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Shatter the silence through storytelling: Fredonia Feminists aim to Take Back the Night

Reading Time: 3 minutes    ZOE KIRIAZIS Staff Writer Survivors, friends, strangers and colleagues participated in Fredonia Feminist’s most anticipated event of the year, Take Back the Night, on Nov. 2. Take Back the Night at Fredonia is an event where survivors of sexual assault, sexual harassment and rape come to confidentially talk......
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......
News

Niagara University professor lectures on racial biases in justice system

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,......
News

Local candidate forum addresses drug abuse and prevention

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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The Student’s Guide to the Election

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Reading Time: 2 minutesDAN ORZECHOWSKI Staff Writer   Are you stuck on the fence when it comes to voting? If so, here’s where presidential nominees Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump stand on some issues that have a significant impact on college students. College Affordability In the third presidential debate, Clinton said she believes......
Opinion

From the Desk Of Connor Hoffman, Managing Editor

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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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Q&A: Craig Smith

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Reading Time: 7 minutesCONNOR HOFFMAN Managing Editor In October, former presidential speechwriter Craig Smith came to Fredonia to lecture on the 2016 election prior to the second televised debate. The Leader conducted this interview with him, which has been condensed. As a former speechwriter, how do you feel about the stump and convention......
News

Who will students vote for?

Contributor to The Leader
Reading Time: < 1 minuteKELSIE ABBT and CAMRY DEAN Special to The Leader and Staff Writer Last week, Leader reporters conducted a survey of students to see who the campus plans on voting for. 108 students were randomly selected from various locations on campus and from classes and filled out anonymous forms, the answers......
Life & Arts

Sexual assault is #NotOkay: Social media campaign confronts ‘locker room talk’

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Reading Time: 3 minutes  ZOE KIRIAZIS Special to The Leader Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump claimed during the second presidential debate that the 2005 leaked audio of him talking about what he has done to women was nothing more than “locker room talk.” People responded heavily on Twitter when New York Times best-selling......
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Campus media groups collaborate for election night special

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Reading Time: 2 minutesLERON WELLINGTON Staff Writer The upcoming election is not anything like previous ones. To give Fredonia students the best possible coverage, the major campus media outlets are collaborating to get the latest news on election night. The Leader, Fredonia Radio Systems and WNYF are planning a special show on Tuesday,......

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