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Biden wins the battle for the presidency

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Reading Time: 2 minutesCASEY HUBER Special to The Leader  Healing. Getting the virus under control to start the economy. Equality between all races. No more blue and red. One America. These are some of the talking points Joe Biden hit in his acceptance speech Saturday evening. Hopeful of unity, Biden continues to push......
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The questionable effectiveness of presidential debates

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Reading Time: 2 minutesCASEY 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......
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How to know you’re voting responsibly

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Reading Time: 3 minutesAMANDA 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......
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College students will alarmingly be affected by this election

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Reading Time: 4 minutesAMANDA 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

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Reading Time: 2 minutesANTHONY 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?

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

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Reading Time: 3 minutesCHLOE 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”

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Reading Time: 4 minutesALYSSA 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......

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