and the overall energetic air of the bands and the people watching them. Saying that the bands...
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Shanghai Quartet in Residency

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Reading Time: 3 minutesMARIA MELCHIORRE Special to The Leader   “The music is a language itself,” said Lily Li, International Recruiting Assistant for the School of Music. “It’s really a dual-lingual sound,” she continued, explaining the expressional and tonal differences between the Chinese and English languages and how these manifest in the quartet’s...
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A night of poetry Beat Poetry Festival showcases variety of topics

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Reading Time: 3 minutes[metaslider id=3323] CHARLES PRITCHARD Staff Writer The National Beat Poetry Festival at Fredonia kicked off this past weekend; a number of poets from out-of-state came, shared their work and interacted with the young poets on campus. The Festival, which, as one of the poets pointed out, is actually an international...
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The intersection of art and science: rescuing plant life with art

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Reading Time: 3 minutesALISSA SALEM Special to The Leader   A common idea shared among many is that art and science are vastly different subjects — that these two disciplines are inherently separate. Last Thursday night in McEwen Hall, however, an artist gave a lecture which discussed work that bridged the gap between...
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