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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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Life & Arts

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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Petition to bring Black Lives Matter mural to Fredonia

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Reading Time: 3 minutesELLE 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

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Reading Time: 2 minutesALISA 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,......
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Opinion

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

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Reading Time: 3 minutesFollowing 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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