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[EDITORIAL] Student safety pushed to the sidelines: What is the fine line between varsity and club sports?

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Reading Time: 2 minutesOn the evening of Tuesday Feb. 21, Fredonia Blackhorse Rugby player Jason Winston collided with one of his teammates, leaving him with injuries that hospitalized him at Brooks Memorial overnight. Winston’s teammates reached out to one of the athletic trainers nearby on campus for emergency assistance while others called University......
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Opinion

What does student mental health look like at Fredonia?

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Reading Time: 3 minutesCHLOE KOWALYK Asst. News Editor The past few semesters have not been easy for the majority of college students.  The combined stress of COVID-19, the fights against racial violence and the immediate switch to online learning and isolation have had detrimental effects on the mental health of college students.  According......
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Life & Arts

Ashley’s recs: What to read, watch and listen to over winter break

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Reading Time: 4 minutesASHLEY HALM Special to The Leader The dorms are slowly emptying out, classes are winding down, course evals are (not) getting completed. In no time at all you might find yourself sitting in your childhood bedroom, unsure of how to pass the time between now and the start of the......
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Opinion

College students will alarmingly be affected by this election

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Reading Time: 4 minutesAMANDA SCHEIB Special to The Leader This is a crucial year to vote for all Americans, but especially college students. Pertaining to higher education and the predatory loan sharks that come along with college, Trump has not made this a focal point in his debates orpolicies during his campaign — even though there are somewhere......
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Opinion

The impact of the Little Rock Nine on contemporary youth activism

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Reading Time: 4 minutesASHLEY HALM Special to The Leader  As students and young people are becoming more actively involved in American politics in order to better advocate for their own interests, high school and college students have begun to widely question the legitimacy and validity of the lessons they have been taught about......
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Opinion

What’s pool testing really like?

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Reading Time: 3 minutesSARAH HUGHSTON Social Media Manager On Tuesday, Sept. 22 I got the dreaded email; I was selected for pool testing. The email was fairly straightforward: watch an informational video, sign up through the SUNY COVID Test website and show up on time. While anxiety played out every bad scenario in......
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News

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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Opinion

A letter from the Editorial Board

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Reading Time: 2 minutesRecently, there have been a lot of questions regarding one of The Leader’s advertisements. The University at Buffalo ad first appeared in Issue 11 and has been printed in subsequent issues, including this one. While the Editorial Board wishes the representative at UB had phrased the ad differently, The Leader......
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