Mental Health

Web Exclusive: Casey Springer: A conversation with a student veteran

Contributor to The LeaderNovember 10, 2015September 2, 2019

November 10, 2015September 2, 2019

AMANDA DEDIE News Editor Meet Casey Springer, a senior social work major. A lot of people have things about them that make them stick out from the rest, but Springer is of a very small minority on the Fredonia campus. From 2008-2011, Springer served in the United States Air......

Sports

Women’s swimming and diving drops first home meet Blue Devils take on Geneseo

Contributor to The LeaderNovember 10, 2015

November 10, 2015

[metaslider id=4592] QUINTIN JAMES Staff Writer Coming off four straight road meet losses, the Fredonia women’s swimming and diving team came back home to face off against fierce rival Geneseo. But the Blue Devils dropped their first home meet of the season against Geneseo by a score of 153-124. The......

Life & Arts

Lizards in the Garden PAC performs ‘Lizards’ in the Japanese Garden

Contributor to The LeaderNovember 3, 2015

November 3, 2015

[metaslider id=4291] STAFF REPORT While many this past Halloween weekend were dressing up as monsters on the outside, members of Fredonia’s student-run Performing Arts Company were dealing with monsters on the inside. The company performed “Lizards,” a piece of work that deals with the struggles of change and how......

Opinion

FTDO – Friends for a season, and friends for a reason

Contributor to The LeaderOctober 27, 2015August 15, 2019

October 27, 2015August 15, 2019

Naomi Lynch – Social Media Manager FTDO – Friends for a season, and friends for a reason When I started college, I became best friends with two people right away, and we did everything together. Then my mother passed away, and I took three weeks off. I came......

News

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

Contributor to The LeaderOctober 20, 2015

October 20, 2015

CONNOR 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......

Life & Arts

Bad midterm grades create need for support pets

Contributor to The LeaderOctober 20, 2015

October 20, 2015

MISSY FEOLA Staff Lampoonist Midterm grades will be released this Thursday, Oct. 22, and, as a result, the Fredonia campus is predicted to be in a state of pure misery, disbelief and anxiety. There have been several reports of students sitting in the fetal position in the corners of......

Life & Arts

A night of poetry Beat Poetry Festival showcases variety of topics

Contributor to The LeaderSeptember 29, 2015

September 29, 2015

[metaslider id=3323] CHARLES PRITCHARD Staff Writer The National Beat Poetry Festival at Fredonia kicked off this past weekend; a number of poets from out-of-state came, shared their work and interacted with the young poets on campus. The Festival, which, as one of the poets pointed out, is actually an international......

Opinion

Old, cranky, and entirely satisfied FTDO

Contributor to The LeaderSeptember 25, 2015August 15, 2019

September 25, 2015August 15, 2019

RILEY STRAW Lampoon Editor When I was a freshman, many of my friends were seniors. When Christina Stock, the Editor in Chief of The Leader for Fall ‘12–Spring ‘13, asked me to start contributing, I was nervous. I remember sitting at my first content meeting, at the beginning of that......

Life & Arts

Poetry Festival highlights well-known and up-and-coming poets

Contributor to The LeaderApril 24, 2015

April 24, 2015

RILEY STRAW Copy Editor Sometimes, snapping fingers at people while they speak can be considered rude, but at the Fredonia Poetry Festival, audience members did so out of admiration. Rachel McKibbens, Ashley Wylde and several diverse poets from the on-campus writing community performed last Wednesday, April 15. McKibbens, according to......

Life & Arts

Spectrum Entertainment Presents: Artists on the Rise Part Three

Contributor to The LeaderApril 1, 2015

April 1, 2015

VERONICA PENOYER Special to The Leader For most new artists, the stage becomes a safe haven to lay everything out in the open. “My dreams are my top priority, and I will do anything to make my dreams become my reality,” said Artists on the Rise performer Cameron......

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Web Exclusive: Casey Springer: A conversation with a student veteran

Women’s swimming and diving drops first home meet Blue Devils take on Geneseo

Lizards in the Garden PAC performs ‘Lizards’ in the Japanese Garden

FTDO – Friends for a season, and friends for a reason

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

Bad midterm grades create need for support pets

A night of poetry Beat Poetry Festival showcases variety of topics

Old, cranky, and entirely satisfied FTDO

Poetry Festival highlights well-known and up-and-coming poets

Spectrum Entertainment Presents: Artists on the Rise Part Three