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Workshops engage students in the joy of discovery

Reading Time: 3 minutesMEGHAN GUATTERY Staff Writer The biology department will be continuing this year’s overall convocation theme of “Joyful Discovery” with an open-forum, titled “Maintaining Joyful Discovery in Natural Spaces.” “When you’re exploring, and you’re outside, it is just really exciting and fun to see all of the incredible, really cool, amazing......
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‘A Midsummer Night’s Dream’ premieres Back to the Summer of Love

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Reading Time: 3 minutesPicture taken by Adrea Adinolfe/ Special to The Leader REBECCA HALE Assistant Reverb Editor Students, faculty and alumni experienced the psychedelic culture of the ‘60s, coupled with a Shakespearean classic, in Marvel Theatre last weekend. “A Midsummer Night’s Dream” is set in Ohio, at Athens College. The characters are separated......
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Former student found guilty of sex crimes Lewis’s sentencing triggered reform in College of Education

Reading Time: 3 minutesCourtesy of WSYR-TV MAGGIE GILROY Editor in Chief The College of Education is redrafting its fingerprint protocols following the two-year prison sentence handed to Arthur Lewis, a 2012 graduate of the College of Education. According to the Syracuse Post-Standard, Lewis was convicted of rape in the third degree, forcible touching......
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Graduate Fair to showcase graduate programs Event will feature largest number of graduate programs to date

Reading Time: 2 minutesMARSHA COHEN Staff Writer The 2014 Graduate Fair is right around the corner and it currently has the most graduate programs slated to attend in its history. The annual event has been taking place since 2009, when there were just 48 graduate programs in attendance. The 2014 Graduate Fair will......
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Chautauqua named High Intensity Drug Trafficking Area Heroin use reported high in county, but not on campus

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Reading Time: 4 minutesBRITTANY PERRY Special to The Leader Last week, the federal government named Chautauqua County a High Intensity Drug Trafficking Area, or HIDTA, due to a rising heroin problem. Heroin arrests in Jamestown alone have tripled over the past three years and have been linked to more deaths in the area......
Life & Arts

“Found Objects” creates unique experience for viewer

Reading Time: 2 minutesJORDYN HOLKA Reverb Editor Art Forum displayed its “Found Objects” exhibit in the Emmitt Christian Gallery from Set. 24 to Oct. 1. According to Dylan Scacchetti, Art Forum president, “the main objective of Found Objects was to transform the traditional gallery setting, and to create a sensory environment in which......
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Fredonia Marxonia Annual event pays tribute to 100th anniversary of Marx Brothers

Reading Time: 2 minutesPicture taken by Minju Kim/ Staff Photographer MINJU KIM Staff Writer Duck soup is easy to make. The Marx Brothers, however, did something not so easy — created a masterpiece of American comedy film. On Oct. 3, the film “Duck Soup” was screened for the commemoration and celebration of the......
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Geoff Braun leads women’s volleyball in 16th season

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Reading Time: 2 minutesMICHELLE HALE Staff Writer Coach Geoff Braun has been the head volleyball coach at Fredonia for 15 seasons. Within these 15 seasons, his teams have a combined record of 335-193. Braun joined the Fredonia coaching staff in 1999. He grew up in Hamburg, N.Y., and attended Frontier High School where......

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