March 7, 2026
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Club spot light: Black Student Union

Students, residents protest ICE in downtown Fredonia

 Trump delivers State of the Union address; 50 Democrats boycott

5th Quarter Column: McDermott fired after latest playoff heartbreak

5th Quarter Column: Rocky road leads Bills to Denver

5th Quarter Column: California Dreamin’

Printing points introduced for students, staff

5th Quarter Column: Allen regains MVP form with six scores

Fredonia’s hockey recruiting extends across the nation, world

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OnCourse slowly but surely becoming more popular

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Reading Time: 3 minutesVICTOR SCHMITT-BUSH Assistant News Editor   Back in Spring 2016, Fredonia’s online learning system, ANGEL, was not only replaced but unplugged and turned off by its host software, Blackboard Learning. The intentions were clear. ANGEL was an outdated service, and it was time for Fredonia to make a decision that......
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Cosmic transformation talk draws in large turnout

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Reading Time: 2 minutesANGELINA DOHRE Photo Editor   Students, faculty and community members gathered for last week’s Brown Bag Lecture series. Dr. Neal Evans from the University of Texas at Austin presented “Extraterritorial Life: A Scientific Inquiry.” He focused on cosmic transformation and the scientific explanation of life beyond Earth. Opening remarks were......
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Documentary brings mental health problems in prisons to light

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Reading Time: 2 minutesSTEPHEN SACCO Special to The Leader   SUNY Fredonia’s Department of Psychology expanded the scope of America’s prison system. In correlation with the incarcerated and their mentality, the department held a panel discussion and a film screening of The New Asylums documentary on Wednesday, March 7, 2018. The purpose of......
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Fredonia science professor selected to governor’s water protection committee

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Reading Time: 3 minutesCOLIN HART Special to The Leader Dr. Courtney Wigdahl-Perry, a biology professor at SUNY Fredonia, has been selected for Governor Andrew Cuomo’s steering committee for combating harmful algal blooms (HABs) in several lakes throughout New York state. Alongside a panel of nationwide experts, Wigdahl-Perry is scheduled to attend a summit......
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Fredonia professor receives international recognition

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Reading Time: 3 minutes  VICTOR SCHMITT-BUSH Assistant News Editor     The issue of plastic pollution is starting to be taken seriously, and it’s partly thanks to Sherri Mason, the chair of Fredonia’s Geology and Environmental Sciences department. As an affiliate of Orb Media, the non-profit activist organization against plastic pollution, Mason was......
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Life & Arts

Sigma Tau Delta: Linking education with community

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Reading Time: 2 minutesMOLLY VANDENBERG Staff Writer   On March 30, Sigma Tau Delta hosted an open mic night at the 21 East Bookstore in Dunkirk. The bookstore is almost hidden in a brick building on East Second Street. However, once inside, you’ll notice the store is open and inviting with comfy chairs......
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Governor Cuomo suggests his SAFE Act be adopted nationwide

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Reading Time: 3 minutesSETH MICHAEL MEYER Assistant News Editor     Tens of thousands of demonstrators marched through the streets of D.C. Saturday in support of gun law reform. Marchers came together in light of the school shooting in Parkland, Fla., last month which left 17 students and faculty dead and many more......
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Life & Arts

Looking beyond the everyday: ‘Knowing Paper’ opens in Marion Art Gallery

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Reading Time: 4 minutesMELISSA FUCHS Special to the Leader   Saturday evening saw the opening reception for the latest exhibit at Fredonia’s Cathy and Jesse Marion Art Gallery with Knowing Paper: Five Contemporary Artists Using Paper as their Expressive Medium. The exhibit, curated by visual arts professor Timothy Frerichs, features the works from......
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