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Welcome to Hendrix: A firsthand account of quarantine at SUNY Fredonia

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Reading Time: 8 minutesJAMES MEAD Managing Editor Lauren Jenkins is a first-year student at SUNY Fredonia. Coming to Fredonia from out-of-state, she was excited to get out of her house and experience college. Yet four weeks later, she had to be quarantined. She followed all of the safety guidelines — masks on campus,......
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[EMAIL REPOST] Summer Memo #2

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Reading Time: 2 minutesDear Campus Community: We are busy planning for the fall 2020 semester, along with working on the “Dialogues on Diversity” series.  Below are three important information items: Revised Commencement 2020 Video.  More than 100 additional photos were submitted by 2020 graduates, which means more than half of the 2020 seniors......
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SUNY Fredonia responds to scholarship reduction rumors

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Reading Time: 2 minutesJAMES MEAD Web Editor If you’ve been following Fredonia’s response to COVID-19, you’ve likely heard rumors about how budget cuts may affect scholarships. On May 6, a Fredonia student posted on Facebook that he had been contacted by Student Accounts and informed that his Fredonia-granted scholarships for this semester, totaling......
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The Trident digitized: Annual magazine adjusts for the pandemic

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Reading Time: 2 minutesMARCIA HUNT Special to The Leader March 11 was supposed to be an exciting day for The Trident staff members — it was the deadline for submissions to the literary magazine, which would bring them one step closer to its annual publication. That morning, Governor Andrew Cuomo announced the sudden......
Sports

What comes next for Fredonia senior athletes?

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Reading Time: 2 minutesANTHONY GETTINO Assistant Sports Editor Almost every day since the coronavirus has pushed classes to online learning and shut down all sports, I’ve woken up and asked myself, “What now?”  I’m sure that I’m not the only one that’s asked this question at least once. So I thought, who better......
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Distance learning – we’re all struggling

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Reading Time: 3 minutesALISA OPPENHEIMER  Special to The Leader  We’re in week two of distance learning and I’m positive I’m not only speaking for myself when I say it’s been a struggle for us students.  Everyday I wake up with a full mailbox of emails to sort, homework, as well as classwork, videos......
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Hefner: Pass/Fail option doesn’t bypass letter grade and GPA requirements

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Reading Time: 2 minutesAIDAN POLLARD News Editor To help students as they transition to online learning for the remainder of the spring semester, Academic Affairs has expanded the pass/fail option to all students and all classes.  Until May 31, students can declare pass/fail for any class, and that class’s grade will no longer......
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[EMAIL REPOST] Distance Education Memo #1

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Reading Time: 2 minutesDear Campus Community:   Today instruction resumes via distance education.  SUNY Fredonia has always prided itself on an education that includes strong components of both academic curriculum and extracurricular educational opportunities.  We will be operating differently the rest of this semester, but our commitment to ensuring students receive the education......

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