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Who will students vote for?

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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......
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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......
Life & Arts

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,......
Life & Arts

The Pop Culture Lover’s Guide to the Election

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Reading Time: 4 minutes  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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Reading Time: 3 minutes  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......
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Emeritus professor presents Mars meteorites studies

Reading Time: 3 minutes  ANGELINA DOHRE Special to The Leader Every Friday at noon, the Fredonia chapter of Sigma Xi and the Scientific Research Society organizes a brown bag lecture on campus. This past week, professor emeritus Jack Berkley presented “Mars Meteorites: The Story Behind their Discovery,” in the Major Alice Conference Room......
Opinion

Editorial: A free society needs a free press

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Reading Time: 2 minutesIs 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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Reading Time: 3 minutesCONNOR 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......
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Bridging the language gap: Fredonia hosts 30 Mexican exchange students

Reading Time: 3 minutes      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......

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