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What sex ed failed to mention: Women’s Herstory Month begins with Mickey Thomas

Reading Time: 2 minutes[metaslider id=5912] CAMRY DEAN Special to The Leader   Last Tuesday Women’s Herstory Month kicked off with its first event, “Not Your High School Sex Ed,” where students learned about intersectionality, birth control and everything else that they might have missed in health class. Fredonia was fortunate enough to host......
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Stay in school, kids Fredonia chooses to not participate in SUNY walk-out

Reading Time: 2 minutes  COLIN PERRY News Editor   Last Friday, students across the SUNY system participated in walk-outs to protest SUNY 2020 and an extension to the incremental tuition increases students face every year. Protests took place at SUNY Brockport, New Paltz, Purchase and Cortland. But one campus where students didn’t march......
Life & Arts

No auditions necessary: Beginners, pros welcome to jam with Fredonia Ukulele Club

Reading Time: 2 minutesEMMA SCHAIBLE Special to The Leader   Have you ever wanted to try something new or get back into a hobby that you once started? Look no further. On campus there is a new club starting up: Fredonia Ukulele Club. “The club is meant to help others in their field,”......
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‘Back to our roots’ Orchesis to present Spring performance

Reading Time: 2 minutes  AMBER MATTICE Assistant Reverb Editor   On March 12, in the dance studio in Dods Hall, Orchesis will be presenting its 2016 Spring performance. This year’s performance will be particularly interesting, as it will feature eight different pieces choreographed by students as well as an intermission during which other......
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‘Go tear some shit up’ Charlene Carruthers talks Beyoncé and oppression of minorities

Reading Time: 3 minutesJORDAN PATTERSON Staff Writer   A mix of students and faculty filled up Rosch Recital Hall right before 6:30 p.m. last Wednesday. Organizer and member of the Black Youth Project, Charlene Carruthers, was in the building. Everyone in attendance came to witness her presentation on student activism, titled “But no......
Life & Arts

Education and expression through spoken word: Button Poetry aims to popularize slam poetry

Reading Time: 3 minutesAMBER MATTICE Assistant Reverb Editor   Words are pretty incredible on their own, but add in the intense and emotional tones that characterize slam poetry, said words become something new entirely. Button Poetry, a Minnesota-based organization, is dedicated to bringing slam poetry to the forefront. The organization takes poets from......
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A choir, two choruses and an orchestra ‘St. Matthew Passion’ to fill King Concert Hall

Reading Time: 2 minutes  EMMA SCHAIBLE Special to The Leader   On March 9, the School of Music at Fredonia will work with locally talented music ensembles to showcase the “St. Matthew Passion.” Dr. Gerald Gray, who is the director of choral activities, will be conducting. “St. Matthew Passion” is an emotionally involved......
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A sneak peak of ‘St. Matthew Passion’ in Rosch School of Music hosts sixth Intercollegiate Choral Festival

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Reading Time: 3 minutesEMMA SCHAIBLE Special to The Leader   Three conductors, two schools and one theater. The talent in Rosch Recital Hall was overflowing with the many sounds of collegiate choir students. On the sunny afternoon of Feb. 20, the Sixth Annual Intercollegiate Choral Festival was hosted by the Fredonia School of......

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