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

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Reading Time: 2 minutesEditorial: ‘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......
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Presidential speechwriter Smith speaks on campaign history

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Reading Time: 3 minutesJAMES 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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Conservative Corner: Trump’s night of royal screw-ups

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Reading Time: 3 minutes      CONNOR HOFFMAN Managing Editor The first presidential debate was held on Sept. 26, and Donald Trump was a complete and utter trainwreck the entire night. Honestly, there were so many instances that he could have come up with better replies to questions or retorts to Hillary Clinton’s......
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Student wins international composition competition

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Reading Time: 2 minutesJACOB SANTOS Special to The Leader Earlier this year, Novus New Music, Inc., a non-profit organization, held a competition, open to anyone under the age of 30, to submit their own music compositions for saxophone.  Earlier this month, senior John Secunde was announced their winner. Secunde, a saxophonist majoring in......
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Hispanic Heritage Month returns with a new focus on immigration

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Reading Time: 3 minutesJAMES LILLIN Staff Writer Each year from Sept. 15 to Oct. 15, Fredonia’s Latinos Unidos (LU) has brought a litany of events to the campus for Hispanic Heritage Month, celebrating the achievements and contributions of Hispanic and Latino Americans, while fostering an increased awareness and appreciation for their histories and......
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First debate watch party draws energized crowd

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Reading Time: 2 minutesCOLIN PERRY Editor in Chief   The All-In Challenge continued last night, as students, faculty and community members gathered in the Williams Center Multi-Purpose Room to watch the first televised debate between Democratic candidate for president Hillary Clinton and her Republican counterpart Donald Trump. While the free food and refreshments......
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Conservative Corner: The death of transparency  

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Reading Time: 3 minutesCONNOR HOFFMAN News Editor   Politicians have never been the most transparent people out there, but oh boy, do the two candidates we have running now seriously lack any kind of transparency. Hillary Clinton had the nerve to tell people that “I’m the most transparent public official in modern times”......
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Dakota Access Pipeline awareness comes to campus

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Reading Time: 3 minutesZOE KIRIAZIS Special to the Leader   According to Rory Wheeler, creating an oil pipeline does more damage than any good it can produce. Tribes and nations should not have to fight for something that is rightfully theirs. Last Friday, the 19-year-old Seneca Reservation resident and recent recipient of the......

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