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Troops are being sent to the southern border

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Reading Time: 2 minutesSETH MICHAEL MEYER Assistant News Editor In a controversial move to protect the southern border, President Donald Trump announced in a memorandum Thursday that he would send members of the National Guard to protect the 1,254-mile border. In the memo, many arguments were made to support the decision made by......
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OnCourse slowly but surely becoming more popular

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Reading Time: 3 minutesVICTOR SCHMITT-BUSH Assistant News Editor   Back in Spring 2016, Fredonia’s online learning system, ANGEL, was not only replaced but unplugged and turned off by its host software, Blackboard Learning. The intentions were clear. ANGEL was an outdated service, and it was time for Fredonia to make a decision that......
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Sports

‘Around the World for Yeardley’ continues to raise awareness on Fredonia’s campus

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Reading Time: 3 minutesAVRIL KING Social Media Manager and Assistant Sports Editor   For the second year in a row, Fredonia will be participating in an awareness walk for domestic violence. “Around the World for Yeardley” is an event recognized by all SUNY schools, this year on Wednesday, April 18 from 11 a.m.......
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Fredonia Central School district debates over school resource officer

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Reading Time: 2 minutesMolly VandenBerg Staff Writer   There has been ongoing controversy recently involving the absence of a school resource officer at the Fredonia Central School District. An SRO is a law enforcement officer who is sent by a police department or agency to work in collaboration with one or more schools.......
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Life & Arts

Christopher Robbins brings inspiration, activism to the Visiting Artist Program

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Reading Time: 3 minutesBETHANY CLANCY Staff Writer     This week’s Visiting Artist Program featured Christopher Robbins, one of the founders of Ghana ThinkTank. Robbins is an unusual artist. Instead of producing art in the form of paintings, drawings and ceramics, Robbins uses the ideas from the results of the ThinkTank and produces......
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Fredonia professor receives international recognition

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Reading Time: 3 minutes  VICTOR SCHMITT-BUSH Assistant News Editor     The issue of plastic pollution is starting to be taken seriously, and it’s partly thanks to Sherri Mason, the chair of Fredonia’s Geology and Environmental Sciences department. As an affiliate of Orb Media, the non-profit activist organization against plastic pollution, Mason was......
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Governor Cuomo suggests his SAFE Act be adopted nationwide

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Reading Time: 3 minutesSETH MICHAEL MEYER Assistant News Editor     Tens of thousands of demonstrators marched through the streets of D.C. Saturday in support of gun law reform. Marchers came together in light of the school shooting in Parkland, Fla., last month which left 17 students and faculty dead and many more......
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School shooting sparks discussion of campus safety measures

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Reading Time: 4 minutesSETH MICHAEL MEYER Assistant News Editor   JOSH RANNEY Special to The Leader   Two weeks ago in Parkland, Fla., Nikolas Cruz, 19, walked into Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School and opened fire with his AR-15, killing 17 students, teachers and faculty members. Cruz, luring people into the hallways by......
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Opinion

Trump’s budget betrays his base and bolsters the uber-rich

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Reading Time: 3 minutesJAMES LILLIN Staff Writer   Many, if not most, of my relatives are fiscal conservatives. Oftentimes, the label is tacked on to a sentence announcing their conservative lean in an apologetic or conciliatory way — like ‘I’m a conservative, but a fiscal conservative, so if you want to marry a......
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