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An avenue for change: Expressing opinions through student press

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Reading Time: 2 minutesAMBER MATTICE Managing Editor   Student Press Freedom Day was on Jan. 30 and, since this issue of “The Leader” is out exactly one week later, I wanted to take this opportunity to express some opinions on freedom of the press as well as having the opportunity to work for......
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The scariest thing about 2018 is how dangerous it is to be a journalist

Contributor to The Leader
Reading Time: 4 minutesForty-five. Forty-five men and women committed to shedding a light into the world’s darkest corners have been killed this year. They were journalists who devoted themselves to assignments that they knew would put them in harm’s way. They were journalists who were murdered for uncovering controversial and extraordinary truths. This......
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Kaitlin Bennett sets a new low for independent “journalists”

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Reading Time: 3 minutesSETH MICHAEL MEYER Staff Columnist   Over our fall break, I had a chance to head back home to Erie, P.A., on the same day the president was also visiting Erie for a Congressional rally. With crowds gathering and helicopters buzzing I did what any sane man would do and......
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Fredonia taught me how to listen

Contributor to The Leader
Reading Time: 3 minutesVICTOR SCHMITT-BUSH Assistant News Editor   I’ll admit it. On Jan. 20, 2017, I was ecstatic. It was the day of Donald Trump’s inauguration. Few things in life could have satisfied me more than to see the devastated looks on the faces of every Hillary Clinton or Bernie Sanders supporter.......
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Why teacher pay is complicated and why education majors should stay here

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Reading Time: 3 minutesSETH MICHAEL MEYER Staff Writer   From West Virginia to Colorado, teachers have been striking across the country demanding more compensation for their work. Starting back in February, teachers in West Virginia staged a widespread strike that finally resulted in a pay raise of 5 percent. Similar events have since......
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Bernie Sanders’ proposed job guarantee warrants a lesson in economics

Contributor to The Leader
Reading Time: 4 minutesSETH MICHAEL MEYER Staff Writer   When fictional president from House of Cards, Frank Underwood, announced his plan to guarantee a job for every American, everything I knew about economics cringed, and it’s cringing now. Senator Bernie Sanders, an Independent from Vermont, made for a unique presidential candidate by being......
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The Buffalo Diocese could do so much more

Contributor to The Leader
Reading Time: 2 minutesDAN ORZECHOWSKI News Editor   Last week I wrote an article that connected a former chaplain of Fredonia’s Newman Center to sexual violence, and it was one of the toughest pieces I’ve had to write. I come from a small New England town, where Catholicism dominates the community. Growing up,......
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