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Education

Opinion

Why teacher pay is complicated and why education majors should stay here

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SETH MICHAEL MEYER Staff Writer   From West Virginia to Colorado, teachers have been striking across the country demanding more compensation for their work. Starting back in February, teachers in West Virginia staged a widespread strike that finally resulted in a pay raise of 5 percent. Similar events have since......
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‘We need to simply reach out. That’s the one most important, most powerful message of that film.’: A recap of ‘Suicide: A Ripple Effect’

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VICTOR SCHMITT-BUSH and ALEXANDRIA SMITH Assistant News Editor and Special to The Leader   Approximately 99 percent of people who jump off the Golden Gate bridge don’t make it. Over the course of 80 years, more than 2,000 people have jumped off of the bridge — only 36 people have......
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Despite an increase in recipients, concerns still linger for scholarship

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DAN ORZECHOWSKI News Editor   As of last week, 641 currently enrolled undergraduate students are receiving the Excelsior scholarship, a “completion initiative” designed by Governor Andrew Cuomo’s office. Entering the scholarship’s second year, about 15 percent of Fredonia’s student population is benefiting from the scholarship. Combined, the scholarships amount to......
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Opinion

Bernie Sanders’ proposed job guarantee warrants a lesson in economics

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SETH MICHAEL MEYER Staff Writer   When fictional president from House of Cards, Frank Underwood, announced his plan to guarantee a job for every American, everything I knew about economics cringed, and it’s cringing now. Senator Bernie Sanders, an Independent from Vermont, made for a unique presidential candidate by being......
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Life & Arts

‘. . . Fredonia has helped me grow as a person and thus as an artist’: Senior visual art and new media students put on final showcase

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BETHANY CLANCY Staff Writer   With the semester coming to an end, so is the time left for the seniors here at Fredonia. Every year, the visual art and new media (VANM) students that are graduating have the opportunity to put some of their favorite works in the Cathy and......
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Life & Arts

Kid Ink to heat up Fredonia: ‘We didn’t want someone who was a one-hit ‘

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VICTOR SCHMITT-BUSH Assistant News Editor   This year’s winter has been long and drawn out. The cold and dark afternoons have bled into late April, marking as one of Fredonia’s most shivering springs of recent year. Even so, Fredonia’s most esteemed student-run events planning team is heating things up. This......
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