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Jericho Brown visits for first Visiting Writers event of the semester

Reading Time: 4 minutesKORTNEY YOUNG Special to The Leader   Aimee Nezhukumatathil, professor of English and director of the Mary Louise White Visiting Writers Series for fourteen years, introduced the first writer for the Spring semester of 2015 to Fredonia on Thursday, March 26, in McEwen Hall.   Nezhukumatathil has given several readings......
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Pi day celebrated with ‘Harry Potter’ themed event

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Reading Time: 3 minutesCHARLES PRITCHARD Staff Writer The average person might not appreciate the importance of pi, but its importance in the mathematical community is obvious. Geometry, trigonometry and all manner of formulas require the mathematical constant that runs on infinitely. In fact, pi is so important that in 1988, physicist Larry Shaw......
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SOTA Presents: 2015 Opera Scenes Features scenes from ‘Into the Woods’ and ‘The Enchanted Island’

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Reading Time: 3 minutesREBECCA HALE Reverb Editor The Student Opera Theatre Association presented its annual Opera Scenes this past weekend at the Fredonia Opera House, which featured the popular musical, “Into the Woods,” as well as a lesser-known pastiche, “The Enchanted Island.” A pastiche is a work that imitates another work, artist or......
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Applause for Paws: Interactive Theatre Society raises funds for Lakeshore Humane Society

Reading Time: 3 minutesAMANDA DEDIE Staff Writer Applause for Paws is an annual fundraising event held by the Interactive Theatre Society. It was held on Saturday, March 7, in the Multipurpose Room from 2:30 to 5 p.m. The sole purpose of the fundraiser was to raise money for the Lakeshore Humane Society, a......
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Movie review: ‘Chappie’ is visually spectacular and ambitious but very flawed

Reading Time: 2 minutesCONNOR BURTON Special to The Leader “Chappie” is the latest film from director Neil Blomkamp. He is best known for directing “District 9” and “Elysium.” “Chappie” shows the director playing around in the same sci-fi territory while trying to tackle socio-political and philosophical ideas. Unfortunately, “Chappie” doesn’t live up to......
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And the Best Picture award goes to … “Birdman”

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Reading Time: 2 minutesCONNOR BURTON Special to The Leader At the 87th Academy Awards ceremony, of the eight best picture nominees, the deserved winner was “Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance).” It won against such competition as “American Sniper,” “The Imitation Game,” “Boyhood,” “Selma,” “The Grand Budapest Hotel,” “The Theory of Everything”......

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