Opinion - The Leader, SUNY Fredonia's student-run newspaper

[OPINION] Lovercolumn: Keeping the Spark Alive

Contributor to The LeaderApril 26, 2024April 23, 2024

April 26, 2024April 23, 2024

THE ELECTRICIAN Executive Producer of Lovercall THE ARCHITECT Lovercall Producer THE QUARTERBACK Lovercall Producer Hello! We are The Electrician, The Architect and The Quarterback: producers and hosts of the radio show Lovercall right here at Fredonia. Lovercall is an anonymous late-night talk show about love, relationships and more. Students who......

Opinion

[OPINION] A proposed plan for trauma-informed care at SUNY Fredonia

Contributor to The LeaderApril 25, 2024April 23, 2024

April 25, 2024April 23, 2024

ABBY TARTARO Special to The Leader Trauma-informed care is a therapeutic style approach to assisting those who have endured trauma. The natural instinct when someone sees something as “not normal” is to wonder what is wrong with the person. Trauma-informed care shifts the question from “What is wrong with you?”......

Opinion

[OPINION] New townhouse policy has residents fed up

Contributor to The LeaderApril 24, 2024April 24, 2024

April 24, 2024April 24, 2024

AISLINN EDMUNDS Special to The Leader It’s no secret that SUNY Fredonia is in financial disarray from program cuts to most extracurricular club budgets being cut in half. But I fear that Fredonia is beginning to think that the solution to these economic problems is to squeeze even more pennies......

Opinion

[OPINION] Literary classics to keep shelved

Contributor to The LeaderApril 21, 2024April 21, 2024

April 21, 2024April 21, 2024

MARISSA BURR Opinion Editor Whenever someone is going to an English or writing field, they get hundreds of comments hearing about how “oh I could never get through those books in high school blah blah blah.” The truth is, I get it. I loved reading growing up, even the classics.......

Opinion

[OPINION] A Playlist for Every Mood: Who runs the world?

Contributor to The LeaderApril 12, 2024April 9, 2024

April 12, 2024April 9, 2024

MARISSA BURROpinion Editor Trigger warning: Mentions of sexual harassment, sexual assault and self-harm Lately, I’ve been hearing people discuss the Bechdel Test for movies. Essentially, the test examines films to see if two female characters a) appear, b) talk to each other, and c) do so about something other than......

Opinion

[OPINION] A woman’s experience within the video game community

Abigail JacobsonApril 11, 2024April 10, 2024

April 11, 2024April 10, 2024

ABIGAIL JACOBSON Asst. News Editor Content Warning: slurs, sexual comments, mentions of sexual assault, threats of violence, self-harm, suicide I grew up playing video games with my father and brother. My sisters would join in too, and it was some of the best times I’ve had with them. It helped......

Opinion

[OPINION] Anything but stereotypical

Contributor to The LeaderApril 11, 2024April 9, 2024

April 11, 2024April 9, 2024

MARISSA BURR Opinion Editor Trigger warning: mentions of sexual harassment, sexual assault and self-harm Women are constantly defying expectations with their accomplishments and abilities, but what seems to ruffle the misogynists’ feathers the most is when stereotypes get shredded — as they should be. Our society is known for treating......

Opinion

[OPINION] The women of The Leader

Contributor to The LeaderApril 9, 2024April 9, 2024

April 9, 2024April 9, 2024

KRYSTYNA PORTUGUES-KLOS Staff Writer The Leader has been the newspaper of Fredonia since 1893. Originally called the Fredonia Normal Leader, it was run strictly by women, an all-women group named the Agonian Literary Society, but then was combined with the men-only Zetesian literary society. In 1936, the Fredonia Normal Leader......

Opinion

[OPINION] University counseling centers in crisis

Contributor to The LeaderMarch 30, 2024March 26, 2024

March 30, 2024March 26, 2024

JOSEPH BORYNSKI Special to The Leader It’s no secret that being in college can be stressful. The pressure students often face while trying to balance their coursework with the rest of their life responsibilities can feel overwhelming. Campuses have implemented counseling centers to help students combat their mental health issues,......

Opinion

[OPINION] Changing for the better?

Contributor to The LeaderMarch 29, 2024March 27, 2024

March 29, 2024March 27, 2024

MARISSA BURR Opinion Editor For as long as I can remember, I wanted to be a kindergarten teacher. In eighth grade, I shadowed my kindergarten teacher for a day, and then as a junior, I spent a semester interning there. For graduation, I was given teacher supplies that I could......

[OPINION] Lovercolumn: Keeping the Spark Alive

[SATIRE] Horoscopes: What the last month of the semester has…

Students behind the arts: Mackenzie White

New Exhibit in the Barker Museum: “The Fredonia Un-Censored”

[OPINION] A proposed plan for trauma-informed care at SUNY Fredonia

Safer sex for college students

[SATIRE] Abby’s silly little birthday list

Vice President for Finance and Administration Michael Kelly resigns

[OPINION] New townhouse policy has residents fed up

A look back at Fredonia’s 1994 hockey run

[OPINION] Lovercolumn: Keeping the Spark Alive

[OPINION] A proposed plan for trauma-informed care at SUNY Fredonia

[OPINION] New townhouse policy has residents fed up

[OPINION] Literary classics to keep shelved

[OPINION] A Playlist for Every Mood: Who runs the world?

[OPINION] A woman’s experience within the video game community

[OPINION] Anything but stereotypical

[OPINION] The women of The Leader

[OPINION] University counseling centers in crisis

[OPINION] Changing for the better?