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Growing dopamine: Why gardening is good for your mental health

Jules Hoepting
Reading Time: 2 minutesJULES HOEPTING  Design Editor Study after study has shown gardening is good for the brain and the body. And in a time of unprecedented stressors, finding ways to keep yourself healthy is essential.  So, why not pat some seeds into some dirt? Growing and eating your own food has proven......
Opinion

Paper or plastic? The power behind your choice

Contributor to The Leader
Reading Time: 3 minutesANNA GAGLIANO Copy Editor Every single choice we make on a day-to-day basis affects us, whether or not you’d like to believe it.  One simple phrase has set people up for an important choice for decades now: “Paper or plastic?” Uttered by cashiers and clerks around the world, this choice......
Life & Arts

Hot Thrifts brings environmentally-conscious shopping to Fredonia

Contributor to The Leader
Reading Time: 3 minutesMADISON BLASZ Special to The Leader  The “one man’s trash is another man’s treasure” saying is quite truthful. There’s something wonderful about heading to a thrift store and finding a unique piece of clothing that fits your style perfectly.  Now more than ever, people are donating clothing, home goods, electronics......
Life & Arts

Experimenting with a new course: “Sustainability Living Laboratory”

Contributor to The Leader
Reading Time: 3 minutesJULES HOEPTING Design Editor *The writer of this article is a participant in the course mentioned. Sprouting up this spring semester is a fresh new course: “Sustainability Living Laboratory.” Created by English professor Christina Jarvis, the course is all about experimenting with means of being sustainable. Students selected by Jarvis......
Life & Arts

#BeTheChangeInClimateChange: Recognizing how the presidential election will affect climate change

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Reading Time: 2 minutesJORDAN CAHILL, SARAH MAYFIELD, JUSTIN COHAN and JOE CASEY Specials to The Leader Climate change is a worldwide issue that will affect all of us more and more in the coming decades. According to the NASA Earth Observatory, 2019 was the second hottest year on record. While the Earth has......
Scallion

[SATIRE] It’s a doobie! Gender reveal party sets creek on fire

Contributor to The Leader
Reading Time: 2 minutesTHALIA MAGISTRO Staff Scallywag Many of you may have read that the effects of the Oregon wildfires have reached the East Coast and I am here to assuage your fears. This is, in fact, false information. The true cause of the red haze you have found over campus in the......

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