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Fredonia changes official mascot: Sports teams to be addressed as the Harambe State Harambes

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Reading Time: 2 minutesRICK HARRISON Staff Lampoonist   Rick Harrison here, reporting from my pawn shop. In order to pay tribute to the late Harambe, a gorilla who was killed at the Cincinnati Zoo in May, the athletics program will be changing its name and logo. The announcement came from Athletic Director Greg......
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New year, new VP Howard begins first semester at head of Student Affairs

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Reading Time: 4 minutesCONNOR HOFFMAN News Editor   Last Spring, it was announced that David Herman, the vice president of Student Affairs, would be retiring at the end of the semester. By the end of the semester, the university had decided to fill Herman’s vacancy with Dr. Cedric Howard. Howard was born in......
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Woodard to help write next chapter in Fredonia’s story: University alum appointed Director of Marketing and Communications

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Reading Time: 3 minutesCAMRY DEAN Staff Writer Just six weeks before students were due to campus for the semester on July 6, Jeffrey Woodard sat down at his desk for his first day of being Fredonia’s new Director of Marketing and Communications. Woodard, an alumni of SUNY Fredonia, graduated in 1997 with a......
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Fredonia loses its spine: President and students react

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Reading Time: 2 minutesJORDAN PATTERSON Assistant News Editor   Those who tried to walk across the bridge between McEwen Hall and the Williams Center failed. Last year, it was announced that the Academic Spine Bridge, a piece of architecture designed by famous architect I.M. Pei, whose work (among other projects) includes The Louvre......
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Rockefeller renovations part 2: inside TADA’s fight for growth

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Reading Time: 3 minutesREBECCA HALE Reverb Co-Editor   The Rockefeller Arts Center (RAC) project promises big changes for students at Fredonia but also some difficulties as the Department of Theatre and Dance adjusts to its new space. The RAC project, upon its completion, will allow the Department of Theatre and Dance to add......
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‘Don’t be a drag, just be a queen,’ or a king Pride Alliance presents ‘Evolution of Drag’

Reading Time: 4 minutes  CLAIRE O’REILLY Staff Writer   Glitter, eyeshadow pallets, bedazzled heels and tubes of lipstick littered Steele Hall’s lower-level bathrooms on Friday night. It was time for Evolution of Drag. For some performers, this was their last show at Fredonia. For senior visual arts and new media major Maegan Clark,......
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Shakespeare in Buffalo Local celebrations of Shakespeare’s 400th year

Reading Time: 3 minutes  MARIA MELCHIORRE Staff Writer   In the center of the first floor of the Buffalo and Erie County Public Library sits the unassuming Rare Book Room. The city owns an impressive number of rare books, kept in the archives of the Grosvenor Room and available by request. The Rare......

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