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Fredonia professor receives international recognition

Contributor to The LeaderMarch 28, 2018

March 28, 2018

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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Sigma Tau Delta: Linking education with community

Contributor to The LeaderMarch 28, 2018August 16, 2019

March 28, 2018August 16, 2019

MOLLY 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

Contributor to The LeaderMarch 28, 2018August 25, 2019

March 28, 2018August 25, 2019

SETH 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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Hemlock invades campus woodlot

Contributor to The LeaderMarch 21, 2018

March 21, 2018

MEGAN HOWES Special to The Leader The invasive and deadly Wolly Hemlock Adelgid is slowing taking over the campus woodlot. A group of students from various science classes went out to the woodlot to survey the Hemlock trees and mark them for treatment. According to Jonathan Titus, an......

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

Contributor to The LeaderMarch 7, 2018

March 7, 2018

MELISSA 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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Parking headaches are still concerns for campus leaders

Contributor to The LeaderMarch 7, 2018August 18, 2019

March 7, 2018August 18, 2019

JOSH RANNEY Special to The Leader If you have a car on campus, or have witnessed cars following people walking to their vehicles to take their parking spot, you know parking on campus is a dog-eat-dog world. Early last week, new parking signs were staked into the pavement in......

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School shooting sparks discussion of campus safety measures

Contributor to The LeaderMarch 3, 2018

March 3, 2018

SETH MICHAEL MEYER Assistant News Editor JOSH RANNEY Special to The Leader Two weeks ago in Parkland, Fla., Nikolas Cruz, 19, walked into Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School and opened fire with his AR-15, killing 17 students, teachers and faculty members. Cruz, luring people into the hallways by......

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Fredonia’s icy campus gets students into figure skating: “Who knows? Beijing 2022!”

Contributor to The LeaderMarch 3, 2018

March 3, 2018

JACLYN SPIEZIA Staff Scallywag The weather has been quite moody recently, and the cold and rainy conditions have led to icy walkways on campus. Some students have decided to take advantage of these conditions by ice skating around campus. Although campus administration is worried about the danger of skating......

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100 years later: Fredonia talks World War I

Contributor to The LeaderFebruary 21, 2018

February 21, 2018

VICTOR SCHMITT-BUSH Assistant News Editor On Nov. 11, 1918, the “War to end all wars,” the long and bloody World War I, had finally come to a close. Germany formally surrendered, signing the Treaty of Versailles alongside the Allied Nations. In recognition of its 100 year anniversary, Fredonia will......

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Students push for gender neutral bathrooms in Mason Hall

Contributor to The LeaderFebruary 14, 2018

February 14, 2018

MACI COSMORE Special to The Leader Transgender students are slowly gaining more rights on colleges campuses. Even so, people have begun taking steps to advocate even further, with one student starting a petition for gender neutral bathrooms in Mason Hall. “I have heard people complain that they have to......

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Fredonia professor receives international recognition

Sigma Tau Delta: Linking education with community

Governor Cuomo suggests his SAFE Act be adopted nationwide

Hemlock invades campus woodlot

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

Parking headaches are still concerns for campus leaders

School shooting sparks discussion of campus safety measures

Fredonia’s icy campus gets students into figure skating: “Who knows? Beijing 2022!”

100 years later: Fredonia talks World War I

Students push for gender neutral bathrooms in Mason Hall