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Sigma Tau Delta coffee talk inspires creative writers

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Reading Time: 3 minutesBETHANY CLANCY Staff Writer This past Friday, Sigma Tau Delta, the English honor society, set up a “coffee talk” with two new creative writing professors, Eric Schlich and Sarah Green. This gave students an opportunity to ask them questions about their journey as writers, along with asking about the work......
Life & Arts

The return of DuffleBag Theatre: ‘‘Twas the Night Before Christmas’

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Reading Time: 2 minutesELYSE GRIECO Staff Writer   Fredonia’s Kaleidoscope Family Series is proud to announce the return of the “Nearly World Famous” DuffleBag Theatre. Based out of Toronto, DuffleBag has gained recognition due to their humor and unique style of storytelling. “DuffleBag is a group that we have had for a number......
Opinion

What we can learn from the ‘abusers list’

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Reading Time: 6 minutesJAMES LILLIN Staff Writer It’s March 10, 2016, my 21st birthday and my first time going downtown. It’s a clear, warm night, with the promise of spring budding from the newly defrosted grass around the town fountain. My friends and I are laughing, sharing jokes and stories as we walk......
Life & Arts

The spirit of Shakespeare pays Fredonia a visit: ‘Much Ado About Nothing’ comes to Barlett Theatre

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Reading Time: 2 minutesBAILEY KUZMA Special to The Leader   Starting Nov. 30 and continuing from Dec. 1 through Dec. 3, Fredonia will be putting on Shakespeare’s “Much Ado About Nothing” in the Bartlett Theatre in the Rockefeller Arts Center. “The major themes are: love, [a] couple who have it, lose it [and]......
Life & Arts

Homecoming royalty crowned after Fredonia’s Got Talent

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Reading Time: 2 minutes[metaslider id=10167]   JAMES LILLIN Staff Writer On Friday night, students gathered in Steele Hall to watch a showcase of talented SUNY Fredonia students in a spectacle that was part pep-rally and part dance show, all of which culminated in the crowning of this year’s homecoming royalty. Although the event......
Life & Arts

A Peter Pan origin story: ‘Peter and The Starcatcher’ comes to Fredonia

Reading Time: 3 minutesMORGAN HENDERSON Staff Writer   The Department of Theatre and Dance is bringing Fredonia the story before Peter Pan emerged. “Peter and the Starcatcher” will premiere on Friday, Oct. 20 at 8 p.m. “It’s all about how Peter Pan becomes Peter Pan, and the story is simply beautiful. It’s a......
Life & Arts

Meet Amy Gruttadauria: WCVF’s program director and Peter and The Starcatcher’s stage manager

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Reading Time: 3 minutesCHELSEA BARON Special to The Leader   College students are oftentimes categorized as lazy, but Amy Gruttadauria is an exception. A senior double major in theatre and audio and radio production, Gruttadauria’s focus in her theater degree is stage management. She is an active member of Sigma Gamma Phi (Arethusa),......
News

Ambiguity leads to student’s Excelsior scholarship rejection

Reading Time: 3 minutesDAN ORZECHOWSKI and TRAVIS LEFEVRE News Editor and The Scallion Editor The announcement of the Excelsior scholarship was intended to pave the way for affordable higher education for middle-class students. Some people, however, fall just short of that. In the Fall of 2015, Caroline Schettler began her collegiate career at......

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