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How will COVID affect SUNY Fredonia’s budget?

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Reading Time: 2 minutesTANNER TRUAX Special to The Leader  SUNY Fredonia continues to hemorrhage as COVID-19 stretches an already thin budget.  How much of a hemorrhage?  Nothing a bandage could cover. “We anticipate borrowing 1.2 million dollars at the end of this year,” said Mike Metzger, vice president for finance and administration. This......
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[Column] This semester in COVID

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Reading Time: 3 minutesALISA OPPENHEIMER  News Editor To say we’ve made it through this semester gracefully would be a false statement.  COVID-19 made its presence known on our campus, but we’ve managed to stick it out.  As we head into our final week of in-person classes, looking back on how we got here......
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[Column] This week in COVID

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Reading Time: 2 minutesALISA OPPENHEIMER  News Editor  This week in COVID, we have had a recent increase in our total number of positive cases.  According to Fredonia’s COVID-19 Dashboard, from Monday, Oct. 26, to Friday, Oct. 30, there were a total of 1,345 campus-administered tests.  Out of those tests, there were 11 positive......
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[Column] This Week in COVID

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Reading Time: 2 minutesALISA OPPENHEIMER  News Editor  As we reach the end of another week in Fredonia, in-person classes are still in session.  With of course, restrictions, guidelines, precautions and new rules that go along with being a SUNY school in the middle of a pandemic.   But compared to various other SUNY schools,......
Opinion

What’s pool testing really like?

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Reading Time: 3 minutesSARAH HUGHSTON Social Media Manager On Tuesday, Sept. 22 I got the dreaded email; I was selected for pool testing. The email was fairly straightforward: watch an informational video, sign up through the SUNY COVID Test website and show up on time. While anxiety played out every bad scenario in......
Sports

How Fredonia Athletes react to UB pausing sports

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Reading Time: 2 minutesTYLER PACOS Special to The Leader An article released on Tuesday, Sept. 29, by the Buffalo News said that the University at Buffalo, which is home to NCAA Division I sports, have paused their football, volleyball and women’s soccer programs due to 25 student athletes testing positive for COVID-19. Most......

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