Campus News

College junior truly, deeply saddened over bomb threat

Contributor to The LeaderOctober 25, 2017

October 25, 2017

EMMA PATTERSON Assistant Scallion Editor The Fredonia campus was thoroughly shaken this past Tuesday when a bomb threat resulted in class cancellations in Thompson Hall. The Scallion met up with Pete Yew, a junior, for more details about the harrowing situation. “Well, this is an interesting turn of events,”......

Opinion

From the Desk of Ben Anderson, Copy Editor

Contributor to The LeaderOctober 25, 2017August 16, 2019

October 25, 2017August 16, 2019

The fortunate future of Fredonia Philosophy: An introspective Implemented in the Spring of the past academic year, the Right Serving, Right Sizing plan encouraged academic department heads to review their own curriculums in an overall attempt to increase enrollment for future classes. The plan also set out to add......

Life & Arts

Harvey Breverman: A decade of drawing

Contributor to The LeaderOctober 25, 2017

October 25, 2017

[metaslider id=10221] ELYSE GRIECO Special to the Leader University at Buffalo’s own Professor Emeritus Harvey Breverman has brought a decade’s worth of art to the SUNY Fredonia campus this month. Breverman’s collection, “A Decade of Drawing 2005-2015 (Idiosyncratic Amalgams and Disparate Composites)” consists of forty-six portraits of writers,......

News

Gerald Gray: A legacy of fighting mediocrity

Contributor to The LeaderOctober 25, 2017August 15, 2019

October 25, 2017August 15, 2019

SETH MICHAEL MEYER Assistant News Editor On Oct. 15, Fredonia lost a great mentor, a loving husband and brilliant musician. Gerald Thomas Gray, associate professor at Fredonia’s College of Music, died after a valiant fight against pancreatic cancer at the age of 51. An email from Melvin Unger, the......

News

Epistolary sleuthing: A new look into the disputed letters of Robert Frost

Contributor to The LeaderOctober 25, 2017

October 25, 2017

VICTOR SCHMITT-BUSH Staff Writer There are very few, if any, Pulitzer Prize winning American poets with a standing reputation laden with as much controversy as Robert Frost. As a poet of “countrified wisdom” and “yankee stoicism” as expressed by Fredonia English professor Natalie Gerber, little is known of Frost’s......

Life & Arts

‘Take Back the Night’ offers safe space for victims of sexual violence

Contributor to The LeaderOctober 25, 2017

October 25, 2017

MOLLY VANDENBERG Staff Writer Fredonia Feminists hosted their annual “Take Back the Night” on Oct. 18 in McEwen Hall. This is arguably one of Fred Fem’s most anticipated events of the year, where survivors of sexual assault and violence are given a place to share their stories. With only......

News

Communication department remembers long-time colleague

Contributor to The LeaderOctober 24, 2017

October 24, 2017

ANGELINA DOHRE Photo Editor This past Thursday, a public memorial service was held for long-time communication professor Ann Carden, who died on May 4 of this year, following a lengthy battle with cancer. It was sponsored by Fredonia’s communication department, with the help of Department Chair Mark Kiyak and......

Scallion

Police Notter

Contributor to The LeaderOctober 19, 2017

October 19, 2017

BRANDON SAFE Copy Editor Monday, Oct. 9, 2017 6:42 p.m. University Police were informed by members in every cafe that a student had, at different points, excreted solid waste on the floor without being seen. UP detective realized the student had been eating at Cranston, so they followed Phantom......

Sports

Fredonia volleyball drops both games in “Fredonia Tri-Match,” ends five-game win streak

Contributor to The LeaderOctober 19, 2017

October 19, 2017

QUINTIN JAMES Staff Writer Coming into the weekend, the Fredonia volleyball team was on a high after winning their fifth straight game against Houghton College. They were coming home to face off against Bethany College and St. John Fisher College in the Fredonia Tri-Match. The key to the winning......

Sports

A tough weekend for Fredonia women’s soccer

Contributor to The LeaderOctober 19, 2017

October 19, 2017

AIDAN POLLARD Special to the Leader On Oct. 13, the Fredonia women’s soccer team competed against SUNY Potsdam in a match that Potsdam won 3-2. Fredonia was outshot 29 to 18, with 11 shots on goal for Potsdam and seven for Fredonia. Fredonia had four corner kicks as opposed......

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