One hundred and seventy-one retired rabbis gathered in Phoenix for the National Association of Retired Reform Rabbis’ (NAORRR) annual conference Jan. 5-9, but they weren’t there to reminisce about the
View Comments Citing a disconnect between police officers in the streets and policymakers in Albany, state Sen. Fred Akshar hosted a roundtable discussion on public safety with stakeholders from around the 52nd Senate District. Akshar, a former Broome County undersheriff, was joined by Senate Minority Leader Robert Ortt, Broome County Sheriff David Harder, and several other law enforcement officials, prosecutors and elected leaders. The group, which did not include any representatives from community organizations or police reform advocacy groups, met in private before briefing reporters on their discussions afterward. One of the main reasons for the roundtable Wednesday afternoon was to assess how decisions made by lawmakers affect those on the front lines, Akshar said.
BU sociology department sponsors Anti-Racist Town Hall Gabby Banaag/Contributing Photographer The Asian Student Union (ASU) and the Binghamton Pan Asian Leaders Council (BPALC) were among the co-sponsors for the sociology department’s Anti-Racist Town Hall that was held on April 18. Co-sponsors include BSU, LASU, ASU, BPALC and GSEU, where racism at BU was discussed April 22, 2021 In an effort to address the recent racist incidents that have occurred on campus, Binghamton University’s sociology department sponsored an antiracist town hall on April 18. The event, which saw over 300 attendees over Zoom, was held in light of an incident that occurred during the first discussion class in Sociology 100: Social Change: Intro to Sociology. When a student in the course expressed racist and sexist remarks to the TA, an African American woman, the instructor of the course, Joshua Price, professor and chair of the sociology department, and Gladys Jiménez-Muñoz, associate professor and undergraduate director in the sociology department, both consulted with the TA for support and spent the following class periods discussing racism and racial discrimination.