June 2, 2026
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Exclusive: Trump’s upcoming executive orders for next week; President flexes a little too hardcore?

Contributor to The Leader
Reading Time: 3 minutes      PATRICK BENNETT Staff Lampoonist   A drunk uncle flipped the beer pong table at his niece’s graduation party this past summer. He was flexing his testosterone and booze-fueled strength by exerting maximum force on the table. Now, President Donald Trump is flexing maximum force on the people......
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Mexico unveils plans for border staircase

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Reading Time: 2 minutes  EMMA PATTERSON Staff Lampoonist   In a shocking turn of events last week, President Donald Trump claimed that he would actually start to move forward with what the general public thought was just a really dumb, horrifying joke: the construction of the U.S.-Mexico border wall. Obviously, this announcement has......
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Opinion

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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Opinion

Conservative Corner: Trump the Violator

Contributor to The Leader
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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Life & Arts

Reed Library displays Women’s March on Washington

Contributor to The Leader
Reading Time: 3 minutesZOE KIRIAZIS Staff Writer The Women’s March on Washington, held as a protest the day after President Donald Trump’s inauguration, was the largest single-day demonstration in U.S. history — and many Fredonians who attended are now sharing their stories through a new display in Reed Library. Dawn Eckenrode, director of......
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Life & Arts

Art in the Trump Era: Artists across media are ‘questioning the status quo’

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Reading Time: 3 minutes  KRIS HARRIS and LERON WELLINGTON Staff Writers “Take your broken heart. Make it into art.” As a closing for her Golden Globe acceptance speech, Meryl Streep referenced her late friend Carrie Fisher to express the importance of the arts and diversity. In times of political turbulence, the film industry......
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News

Fredonia marches for women’s rights

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Reading Time: 3 minutes[metaslider id=8122] DAN ORZECHOWSKI Staff Writer A crowd speckled with pink huddled in front of Mason Hall the day after President Donald Trump was sworn in. These people were protesters. Participants bearing signs and flags marched as one throughout Fredonia’s campus. While chanting “women’s rights are human rights,” the parade......
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Opinion

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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Opinion

Editorial: Why we want a refund on 2016

Contributor to The Leader
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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