“We don't want Idaho to have a bad reputation. This is our home state. We love our home state. It's beautiful. We pride ourselves on our nature. We pride ourselves on our wildlife. And instead, we are continuing to do things that are… that are sickening.” - Ella Driever In 1995, wolves were reintroduced to central Idaho, and in 2003 a Boise High school called Timberline officially adopted a local wolf pack. Throughout the 2000, students went on wolf tracking trips and in their wolf packs range. But in 2021, Idaho's legislature passed Senate Bill 1211, 1211 allows Idaho hunters to obtain an unlimited number of wolf tags, and it also allows Idaho's Department of Fish and Game to use taxpayer dollars to pay private contractors to kill wolves. That means bounties on wolves, including on public lands. And in 2021, the Idaho Fish and Game Commission expanded the wolf hunting season and hunting and trapping methods. So it's not too surprising to learn that also in 2021, the Timberline pack disappeared. The students, the ones that cared about wolves, at least, were devastated. Last summer I went to D.C. with some of the Species Unite team for a wolf rally on Capitol Hill. While I was there, two young women gave a talk about what happened at Timberline in 2021. Their names are Ella Driver and Sneha Sharma. They both graduated from Timberline High School and were there when their wolf pack disappeared. Please, listen and share.…
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Episode Four, "The Case Against SUNY Canton"
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53:59In this episode of "Jim Crow on Campus," investigative reporter Erin Corbine tells the story of an anonymous Facebook page, Concerned Students of SUNY Canton, that tracks racism in the SUNY Canton University Police. Additionally, we hear from attorney Diane Exoo, who talks about students' constitutional rights, and why police in New York can't lega…
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Episode Three, "Dashawn And Andre"
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41:17Reporter Erin Corbine tracks the story of Dashawn Walker, a rising sophomore at SUNY Canton. Dashawn thought a pair of flippers and a snorkel had been abandoned, so he told one of his friends, Andre Lynch, that he could take them. When Dashawn found out the gear wasn't abandoned, he and Andre returned the items. But when University Police got invol…
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In this episode of Jim Crow on Campus, reporter Erin Corbine sits down with “Ashley.” Ashley, who’s using an alias out of fear of retaliation from police and the administration, is a senior at SUNY Canton. She sheds light on her experiences involving University Police. In this episode, we gain insight into the officers’ strategic circumvention of t…
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What happens when students of color are policed by all-white cops?Welcome to SUNY Canton, a technical college of 3200 students in upstate New York. It’s located in Canton, the county seat of St. Lawrence County, a county that’s just 2.7% Black and 2.3% Latinx. But at SUNY Canton, two-thirds of the students who live on-campus are Black and Latino. I…
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