March 6, 2026
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Life & Arts

Stayin’ alive during dead week Fredonia upperclassmen give tips for surviving dead and exam week

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Reading Time: 2 minutesNAOMI LYNCH Social Media Manager   Dead week. No, we aren’t literally dead, but nearly all of the students resemble animated corpses as finals week looms ahead in a rush to cram information in their heads. While most of us are practicing our zombie shuffle, freshman students are filled with......
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News

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

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Reading Time: 7 minutesAMANDA 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......
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Sports

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

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Reading Time: 2 minutes[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......
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Life & Arts

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

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Reading Time: 3 minutes[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......
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News

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

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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......
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Life & Arts

A night of poetry Beat Poetry Festival showcases variety of topics

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Reading Time: 3 minutes[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......
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Opinion

Old, cranky, and entirely satisfied FTDO

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Reading Time: 2 minutesRILEY 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......
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