May 13, 2026
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Take the leap and travel: Summer Iceland trip offers immersive learning opportunities

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Reading Time: 3 minutesAMBER MATTICE Managing Editor   It is no secret that Fredonia has a plethora of study abroad options that offer students the opportunity to learn and grow in various countries around the world. With at least one option on every continent, choosing where to go can be a harrowing process,......
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Fredonia’s hidden gem: The College Lodge

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Reading Time: 4 minutesCASSIDY HERMAN Special to The Leader   Imagine your college having a dedicated area for you to hangout with friends and hold events. Well, Fredonia does. During the years 1935 and 1936 there was an increased interest in recreational programs. The campus community began to run through ideas relating to......
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Life & Arts

OSCAR: Presenting research opportunities for students and faculty

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Reading Time: 2 minutesSTEPHEN SACCO Staff Writer   The Office of Creative Activity and Research provides Fredonia’s students and faculty with the opportunities to successfully conduct research. Students who have conducted research in the past have gone onto present their research at SUNY-wide conferences and other venues. In fact, in 2017, the Western......
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Pride Alliance’s Fall drag show brings new and inclusive changes

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Reading Time: 3 minutesERIKETA COST Staff Writer   You can always expect people dancing to ABBA and lip-synching to Lady Gaga at Fredonia Pride Alliance’s semesterly drag shows. However, some new and inclusive changes have been made this time around. Participants no longer fall under “king” and “queen” categories. This way, they do......
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Unmasking Halloween’s peculiar past

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Reading Time: 3 minutesJOSH RANNEY News Editor   Halloween: when little kids go out dressed creepy or cool . . . and adults usually dress up as something clever, or inappropriate. Nothing in between. Americans spend billions on candy, decorations and costumes. Classic horror movies are all over the TV. But the holiday......
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Life & Arts

What not to wear: Halloween edition

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Reading Time: 2 minutesMONICA MANNEY Special to The Leader   It seems like every year students on Fredonia’s campus are possessed by the ghastly ghost of Halloweens past. The haunting is also known as cultural insensitivity, followed by a plea of innocence and ignorance. But this year, Fredonia students and staff took a......
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Science Center hosts Halloween Science Fair

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Reading Time: 2 minutesLEAH GRAZIANO Special to The Leader Spooky science experiments took over the Science Center. The first ever Frankin-Lab Halloween Science Fair was Saturday, Oct. 27 in the Science Center from 1 p.m. to 3:30 p.m. Fredonia’s Chemistry Club hosted the free event, which was open to students and the general......
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Keeping students in classes after 5 p.m. now considered an international war crime

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Reading Time: 2 minutesJOSEPH MARCINIAK Staff Scallywag   A recent meeting at the UN headquarters has determined that all classes that extend past 5 p.m. are considered a human rights violation. This intense decision has caused the UN Peacekeeping Forces to be on full alert within the U.S. and, more recently, here at......
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Sports

Family on and off the field

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Reading Time: 4 minutesLEAH GRAZIANO Special to The Leader   When you’re a part of a sports team, it’s like being a part of a family. For some athletes at Fredonia, they get to experience this with their actual family. “We’ve only ever been on the same team. Every sports team we’ve ever......
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Dr. Sherri Mason — not your average professor

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Reading Time: 3 minutesMARISSA BATTAGLIA Special to The Leader   You know when you win an award for something and you feel like you’re on top of the world? That’s probably how Sherri Mason felt when she received the Heinz award. This award is for individual achievement honors that are given annually by......
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