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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......

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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 —......

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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......

Sports

How we became the Fredonia Blue Devils

Contributor to The LeaderMarch 28, 2018

March 28, 2018

MOLLY VANDENBERG Staff Writer Fredonia’s athletic department is referred to as the Fredonia Blue Devils, but how did this nickname actually come to be? A lot of this information came to light during the school’s 175th anniversary celebration back in 2001. Joanne Schweik, a past archivist at the Reed......

Life & Arts

Christopher Robbins brings inspiration, activism to the Visiting Artist Program

Contributor to The LeaderMarch 28, 2018

March 28, 2018

BETHANY CLANCY Staff Writer This week’s Visiting Artist Program featured Christopher Robbins, one of the founders of Ghana ThinkTank. Robbins is an unusual artist. Instead of producing art in the form of paintings, drawings and ceramics, Robbins uses the ideas from the results of the ThinkTank and produces......

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UMBC wins big, makes history in the process

Contributor to The LeaderMarch 28, 2018August 25, 2019

March 28, 2018August 25, 2019

AVRIL KING Social Media Manager and Assistant Sports Editor In a surprise twist last week, the University of Maryland Baltimore County (UMBC) dominated over University of Virginia 74-54 in the first round of the NCAA tournament. A number 16 seed has not beaten a number 1 seed since 1985,......

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Alumna sheds light on life in film and theatre

Contributor to The LeaderMarch 28, 2018

March 28, 2018

STEPHEN SACCO Special to the Leader Sarah T. Schwab, a writer who collaborated with Karen Allen and others who are critically acclaimed, paid SUNY Fredonia a nostalgic visit. Writers @ Work, a collective of the English department, hosted the events with Schwab and Long from March 22-23. The......

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

Fredonia’s creativity: now showing in 3D

Police Notter

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

How we became the Fredonia Blue Devils

Christopher Robbins brings inspiration, activism to the Visiting Artist Program

UMBC wins big, makes history in the process

Alumna sheds light on life in film and theatre