March 6, 2026
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The Leader

Interview

Life & Arts

Visiting Artist presents academic and gay activist Jonathan Katz

Contributor to The Leader
Reading Time: 2 minutesERIKETA COST Assistant Life & Arts Editor   How did queer artists express themselves in past generations, in times where it wasn’t accepted in dominant culture? According to art historian Jonathan Katz, these artists expressed themselves in subtle, nuanced ways that now give us insight into what it was like......
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Sports

Getting ready to move on: Jen Kershner and Sam Spiess

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Reading Time: 4 minutesKATIE MILLER Special to The Leader It’s safe to say the Fredonia women’s lacrosse team is extremely comfortable with one another. The sole seniors on the team, Jen Kershner and Sam Spiess, discussed moving on from Fredonia last Friday morning inside of Starbucks on campus. A few minutes into the......
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News

University Senate debates faith in campus leadership

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Reading Time: 4 minutesJOSH RANNEY News Editor   It is perhaps the worst kept secret that Fredonia has been navigating difficult waters for some time. Now, the confidence of the university faculty in President Virginia Horvath has been called into question. On March 4, the University Senate discussed a potential vote of no-confidence......
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Life & Arts

Writers @ Work visiting guest: L.A. Times journalist and Fredonia alumnus Scott Martelle

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Reading Time: 3 minutesERIKETA COST Assistant Life & Arts Editor   My Skype interview with Scott Martelle from the control room on the third floor of McEwen felt like a flashback for him. The L.A. Times journalist and I made small talk about the radio news and podcasting class I was headed to......
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Scallion

Sitting SA President vetoes election, declares himself President for Life

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Reading Time: < 1 minuteTRAVIS LEFEVRE Editor in Chief Two weeks ago, droves of students opened their emails and voted for who they wanted to become the next president of the Student Association. While this is normally a time to look at who might be sitting at the top of the Fredonia’s bureaucratic food......
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Life & Arts

OSCAR: Presenting research opportunities for students and faculty

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Reading Time: 2 minutesSTEPHEN SACCO Staff Writer   The Office of Creative Activity and Research provides Fredonia’s students and faculty with the opportunities to successfully conduct research. Students who have conducted research in the past have gone onto present their research at SUNY-wide conferences and other venues. In fact, in 2017, the Western......
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News

Taking a look at the candidates for SA President and VP

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Reading Time: 3 minutesJOSH RANNEY News Editor   As the midterm elections end across the rest of the country, Fredonians should be preparing to cast another vote. This time for their Student Association President and Vice President. The book to declare candidacies closed last week and now, two slates are locked in and......
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Opinion

Kaitlin Bennett sets a new low for independent “journalists”

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Reading Time: 3 minutesSETH MICHAEL MEYER Staff Columnist   Over our fall break, I had a chance to head back home to Erie, P.A., on the same day the president was also visiting Erie for a Congressional rally. With crowds gathering and helicopters buzzing I did what any sane man would do and......
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Life & Arts

Marvin Bjurlin exhibit: ‘A Potter’s Path’

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Reading Time: 3 minutesVICTOR SCHMITT-BUSH Assistant News Editor   Distinguished teaching professor and emeritus Marvin Bjurlin returned to Fredonia on Friday to celebrate his 50-year-long journey as both a potter and educator. His exhibit titled, “A Potter’s Path,” is located in the Cathy and Jesse Marion Art Gallery. It hosts a collection of......
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