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Meet the Chancellors and Lanford Award winners

Contributor to The LeaderApril 17, 2015August 25, 2019

by Contributor to The LeaderApril 17, 2015August 25, 2019

Reading Time: 4 minutesAMANDA DEDIE Staff Writer Three Fredonia seniors were awarded the prestigious SUNY-wide honor of the Chancellor’s Award for Student Excellence. Kaitlyn Crossan, Meghan Devine and Courtney Loiacono, students who major in three completely different studies, were recognized at the Empire State Plaza in Albany on April 2 for their academic...

Advice Column: Signing up for classes

Contributor to The LeaderApril 17, 2015

by Contributor to The LeaderApril 17, 2015

Reading Time: 2 minutesBRIONA SAAS Special to The Leader Hello to all the busy students of Fredonia! We have an important week coming up. I’m sure you’ve already realized after finishing up advising week that this week we’re all going to continue signing up for classes for next fall. This is a fresh...

Wolf makes EBC debut

Contributor to The LeaderApril 17, 2015August 15, 2019

by Contributor to The LeaderApril 17, 2015August 15, 2019

Reading Time: 3 minutesCARLY KNASZAK Staff Writer Wolf — a local band from Buffalo whose lead singer, Chelsea O’Donnell is a Fredonia alumna — made its return to the Fredonia area with its first show ever at EBC. The band performed Thursday, April 9, during EBC’s open mic night. “We have been playing...

Music Review: Alberto Alaska at BJ’s

Contributor to The LeaderApril 17, 2015August 15, 2019

by Contributor to The LeaderApril 17, 2015August 15, 2019

Reading Time: 3 minutesVERONICA PENOYER Staff Writer “Rot in the pit of cash or eternal stench,” said a quote on the special board at the local watering hole known as BJ’s, where the stage was set for the Rochester band, Alberto Alaska, on Thursday, April 9. With harmony their lesser focus, Alberto Alaska...

Why beta isn’t always better

Contributor to The LeaderApril 17, 2015

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Reading Time: 3 minutesMO SADEK Staff Writer If you’ve been around the gaming scene long enough, you’ve probably come across a few beta codes yourself. If you haven’t, they aren’t so hard to get access to. Most developers will have giveaways or email entry forms that will put you in a queue to...

‘It Follows’ is original, creepy and a great horror movie

Contributor to The LeaderApril 17, 2015

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Reading Time: 2 minutesCONNOR BURTON Special to The Leader “It Follows” has recently received a wide release after positive critical responses and box office success in its initial limited release. It’s been a surprise hit and is one of the better horror movies to come out in a long time. After a strange...

Women’s softball continues their winning streak

Contributor to The LeaderApril 16, 2015

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Reading Time: < 1 minuteBROOKE ATKINS Special to The Leader The lady Blue Devils are at it again. The women’s softball team gained two more SUNYAC wins this Saturday against Oswego. Beating Oswego by a score of 5-2, the start to Fredonia’s comeback came when junior Madeline Medina hit a two-run double, and Fredonia...

Area woman just going to slip into something comfortable, like the old unhealthy habits she thought she’d abandoned years ago

Contributor to The LeaderApril 16, 2015August 18, 2019

by Contributor to The LeaderApril 16, 2015August 18, 2019

Reading Time: < 1 minuteANNE ARKEY Special to the Lampoon Instructing reporters not to go anywhere, and saying she would be right back, Fredonia student Hannah Mancuso, 21, stepped briefly into the other room Friday in order to slip into something more comfortable — namely the old toxic yet somehow comforting patterns of selfdoubt,...

Damning report concludes ultimate frisbee team insufficiently ultimate

Contributor to The LeaderApril 16, 2015

by Contributor to The LeaderApril 16, 2015

Reading Time: < 1 minuteANITA TENSION Special to the Lampoon University officials released a statement Thursday saying that an investigation conducted by the university had concluded that the ultimate frisbee team was just not ultimate enough. “At best,” said a somber representative, “we can call the team ‘super,’ or maybe ‘really great.’ But to...

Area customer revealed as funny

Contributor to The LeaderApril 16, 2015

by Contributor to The LeaderApril 16, 2015

Reading Time: < 1 minuteANNE ARKEY Special to the Lampoon After three consecutive attempts to scan the barcode on a case of 12 water bottles failed on Friday, gas station customer Mark Darrow, 43, was struck by a bolt of pure, unadulterated comic genius and put forth the theory that the item must be...

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Meet the Chancellors and Lanford Award winners

Advice Column: Signing up for classes

Wolf makes EBC debut

Music Review: Alberto Alaska at BJ’s

Why beta isn’t always better

‘It Follows’ is original, creepy and a great horror movie

Women’s softball continues their winning streak

Area woman just going to slip into something comfortable, like the old unhealthy habits she thought she’d abandoned years ago

Damning report concludes ultimate frisbee team insufficiently ultimate

Area customer revealed as funny