March 7, 2026
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News

Monica Manney to receive Lanford Prize at May commencement, Fredonia to receive an all-around distinguished alumna

Contributor to The Leader
Reading Time: 5 minutesJOSH RANNEY News Editor   Every higher education institution has a mission of making professionals and well-rounded individuals of their students. With that being said, Monica Manney is the embodiment of that mission. Manney is a super-senior, journalism major and earlier this month was told she would be the recipient......
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Scallion

Police Notters

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Reading Time: < 1 minuteFriday, Feb. 8   PEPRE Process found dead Friday afternoon. In related case, campus morale has gone missing.   Saturday, Feb. 9   Police called to Tim Horton’s to investigate multiple packages of Roll Up the Rim cups stolen. Spokesman estimates that the thief may have gotten away with a......
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Sports

Fredonia athletics celebrates Pink Week

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Reading Time: 2 minutesAIDAN POLLARD Sports Editor   Pink the Rink wasn’t the only pink athletics event happening on campus this week. Alongside the Fredonia-Plattsburgh hockey game on Saturday, the athletics department dedicated the entire week to the cause of fighting breast cancer with a “Pink Week” leading up to the game. Since......
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Life & Arts

Fredonia students provide medical help in Honduras

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Reading Time: 2 minutesLEAH GRAZIANO Special to The Leader   Over winter break, Fredonia students went to Honduras to host medical brigades for the people that live there. These students took a class through the science department called “Health in Latin America,” a prerequisite for the trip. “It was really rewarding. You had......
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Opinion

An avenue for change: Expressing opinions through student press

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Reading Time: 2 minutesAMBER MATTICE Managing Editor   Student Press Freedom Day was on Jan. 30 and, since this issue of “The Leader” is out exactly one week later, I wanted to take this opportunity to express some opinions on freedom of the press as well as having the opportunity to work for......
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News

Italian takeover: El Diablo gets a new menu

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Reading Time: 2 minutesDELICIA HOLDER Special to The Leader   New things are always a great way to start the new semester. For this Spring 2019 semester, Fredonia is unveiling a brand new Italian menu every other week at El Diablo’s in Centre Pointe in the basement of the Williams Center. The rotating......
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News

How Fredonia handles snow removal and class cancellations

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Reading Time: 2 minutesJESSICA SERRANO Special to The Leader   When students hear about a snow day, it’s usually followed by a lot of excitement. That isn’t the case here in Fredonia. We might have to deal with this polar vortex for a lot longer than anticipated. According to Judah Cohen, a worker......
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News

Loss of Student: Passing of Stephanie Handschu brings new tragedy to Fredonia

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Reading Time: 2 minutesMACI COSMORE Special to The Leader   As holiday and new year festivities wrapped up and students and staff began to return back to campus for the Spring semester, heartbreak struck the Fredonia campus. Stephanie Handschu, 21, of Plainview, Long Island and a Fredonia student, passed away suddenly on Jan.......
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Scallion

Ask Fairy Godmother: Your place to bippity boppity bitch

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Reading Time: 2 minutesDear Fairy Godmother, Another story in this week’s issue of The Leader is about pay-inequity and gender discrimination. Don’t you think it’s a little overdramatic to be talking about this in a school newspaper? I come here to read funny anecdotes and find out about campus events, not to have......
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