Campus News

Fredonia Radio Systems found guilty of violating statute

Contributor to The LeaderNovember 29, 2017August 16, 2019

November 29, 2017August 16, 2019

SETH MICHAEL MEYER Assistant News Editor Fredonia Radio Systems (FRS) was found guilty of violating Statute O-6 Article II of the Student Association in a court case on Nov. 13. The statute violated regards to membership requirements of a club, specifically stating that “membership for Constituted groups shall be open......

Sports

Fredonia football: Most popular sport in America unlikely to come to campus anytime soon

Contributor to The LeaderNovember 29, 2017August 17, 2019

November 29, 2017August 17, 2019

ANDREW RICHARDSON Special to The Leader Football is the country’s most popular sport. Though Fredonia has never fielded a team of its own, the campus did host the Buffalo Bills’ summer training camp in the 1980s and ‘90s. The idea of a football team on campus is appealing to......

Opinion

From the Desk of Marissa Doing, Art Director

Contributor to The LeaderNovember 15, 2017August 16, 2019

November 15, 2017August 16, 2019

Ever since my freshman year of college, one of my biggest goals was to study abroad at least once during my time here at Fredonia. Later on, I heard about the Arts of Italy trip through friends that previously went and through professor Peter Tucker. I became more and more......

Life & Arts

Sam Smith thrills us all once again: Smith’s second album tops the charts

Contributor to The LeaderNovember 15, 2017August 15, 2019

November 15, 2017August 15, 2019

TEISHA MCELFRESH Special to the Leader Sam Smith is possibly one of the youngest old souls that we have in pop music today. According to Biography.com, he is a four-time Grammy winner and has also won an Academy Award. Between his romantically desperate crooning ballads and his impossibly high......

Life & Arts

Visiting Artist’s Lecture: Emily Mae Smith

Contributor to The LeaderNovember 15, 2017

November 15, 2017

MOLLY VANDENBERG Staff Writer Emily Mae Smith spoke to Visual Arts and New Media students at the Visiting Artists Lecture on Nov. 9 in McEwen Hall. Influenced by Art Nouveau and 1960s pop art, her work consists of surreal oil paintings that touch upon the themes of gender, sexuality,......

Life & Arts

Dynamic Intonation set to perform Fall show

Contributor to The LeaderNovember 15, 2017August 15, 2019

November 15, 2017August 15, 2019

BETHANY CLANCY Staff Writer On Nov. 15, Fredonia’s newest and only jazz a capella group, Dynamic Intonation, will be having their Fall show in Mason Hall. The group is accepting of all genders and was started in 2012. According to Nicole Moy, a senior applied music major with a......

Life & Arts

The search for true love, money: Random Acts presents first cabaret night

Contributor to The LeaderNovember 15, 2017August 17, 2019

November 15, 2017August 17, 2019

ELYSE GRIECO Special to The Leader Fredonia’s Random Acts held their first-ever character cabaret on Nov. 10. Random Acts is an improvisation comedy group on campus that never fails to make their audience laugh. The group has been on campus for quite some time, but they have never held......

Life & Arts

The spirit of Shakespeare pays Fredonia a visit: ‘Much Ado About Nothing’ comes to Barlett Theatre

Contributor to The LeaderNovember 15, 2017

November 15, 2017

BAILEY KUZMA Special to The Leader Starting Nov. 30 and continuing from Dec. 1 through Dec. 3, Fredonia will be putting on Shakespeare’s “Much Ado About Nothing” in the Bartlett Theatre in the Rockefeller Arts Center. “The major themes are: love, [a] couple who have it, lose it [and]......

News

Philosophical debate brings back age-old question: Is abortion morally acceptable?

Contributor to The LeaderNovember 15, 2017

November 15, 2017

SETH MICHAEL MEYER Assistant News Editor On Nov. 7, Fredonia hosted a debate that discussed the morality of abortion. Dr. John Keller, associate professor at Niagara University, argued that abortion is immoral while Fredonia’s own Dr. Stephen Kershnar, chair of the philosophy department, argued that abortion is moral. A......

News

Aitcheson and Apthorpe elected to SA presidency and vice-presidency

Contributor to The LeaderNovember 15, 2017

November 15, 2017

JAMES LILLIN Staff Writer After about 700 votes were tallied during last week’s Student Association elections, junior Spanish adolescence education major Connor Aitcheson and junior public relations major Hannah Apthorpe were elected to the SA Presidency and Vice-Presidency, respectively. “Students have this perception that the students that serve on......

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Aitcheson and Apthorpe elected to SA presidency and vice-presidency