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Documentary brings mental health problems in prisons to light

Reading Time: 2 minutesSTEPHEN 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

Reading Time: 2 minutesMolly 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.......
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Christopher Robbins brings inspiration, activism to the Visiting Artist Program

Reading Time: 3 minutesBETHANY 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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Fredonia science professor selected to governor’s water protection committee

Reading Time: 3 minutesCOLIN HART Special to The Leader Dr. Courtney Wigdahl-Perry, a biology professor at SUNY Fredonia, has been selected for Governor Andrew Cuomo’s steering committee for combating harmful algal blooms (HABs) in several lakes throughout New York state. Alongside a panel of nationwide experts, Wigdahl-Perry is scheduled to attend a summit......
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Fredonia professor receives international recognition

Reading Time: 3 minutes  VICTOR SCHMITT-BUSH Assistant News Editor     The issue of plastic pollution is starting to be taken seriously, and it’s partly thanks to Sherri Mason, the chair of Fredonia’s Geology and Environmental Sciences department. As an affiliate of Orb Media, the non-profit activist organization against plastic pollution, Mason was......
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Cutting the ribbon KM3 Studios and Fredonia Video Game Development Club open their alphas to public

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Reading Time: 3 minutesDAN ORZECHOWSKI News Editor     Just in its second semester, Fredonia’s Video Game Development Club has gathered a following that some clubs spend years building. Last Wednesday, the club and Kermit Mitchell III (the club’s founder and president) presented an alpha video game testing, open to the public. Two......

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