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How will the Office of Diversity, Equity and Inclusion attempt to better prevent and respond to sexual violence?

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Reading Time: 2 minutesCHLOE KOWALYK Staff Writer If you’ve been checking your email, you may have noticed an email from SUNY with the subject: “Take the Campus Climate Survey, receive a $100 gift card.”  No, this isn’t a scam from some sketchy website that just wants your mother’s maiden name and the three......
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SUNY Fredonia becomes host-site for COVID-19 vaccinations

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Reading Time: 2 minutesJAMES MEAD Managing Editor The COVID-19 vaccine is coming to SUNY Fredonia — for those who are eligible. On Tuesday, Feb. 24, Marketing and Communications sent a news release to its campus-community announcing that the university has been approved in connection with the Chautauqua County Department of Health to establish......
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Fredonia applies to become designated COVID-19 vaccination site

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Reading Time: 3 minutesTANNER TRUAXSpecial to The Leader COVID-19 has affected this nation for over a year now.  One full year of hardships for those who lost their livelihoods, heartaches for the families who lost loved ones and anxiety for many Americans wondering when this nightmare might end. In December, as the year......
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Fredonia makes changes to COVID protocols for Spring 2021

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Reading Time: 2 minutesALISA OPPENHEIMER  News Editor As students are beginning to settle back in, our campus community is still very much aware of the high chances that COVID may be able to take this semester away from us, as it has in the past.  While communication is often present from President Kolison......
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Fredonia music industry students find a new home in Thompson Hall renovation

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Reading Time: 3 minutesCHLOE KOWALYK Staff Writer SUNY Fredonia faculty members Stuart Shapiro, Armand Petri and Dr. Linda Hall have been busy during the extended winter break.  Students can expect to return to a brand new renovation in Thompson Hall.  A new music industry venue was built in W101, where a large, empty......
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New Student Association president plans to improve Fredonia for students

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Reading Time: 2 minutesALYSSA 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......
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New class spotlight: Writing for role-playing games

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Reading Time: 2 minutesLYDIA 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?

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Reading Time: 2 minutesTANNER 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

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Reading Time: 3 minutesANNA 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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