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Fake news filter removes Conway from internet

Contributor to The Leader
Reading Time: 2 minutesEMMA PATTERSON Staff Lampoonist Facebook’s new “fake news filters” caused a moderate amount of outrage among Donald Trump supporters last week when they accidentally filtered out, to the relief of pretty much everyone, Kellyanne Conway interviews. Incensed Facebook users took to Facebook to rant about boycotting Facebook. “I joined Facepage......
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Mexico unveils plans for border staircase

Contributor to The Leader
Reading Time: 2 minutes  EMMA PATTERSON Staff Lampoonist   In a shocking turn of events last week, President Donald Trump claimed that he would actually start to move forward with what the general public thought was just a really dumb, horrifying joke: the construction of the U.S.-Mexico border wall. Obviously, this announcement has......
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Opinion

Op-Ed: In a time of peril, SUNY must stand up

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Reading Time: 2 minutes  ZACH BEAUDOIN Special to The Leader   Following the election, many student leaders started petitions calling on their campus administrators and SUNY to make their campuses “sanctuary campuses,” offering protections to undocumented students or employees or others who may be facing deportation. They explained what it meant to be......
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Life & Arts

Art in the Trump Era: Artists across media are ‘questioning the status quo’

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Reading Time: 3 minutes  KRIS HARRIS and LERON WELLINGTON Staff Writers “Take your broken heart. Make it into art.” As a closing for her Golden Globe acceptance speech, Meryl Streep referenced her late friend Carrie Fisher to express the importance of the arts and diversity. In times of political turbulence, the film industry......
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Opinion

Editorial: Why we want a refund on 2016

Contributor to The Leader
Reading Time: 2 minutesEditorial: Why we want a refund on 2016 The end of a year means many things: unrelenting holiday festivities, a panic to finish up work for the Fall semester, and year-in-review lists on every subject under the sun. Every year has its ups and downs, but The Leader’s editorial board......
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Opinion

Editorial: In 2016 race, the American people lose

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Reading Time: 2 minutesEditorial: In 2016 race, the American people lose By the time you’re reading this, barring a contested election, the U.S. will have decided who will be entering the White House in January in order to lead the country for the next four years. At press time, we don’t know who......
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News

Niagara University professor lectures on racial biases in justice system

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Reading Time: 3 minutes  CAMRY DEAN     Staff Writer Last Thursday, Michael Durfee of Niagara University presented his research on the history of race and the dramatic rise of the carceral state in America in a presentation titled “Race, Space and the Making of Mass Incarceration.” Durfee, who is a professor of history,......
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News

Local candidate forum addresses drug abuse and prevention

Contributor to The Leader
Reading Time: 4 minutesFrom left: Michael Sullivan, Patrick Swanson, Judy Reynolds, Marcia Merrins, Jason Schmidt, Sally Jarosynski (Corey Maher / Photo Editor). CAMRY DEAN Staff Writer   Next Tuesday, Americans will race to the polls to fulfill their civil duty and cast their vote for the next president of the United States. While......
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Opinion

From the Desk Of Connor Hoffman, Managing Editor

Contributor to The Leader
Reading Time: 3 minutes  CONNOR HOFFMAN Managing Editor This current election and the rise of Donald Trump has really made me challenge my beliefs and question if being a Republican is what it once used to be. Ronald Reagan switched from being a Democrat to being a Republican in 1962, and he explained......
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