Gender & Sexuality

Dear students: Speak up! The League of Women Voters helps celebrate Women’s Herstory Month

Contributor to The LeaderMarch 21, 2016

March 21, 2016

CAMRY DEAN Special to The Leader As election season unfolds, Women’s Herstory Month continues. Last Wednesday with a presentation by the League of Women Voters, those in attendance learned importance of voting and political campus engagement. With over 50 local Leagues across New York State, the organization has been......

Life & Arts

SPOILER ALERT: ‘House of Cards’ Season 4 Wright is now an executive producer — and it shows

Contributor to The LeaderMarch 21, 2016

March 21, 2016

RIANNA SEELIG Staff Writer Reader, beware! Spoilers await you. Any loyal “House of Cards” fan likely binged-watch the entire fourth season in one sitting. The entire season was released on Netflix on March 4, and, within hours, garnered a ton of attention from fans. The show is a......

News

Transcending Tragedy: Judy Shepard shares her story with the campus

Contributor to The LeaderMarch 10, 2016

March 10, 2016

JORDAN PATTERSON Staff Writer Seventeen years ago, Matthew Shepard was murdered because he was gay. On March 3, his mother Judy Shepard stood in front of yet another audience and attempted to explain what had happened. For the next hour and a half, Judy Shepard would once again have......

News

Signs of good things to come? Fredonia changes unisex bathroom signs to all-gender

Contributor to The LeaderMarch 10, 2016August 17, 2019

March 10, 2016August 17, 2019

CONNOR HOFFMAN Assistant News Editor Fredonia has decided this semester that it is going to make certain bathrooms on campus into all-gender bathrooms. These sign changes are the result of a movement to raise awareness of transgender student rights on campus, which began about three years ago, according to......

News

What sex ed failed to mention: Women’s Herstory Month begins with Mickey Thomas

Contributor to The LeaderMarch 10, 2016

March 10, 2016

[metaslider id=5912] CAMRY DEAN Special to The Leader Last Tuesday Women’s Herstory Month kicked off with its first event, “Not Your High School Sex Ed,” where students learned about intersectionality, birth control and everything else that they might have missed in health class. Fredonia was fortunate enough to host......

Life & Arts

‘Feminist and Womanist sensibilities’ Fredonia Big Read events include Hurston, stage-adaption of novel

Contributor to The LeaderMarch 10, 2016

March 10, 2016

MARIA MELCHIORRE Staff Writer The Big Read, a program funded by the National Endowment for the Arts, provides grants for unique community reading initiatives. This year, Fredonia was honored with a grant to be a Big Read community. Each community in the program has a single, classic novel......

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Health benefits of electing donald trump

Contributor to The LeaderMarch 10, 2016September 9, 2019

March 10, 2016September 9, 2019

G. RAVIOLI Special to the Trumpoon From nervous anticipation to promising excitement, the Super Tuesday turnout revealed just what we’ve been hoping for — Donald J. Trump is leading the way for the Republican presidential candidacy. There have been uncertainties as to whether or not Trump’s gripping campaign......

News

Editorial: We have signs, but how about some more bathrooms?

Contributor to The LeaderMarch 10, 2016

March 10, 2016

This week in the News section, Assistant News Editor Connor Hoffman reported on how the university changed the unisex bathroom signs to all-gender bathroom signs. This project, which is to be completed by summer, will cost the university $680. After getting funding for a $60 million science center, it seems......

Life & Arts

Enter Bartlett, visit Wyoming ‘The Laramie Project: 10 Years Later’ transports audiences

Contributor to The LeaderMarch 3, 2016

March 3, 2016

SHENECA SHARPE Special to The Leader “The Laramie Project: 10 Years Later” is about going back to Laramie, Wyoming, to talk to people who had connections with Matthew Shepard, who knew Matthew Shepard, or who even had connections to the murder. The play showed the difference between memories......

Life & Arts

Education and expression through spoken word: Button Poetry aims to popularize slam poetry

Contributor to The LeaderMarch 3, 2016

March 3, 2016

AMBER MATTICE Assistant Reverb Editor Words are pretty incredible on their own, but add in the intense and emotional tones that characterize slam poetry, said words become something new entirely. Button Poetry, a Minnesota-based organization, is dedicated to bringing slam poetry to the forefront. The organization takes poets from......

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Dear students: Speak up! The League of Women Voters helps celebrate Women’s Herstory Month

SPOILER ALERT: ‘House of Cards’ Season 4 Wright is now an executive producer — and it shows

Transcending Tragedy: Judy Shepard shares her story with the campus

Signs of good things to come? Fredonia changes unisex bathroom signs to all-gender

What sex ed failed to mention: Women’s Herstory Month begins with Mickey Thomas

‘Feminist and Womanist sensibilities’ Fredonia Big Read events include Hurston, stage-adaption of novel

Health benefits of electing donald trump

Editorial: We have signs, but how about some more bathrooms?

Enter Bartlett, visit Wyoming ‘The Laramie Project: 10 Years Later’ transports audiences

Education and expression through spoken word: Button Poetry aims to popularize slam poetry