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To eat or not to eat: a review of Fredonia’s dining options

Contributor to The LeaderSeptember 10, 2023September 10, 2023

September 10, 2023September 10, 2023

MARISSA BURR Opinion Editor Transferring colleges is hard enough, between having to learn a different campus, make more friends and join new clubs. Adding in the fact that your school is in a town you’re totally unfamiliar with can increase that feeling of isolation many students fear come the start......

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[OPINION] ‘Not Gay’ exhibits in Marion Art Gallery: A review

Contributor to The LeaderSeptember 7, 2023September 6, 2023

September 7, 2023September 6, 2023

LAUREN JENKINS Special to The Leader I visited Marion Art Gallery this week with the express purpose of covering “Not Gay” for this story, and I was pleasantly surprised by what the exhibition had to offer. As I walked through the dimly lit room, a group of small black-and-white photographs......

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[OPINION] Barbie: More than just a plastic figure

Contributor to The LeaderJuly 21, 2023July 21, 2023

July 21, 2023July 21, 2023

MARISSA BURR Special to The Leader In 1959, the world was introduced to Barbara Millicent Roberts who stood with raised heels at 11 inches tall and made of plastic—you may know her better as “Barbie.” Billions are sold every year, and you’d be hard-pressed to find a large number of......

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[Opinion] What I wish I would have known as a freshman

Contributor to The LeaderJune 18, 2023June 12, 2023

June 18, 2023June 12, 2023

ANNA SMITH Special to The Leader Ohhhhhh boy, where do I even begin? Even as a soon-to-be senior, I feel like I’ve only scratched the surface of my college experience, and then some. That said, there are still irreplaceable, at times uncomfortable, memories I’ve made from the things I have......

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[OPINION] Lovercolumn: Establishing Relationships

Contributor to The LeaderJune 18, 2023June 12, 2023

June 18, 2023June 12, 2023

THE ELECTRICIAN Executive Producer and Host of Lovercall THE ARCHITECT Lovercall Producer Hello! We are The Electrician and The Architect: two producers of the radio show Lovercall right here at SUNY Fredonia. Lovercall is an anonymous late-night talk show about love, relationships and more. Students who come on the show......

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[OPINION] ART-icle: Art in Italy: Contemporary and Historical

Contributor to The LeaderJune 15, 2023June 15, 2023

June 15, 2023June 15, 2023

JIMMY KELLER Special to The Leader As I am writing this, I and 14 other students are in Florence, Italy. During a two-week art history class, we saw everything from the statue of David to Ghiberti’s bronze baptistry doors. We climbed up and down 926 steps to the top of......

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[OPINION] Kathy Hochul failed on housing, again

Contributor to The LeaderMay 7, 2023May 4, 2023

May 7, 2023May 4, 2023

MICHAEL WILLIAMS Staff Writer Photo by Mike Bird | Provided by Pexels On Thursday, April 20, New York State governor Kathy Hochul announced that her plan to build 800,000 new homes and help New Yorkers pay the rent has been scratched from the budget. As we know, Hochul gets a......

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[Opinion] The ‘anonymous’ SUNY mental health survey

Contributor to The LeaderApril 23, 2023April 22, 2023

April 23, 2023April 22, 2023

CHRIS SILL Special to The Leader If you attend Fredonia, you probably received an email from the SUNY Student Association on April 3, asking you to fill out a “SUNY Mental Health” survey regarding SUNY’s mental health resources. In the email, students were told that this survey would be completely......

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[OPINION] A crisis of the humanities

Contributor to The LeaderApril 9, 2023April 9, 2023

April 9, 2023April 9, 2023

MICHAEL WILLIAMS Special to The Leader As we know, the Science Center is now becoming the crown jewel of our campus, along with the respectable School of Music and theatre/visual arts buildings that give the campus of Fredonia its illustrious reputation. The Science Center was built using $60 million in......

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[OPINION] ART-icle: The future of art in an AI world

Contributor to The LeaderApril 9, 2023April 5, 2023

April 9, 2023April 5, 2023

JIMMY KELLER Special to The Leader Graphic by JIMMY KELLER | Special to The Leader Artificial intelligence (AI) isn’t something of the future — it is the present. It’s beginning to take over many sectors of our everyday lives and growing at a rate that tech innovators Elon Musk and......

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To eat or not to eat: a review of Fredonia’s dining options

[OPINION] ‘Not Gay’ exhibits in Marion Art Gallery: A review

[OPINION] Barbie: More than just a plastic figure

[Opinion] What I wish I would have known as a freshman

[OPINION] Lovercolumn: Establishing Relationships

[OPINION] ART-icle: Art in Italy: Contemporary and Historical

[OPINION] Kathy Hochul failed on housing, again

[Opinion] The ‘anonymous’ SUNY mental health survey

[OPINION] A crisis of the humanities

[OPINION] ART-icle: The future of art in an AI world