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Local TV station owner Phil Arno shares insight into reality of news industry

Contributor to The Leader
ABBIE MILLER Editor-in-Chief While he spent a lot of his career behind the silver screen, there is nothing two-dimensional about Phil Arno. This is exactly the thought process that led Communications Professor Mike Igoe to choose the WBBZ TV Owner as a guest speaker for his journalism class.  Arno described......
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Trump signs flurry of executive orders in his first week back in office

Alex Bucknam
ALEX BUCKNAM Asst. News Editor  Donald Trump isn’t wasting any time getting acclimated to the White House for his second term. President Trump was inaugurated on Jan. 20, 2025, in the rotunda of the United States Capitol due to the cold temperatures Washington, D.C. was facing.  He is the second......
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Campus Life and Student Affairs unveil policy regulating on-campus assemblies

Dan Quagliana
DAN QUAGLIANA Managing Editor Some of the most memorable events from the past year at SUNY Fredonia have been the protests organized by the student advocacy group Students for Fredonia. These protests have been organized to raise awareness and rally students against the various program cuts enacted by Fredonia’s administration.......
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Construction projects continue despite multi-million dollar deficit

Alex Bucknam
ALEX BUCKNAM Asst. News Editor  Fredonia is facing budget issues, causing the administration to cut majors and look at potential minors to cut.  But why is there so much construction if Fredonia is facing such a big deficit? The simple answer to this is that the construction money doesn’t come......
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Chautauqua County’s League of Women Voters works to inform citizens

Abigail Jacobson
ABIGAIL JACOBSON News Editor  As Election Day approaches, many students will be voting for the first time. With many important issues being brought up in the presidential debates, casting your vote is important. Being informed of the presidential candidates’ choice on those issues is just as important. In Chautauqua County,......
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New York State passes a bill requiring universities to provide free menstrual products

Contributor to The Leader
ABIGAIL JACOBSON News Editor Graphic by Isabella Rizzo | Art Director Something new will be coming to the bathrooms on the SUNY Fredonia campus.  On Aug. 26, Governor Kathy Hochul signed a bill requiring all public SUNY and CUNY universities to provide free menstrual products in campus restrooms and buildings.......
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Students for Fredonia holds protest regarding 15 possible minor cuts

Contributor to The Leader
ALEX BUCKNAM Asst. News Editor ABIGAIL JACOBSON News Editor DAN QUAGLIANA Managing Editor In December of 2023, Fredonia President Stephen Kolison Jr. announced plans to discontinue 13 majors across the university’s curriculum. Discontinued majors include philosophy, Spanish and photography.  All 13 majors were officially discontinued by the administration on March......

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