March 7, 2026
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The Leader

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New Fredonia budget raises prices Projected college costs rise more than $850

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Reading Time: 3 minutesCOLIN PERRY Staff Writer Last week, Fredonia released its annual Consolidated Operating Budget, providing the definitive word on the university’s financial situation for the coming year in the face of a number of ongoing struggles. The document, produced by the division of Finance and Administration, details the predicted costs and......
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Life & Arts

Quartet Conversations Shanghai Quartet gives lectures and master classes

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Reading Time: 3 minutesMARIA MELCHIORRE Special to The Leader   Over the course of the past week, Sep. 30 – Oct. 3, Fredonia has been honored to host the world-renowned Shanghai Quartet for a series of lectures, master classes and a performance. Joining the quartet was music education expert Roberta Guaspari-Tzavaras. The residency......
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Life & Arts

Blurb: Dance Off

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Reading Time: 2 minutes[metaslider id=3673] REBECCA HALE Reverb Editor   Late Sunday afternoon, students, faculty and community members filed into the Steele Hall Fieldhouse to watch Orchesis’ first ever faculty dance-off, a competition which pitted different departments against one another. In the end the English Department won, with Iclal Vanwesenbeeck and Susan McGee’s......
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Scallion

Planned Parenthood funding reattributed to defense spending

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Reading Time: < 1 minutePHYLLIS T. CUPP Lampoonist   Much controversy has recently surrounded the decision to defund Planned Parenthood. The organization is well-known for its abortion services — though those services are only 3 percent of all that Planned Parenthood offers. Now that the almost $600 million organization has been defunded by the......
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Life & Arts

Fredonia Radio Systems Rocks The Commons

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Reading Time: 4 minutes[metaslider id=3356] SCOTT DOWNEY Special to The Leader   It was a beautiful day in Barker Commons this past Sunday, where Fredonia Radio Systems (FRS) presented its 25th annual Rockin’ The Commons. The event ran from 11 a.m. until after 9 p.m. and all proceeds, which totaled over $4,500, benefited......
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Life & Arts

Shanghai Quartet in Residency

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Reading Time: 3 minutesMARIA MELCHIORRE Special to The Leader   “The music is a language itself,” said Lily Li, International Recruiting Assistant for the School of Music. “It’s really a dual-lingual sound,” she continued, explaining the expressional and tonal differences between the Chinese and English languages and how these manifest in the quartet’s......
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Life & Arts

Cleveland Jazz Orchestra to open the DFT Communication Pop Series

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Reading Time: 2 minutesCARLY KNASZAK Assistant Reverb Editor   The Cleveland Jazz Orchestra will make its Fredonia debut with “An Evening of Ella and Ellington” this Saturday opening for the DFT Communication Pops Series. The performance will pay tribute to jazz legends Ella Fitzgerald and Duke Ellington.   The jazz orchestra is led......
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