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Getting ready to move on: Jen Kershner and Sam Spiess

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KATIE MILLER Special to The Leader It’s safe to say the Fredonia women’s lacrosse team is extremely comfortable with one another. The sole seniors on the team, Jen Kershner and Sam Spiess, discussed moving on from Fredonia last Friday morning inside of Starbucks on campus. A few minutes into the......
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Fredonia calls on Governor Cuomo to address disproportionate state funding

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JOSH RANNEY News Editor   The Student Association is joining other Fredonia governing bodies in standing up to New York State Governor Andrew Cuomo to push him to close the TAP Gap. SA is looking to make this statement regarding state funding for public universities following the University Faculty Senate,......
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FRS wins no new awards,members remain motivated

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  ALEXANDRIA NIEVES Special to The Leader   Fredonia Radio Systems sent 12 members to New York City over the weekend of March 1-3 after the station received eight nominations from the International Intercollegiate Broadcasting System Conference. Senior history major Haley Carmon, the staff representative of FRS, went to the......
Life & Arts

Ninth annual Choral Festival brings Stacey Gibbs: world famous arranger for first time ever

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  ERIKETA COST Assistant Life & Arts Editor   There is something healing about the power of a spiritual song. Even more so when it’s sung by a choir. Spirituals were created by Black Christians of the south, who wrote these songs during times of adversity and slavery. They were......
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Monica Manney to receive Lanford Prize at May commencement, Fredonia to receive an all-around distinguished alumna

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JOSH RANNEY News Editor   Every higher education institution has a mission of making professionals and well-rounded individuals of their students. With that being said, Monica Manney is the embodiment of that mission. Manney is a super-senior, journalism major and earlier this month was told she would be the recipient......
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Operation Winter Rescue helps displaced families

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ELYSE GRIECO Life & Arts Editor   Alpha Phi Omega (APO) Chi Pi chapter will be hosting their Operation Winter Rescue clothing and food drive this week, Feb. 19- 22. APO is a coeducational, service based fraternity with over 350 active chapters in the nation alone. “We really focus on......
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Should students have to audition to get into their desired major?

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DELICIA HOLDER Special to The Leader   Should high schoolers have to audition to get into their desired arts major? Most high schoolers that audition for the arts programs in high school don’t get in and end up having to come in under a different major and re-audition in the......
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Easy-going SA budget week leaves hope for speedy GA Day

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JOSH RANNEY News Editor   This past week wrapped up business for the Student Association’s Budget and Appropriations week. The process, that has a notoriously meticulous reputation, ended with relatively few major changes to the Student Association budget. Student Association Comptroller Jason Cheung said there were really only two areas......
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Loss of Student: Passing of Stephanie Handschu brings new tragedy to Fredonia

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MACI COSMORE Special to The Leader   As holiday and new year festivities wrapped up and students and staff began to return back to campus for the Spring semester, heartbreak struck the Fredonia campus. Stephanie Handschu, 21, of Plainview, Long Island and a Fredonia student, passed away suddenly on Jan.......
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Rollbacks to Title IX cause concerns among Fredonians

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JESSICA SERRANO Special to The Leader Big changes are coming to Title IX. Betsy DeVos, the U.S. Secretary of Education, is making her propositions heard. In a speech at George Mason University, she said, “The truth is that the system established by the prior administration has failed too many students.......

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