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New Student Association president plans to improve Fredonia for students

Contributor to The LeaderJanuary 20, 2021January 20, 2021

January 20, 2021January 20, 2021

ALYSSA BUMP Life & Arts Editor With the new year comes new changes at SUNY Fredonia. Israel Ortiz will be stepping up as the new president of the Student Association. The last president was Jillian Beard, who Ortiz said “was an excellent president and she accomplished many things throughout her......

Life & Arts

New class spotlight: Writing for role-playing games

Contributor to The LeaderDecember 11, 2020December 10, 2020

December 11, 2020December 10, 2020

LYDIA TURCIOS Special to The Leader It’s 2020, so chances are you’re familiar with role-playing games, more commonly known as RPGs. Why is this relevant? Fredonia’s English department is offering ENGL 299: Writing For RPGs in the spring of 2021. Professor Shawn Merwin, a Fredonia faculty member returning after 20......

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How will COVID affect SUNY Fredonia’s budget?

Contributor to The LeaderNovember 24, 2020November 23, 2020

November 24, 2020November 23, 2020

TANNER TRUAX Special to The Leader SUNY Fredonia continues to hemorrhage as COVID-19 stretches an already thin budget. How much of a hemorrhage? Nothing a bandage could cover. “We anticipate borrowing 1.2 million dollars at the end of this year,” said Mike Metzger, vice president for finance and administration. This......

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[Analysis] Fredonia on election night

Contributor to The LeaderNovember 12, 2020November 12, 2020

November 12, 2020November 12, 2020

ANNA GAGLIANO Copy Editor Surprisingly, election night was a quiet one on Fredona’s campus. It was chilly outside, so not many were out and about on a walk, save for two girls outside Mason Hall making a TikTok. Inside the Williams Center, groups gathered at the socially-distant round tables in......

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The early bird gets the window

Contributor to The LeaderNovember 5, 2020November 2, 2020

November 5, 2020November 2, 2020

HOPE WINTER Special to the Leader Hearing about an abundance of dead birds around Halloween time may sound like the plot of an Alfred Hitchcock movie, but in Fredonia you don’t have to turn on a screen to experience the scare. Students that walk to class along Three Man Hill......

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Petition to bring Black Lives Matter mural to Fredonia

Contributor to The LeaderOctober 28, 2020October 28, 2020

October 28, 2020October 28, 2020

ELLE NUNZIO Special to The Leader In this ever-changing political and social climate, the students of Fredonia’s Black Student Union are taking a stand. A petition was started in the group’s name that calls for a Black Lives Matter street mural to be added to Fredonia’s campus. This mural is very similar to......

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[Column] This Week in COVID

Contributor to The LeaderOctober 22, 2020October 22, 2020

October 22, 2020October 22, 2020

ALISA OPPENHEIMER News Editor As we reach the end of another week in Fredonia, in-person classes are still in session. With of course, restrictions, guidelines, precautions and new rules that go along with being a SUNY school in the middle of a pandemic. But compared to various other SUNY schools,......

Opinion

Letter to the Editor: “Ise Emden,” Fredonia’s mask-wearing man

Contributor to The LeaderOctober 19, 2020October 19, 2020

October 19, 2020October 19, 2020

Following the publication of the article, “Masked man menaces Fredonia residents after dark, students report,” The Leader received an email from the address “akitsunestranger@gmail.com” with the display name “Ise Emden.” The person claimed to be the masked man who had been seen scaring students at nighttime. To prove that the......

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Masked man menaces Fredonia residents after dark, students report

Contributor to The LeaderOctober 16, 2020October 16, 2020

October 16, 2020October 16, 2020

JESSICA MEDITZ Editor in Chief October is upon us and so are the antics. Within the past couple of weeks, there have been multiple reports of Fredonia students encountering a masked individual at nighttime. The individual is said to have stopped people in their tracks, interrupting their walks in the......

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[Column] This week in COVID

Contributor to The LeaderOctober 13, 2020October 13, 2020

October 13, 2020October 13, 2020

ALISA OPPENHEIMER News Editor With six weeks left until the end of our semester, hopes in Fredonia are high that we will finish strong without having to switch to fully remote learning. In the past two weeks, our campus has had great outcomes in results of the random pool testing. ......

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New Student Association president plans to improve Fredonia for students

New class spotlight: Writing for role-playing games

How will COVID affect SUNY Fredonia’s budget?

[Analysis] Fredonia on election night

The early bird gets the window

Petition to bring Black Lives Matter mural to Fredonia

[Column] This Week in COVID

Letter to the Editor: “Ise Emden,” Fredonia’s mask-wearing man

Masked man menaces Fredonia residents after dark, students report

[Column] This week in COVID