He decided a panel would be the best format to discuss this topic. Normally he does a homecoming event that resembles his School of Management lecture on negotiation, but the fervor of this election cycle made it impossible to ignore. Moss said he was unsatisfied with the rhetoric surrounding the 2016 presidential election. That doesn’t happen enough and it’s a scary thing to me.” “I hope here that we do have differences of opinion, but that it is respected. “I believe in civil discourse, and energetic discourse,” Moss said as he addressed the crowd of around 20 students and alumni. Moss wanted to make it clear that despite the level of expertise and knowledge provided by the panel, the event was to be a discussion and not a lecture. The homecoming event was led by Harpur College alumnus Glenn Moss ‘75 who is a practicing attorney in New York City, an adjunct lecturer at the School of Management and a steering committee member of the Harpur Law Council of Binghamton University. The panel consisted of three esteemed Harpur faculty members: professor of political science and director of the Center on Democratic Performance Michael McDonald, associate professor of history and director of the Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities Wendy Wall and associate professor of philosophy and director of the Philosophy, Politics and Law program Anthony Reeves. “I want you to really think about those two ideas as you think about American society, American politics and the American system of self-government.” “The theme I take from this election is inclusion and identity,” said Professor Michael McDonald.
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