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Girl power Women’s Student Union hosts Women, Rock and Soul

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Reading Time: 2 minutes[metaslider id=4106] MARIA MELCHIORRE Staff Writer   On Oct. 21, Women’s Student Union held its annual Women, Rock and Soul event. This year’s event theme was “I Stand With Planned Parenthood.” It included an informational speech by a Planned Parenthood educator, framed by poetry and musical performances by many of......
News

Pets in the residence halls? Fredonia’s ‘emotional support animals’ policy

Reading Time: 4 minutesCONNOR HOFFMAN Staff Writer   The New York Times recently ran an article on universities increasingly allowing the use of comfort animals in their dorms, and some of the concerns having these animals in the dorms has caused. “Comfort animals, or Emotional Support Animals (ESAs) are animals that, by being......
Scallion

Same sex marriage destroys sanctity of marriage Gay couples challenge ideas of unhappiness

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Reading Time: 2 minutesRILEY STRAW Lampoon Editor   We were all warned about how gay marriage would ruin marriage for the normal people. After Obergefell v. Hodges, the landmark court case that ensured gay marriage would be legal in all 50 states, lives of straight Americans have been ultimately uprooted. The traditional rule......
Scallion

Drastic price hike comes at drastic cost Martin Shkreli gets financial AIDS

Reading Time: 2 minutesRILEY STRAW Lampoon Editor   According to BBC, Martin Shkreli is “the most hated man in America” after he raised the price on Daraprim, a medication used to treat those with weakened immune systems. After he raised the price from $13.50 to $750 per pill, Shkreli faces some unforeseen consequences.......
News

Biology professor shares thoughts on Daraprim

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Reading Time: 3 minutesCONNOR HOFFMAN Staff Writer   According to the Washington Post, Martin Shkreli, a 32-year-old hedge fund billionaire, became the recent target of enormous criticism. Shkreli achieved this when he decided to raise the price of Daraprim — a new drug his company Turing Pharmaceuticals had purchased — from $13.50 to......
Opinion

Editorial: Planned Parenthood isn’t good or bad — it’s necessary

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Reading Time: 2 minutesAn article we printed in the Lampoon section this week about Planned Parenthood really got The Leader staff talking. While not all of us are super knowledgeable about the politics and the fiscal numbers, the entire staff is knowledgeable about what it’s like to be college-aged and to want to......

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