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The Rolling Stones have something to teach these overpaid congressmen

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Reading Time: 2 minutesSETH MICHAEL MEYER Assistant News Editor   You read it right: The Stones are just as suited to give our politicians advice as any other pragmatic strategist. The advice is, “You can’t always get what you want,” from their song that carries the same name. Last Monday, we saw the......
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What we can learn from the ‘abusers list’

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Reading Time: 6 minutesJAMES LILLIN Staff Writer It’s March 10, 2016, my 21st birthday and my first time going downtown. It’s a clear, warm night, with the promise of spring budding from the newly defrosted grass around the town fountain. My friends and I are laughing, sharing jokes and stories as we walk......
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Editorial: Almost one year of Trump is the scariest thing about Halloween this year

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Reading Time: 2 minutesTrump is the worst. We’ve said it time and time again. We’ve complained. We’ve yelled. We’ve shed actual human tears. And here we are a year later. The terrible Dorito man has almost been in office for an entire year and he hasn’t gotten any better. He cannot act like......
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Editorial: We need to care about what happens to other people

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Reading Time: 3 minutesTHE EDITORIAL BOARD By now the recent shooting in Las Vegas is old news. This does not mean, however, that it shouldn’t continue to be talked about. As a society based so heavily in social media, we have a tendency to rage about things when they initially occur and then,......
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The Catalan crisis: Referendum may be disaster for European economy

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Reading Time: 2 minutesSETH MICHAEL MEYER Staff Writer   The climate is revolutionary for the Spanish region of Catalonia as just last month almost 2 million Catalans voted to completely secede from Spain. The wealthy part of the Iberian Peninsula has had partial autonomy since 1977 when Spain became a democratic nation, and......
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The North Korean crisis: a Machiavellian perspective

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Reading Time: 2 minutesSETH MICHAEL MEYER Special to The Leader Let’s be real — the hopes of a peaceful resolution to the North Korean crisis are long dead and now the world faces a harsh reality. North Korea’s claims of possessing long-range ICBM technology combined with their more frequent missile launches have put......
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Protests take center stage in Week 3: League comes together in act of unity

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Reading Time: 3 minutesCURTIS HENRY Sports Editor   The national anthem protests in the National Football League that have taken place over the past 12+ months have never been about the forty-fifth president of the United States. The protests, ignited by former 49ers quarterback Colin Kaepernick, have always been about the lack of......
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College students were no-shows at the voting booths

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Reading Time: 2 minutesSETH MICHAEL MEYER Special to The Leader In a recent report, Fredonia’s voting percentages for the 2016 presidential election have been marked as below average compared to other SUNY college institutions. In the Nation Study of Learning, Voting, and Engagement conducted by Tufts University, Fredonia’s voting percentage was measured at......
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An apology to DREAMers

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Reading Time: 4 minutesDAN ORZECHOWSKI News Editor   New York is one of several states that have passed the DREAM Act, granting undocumented students the same in-state tuition as their peers. The bill has been introduced to the federal level several times but has failed to pass each time. According to senior attorney......
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