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

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

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

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

[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

  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

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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......
Life & Arts

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

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

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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