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The Leader

Culture

News

Clown craze causes chaos across campus: Kels the Klown speaks

Contributor to The Leader
Reading Time: 4 minutesCOLIN 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......
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News

Enrollment Crunch: New report shows increased diversity on campus

Contributor to The Leader
Reading Time: 3 minutes  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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News

Black Student Union hosts candlelight vigil: Students commemorate black lives lost to police brutality

Contributor to The Leader
Reading Time: 4 minutesJAMES LILLIN Staff Writer Fredonia’s Black Student Union hosted a candlelight vigil on Sept. 28 to remember and celebrate the lives lost to police brutality, as well as to push for change on both a campus and a national level. Attendees were asked to wear all-black in solidarity with the......
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Opinion

Campus View: Go visit Iceland

Contributor to The Leader
Reading Time: 4 minutesCAMRY DEAN Staff Writer For the past two summers, I’ve been able to say that I’ve been in two places at one time. Literally. Last June, I traveled to England with Fredonia’s Literary London program. We visited the Royal Observatory in Greenwich, London, and I made it a goal to......
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Life & Arts

If you quit, you can’t

Contributor to The Leader
Reading Time: 3 minutes  LERON WELLINGTON Staff Writer Fame and accolades are pretty great, but the person behind them is usually the most interesting part. That is definitely the case with Rita Moreno, who delivered the annual Convocation Address last Wednesday. Her presentation, titled “If You Quit, You Can’t,” showed us the sharp......
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News

Hispanic Heritage Month returns with a new focus on immigration

Contributor to The Leader
Reading Time: 3 minutesJAMES LILLIN Staff Writer Each year from Sept. 15 to Oct. 15, Fredonia’s Latinos Unidos (LU) has brought a litany of events to the campus for Hispanic Heritage Month, celebrating the achievements and contributions of Hispanic and Latino Americans, while fostering an increased awareness and appreciation for their histories and......
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News

Pulitzer Prize winner hosts talk on slavery and early U.S. republic

Contributor to The Leader
Reading Time: 3 minutes  ANGELINA DOHRE Special to The Leader   Two-time Pulitzer Prize-winning author Alan Taylor hosted a talk at the Williams Center on Sept. 20. Taylor is the Thomas Jefferson Foundation chair at the University of Virginia’s Corcoran Department of History, and is an expert on the history of colonial America......
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Dakota Access Pipeline awareness comes to campus

Contributor to The Leader
Reading Time: 3 minutesZOE KIRIAZIS Special to the Leader   According to Rory Wheeler, creating an oil pipeline does more damage than any good it can produce. Tribes and nations should not have to fight for something that is rightfully theirs. Last Friday, the 19-year-old Seneca Reservation resident and recent recipient of the......
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