The Towel Wars
Reading Time: 4 minutesI write to you expressing the never-ending difficulties of living with the opposite gender....
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Fredonia to replace department chairs and dean
Reading Time: 3 minutesFredonia will be getting rid of the “department chairs and deans” system and moving toward a new system created by the Academic Affairs Structural Realignment Working Group (AASRWG). In an email to Fredonia faculty and staff, President Stephen Kolison said campus feedback showed the strongest interest in two of the proposed models....
Sidewalk outside Science Center, Houghton Hall crumbling
Reading Time: < 1 minuteJasper Bateman DEI Chair Photo by IZZIE NOELLE| Photo Editor The walkway between Houghton Hall, the Science Center and McEwen Hall is crumbling and splitting apart into jagged edges, causing students to trip over it. “I personally have become victim of this multiple times,” said sophomore geology major Sam Post. Dr. Thomas Hegna, chair of the geology and environmental science department, stated that the walkway is made of Pennsylvania Bluestone. Pennsylvania Bluestone is a fine-grained sandstone, making it porous and less resistant to certain climate conditions. Specifically, Pennsylvania Bluestone is vulnerable to wet-to-dry and freezing-to-thawing cycles, which Western New York is known for. This causes the walkway and the stone to start breaking. ......
[SATIRE] An exclusive (non-) interview with SUNY chancellor
Reading Time: 2 minutesAs the leader of the SUNY system, King oversees 64 caampuses, hundreds of thousands of students and countless initiatives aimed at improving higher education across the state. He is a former U.S. Secretary of Education, a respected policymaker and a nationally recognized advocate for educational equity...
We need more squirrels on campus
Reading Time: 2 minutesTALON GRAVES Definitely Not A Hawk As a totally normal, incredibly average SUNY Fredonia student who definitely isn’t a red-tailed hawk perched ominously atop McEwen Hall, I am deeply concerned about the troubling decline of squirrel activity on campus. Let me be clear: this is not just about personal grievances,......
University Police launch new bike patrol initiative
Reading Time: 3 minutesDAN QUAGLIANA Managing Editor Prior to last week, there were only two ways you would see University Police (UP) officers around campus: walking or in a patrol car. Now, you’ll see them on bikes, as well. On April 23, SUNY Fredonia’s University Police Department debuted bicycle patrols, meaning students will......
From the Desk of Abbie Miller
Reading Time: 6 minutesABBIE MILLER Editor-in-Chief I am graduating. I’m graduating? Wow, I am graduating. I oscillate between these states of intense excitement, disbelief and nervousness almost every day now, but it’s finally starting to kick in. I will end my time at this school with final projects that will be the direct......
[OPINION] How has Fredonia changed?
Reading Time: 10 minutesABBIE MILLER Editor-in-Chief When I first stepped onto the grassy landscape of SUNY Fredonia, I didn’t really know what I would be in for. Both of my parents attended SUNY Fredonia when they were my age. But despite their tales of drunken nights out and spending hours completing assignments, I......
Construction projects continue despite multi-million dollar deficit
Reading Time: 2 minutesALEX BUCKNAM Asst. News Editor Fredonia is facing budget issues, causing the administration to cut majors and look at potential minors to cut. But why is there so much construction if Fredonia is facing such a big deficit? The simple answer to this is that the construction money doesn’t come......
Jasmine Johnson’s continued fight for student advocacy
Reading Time: 4 minutesMIA CIECHALSKI Special to The Leader Jasmine Johnson is a senior art history, drawing and painting major at Fredonia. That itself gives the public an insight into who she is, her life and what she has been up to recently in the face of the university program cuts. Johnson has......