Faculty

Bunk missing SUNYACs poses questions about academics and athletics: Women’s tennis team bounced amid bizarre circumstances

Contributor to The LeaderNovember 3, 2017

November 3, 2017

CURTIS HENRY Sports Editor The Fredonia women’s tennis team was ousted in the quarterfinal of SUNYAC play to SUNY Cortland at the start of the month. This was an unexpected early finish to what was otherwise a wildly successful year for the Blue Devils. However, missing from the team......

Sports

The search for a new athletic director quickly wrapping up

Contributor to The LeaderNovember 3, 2017

November 3, 2017

AVRIL KING Social Media Manager Since 1997, SUNY Fredonia has known one person as the athletic director. Greg Prechtl was a Fredonia graduate with the class of 1969. He went on to serve as the head coach of the men’s basketball team for 23 seasons, and he eventually took the......

News

Water boiling advisory has FSA quick to respond

Contributor to The LeaderNovember 3, 2017

November 3, 2017

SETH MICHAEL MEYER Assistant News Editor On the morning of Oct. 21, the students of Fredonia woke up to an email advising them not to consume the tap water without it being boiled and to conserve water. The effect of what the email described as a water main break......

News

‘mAsk4CampusEquity’ brings lack of stability to light

Contributor to The LeaderNovember 3, 2017

November 3, 2017

ANGELINA DOHRE Photo Editor This past Thursday and Monday, Fredonia’s Chapter of United University Professions (UUP) held its biennial event for Campus Equity Week. This year’s campaign was mask-making events, titled “mAsk4CampusEquity.” Since 2015, Fredonia has been involved with Campus Equity Week. According to an email from UUP’s Fredonia......

Life & Arts

Tradition marries competition: Day of the Dead to be celebrated with altar competition

Contributor to The LeaderOctober 25, 2017

October 25, 2017

MORGAN HENDERSON Staff Writer Day of the Dead will be celebrated on campus this semester by mixing some competition with tradition. On Nov. 1, from 5:30 to 6:30 p.m., an altar competition will take place in the Reed Library Commons. Some of those competing include students from professor Diane......

Life & Arts

Harvey Breverman: A decade of drawing

Contributor to The LeaderOctober 25, 2017

October 25, 2017

[metaslider id=10221] ELYSE GRIECO Special to the Leader University at Buffalo’s own Professor Emeritus Harvey Breverman has brought a decade’s worth of art to the SUNY Fredonia campus this month. Breverman’s collection, “A Decade of Drawing 2005-2015 (Idiosyncratic Amalgams and Disparate Composites)” consists of forty-six portraits of writers,......

News

Gerald Gray: A legacy of fighting mediocrity

Contributor to The LeaderOctober 25, 2017August 15, 2019

October 25, 2017August 15, 2019

SETH MICHAEL MEYER Assistant News Editor On Oct. 15, Fredonia lost a great mentor, a loving husband and brilliant musician. Gerald Thomas Gray, associate professor at Fredonia’s College of Music, died after a valiant fight against pancreatic cancer at the age of 51. An email from Melvin Unger, the......

News

Bomb threat reveals glitch in campus emergency notification service

Contributor to The LeaderOctober 25, 2017

October 25, 2017

CLAIRE O’REILLY Life & Arts Editor While students and faculty filled Thompson Hall on Tuesday afternoon, an emergency alarm sounded and a voice came over the speakers calling for evacuation. Some never heard the alarm. “We noticed there were a bunch of people outside of Thompson, and we wondered if......

News

Epistolary sleuthing: A new look into the disputed letters of Robert Frost

Contributor to The LeaderOctober 25, 2017

October 25, 2017

VICTOR SCHMITT-BUSH Staff Writer There are very few, if any, Pulitzer Prize winning American poets with a standing reputation laden with as much controversy as Robert Frost. As a poet of “countrified wisdom” and “yankee stoicism” as expressed by Fredonia English professor Natalie Gerber, little is known of Frost’s......

News

Communication department remembers long-time colleague

Contributor to The LeaderOctober 24, 2017

October 24, 2017

ANGELINA DOHRE Photo Editor This past Thursday, a public memorial service was held for long-time communication professor Ann Carden, who died on May 4 of this year, following a lengthy battle with cancer. It was sponsored by Fredonia’s communication department, with the help of Department Chair Mark Kiyak and......

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Bunk missing SUNYACs poses questions about academics and athletics: Women’s tennis team bounced amid bizarre circumstances

The search for a new athletic director quickly wrapping up

Water boiling advisory has FSA quick to respond

‘mAsk4CampusEquity’ brings lack of stability to light

Tradition marries competition: Day of the Dead to be celebrated with altar competition

Harvey Breverman: A decade of drawing

Gerald Gray: A legacy of fighting mediocrity

Bomb threat reveals glitch in campus emergency notification service

Epistolary sleuthing: A new look into the disputed letters of Robert Frost

Communication department remembers long-time colleague