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[SATIRE] Finding (and kissing?) the Mason arsonist! Hot drama!

Contributor to The LeaderApril 23, 2021April 23, 2021

April 23, 2021April 23, 2021

JAY BYRONStaff Scallywag In case you didn’t know, in 2019 someone was setting fire to Mason Hall garbage cans. From my understanding, and from the police blotters (not the Scallion ones but those work too for the most accurate police blotters), they reported at least five fires started in Mason.......

News

How will COVID affect SUNY Fredonia’s budget?

Contributor to The LeaderNovember 24, 2020November 23, 2020

November 24, 2020November 23, 2020

TANNER TRUAX Special to The Leader SUNY Fredonia continues to hemorrhage as COVID-19 stretches an already thin budget. How much of a hemorrhage? Nothing a bandage could cover. “We anticipate borrowing 1.2 million dollars at the end of this year,” said Mike Metzger, vice president for finance and administration. This......

Life & Arts

How SUNY is responding to Trump’s “Executive Order on Combating Race and Sex Stereotyping”

Contributor to The LeaderOctober 30, 2020October 30, 2020

October 30, 2020October 30, 2020

ALYSSA BUMP Life & Arts Editor On Oct. 8, all Fredonia students and faculty received an email from the Office of Diversity, Equity and Inclusion. The email addressed the Trump Administration’s “Executive Order on Combating Race and Sex Stereotyping,” which was issued on Sept. 22. The email summed up the......

Sports

How Fredonia Athletes react to UB pausing sports

Contributor to The LeaderOctober 9, 2020October 9, 2020

October 9, 2020October 9, 2020

TYLER PACOS Special to The Leader An article released on Tuesday, Sept. 29, by the Buffalo News said that the University at Buffalo, which is home to NCAA Division I sports, have paused their football, volleyball and women’s soccer programs due to 25 student athletes testing positive for COVID-19. Most......

News

[Column] This week in COVID

Contributor to The LeaderSeptember 29, 2020September 29, 2020

September 29, 2020September 29, 2020

ALISA OPPENHEIMER News Editor If you’ve taken a look at Fredonia’s COVID-19 dashboard lately, you may have noticed some changes. On Sept. 24, President Kolison sent out a campus-wide email, which discussed various topics, one of them being the newly revised COVID-19 dashboard for our school. The local dashboard has......

Opinion

How my education became a catch-22

Contributor to The LeaderSeptember 8, 2020September 8, 2020

September 8, 2020September 8, 2020

JAMES MEAD Managing Editor I want to be clear on this: I love SUNY Fredonia, and I believe in the SUNY system. But that’s why it pains me to say that I’ve lost faith in its leadership. Gov. Cuomo refers to colleges as “canaries in the coal mine,” saying that......

News

Fredonia’s new president appointed — Dr. Stephen H. Kolison, Jr.

Contributor to The LeaderJune 29, 2020June 29, 2020

June 29, 2020June 29, 2020

ALISA OPPENHEIMER Assistant News Editor Fredonia’s new president, Dr. Stephen H. Kolison, Jr. was officially announced this afternoon over a virtual SUNY Board of Trustees meeting. The formal meeting took place at 1:15 p.m. and was made viewable to the public on the official SUNY website. Dr. Kolison was introduced......

News

SUNY Chancellor Kristina Johnson to resign

Contributor to The LeaderJune 8, 2020June 16, 2020

June 8, 2020June 16, 2020

JAMES MEAD Managing Editor [UPDATE 06/16/2020, 6:42 p.m.: The next SUNY Board of Trustees meeting has been postponed to June 29, 2020] On Tuesday, June 2, the Times Union obtained an unsigned letter of resignation from Kristina Johnson, the current SUNY chancellor, addressed to SUNY Board of Trustees Chairman Dr.......

News

Fredonia University Senate Chair addresses presidential search status

Contributor to The LeaderJune 4, 2020August 5, 2020

June 4, 2020August 5, 2020

JESSICA MEDITZ Editor in Chief Among the other uncertainties of today’s climate, many of Fredonia’s campus and community members might be wondering: “What’s going on with the presidential search?” It’s a question that’s been buzzing since the retirement of Fredonia’s former president, Virginia Horvath, and the appointment of interim president,......

Sports

UB men’s basketball sanctions

Contributor to The LeaderMay 1, 2020May 2, 2020

May 1, 2020May 2, 2020

ANTHONY GETTINO Assistant Sports Editor This past week, the men’s basketball program at the University at Buffalo was handed a one-year probation by the NCAA along with more sanctions to be followed after a former assistant coach was caught forging recruiting documents. These sanctions are not to the levels that......

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[SATIRE] Finding (and kissing?) the Mason arsonist! Hot drama!

How will COVID affect SUNY Fredonia’s budget?

How SUNY is responding to Trump’s “Executive Order on Combating Race and Sex Stereotyping”

How Fredonia Athletes react to UB pausing sports

[Column] This week in COVID

How my education became a catch-22

Fredonia’s new president appointed — Dr. Stephen H. Kolison, Jr.

SUNY Chancellor Kristina Johnson to resign

Fredonia University Senate Chair addresses presidential search status

UB men’s basketball sanctions