Your vote and the First Amendment

[Cindy McMurray]

Campaign finance, Citizens United, and your right to hear



SUNY Plattsburgh Celebrates Constitution Day

Tuesday, September 20, 2022

10 a.m. - 2:30 p.m. (over Zoom)

The Institute for Ethics in Public Life at SUNY Plattsburgh, in partnership
with SUNY Cortland’s Institute for Civic Engagement, Nassau Community
College’s Civic Engagement and Deliberative Dialogue Series, and the
Massachusetts Department of Higher Education, invites students and faculty
to join Constitution Day activities on Tuesday, September 20, 2022.
Participation is free of charge and open to all SUNY Plattsburgh students
and faculty. The event is divided into three parts. Advance registration is
required. You may register for any one or all of the parts. We encourage
your involvement in the entire event.

10 a.m. – 11:15 a.m.:  Keynote address and question and answer session with
Allen Groves, senior vice president and chief student experience officer at
Syracuse University, introduced and moderated by John Suarez, SUNY Cortland
Institute for Civic Engagement.
<https://ncc-zoom.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJwlf-GhpzouGNIpHSgYqAxgPqdzuV52kWmy>

Register for the keynote
<https://ncc-zoom.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJwlf-GhpzouGNIpHSgYqAxgPqdzuV52kWmy>
.

11:15 a.m. – 12:30 p.m.: “Campaign Finance from Watergate, to Soft Money
and Citizens United” – short video introduced by Dr. Jonathan Slater,
Ethics Institute director emeritus, followed immediately by a talk-back
with local political leaders, introduced by political science chair and
Ethics Institute interim director Dr. Daniel Lake and moderated by Dr.
Raymond Carman, SUNY Plattsburgh department of political science. The
conversation will continue at 12:30 p.m. for a half-hour “live lunch.”

Register for the video, talk-back, and live lunch
<https://ncc-zoom.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJ0rf-irqzMoHNMLfK6tPnGOT3DeLXlcjwvD>
.

View the video <https://youtu.be/sFj_-U4G7uM>.

1 p.m. – 2 p.m.: Deliberative dialogues and debrief led by Dr. Susan
Cushman, Nassau Community College English department. The dialogues and
debrief will be followed at 2 p.m. by a 30-minute voter registration prep
session with a representative from the League of Women Voters.

Read about deliberative dialogue <https://www.nifi.org/en/deliberation>.

Register for the deliberative dialogues, debrief, and voter registration
prep session
<https://ncc-zoom.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJUodOiqpzsvHdYqDEn4-cG23mSFkb5tyC34>
.

Student members of the SUNY Plattsburgh chapter of the communication honor
society, Lambda Pi Eta, are tentatively scheduled to conduct voter
registration tabling in the Angell College Center on Wednesday and
Thursday, September 21-22. Check this digest for further details.

The Institute for Ethics in Public Life at SUNY Plattsburgh has been
proudly conducting Constitution Day events since September 17, 2004, when
Congress officially established the observance. SUNY Plattsburgh, as a
public educational institution receiving federal funding, is mandated to
offer educational programming about the U.S. Constitution on or around
September 17 on an annual basis. This year’s event on September 20
coincides with National Voter Registration Day.

For additional information, contact Dr. Jonathan Slater,
slaterjr at plattsburgh.edu.

The Institute for Ethics in Public Life is a program of SUNY Plattsburgh
and supported in part by generous gifts to the Plattsburgh College
Foundation.
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