BCRC allegedly blocks funds for campus speaker

The Broome County Republican Committee (BCRC) allegedly retaliated against the Binghamton University College Republicans for “not falling in line” behind preferred candidates.

The county’s Republican Party had initially promised $2,500 to the College Republicans for a guest speaker event. However, the funding was withdrawn after Logan Blakeslee — the vice president of the College Republicans and a junior double-majoring in history and political science — was seen speaking to Michael Korchak, the Broome County District Attorney, at a petition night event on March 30. Korchak, a Republican, was elected in 2019 on the Libertarian Party ticket after losing the Republican primary to Paul Battisti. Battisti is challenging Korchak again in the upcoming Republican primary. into it. Audrey Franza, a senior majoring in economics who serves as RENA’s editor-in-chief, is one of the magazine’s founders, along with Cameron Wallace, a senior majoring in environmental science who works as the magazine’s creative director.

Franza described the fashion show as the biggest event that RENA has held.

“We have been blessed with the most amazing team,”

Franza said. “If this is the event that Binghamton University remembered me by, I would be more than happy about it.”

This was not RENA’s first attempt at holding a fashion show, with multiple events held in the Fine Arts building last year. Hannah Sperber — a senior majoring in social work — described attending the first fashion show as a positive experience, especially due to the splendor of all of the outfits and makeup.

“The first one was really cool,” Sperber said. “It was really good, and they had multiple shows because they could only fit 30 to 40 people, but this one is on a much larger scale.”

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