Skidmore Scope Magazine Annual Edition for 2017

2 SCOPE ANNUAL 2017 Y E A R I N R E V I E W 2 0 1 7 Throughout the campaign season, faculty experts appeared in a range of news media, and several events engaged the campus and alumni communities. Among them: • Psychology professor Sheldon Sol- omon gave a talk called “Election 2016: Fatal Attraction,” on how fear affects people’s choice in leaders • Solomon joined historian Jennifer Delton, political scientist Chris Mann, sociologist Andrew Lindner ’03, and social-work professor Pat Oles for a panel on “Teaching Trump” • Mann was interviewed for a “This is Skidmore” podcast about two of his courses, “Campaigns and Elec- tions” and “Election Research” • State legislators Chris Gibson (R) and Paul Tonko (D) held a campus forum called “What Happened to Compromise?” moderated by PBS host Alexander Heffner • Business professor Minita Sang- hvi, a scholar of the marketing of female politicians, gave a lecture titled “A Woman’s Place…is in the White House: Gender and the 2016 Presidential Elections”  • On election night, the Tang Museum’s TV-news watch party ended with poli-sci professor Ron Seyb’s talk “Winning Was Easy. Governing’s Hard. There’s Gotta Be a Morning After” ELECTION 2016 Erin Covey