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‘Softball became my entire life. It was able to get me through the toughest times in life’: A profile of Eva FitzSimmons, freshman softball player

Reading Time: 3 minutesCASSIDY HERMAN Special to The Leader   Eva FitzSimmons, a freshman from Rochester, N.Y., has begun her first softball season at SUNY Fredonia. FitzSimmons came to Fredonia with 15 years of softball experience under her belt. Throughout her 15 years, she played shortstop, third and first base. Never once did......
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‘Around the World for Yeardley’ continues to raise awareness on Fredonia’s campus

Reading Time: 3 minutesAVRIL KING Social Media Manager and Assistant Sports Editor   For the second year in a row, Fredonia will be participating in an awareness walk for domestic violence. “Around the World for Yeardley” is an event recognized by all SUNY schools, this year on Wednesday, April 18 from 11 a.m.......
Opinion

From the Desk of Avril King, Social Media Manager and Assistant Sports Editor

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Reading Time: 2 minutesA few years ago, I heard a conversation between two women that I hardly know. I was sitting in a hair salon, waiting for my mom, when the pair sitting in the chairs next to me starting talking about how they regularly took their sons to the chiropractor. Of course,......
News

Documentary brings mental health problems in prisons to light

Reading Time: 2 minutesSTEPHEN SACCO Special to The Leader   SUNY Fredonia’s Department of Psychology expanded the scope of America’s prison system. In correlation with the incarcerated and their mentality, the department held a panel discussion and a film screening of The New Asylums documentary on Wednesday, March 7, 2018. The purpose of......
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Fredonia science professor selected to governor’s water protection committee

Reading Time: 3 minutesCOLIN HART Special to The Leader Dr. Courtney Wigdahl-Perry, a biology professor at SUNY Fredonia, has been selected for Governor Andrew Cuomo’s steering committee for combating harmful algal blooms (HABs) in several lakes throughout New York state. Alongside a panel of nationwide experts, Wigdahl-Perry is scheduled to attend a summit......
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Fredonia professor receives international recognition

Reading Time: 3 minutes  VICTOR SCHMITT-BUSH Assistant News Editor     The issue of plastic pollution is starting to be taken seriously, and it’s partly thanks to Sherri Mason, the chair of Fredonia’s Geology and Environmental Sciences department. As an affiliate of Orb Media, the non-profit activist organization against plastic pollution, Mason was......
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Governor Cuomo suggests his SAFE Act be adopted nationwide

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Reading Time: 3 minutesSETH MICHAEL MEYER Assistant News Editor     Tens of thousands of demonstrators marched through the streets of D.C. Saturday in support of gun law reform. Marchers came together in light of the school shooting in Parkland, Fla., last month which left 17 students and faculty dead and many more......

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