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Campus View: It’s time to have conversations about racism

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SHENECA SHARPE Staff Writer   As someone who has been living in Fredonia for a year and half, a lot of my opinions have changed about what I naively thought about the town. I thought it was a simple town that didn’t have any discriminatory feelings or ideas about people......
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Editorial: Register to vote or face the results

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After months of campaigning, it’s hard to believe that there’s only a little more than one month until the 2016 presidential election is behind us. This cycle has seen students across the country become some of the most outspoken participants in the American political process, but making phone calls and......
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Conservative Corner: Trump’s night of royal screw-ups

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      CONNOR HOFFMAN Managing Editor The first presidential debate was held on Sept. 26, and Donald Trump was a complete and utter trainwreck the entire night. Honestly, there were so many instances that he could have come up with better replies to questions or retorts to Hillary Clinton’s......
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Editorial: The headphone jack is dead, long live the headphone jack

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Even though it feels like you bought your new phone yesterday, surprise, surprise — the iPhone 7 is being rolled out, and the reaction to the latest iteration of the world’s best-selling smartphone has been mixed at best, for good reason. While there are numerous positives and negatives involved with......
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Conservative Corner: The death of transparency  

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CONNOR HOFFMAN News Editor   Politicians have never been the most transparent people out there, but oh boy, do the two candidates we have running now seriously lack any kind of transparency. Hillary Clinton had the nerve to tell people that “I’m the most transparent public official in modern times”......
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Guest Op-Ed: It’s not okay

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PRESIDENT VIRGINIA HORVATH Special to The Leader Last weekend, I was alerted to several threads on social media about destruction of property in a yard on Temple Avenue. Most troubling to me, as threads continued to describe other acts of vandalism and disrespect, was a statement from a community member......
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Editorial: Outcome in Turner case points toward deeper and systemic problems

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After serving only three months in county jail, half of what he was originally sentenced, convicted sex offender and former Stanford University student Brock Turner went home early on Sept. 2. His release has sparked national outrage once more, as his already-lenient sentence was cut short. Since his release, droves......
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NFL quarterback Kaepernick has every right to sit

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San Francisco 49ers quarterback Colin Kaepernick is the only backup QB in the league that can’t get out of the spotlight. Given all of the wrong reasons that NFL players have been in the spotlight for in the past few seasons — dog fighting, murder, domestic violence, drug abuse —......
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Election 2016: Jill Stein is no Bernie Sanders

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JAMES LILLIN Staff Writer Currently averaging a 3.6 percent on the RealClearPolitics aggregate of major national polls, Jill Stein is helping the Green Party reach new heights of popularity and recognition, considering it hasn’t broken .4 percent of the final electoral vote since Ralph Nader ran in 2000. Stein has......
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