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Club Field Hockey strives to salvage season

Contributor to The LeaderSeptember 10, 2014August 18, 2019

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Reading Time: 3 minutesSEAN MCGRATH Sports Editor The Club Field Hockey team faces financial issues this season as they raise funds for new equipment. The resources they have now — including goals, nets, and other equipment, are all unusable at this point, forcing the team to replace their supplies. The equipment was in...

Top 5 Ways Bill Nye and I Will Become Best Friends During His Time in Fredonia, in Order of Increasing Preference

Contributor to The LeaderSeptember 3, 2014

by Contributor to The LeaderSeptember 3, 2014

Reading Time: 3 minutesPicture from courtesy of thelostogle.com LEO FRANK Lampoon Editor In two weeks, beloved scientist, educator, entertainer and activist Bill Nye will be in Fredonia giving a speech. While this is certainly exciting for the university and the community, it is even more exciting for me, because Bill Nye and I...

Simon named women’s lacrosse head coach

Contributor to The LeaderSeptember 3, 2014August 17, 2019

by Contributor to The LeaderSeptember 3, 2014August 17, 2019

Reading Time: 3 minutesMICHELLE HALE Special to The Leader Amy Simon has been named the head coach of the Women’s Lacrosse team at Fredonia State. Although this will be her first year as head coach, she has been a familiar face for years. Simon was a member of the Women’s Lacrosse team for...

Activities Night introduces new groups to Fredonia

Contributor to The LeaderSeptember 3, 2014August 18, 2019

by Contributor to The LeaderSeptember 3, 2014August 18, 2019

Reading Time: 3 minutesS.L. FULLER News Editor With 163 groups, only 100 tables and hundreds of students running around, Spectrum’s Activities Night is a recipe for chaos. But the organization process is one that the group has down to a science. This semester, the event is set for Wednesday, Sept. 3 at 7...

Comedian Jessica Halem gets down and dirty

Contributor to The LeaderSeptember 3, 2014

by Contributor to The LeaderSeptember 3, 2014

Reading Time: 3 minutesREBECCA HALE Assistant Reverb Editor Jessica Halem, who introduced herself as “a radical, Jewish, feminist queer stand-up comic,” and whose career she describes as “generally being pissed off for a living,” put on quite a jaw-dropping act in Marvel Theatre last Tuesday. Halem is not a cautious comic who treads...

Blue Devil women’s soccer drop two in Rochester

Contributor to The LeaderSeptember 3, 2014

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Reading Time: 2 minutesPicture from Courtesy of Fredoniabluedevils.com ALEX KALUZNY Special to The Leader Fredonia State’s women’s soccer lost both games in Rochester this past weekend: 3-1 to Rochester on Friday and 3-2 to Union on Saturday. Fredonia did not do much to stop the onslaught both days and allowed a total of...

Men’s soccer takes home the hardware in D.C. road trip

Contributor to The LeaderSeptember 3, 2014

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Reading Time: 2 minutesPicture from Courtesy of Fredoniabluedevils.com TORIN O’BRIEN Special to The Leader Two games, two last minute goals, two wins and one trophy can sum up this past weekend for the men’s Blue Devils soccer team. After their weekend road trip to Washington D.C., the Blue Devils Men’s Soccer team is...

Hill-MacDonald remains at Fredonia following break out year

Contributor to The LeaderSeptember 3, 2014August 18, 2019

by Contributor to The LeaderSeptember 3, 2014August 18, 2019

Reading Time: 2 minutesKRISTEN SWANN Special to The Leader Former WNBA coach Linda Hill-MacDonald has been named as the head women’s basketball coach at Fredonia. Hill-MacDonald served as last year’s interim coach before being named to the head coaching job this past summer. “It feels great to be back at Fredonia for a...

Men’s cross country looks to continue improvement

Contributor to The LeaderSeptember 3, 2014

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Reading Time: 2 minutesDYLAN FORMAN Special to The Leader Last season, the Fredonia men’s cross country team gained national attention when they were ranked 35th in the NCAA Division III polls. After finishing third at the SUNYAC Championships a year ago, the Blue Devils are looking for a top-two finish this year. Furthermore,...

Sex and the SUNY: …Or is this just fantasy?

Contributor to The LeaderSeptember 3, 2014

by Contributor to The LeaderSeptember 3, 2014

Reading Time: 2 minutesKELLY CANER Staff Writer I raised an eyebrow as my silver fox chiropractor was lathering Biofreeze into my childbearing hips. He was rambling on and on about realigning my spine, but the only thing that needed realigning was his full, enticing mustache onto my lips. I kept drifting off into...

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Hill-MacDonald remains at Fredonia following break out year

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