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Life & Arts

Advice from ‘Family Guy’ and ‘James Bond’ composers: Ethos presents Lee Sanders and DJ Brady

Contributor to The Leader
Reading Time: 3 minutesCARLY KNASZAK Assistant Reverb Editor     When someone puts in a DVD, he or she automatically wants to skip through the trailers and get right to the movie. But, everyone is forced to stop and watch the SONY Pictures logo and accompanying theme music everyone is familiar with. That......
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News

Diversity in a small town First International Dinner raises money for international students

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Reading Time: 3 minutes  COLIN PERRY Assistant News Editor International Education Week concludes on Nov. 19 with singing, dancing and every college student’s favorite: a whole lot of food. The first International Dinner will be held in the Williams Center Multipurpose Room to benefit scholarship funds for Fredonia’s international students. The event is......
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News

Commercial controversy University takes down ads after negative feedback

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Reading Time: 4 minutes  JORDAN PATTERSON Staff Writer   Fredonia campus was left with unanswered questions after the recently released commercials that appeared on the university’s website seemingly vanished into thin air. Last week, Fredonia unveiled four new advertisements that were available for viewing on the college’s homepage and YouTube. After only a......
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Life & Arts

Peacebuilding through the arts Karimi-Hakak speaks on Shakespeare and terror

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Reading Time: 3 minutes  MARIA MELCHIORRE Staff Writer   Students, faculty and community members gathered in a Fenton lecture hall on the cold, dark, windy night of Nov. 14. Everyone was speaking in hushed tones of the uncertainty and confusion over what was currently unfolding an ocean away from that room. People were......
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Opinion

Editorial: Illuminating the City of Lights

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Reading Time: 7 minutes“Murderous mayhem,” is what USA TODAY called the terrorist attacks that took place in Paris on Nov. 13. Stating that there are 132 people dead with hundreds more injured, the use of the phrase seems accurate. Here’s the publication’s quick rundown of what happened:   “Three teams of terrorists carried......
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News

Eighth-graders have PhUn in the Science Center Dunkirk Middle Schools visits the campus for a Physiology PhUn Day

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Reading Time: 3 minutes  COLIN PERRY Assistant News Editor They came, they saw, they touched a dead shark’s brain. Nearly 100 eighth-grade students from Dunkirk Middle School visited the Science Center last Friday as a part of the second annual series of Physiology PhUn Days, sponsored by Fredonia’s Biology Department. A second group......
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News

Behind the scenes of class registration The Course Scheduling Task Force works to make

Contributor to The Leader
Reading Time: 3 minutesJORDAN PATTERSON Staff Writer The Fredonia campus can take a deep breath now, as advising week has passed. With confusion and stress in their minds, students look to their advisers for assistance. While hoping to get the most of their education in a timely manner, that is not what always......
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Life & Arts

Preparing for Battle of the New Bands Music Industry club gets ready to present new talent and familiar faces

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Reading Time: 3 minutes  VALERIE MUSSON Special to The Leader   Students who are always on the lookout for the newest local music will get the ultimate chance to sample some of Fredonia’s finest musicians this Thursday at the Battle of the New Bands in the Williams Center MPR. This annual event, coordinated......
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Life & Arts

The persistence of Richard Williams Visiting artist Kevin Schreck presents award-winning documentary

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Reading Time: 4 minutesALISSA SALEM Special to The Leader The week of Thursday, Nov. 5 a very special visiting artist was in store for Fredonia students. Young filmmaker Kevin Schreck presented his award-winning documentary titled “The Persistence of Vision.” “The Persistence of Vision” is an incredibly well-crafted documentary focusing on legendary animator Richard......
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