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Four years later: Election Day 2020

Contributor to The LeaderNovember 3, 2020November 3, 2020

November 3, 2020November 3, 2020

JAMES MEAD Managing Editor For many of us, today marks the beginning of a waiting game. We’ve voted. We’ve come out. We’ve said our piece. Now, we’ll watch 50 U.S. states tally their votes and declare their pick — Biden, or Trump? Four years ago, I turned 18 on Election......

Opinion

The questionable effectiveness of presidential debates

Contributor to The LeaderNovember 3, 2020November 3, 2020

November 3, 2020November 3, 2020

CASEY HUBER Special to The Leader Tens of millions of people watched the 2020 presidential debates. Why? What do the presidential debates actually do for anyone? Who is undecided a month before the election? Turns out, not that many people. An NBC News and Wall Street Journal poll shows 5......

Opinion

The naturalized American

Contributor to The LeaderNovember 2, 2020November 2, 2020

November 2, 2020November 2, 2020

JULES HOEPTING Design Editor I am an immigrant to America. You probably wouldn’t have guessed it by looking at my white skin and hearing my western New York State accent, but it’s true. I have always been officially Canadian, but I have been unofficially American for as long as I......

Opinion

How to know you’re voting responsibly

Contributor to The LeaderNovember 2, 2020November 2, 2020

November 2, 2020November 2, 2020

AMANDA SCHEIB Special to The Leader This election has proved itself to be monumentally influential, and will surely be one for the history books. People are lining up to vote in massive amounts unlike ever before. Our current president, Donald Trump, is on the side of the conservative Republican party, and our......

Opinion

College students will alarmingly be affected by this election

Contributor to The LeaderOctober 31, 2020October 31, 2020

October 31, 2020October 31, 2020

AMANDA SCHEIB Special to The Leader This is a crucial year to vote for all Americans, but especially college students. Pertaining to higher education and the predatory loan sharks that come along with college, Trump has not made this a focal point in his debates orpolicies during his campaign — even though there are somewhere......

Sports

Death threats don’t belong in sports

Contributor to The LeaderOctober 24, 2020October 24, 2020

October 24, 2020October 24, 2020

ANTHONY GETTINO Sports Editor Let me be clear: death threats don’t belong anywhere in society. But that hasn’t stopped them from becoming commonplace in our world of sports. During this season’s NBA Finals, Danny Green, a guard on the Los Angeles Lakers, missed an open shot from the top of......

Opinion

What’s pool testing really like?

Contributor to The LeaderOctober 13, 2020October 13, 2020

October 13, 2020October 13, 2020

SARAH 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......

Opinion

What it’s like to be a freshman in college during a global pandemic

Contributor to The LeaderSeptember 23, 2020September 23, 2020

September 23, 2020September 23, 2020

CHLOE KOWALYK Special to The Leader The outbreak of COVID-19 hit me just as hard as I’m sure it hit all of you. It was as if everything had fallen to the ground, shattering into pieces. Each piece was a memory that would not be made — our final musical,......

Opinion

[OPINION] “Positive”

Contributor to The LeaderSeptember 15, 2020September 15, 2020

September 15, 2020September 15, 2020

ALYSSA BUMPLife & Arts Editor “Positive” A one-word Snapchat. In my head I wondered, “Positive? What’s that even supposed to mean?” I would say that is a pretty inconsiderate way of telling someone that you have COVID-19, but maybe that’s just my personal opinion. I sit in my dorm room......

Opinion

How my education became a catch-22

Contributor to The LeaderSeptember 8, 2020September 8, 2020

September 8, 2020September 8, 2020

JAMES MEAD Managing Editor I want to be clear on this: I love SUNY Fredonia, and I believe in the SUNY system. But that’s why it pains me to say that I’ve lost faith in its leadership. Gov. Cuomo refers to colleges as “canaries in the coal mine,” saying that......

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Four years later: Election Day 2020

The questionable effectiveness of presidential debates

The naturalized American

How to know you’re voting responsibly

College students will alarmingly be affected by this election

Death threats don’t belong in sports

What’s pool testing really like?

What it’s like to be a freshman in college during a global pandemic

[OPINION] “Positive”

How my education became a catch-22