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This Summer, Resolve to Stop Your Slacktivism

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Reading Time: 3 minutesJAMES LILLIN Staff Writer   There are countless ways that I’ve hurt the movements I love most. There are times when I don’t have the energy to be respectful to people on my social media who have views that I find disagreeable, and have let conversations devolve into “8-Mile”-esque insult......
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Final Brown Bag tackles fake news and social media

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Reading Time: 3 minutes  [metaslider id=9141]   JAMES LILLIN Staff Writer On April 12, the final Brown Bag lecture of the year took place in the Williams Center, featuring communications professor Mike Igoe and computer science professor Michael Scialdone, both choosing to tackle the rise in fake news and media bias. “I decided......
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Trump revealed as Russian nesting doll

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Reading Time: 2 minutes        ALBERTO GONZALEZ Staff Lampoonist   As of recently, it seems like news regarding the White House and President Donald Trump can not go on without also including his possible ties to Russia. This connection has been strengthened with the recent revelations that the FBI is investigating......
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Iraqi filmmaker displays war documentary “Homeland: Iraq Year Zero” to students

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Reading Time: 3 minutes  ANGELINA DOHRE Staff Writer   In February 2002, just one year before the U.S. invaded Iraq, filmmaker Abbas Fahdel departed from France to return to his home in Iraq. There, he filmed everyday life as his country was preparing for war. This past week on April 4 and 5,......
Life & Arts

Activist Wanjuki warns against rape culture, Trump presidency

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Reading Time: 4 minutesNUNET CLITANDRE Special to The Leader   Wagatwe Wanjuki, a prominent feminist and anti-rape figure, came to Fredonia on March 30, closing out Women’s History Month to talk to students about rape culture in President Donald Trump’s America. She wore a red t-shirt with the words “I Won’t Keep Calm......
Opinion

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......
News

UCSB professor Boris places Trump in context

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Reading Time: 3 minutesCAMRY DEAN   Staff Writer   As part of the ALL IN Campus Democracy Challenge, Fredonia welcomed Eileen Boris of the University of California, Santa Barbara last week. As Hull Professor of Feminist Studies, Boris presented her talk, “Trump’s America in Historical Perspective: The Assault on African Americans, Mexicans and......
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Video surveillance shows Obama tap dancing on Trump’s landline

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Reading Time: 2 minutes        JACLYN SPIEZIA Staff Lampoonist   Multiple citizens reportedly saw a man tap dancing on one of President Donald Trump’s landlines the other morning. After reviewing video surveillance, it has been discovered that the very man tapping his toes on Trump’s wire was former President Barack Obama.......
Opinion

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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