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The Pop Culture Lover’s Guide to the Election

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  MIRANDA OLSON and AMBER MATTICE Special to The Leader and Reverb Editor Art and politics are obviously two different fields, but they both create engagement that influences relationships, shifts boundaries and creates new ideas. With the election coming up, it’s interesting to think about how much art and politics......
Sports

The Sports Fanatic’s Guide to the Election

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  COLIN PERRY Editor in Chief Writing in the Chicago Tribune earlier this year, Leonid Bershidksy claimed that the U.S. elections have become a sport. Americans divide themselves by team and spend month after month rooting for their pick. We eat up statistics every day and play armchair campaign manager......
Opinion

Editorial: A free society needs a free press

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Is doing journalism a crime? Earlier this month, “Democracy Now!” host Amy Goodman was charged by prosecutors for participating in a “riot” after her reporting on the Dakota access pipeline filmed security guards using pepper spray and dogs on protesters. Those charges were rightfully recognized as ludicrous and were dropped,......
Opinion

Conservative Corner: The final presidential debate takes a turn for the worst

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CONNOR HOFFMAN Managing Editor A few nights ago saw the final presidential debate, and thank God that this debate was the last one. Like the other two presidential debates, this one focused on the candidates’ controversies rather than the policies they want to implement. One huge lesson we learned last......
News

Bridging the language gap: Fredonia hosts 30 Mexican exchange students

      CAMRY DEAN Staff Writer This Monday, 30 undergraduate students from Mexico were welcomed to Fredonia’s campus to begin their four-week English as a Second Language program. The students are a part of a month-long government initiative program, Proyecta 100,000, which is a Mexican agency for International Cooperation......
Opinion

Editorial: ‘Locker room talk’ is more than just Trump’s problem

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Editorial: ‘Locker room talk’ is more than just Trump’s problem   Most people at least know of the things that Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump has said recently regarding rape accusations made against him. Of course, he brushed them off as simple “he said, she said” situations and claimed that......
News

Presidential speechwriter Smith speaks on campaign history

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JAMES LILLIN Staff Writer On Wednesday, Oct. 5, Fredonia’s ALL IN Democracy Challenge Committee continued its steady march of events to drum up political involvement on campus with a lecture from Craig Smith, a former speechwriter for President Gerald Ford and consulting writer for President George H.W. Bush. All throughout......

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