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Sexual assault is #NotOkay: Social media campaign confronts ‘locker room talk’

Contributor to The Leader
  ZOE KIRIAZIS Special to The Leader Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump claimed during the second presidential debate that the 2005 leaked audio of him talking about what he has done to women was nothing more than “locker room talk.” People responded heavily on Twitter when New York Times best-selling......
Life & Arts

The Pop Culture Lover’s Guide to the Election

Contributor to The Leader
  MIRANDA OLSON and AMBER MATTICE Special to The Leader and Reverb Editor Art and politics are obviously two different fields, but they both create engagement that influences relationships, shifts boundaries and creates new ideas. With the election coming up, it’s interesting to think about how much art and politics......
Sports

Athletics program seeks larger Blue Devil presence

Connor Hoffman Managing Editor The Fredonia Athletics Program and budget are looking to face some changes this year. Promoting the Blue Devil brand is one of the goals of Cedric Howard, the new vice president for Student Affairs. Howard said that the Fredonia campus can have a bigger Blue Devils......
News

Bridging the language gap: Fredonia hosts 30 Mexican exchange students

      CAMRY DEAN Staff Writer This Monday, 30 undergraduate students from Mexico were welcomed to Fredonia’s campus to begin their four-week English as a Second Language program. The students are a part of a month-long government initiative program, Proyecta 100,000, which is a Mexican agency for International Cooperation......
Opinion

Editorial: ‘Locker room talk’ is more than just Trump’s problem

Contributor to The Leader
Editorial: ‘Locker room talk’ is more than just Trump’s problem   Most people at least know of the things that Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump has said recently regarding rape accusations made against him. Of course, he brushed them off as simple “he said, she said” situations and claimed that......
Opinion

Campus View: It’s time to have conversations about racism

Contributor to The Leader
SHENECA SHARPE Staff Writer   As someone who has been living in Fredonia for a year and half, a lot of my opinions have changed about what I naively thought about the town. I thought it was a simple town that didn’t have any discriminatory feelings or ideas about people......
News

Clown craze causes chaos across campus: Kels the Klown speaks

COLIN PERRY and CONNOR HOFFMAN Editor in Chief and Managing Editor Kelsey Martinez says that she’s always been terrified of clowns. According to her, the media and film industry instill a negative image of them on people when they’re most impressionable. “I never really had any encounters with clowns. I......
News

Enrollment Crunch: New report shows increased diversity on campus

  CONNOR HOFFMAN Managing Editor Although the recently released Student Affairs report shows that enrollment is down, as reported by The Leader last week, it also shows that Fredonia’s campus has become more diverse. Corey Bezek, the director of admissions and also an alumnus, explained how the campus used to......

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