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Web Exclusive: Casey Springer: A conversation with a student veteran

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Reading Time: 7 minutesAMANDA DEDIE News Editor   Meet Casey Springer, a senior social work major. A lot of people have things about them that make them stick out from the rest, but Springer is of a very small minority on the Fredonia campus. From 2008-2011, Springer served in the United States Air......
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Eighth-graders have PhUn in the Science Center Dunkirk Middle Schools visits the campus for a Physiology PhUn Day

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Reading Time: 3 minutes  COLIN PERRY Assistant News Editor They came, they saw, they touched a dead shark’s brain. Nearly 100 eighth-grade students from Dunkirk Middle School visited the Science Center last Friday as a part of the second annual series of Physiology PhUn Days, sponsored by Fredonia’s Biology Department. A second group......
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Behind the scenes of class registration The Course Scheduling Task Force works to make

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Reading Time: 3 minutesJORDAN PATTERSON Staff Writer The Fredonia campus can take a deep breath now, as advising week has passed. With confusion and stress in their minds, students look to their advisers for assistance. While hoping to get the most of their education in a timely manner, that is not what always......
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Support for Sanders Fredonia Students for Bernie Sanders forms from Facebook

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Reading Time: 3 minutes  AMANDA DEDIE News Editor   As the generation who will one day be ruling the world, it’s our responsibility to vote in a presidential candidate who can help take care of us, and have our best interests in mind, until we can start running the world on our own.......
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Who should pay: students or the state? Fredonia faculty urges students to stand up for the MOE Bill

Reading Time: 4 minutes  COLIN PERRY Assistant News Editor The fate of a bill that would help state schools across New York pay for their most basic operating costs — without having students make up costs through tuition — now hangs entirely in the hands of Governor Andrew M. Cuomo. And higher-education activists......
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Dracula conducts a concert College Symphony Orchestra’s Halloween event

Reading Time: 2 minutesAMBER MATTICE Staff Writer   On an eerie Halloween night, the College Symphony Orchestra caused the dead to rise — quite literally. Upon walking into the concert hall, guests were met by a coffin surrounded by students dressed for a funeral. There were people lying on the ground, covered in......
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Girl power Women’s Student Union hosts Women, Rock and Soul

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Reading Time: 2 minutes[metaslider id=4106] MARIA MELCHIORRE Staff Writer   On Oct. 21, Women’s Student Union held its annual Women, Rock and Soul event. This year’s event theme was “I Stand With Planned Parenthood.” It included an informational speech by a Planned Parenthood educator, framed by poetry and musical performances by many of......
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Never-ending construction Annual budget contains upcoming construction projects

Reading Time: 4 minutesCOLIN PERRY Staff Writer Returning students and faculty to Fredonia know that the only things certain in life are death, taxes and construction. The annual Consolidated Operating Budget released by the Department for Finance and Administration last week contains information on a number of upcoming construction projects slated to begin......

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