Campus News

Fredonia’s budget situation is ‘not the end of the Earth’

Contributor to The LeaderApril 11, 2018

April 11, 2018

DAN ORZECHOWSKI News Editor Since the early 2000s, Fredonia has been in a financial deficit. Throughout the years, this hasn’t been a huge problem, but now that reserve funds are dwindling, the issue is more of a concern. The future of the budget was discussed for much of a......

Life & Arts

Fredonia Art Forum demoted from ‘constituted’ to ‘chartered’

Contributor to The LeaderApril 11, 2018

April 11, 2018

QUINTIN JAMES Assistant Sports Editor Last Thursday, the Student Association (SA) held a general body meeting in room G-26 in McEwen Hall, where they voted on the status of Fredonia’s Art Forum and their program “In Site/On Site.” Fredonia Art Forum creates different programs, such as “In Sight/On Site,”......

News

Former chaplain of Fredonia’s Newman Center is linked to sexual misconduct

Contributor to The LeaderApril 4, 2018

April 4, 2018

DAN ORZECHOWSKI and SETH MICHAEL MEYER News Editor and Assistant News Editor A list of 42 priests who have been accused of sexual conduct with minors was released on March 20 by Bishop Richard J. Malone. On that list is the Rev. Edward J. Walker, who served as dean......

News

Get a closer look at the stars with Fredonia’s Observatory

Contributor to The LeaderApril 4, 2018

April 4, 2018

ALIX SMITH Special to The Leader “A long time ago in a galaxy far, far away . . . ” . . . Just kidding! Nevertheless, in this galaxy, the Fredonia Observatory will open its doors for a second time. A success in Spring 2017, Dr. Michael Dunham, assistant......

Life & Arts

Spring has sprung in Fredonia: Performing Arts Company presents “Spring Awakening”

Contributor to The LeaderApril 4, 2018

April 4, 2018

STEPHEN SACCO Special to the leader Easter has passed, and spring has arrived. It’s only fitting that the not-so-traditional Broadway hit musical “Spring Awakening” take Fredonia’s stage this month, put on by the Performing Arts Company (PAC). The musical touches on many raw, difficult topics. Dr. Jessica Hillman-McCord, from......

News

Fredonia’s creativity: now showing in 3D

Contributor to The LeaderApril 4, 2018

April 4, 2018

JOSH RANNEY Special to The Leader As the opening of the television series “The Twilight Zone” goes, “This is the dimension of imagination.” While Reed Library is not taking us into the Twilight Zone, Fredonia students and community members now get to create and experiment with another dimension —......

Scallion

Police Notter

Contributor to The LeaderApril 4, 2018

April 4, 2018

EMMA PATTERSON Editor of The Scallion Monday, March 26, 2018 1:25 p.m. Jimmy John, 19, was detained by University Police after complaints of him shouting multiple unpopular opinions spread across campus. He was last heard yelling, “‘Cars 2’ rocked my world, and here’s why” as UP took him away.......

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Documentary brings mental health problems in prisons to light

Contributor to The LeaderApril 2, 2018

April 2, 2018

STEPHEN SACCO Special to The Leader SUNY Fredonia’s Department of Psychology expanded the scope of America’s prison system. In correlation with the incarcerated and their mentality, the department held a panel discussion and a film screening of The New Asylums documentary on Wednesday, March 7, 2018. The purpose of......

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Fredonia Central School district debates over school resource officer

Contributor to The LeaderApril 2, 2018

April 2, 2018

Molly VandenBerg Staff Writer There has been ongoing controversy recently involving the absence of a school resource officer at the Fredonia Central School District. An SRO is a law enforcement officer who is sent by a police department or agency to work in collaboration with one or more schools.......

Opinion

From the desk of Lauren Finke, Business Manager

Contributor to The LeaderMarch 28, 2018August 15, 2019

March 28, 2018August 15, 2019

Lauren Finke Business Manager As a freshman at Fredonia, I knew I wanted to be involved in an a capella group. I helped to start one at my high school, and it was something I wanted to continue to be a part of in my college years. I first......

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Fredonia’s budget situation is ‘not the end of the Earth’

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Spring has sprung in Fredonia: Performing Arts Company presents “Spring Awakening”

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Documentary brings mental health problems in prisons to light

Fredonia Central School district debates over school resource officer

From the desk of Lauren Finke, Business Manager