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Nonviolence Isn’t Always Easy, But We Should Practice It Anyway

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James Lillin STAFF WRITER   The grotesque violence in Charlottesville, Virginia, has cast a shadow over the lives of many Americans, as a White Supremacist protester drove his car into a crowd of anti-racist protestors, murdering 32-year-old Helen Heyer and injuring at least 19 others. Many argue that the heavily-armed,......
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Conservative Corner: Excelsior Scholarship won’t take us higher

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      CONNOR HOFFMAN Managing Editor   Recently, the New York state budget for the upcoming budget passed. One of the most controversial additions to the budget bill was a program called the Excelsior Scholarship. This idea was horribly thought-out and reeks of “Cuomo 2020.” The scholarship will cover......
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Conservative Corner: Nunes must go

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  CONNOR HOFFMAN Managing Editor   Rep. Devin Nunes, the chairman for the House Intelligence Committee, must step down from his role as chairman, and we must have an independent investigation of the Trump campaign and possibly Nunes himself. Nunes was supposed to be investigating the Trump campaign for collusion......
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Letter From the Editor: We need to talk about plagiarism.

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Dear Readers, As reported elsewhere in the pages of this issue, the office of Student Affairs sent out an email announcing the University was officially changing the name of “Dead Week,” the period before finals in which no campus events are to be held, to “Study Weeks.” Almost immediately, it......
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Editorial: Trump’s Twisted Truth

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  Last week, Congress held its first hearing on its investigation into Russia’s involvement in the 2016 election and President Donald Trump’s claim that former President Barack Obama wiretapped Trump Tower. With FBI Director James Comey’s testimony, we finally had hard, concrete evidence that Trump’s wiretap tweet was not true......
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Conservative Corner: Russia is our enemy, not our friend

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  CONNOR HOFFMAN Managing Editor   The year is 1983, and President Ronald Reagan had just given his famous Evil Empire speech to a gathering of the National Evangelicals in Orlando, Florida. “So, in your discussions of the nuclear freeze proposals, I urge you to beware the temptation of pride......
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Op-Ed: In a time of peril, SUNY must stand up

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  ZACH BEAUDOIN Special to The Leader   Following the election, many student leaders started petitions calling on their campus administrators and SUNY to make their campuses “sanctuary campuses,” offering protections to undocumented students or employees or others who may be facing deportation. They explained what it meant to be......
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Conservative Corner: Trump the Violator

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CONNOR HOFFMAN Managing Editor President Donald Trump promised on the campaign trail that he would enact a ban on Muslims entering the U.S., and with a recent executive order he has made that promise a reality. Some will claim that this isn’t a “Muslim ban” but don’t be fooled—this order......
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