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Jericho Brown visits for first Visiting Writers event of the semester

Contributor to The LeaderApril 1, 2015

April 1, 2015

KORTNEY 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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‘Run All Night’: familiar but thrilling and entertaining

Contributor to The LeaderMarch 26, 2015

March 26, 2015

CONNOR BURTON Special to The Leader Ever since Liam Neeson delivered the now iconic threat to his daughter’s kidnappers in “Taken,” he has been on a streak of action movies that center on a troubled, but likeable, character with a specific set of skills. There is a pattern to his......

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Pi day celebrated with ‘Harry Potter’ themed event

Contributor to The LeaderMarch 25, 2015August 17, 2019

March 25, 2015August 17, 2019

CHARLES 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’

Contributor to The LeaderMarch 13, 2015August 15, 2019

March 13, 2015August 15, 2019

REBECCA 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

Contributor to The LeaderMarch 13, 2015

March 13, 2015

AMANDA 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

Contributor to The LeaderMarch 11, 2015

March 11, 2015

CONNOR 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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No Impact Week, Part 1 “No Impact Man” Documentary Review

Contributor to The LeaderMarch 6, 2015

March 6, 2015

NAOMI LYNCH Staff Writer Have you ever thought about making no impact on, say, the world? Colin Beavan, the self-titled “No Impact Man,” has. In 2007, Beavan, his wife Michelle and their young daughter lived one full year making as minimal of an impact on the world as possible. This......

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Three great films on Netflix for winter days inside

Contributor to The LeaderMarch 4, 2015

March 4, 2015

CONNOR BURTON Special to The Leader The cold this time of year forces us to stay indoors, giving us a chance to focus on our schoolwork. What would homework be, though, without our trusty Netflix to distract us and keep us from getting cabin fever while we stay inside on......

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And the Best Picture award goes to … “Birdman”

Contributor to The LeaderFebruary 25, 2015

February 25, 2015

CONNOR 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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5 Things That are Killing Games

Contributor to The LeaderFebruary 25, 2015

February 25, 2015

MO SADEK Staff Writer There was a time when being a gamer was easy. Look back at the Nintendo 64. You would buy one game, shove it in the console, make sure all your video cables and wires were plugged into the right place, add a controller and you were......

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Jericho Brown visits for first Visiting Writers event of the semester

‘Run All Night’: familiar but thrilling and entertaining

Pi day celebrated with ‘Harry Potter’ themed event

SOTA Presents: 2015 Opera Scenes Features scenes from ‘Into the Woods’ and ‘The Enchanted Island’

Applause for Paws: Interactive Theatre Society raises funds for Lakeshore Humane Society

Movie review: ‘Chappie’ is visually spectacular and ambitious but very flawed

No Impact Week, Part 1 “No Impact Man” Documentary Review

Three great films on Netflix for winter days inside

And the Best Picture award goes to … “Birdman”

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