Faculty

‘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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Police Notter

Contributor to The LeaderOctober 19, 2017

October 19, 2017

BRANDON SAFE Copy Editor Monday, Oct. 9, 2017 6:42 p.m. University Police were informed by members in every cafe that a student had, at different points, excreted solid waste on the floor without being seen. UP detective realized the student had been eating at Cranston, so they followed Phantom......

News

Democracy 101 seeks to prevent the risks of being an uninformed society

Contributor to The LeaderOctober 19, 2017

October 19, 2017

SETH MICHAEL MEYER Staff Writer “The self is not something ready-made,” suggests American philosopher John Dewey, “but something in continuous formation through choice of action.” Dewey was a strong proponent of civic action in education, and his push for such reforms produced things like classes in civics and sparked interest......

News

Fredonia loses mentor, husband, friend, Sunday evening

Contributor to The LeaderOctober 19, 2017August 15, 2019

October 19, 2017August 15, 2019

SETH MICHAEL MEYER Staff Writer Gerald Thomas Gray, associate professor at the Fredonia College of Music since 2002, died Sunday night. An email from Director Melvin Unger went out to the students and faculty of the college Monday morning, informing them of the news of his passing. A Tennessee native,......

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‘mAsk4CampusEquity’ brings lack of stability to light

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Gerald Gray: A legacy of fighting mediocrity

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