Ban On Travel To Carolina
Keeps 2 Profs From Confabs
By LIBBY CUDMORE • for www.AllOTSEGO.com
ONEONTA – SUNY Oneonta is feeling the weight of Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s Executive Order barring “non-essential” travel to North Carolina in light of Gov. Pat McCroy’s signing of a law that banned LGBT non-discrimination orders and mandating that schools force transgender students to use bathrooms and locker rooms that correspond with the gender on their birth certificate.
“It has affected us,” said Hal Legg, SUNY Oneonta’s Director of Communications. “Two faculty members had planned to attend conferences in North Carolina.”