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The Lampoon endorses David S. Pumpkins for president

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EMMA PATTERSON Staff Lampoonist   It’s no secret that this presidential election has been, in short, exhausting. Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump have been met with either lukewarm acceptance or alarming reverence from voters, resulting in this being the first election people under the age of 30 have actually cared......
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Who wore it better?: A presidential fashion analysis

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  PATRICK BENNETT Staff Lampoonist Whether you’re wearing a fanny pack with mom jeans combo or a camo hoodie with matching camo Crocs, you’re showing people what you’re all about (even though we’d rather not know you if you’re wearing camo Crocs).  This past week, the Lampoon was determined to......
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News

Q&A: Craig Smith

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CONNOR HOFFMAN Managing Editor In October, former presidential speechwriter Craig Smith came to Fredonia to lecture on the 2016 election prior to the second televised debate. The Leader conducted this interview with him, which has been condensed. As a former speechwriter, how do you feel about the stump and convention......
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Life & Arts

Sexual assault is #NotOkay: Social media campaign confronts ‘locker room talk’

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  ZOE KIRIAZIS Special to The Leader Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump claimed during the second presidential debate that the 2005 leaked audio of him talking about what he has done to women was nothing more than “locker room talk.” People responded heavily on Twitter when New York Times best-selling......
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Life & Arts

Campus media groups collaborate for election night special

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LERON WELLINGTON Staff Writer The upcoming election is not anything like previous ones. To give Fredonia students the best possible coverage, the major campus media outlets are collaborating to get the latest news on election night. The Leader, Fredonia Radio Systems and WNYF are planning a special show on Tuesday,......
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Sports

The Sports Fanatic’s Guide to the Election

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  COLIN PERRY Editor in Chief Writing in the Chicago Tribune earlier this year, Leonid Bershidksy claimed that the U.S. elections have become a sport. Americans divide themselves by team and spend month after month rooting for their pick. We eat up statistics every day and play armchair campaign manager......
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Election Rigging 101: How to rig your local polling station: God knows we need it

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Patrick Bennett Staff Lampoonist In the next couple of weeks, an event will take place that will shape the American people. This isn’t even the announcement that Big Macs will be sold again for $1 on Mondays, it’s the presidential election. The two candidates, Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump, are......
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Opinion

Editorial: A free society needs a free press

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Is doing journalism a crime? Earlier this month, “Democracy Now!” host Amy Goodman was charged by prosecutors for participating in a “riot” after her reporting on the Dakota access pipeline filmed security guards using pepper spray and dogs on protesters. Those charges were rightfully recognized as ludicrous and were dropped,......
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