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SUNY Fredonia changes official name designation

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Reading Time: 3 minutesDAN QUAGLIANA Staff Writer Graphic By Ryan Ludu For over 80 years, SUNY Fredonia’s official designation has been the “State University of New York College at Fredonia.” Soon, that’s going to change. In January 2022, the New York State Board of Regents updated their criteria for what they consider a......
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ChatGPT takes over the classroom: The robot teacher we never knew we needed

Chloe Kowalyk
Reading Time: 4 minutesCHLOE KOWALYK          Managing Editor Students today feel like they are living in a dystopia — a world in which artificial intelligence (AI) can write essays, explain the material and complete assignments.  Perhaps the most prominent form of AI hitting campuses today is ChatGPT: an artificial intelligence model that creates texts......
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Surveying students opinions about University Police 

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Reading Time: 2 minutesMICHAEL WILLIAMS  Special to The Leader  Over the past month, more than 400 Fredonia students participated in a campus-wide survey. The survey collected information about the students, their interactions with University Police and their opinion of UP. Police relationships with communities in America have been rocky throughout history. Whether you......
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Upcoming Lecture: Understanding Today’s Changing Climate: Learning from Past Environmental Archives

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Reading Time: < 1 minuteFrom 12 p.m. – 1 p.m. on Wednesday, April 6, the April Brown Bag Lunch will be held. This month’s Brown Bag Lunch is titled “Understanding Today’s Changing Climate: Learning from Past Environmental Archives.” It’ll be presented by Dr. Courtney Wigdahl-Perry of Biology and Environmental Sciences and Dr. Matthew Lanning......
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Chautauqua County completes food inspections of campus dining locations

Chloe Kowalyk
Reading Time: 3 minutesCHLOE KOWALYK          Managing Editor Graphic by NICOLE THORSON | Staff Artist. Have you ever wondered how your favorite dining hall would do in a health inspection? Chautauqua County completes frequent food service inspections of local and corporate restaurants in the county, including SUNY Fredonia’s on-campus dining locations.  These include dining......
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SUNY Chancellor King visits Fredonia

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Reading Time: 2 minutesCASSIDY PIERCE  Special to The Leader On Monday, March 6, SUNY Chancellor John B. King, Jr. came to visit Fredonia’s campus.  King was appointed as SUNY’s 15th Chancellor on Dec. 5, 2022, and he aims to visit every SUNY campus before the end of the semester. Fredonia is the 22nd......
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Roe v. Wade: The origins of abortion rights

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Reading Time: 4 minutesMICHAEL WILLIAMS  Special to The Leader On March 1, Fredonia’s Honors Program, Women’s and Gender Studies Department and History Club collaborated to sponsor a Zoom event on the history of abortion in America and how the overturning of Roe v. Wade was actually not historically accurate. The event was hosted......
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Chief Isaacson talks being proactive over reactive in safety seminar

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Reading Time: 3 minutesWILL KARR Editor in Chief University Police Chief Brent Isaacson is working to show that being an officer is about more than just responding to crimes — it’s about working to actively prevent them from happening in the first place.  On Wednesday, Feb. 22 at 2:30 p.m. in the Kelly......
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How SUNY Fredonia responded to the boil water order

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Reading Time: 6 minutesWILL KARR Editor in Chief  This past week, Fredonia residents and students turned off their faucets and heated up their stoves after a boil water advisory was issued by the village on the afternoon of Sunday, Feb. 26. The advisory called for individuals to start boiling all water used for......
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Upcoming lecture from Chautauqua Institution about cultural advancement

Chloe Kowalyk
Reading Time: < 1 minuteLooking to learn something new?  From 12–1 p.m. on Wednesday, March 1, two representatives from the Chautauqua Institution will be holding a lecture.  Titled, “From Chautauqua County to the World: Chautauqua Institution’s Past, Present and Future,” the lecture will be given by Jon Schmitz, Chautauqua Institution historian and archivist, and......
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