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Immigration executive order sends shockwaves through SUNY

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Reading Time: 4 minutes[metaslider id=8235]   CAMRY DEAN Staff Writer   On Dec. 7, 2015, then-presidential candidate Donald Trump called for the U.S. to bar all Muslims from entering the country. “Donald J. Trump is calling for a total and complete shutdown of Muslims entering the United States until our country’s representatives can......
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Chamberlain receives Lanford Prize

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Reading Time: 2 minutes  DAN ORZECHOWSKI Staff Writer   Each year the Lanford Prize is given to a member of the graduating class who has displayed all-around achievement while representing Fredonia’s values. Sarah Rose Chamberlain has been named this year’s recipient of the prize from the Oscar and Esther Lanford Endowment of the......
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Gordon, Eklum and Hartling Nominated for Chancellor’s Award

Reading Time: 3 minutes  JAMES LILLIN Staff Writer The Chancellor’s Award for Student Excellence is one of the highest academic honors that can be received by a student attending a SUNY institution. This year, Fredonia has nominated three students to receive the award: senior biology major Zachary Eklum, senior public relations and Spanish......
Sports

The Good, the Bad, and the Cully: The improbable way John Cullen found his way to Fredonia

Reading Time: 8 minutes[metaslider id=8181] CURTIS HENRY Sports Editor “Yeah, the [NHL] lockout really couldn’t have f***ed me any worse.” Blunt and explicit. Those are the only ways that John Cullen knows how to go about things. These are exactly the words that he used to describe the 2012 NHL lockout that essentially......
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Why it pays to play: Graduation rates for athletes higher than non-athletes

Reading Time: 2 minutesAVRIL KING Social Media Asst. Clearer skin, improved mood, weight maintenance: these are just a few of the benefits that come from regular exercise through a sport. And now, according to research conducted by Fredonia’s Office of Institutional Research and Planning, athletes are more likely to graduate. These studies (which......
Life & Arts

Reed Library displays Women’s March on Washington

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Reading Time: 3 minutesZOE KIRIAZIS Staff Writer The Women’s March on Washington, held as a protest the day after President Donald Trump’s inauguration, was the largest single-day demonstration in U.S. history — and many Fredonians who attended are now sharing their stories through a new display in Reed Library. Dawn Eckenrode, director of......
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M.A.G.S, northernstate make for a memorable night

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Reading Time: 3 minutes[metaslider id=8161] BETHANY CLANCY Staff Writer Another successful Wednesday night show at BJ’s happened on Feb. 1. Despite the frigid temperature and blowing snow, the room was packed right as the clock struck 10 p.m. As an unofficial dress code for the night, almost everyone had Hawaiian shirts on and......
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Art in the Trump Era: Artists across media are ‘questioning the status quo’

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Reading Time: 3 minutes  KRIS HARRIS and LERON WELLINGTON Staff Writers “Take your broken heart. Make it into art.” As a closing for her Golden Globe acceptance speech, Meryl Streep referenced her late friend Carrie Fisher to express the importance of the arts and diversity. In times of political turbulence, the film industry......
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Fredonia marches for women’s rights

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Reading Time: 3 minutes[metaslider id=8122] DAN ORZECHOWSKI Staff Writer A crowd speckled with pink huddled in front of Mason Hall the day after President Donald Trump was sworn in. These people were protesters. Participants bearing signs and flags marched as one throughout Fredonia’s campus. While chanting “women’s rights are human rights,” the parade......

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