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Editorial: We need to care about what happens to other people

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Reading Time: 3 minutesTHE EDITORIAL BOARD By now the recent shooting in Las Vegas is old news. This does not mean, however, that it shouldn’t continue to be talked about. As a society based so heavily in social media, we have a tendency to rage about things when they initially occur and then,......
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The North Korean crisis: a Machiavellian perspective

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Reading Time: 2 minutesSETH MICHAEL MEYER Special to The Leader Let’s be real — the hopes of a peaceful resolution to the North Korean crisis are long dead and now the world faces a harsh reality. North Korea’s claims of possessing long-range ICBM technology combined with their more frequent missile launches have put......
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Protests take center stage in Week 3: League comes together in act of unity

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Reading Time: 3 minutesCURTIS HENRY Sports Editor   The national anthem protests in the National Football League that have taken place over the past 12+ months have never been about the forty-fifth president of the United States. The protests, ignited by former 49ers quarterback Colin Kaepernick, have always been about the lack of......
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College students were no-shows at the voting booths

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Reading Time: 2 minutesSETH MICHAEL MEYER Special to The Leader In a recent report, Fredonia’s voting percentages for the 2016 presidential election have been marked as below average compared to other SUNY college institutions. In the Nation Study of Learning, Voting, and Engagement conducted by Tufts University, Fredonia’s voting percentage was measured at......
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An apology to DREAMers

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Reading Time: 4 minutesDAN ORZECHOWSKI News Editor   New York is one of several states that have passed the DREAM Act, granting undocumented students the same in-state tuition as their peers. The bill has been introduced to the federal level several times but has failed to pass each time. According to senior attorney......
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Nonviolence Isn’t Always Easy, But We Should Practice It Anyway

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Reading Time: 3 minutesJames Lillin STAFF WRITER   The grotesque violence in Charlottesville, Virginia, has cast a shadow over the lives of many Americans, as a White Supremacist protester drove his car into a crowd of anti-racist protestors, murdering 32-year-old Helen Heyer and injuring at least 19 others. Many argue that the heavily-armed,......
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Fredonia community gathers to witness solar eclipse

Reading Time: 2 minutes[metaslider id=9452] JACOB SANTOS Special to The Leader   While Aug.  21 initiated the Fall 2017 semester, millions of people across the country eagerly w aited to witness a solar eclipse visible throughout the contiguous United States. A band spanning between the states of Oregon and South Carolina provided the most......
Opinion

Conservative Corner: 2020 can’t come sooner

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Reading Time: 3 minutes    CONNOR HOFFMAN Managing Editor   It’s been quite a wild ride from the time that I created this column about a year and a half ago. Barack Obama was president then, and I could have never imagined Donald Trump taking his place. At the time, he was just......
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This Summer, Resolve to Stop Your Slacktivism

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Reading Time: 3 minutesJAMES LILLIN Staff Writer   There are countless ways that I’ve hurt the movements I love most. There are times when I don’t have the energy to be respectful to people on my social media who have views that I find disagreeable, and have let conversations devolve into “8-Mile”-esque insult......
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Final Brown Bag tackles fake news and social media

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Reading Time: 3 minutes  [metaslider id=9141]   JAMES LILLIN Staff Writer On April 12, the final Brown Bag lecture of the year took place in the Williams Center, featuring communications professor Mike Igoe and computer science professor Michael Scialdone, both choosing to tackle the rise in fake news and media bias. “I decided......

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