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• Poll shows New Yorkers support keeping COVID-19 restrictions in place until May 15

  By Jandoli Institute on May 1, 2020 • ( 0 )

  

  By Richard Lee Opinions among New Yorkers who live in the New York City area often are at odds with those who live in other parts of the state, but a new Siena College Research Institute poll shows voters little… Read More ›

• Is baseball hypocritcal about technology?

  By sbuprof on May 1, 2020 • ( 0 )

  

  By Michael P. Riccards  With the nation knee-deep in the pandemic and the loss of the spring, it appears very likely that at best we will have a truncated baseball season if any at all. Some of us believe that… Read More ›

• Roseann “Chic” Canfora: ‘A kinship with other shooting survivors’

  By Jandoli Institute on May 1, 2020 • ( 0 )

  

  I feel a kinship with other shooting survivors, including students at Parkland and black Americans who were dying in the streets long before white students faced bullets at Kent State. We must recognize the tragic consequences of the hateful rhetoric… Read More ›

• Greg Mitchell: How Bona students reacted to the Kent State shootings

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  By Greg Mitchell It had been a spring filled with protests of various sorts at SBU already, when I came back to my off-campus apartment one early evening in early May.  As a senior I was looking forward to graduation… Read More ›

• Carole McNall: ‘How do you walk back from that level of public anger?’

  By sbuprof on May 1, 2020 • ( 0 )

  

  Looking back at the Kent State shootings should lead to considering two questions relevant again today: Why did things get so bad? How do you walk back from that level of public anger? The walk back from Kent State and… Read More ›

• Peggy Dudas: ‘We need to be constantly reminded of Kent State’

  By Jandoli Institute on May 1, 2020 • ( 0 )

  

  On May 4, 1970, four children were shot and killed by the National Guard. I know we went out on strike over Cambodia, but I was still passing out fliers, making a speech (my one speech), and raising hell. The… Read More ›

• John Stevens: ‘We need to be constantly reminded of Kent State’

  By Jandoli Institute on May 1, 2020 • ( 0 )

  

  Americans’ pride themselves in the constitutional guarantee of peaceful protest. But when either side in a standoff pulls the trigger, turning a demonstration violent, a voice is lost.  A larger message is sent. Disagreement, civil disobedience, can be deadly. Such… Read More ›

• Mike Greenblatt: ‘True American martyrs for peaceful protest’

  By Jandoli Institute on May 1, 2020 • ( 0 )

  

  When I was researching for my Woodstock book Back To Yasgur’s Farm, I came across information that in 1969 New York Gov. Nelson Rockefeller wanted to call in the National Guard to disperse the 500,000 of us at the butt… Read More ›

• Denny Wilkins: ‘The day I first understood journalism’

  By Jandoli Institute on May 1, 2020 • ( 0 )

  

  I became a journalist in April 1970 at my hometown paper. I had little understanding of the profession. On May 4, government fired on its own citizens, killing four and wounding nine. Repeat: A government fired at its  own citizens… Read More ›

• Chris Mackowski: ‘When protesters demanded accountability, government responded with violence’

  By Jandoli Institute on May 1, 2020 • ( 0 )

  

  The Kent State protesters demanded government accountability; the government responded not with answers but with violence. At a time when the current administration resists similar calls for accountability, and its supporters enable that defiance, Kent State reminds us of the… Read More ›

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