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Fredonia is becoming more diverse: But if minorities don’t feel comfortable on campus, does it matter?

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Reading Time: 4 minutesVICTOR SCHMITT-BUSH Assistant News Editor Fall 2017 marks Fredonia’s most diverse year for incoming freshmen, with more than 30 percent from underrepresented minority groups, according to Fredonia’s Right Serving, Right Sizing final report. Even so, students and staff have become increasingly critical of the school’s intentions. If anyone has been......
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Aitcheson and Apthorpe elected to SA presidency and vice-presidency

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Reading Time: 3 minutesJAMES LILLIN Staff Writer   After about 700 votes were tallied during last week’s Student Association elections, junior Spanish adolescence education major Connor Aitcheson and junior public relations major Hannah Apthorpe were elected to the SA Presidency and Vice-Presidency, respectively. “Students have this perception that the students that serve on......
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Dark and Dreary: An ode to Erie Hall

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Reading Time: 3 minutesVICTOR SCHMITT-BUSH Staff Writer As the years go by, Fredonia and its infrastructure is changing and it is changing fast. In 2014, the construction of the Science Center, a $4.2 million complex, was completed serving as the new go-to building for students with science concentrations. In 2016, plans were being......
Opinion

From the Desk of Brandon Safe, Copy Editor: Where to eat, vegetarians?

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Reading Time: 3 minutesSometimes it gets discouraging and disheartening when you realize how much meat dominates the food industry, and you get a little tired of seeing it advertised and glorified everywhere, but there’s hope. Even if you’re not a vegetarian, there’s probably a pretty good chance that somebody you know or somebody......
Life & Arts

Step back into the strange town of Hawkins, Indiana: ‘Stranger Things’ returns to Netflix

Reading Time: 2 minutesMOLLY VANDENBERG Staff Writer   The long-anticipated season two of the science-fiction “Stranger Things” was released on Netflix on Oct. 27 with nine new episodes. This is a follow up to the first season that Netflix released in July 2016. This second season takes place a year after the first.......
News

A writer’s reunion: NYT bestseller Wendy Corsi Staub and Lucia Macro return to SUNY Fredonia

Reading Time: 3 minutesVICTOR SCHMITT-BUSH Staff Writer   To some graduates, their time at Fredonia lives on only as a story. A good read it might have been, but it remains a memory, nonetheless. For others, the story is still being written. Staff and students alike will be pleased to know that Fredonia......
Scallion

A nation divided

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Reading Time: 2 minutesDOMINIC MAGISTRO Special to The Scallion   America could handle the rampant racism, gun violence, embryo murders and McDonald’s Szechuan Sauce riots, but there is no possible way a nation could withstand the most divisive question since the dawn of computers: “How is the abbreviated form of the graphics interchange......
News

Epistolary sleuthing: A new look into the disputed letters of Robert Frost

Reading Time: 4 minutesVICTOR SCHMITT-BUSH Staff Writer   There are very few, if any, Pulitzer Prize winning American poets with a standing reputation laden with as much controversy as Robert Frost. As a poet of “countrified wisdom” and “yankee stoicism” as expressed by Fredonia English professor Natalie Gerber, little is known of Frost’s......

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