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Conservative Corner: Excelsior Scholarship won’t take us higher

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Reading Time: 3 minutes      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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Reading Time: 3 minutes  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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Reading Time: 3 minutesDear 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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Reading Time: 2 minutes  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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Reading Time: 3 minutes  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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Reading Time: 2 minutes  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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Reading Time: 2 minutesCONNOR 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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Notes from the Women’s March on Washington

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Reading Time: 5 minutes  CAMRY DEAN Staff Writer   The day after Donald Trump was sworn in as the 45th President of the United States, millions of people came together. These people not only marched and protested his victory in Washington, D.C. but in solidarity all over the world. On Jan. 21, I......
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Editorial: Why we want a refund on 2016

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Reading Time: 2 minutesEditorial: Why we want a refund on 2016 The end of a year means many things: unrelenting holiday festivities, a panic to finish up work for the Fall semester, and year-in-review lists on every subject under the sun. Every year has its ups and downs, but The Leader’s editorial board......
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Conservative Corner: What Trump means for college students

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Reading Time: 3 minutesCONNOR HOFFMAN Managing Editor Come January of next year, Donald J. Trump will become the 45th President of the United States, and as president he will have much influence over issues that affect college students like loan availability and rates, government financing and debt forgiveness. Trump first announced his plans......
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