A Year in Review: Capturing Moments of Hope Amid Chaos

REVIEW
year in
ITHACA COLLEGE
2017–18

Year in
A special publication of THE ITHACAN

TABLE OF CONTENTS 03
CARVING NEW PATHS
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CONTENTS
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TIMELINE
A look back at major
national and international
news stories from August
2017 to March 2018.
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Snapshots
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Anthony NAZAIRE
Collado’s Inauguration
BOLD Scholars
Presidential Residence
Student Affairs
Commencement Changes
SHAKING THINGS UP
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Board of Trustees
Public Safety Report
Hiring Faculty of Color
Collado Sex Abuse Charge
Campus Reactions to Collado News
Letters of Support for Collado
Ithaca Advocacy Center Commentary
Collado Sex Abuse Charge Editorial
Barstool Sports
Michael Stuprich Lawsuit
Swastika Drawing
Support Animals
South Hill Standoff
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Two narrative accounts that
highlight different aspects
of the student experience
in Ithaca.
Remembering the life of
Anthony Nazaire one year
later. Nazaire was killed in
September 2016.

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54TAKING A STAND
STEPPING TO A DIFFERENT BEAT
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Hurricane Fundraisers
National Anthem Commentaries
IC Protestant Community
IC Unity Tibet
Brothers 4 Brothers and Sister 2 Sister
Homelessness in Ithaca
Tarana Burke at Cornell
Sexism in Film Classes Commentary
Active Bystander Commentary
Sexual Assault Commentary
Mansplaining
Mansplaining Editorial
MansplainingandTransPeopleCommentary
Difficulties for Female Professors
Larry Pratt Protest
March for Our Lives
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We Are Ithaca
Applefest
Wizarding Weekend
Students Maintain Natural Lands
Role-Playing Club
“Angels in America”
“In the Red & Brown Water”
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Mahad Olad, Into Identity
Evan Popp, Eye On the Media
Isabella Grullón Paz, In Other News
Sophia Tulp, Tulp’s Travels
Danielle Allentuck, The Tuck Rule
Olivia Riggio, Exploring the Emerald Isle
Elena Piech, Piech in Palermo

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Cortaca
Will Gladney
Wahid Nabi
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“Cendrillon”
“South Park”
“Vagina Monologues”
“This is Our Youth”
Cayuga Sound
Mike Titlebaum Q&A
Faculty Band Trio
Circle of Fifths Concert
Black History Month Concert
Aaron Rizzo Band
IC Campus Band
Collegetown Records
Movie and TV Reviews
Music Reviews
Jim Mullins
Miles Herman
Tim Locastro
Denise Ibarra
Lorenzo Viguie-Ramos
Nickie Griesemer
Students at Winter Olympics
Athletes at Maccabiah Games
Athletes Volunteer
Early Morning Practices
Training Rugby Rookies
Club Soccer Team Goes to Nationals
Nutrition Nightmare
Funding for Women’s Basketball
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From the
06 FROMTHE EDITORS
T
he Class of 2018 has been at Ithaca College during a con-
sequential time in the college’s — and nation’s — history.
When our class started our collegiate careers in August
2014, the Ice Bucket Challenge was capturing the nation’s at-
tention and Barack Obama was in the middle of his second term
as president. At the college, the Integrative Core Curriculum was
entering its second year. Since then, the campus has undergone a
period of immense activism and change, including the #GetCAPS-
ready campaign, the POC at IC protests, protests following the
2016 election, the part-time faculty union activism and the inaugu-
ration of Shirley M. Collado as the college’s ninth president. Much
of this activity on campus during the past four years has been led or
bolstered by students.
Working on The Ithacan during such a tumultuous time has
been a challenge and a privilege. When future generations of
Ithaca College students learn about their college’s history, there
will be no way to ignore the past four years. The Ithacan serves as
the community’s paper of record and is the only media outlet that
focuses entirely on providing coverage of, by and for the college
community. As the editor this academic year, I’ve aimed to contin-
ue a high level of quality journalism that I inherited from those who
came before me.
This academic year will be remembered as Collado’s first year of
her presidency, and the college’s 125th anniversary. Collado has
taken major strides to rebuild a depleted student affairs division,
focusing on improving the student experience. Her decision to add
more counselors to CAPS helps address a long-standing problem,
and our editorial board praised Collado for the move.
But we have criticized her decisions to not hold open searches
— and in some cases, searches at all — for key positions as well as
her handling of the sexual abuse allegations against her from 2001.
As a watchdog on the college’s leadership, I believe The Ithacan
makes the campus a better place by questioning its leaders and
informing the community. While the news The Ithacan reports
may not always be good news for the college and its brand, I firm-
ly believe our independent, often critical coverage of the college
enhances the community’s understanding of itself and its leaders.
Knowledge is power. The mission of the journalist is to share
pertinent information with the community he or she serves in a fair,
balanced way. The work included in this book reflects the best of
The Ithacan’s work this academic year, and I hope that as an insti-
tution, we have lived up to the community’s expectations of us and
fulfilled our mission responsibly.
Editor-in-chief, The Ithacan
Aidan Quigley
| BY AIDAN QUIGLEY

FROMTHE EDITORS 07
Editors
I
get this funny feeling in the pit of my stomach whenever I see a
breaking news alert pop up on my phone screen. First, there’s
the initial reaction, the piqued curiosity when the alert first ap-
pears, introduced by those infamous words: “breaking news.” Then,
there’s the actual reading of the alert, the ingestion of the meaning
behind that short, clipped statement.
I can clearly remember where I was and what I was doing when I
received certain breaking news alerts this past year. When I first read
about the Las Vegas shooting, I had just woken up, and I checked my
phone with half-open eyes just like I do every morning. Then I read
the alert, and the tiredness seemed to snap right out of me. When I
heard about the shooting at a church in Sutherland Springs, Texas,
on that Sunday, my stomach felt hollow. I had just come from church.
And when I first read about the school shooting in Parkland, Florida,
I was on my way to class. I felt distracted the rest of the day. I couldn’t
stop thinking about what would happen if a gunman opened fire at my
sister’s high school, thousands of miles away.
The news, for the most part, is often filled with sobering headlines
and heartbreaking reports that inspire constant anger and terror and
fear. But within the tragedy lies a sliver of hope. It may be small or
seem inconsequential, but it’s there. And sometimes, when the news
is particularly bleak or devastating, those pennies of hope are what
I grasp onto, what I cherish. I remember closely following the rise
of the #MeToo movement, buoyed by the prospects that maybe, just
maybe, this world will begin to show women the respect we deserve.
SowhenIsawthatTimeMagazine’sPersonoftheYearwasthegroup
of brave women who spoke up about sexual assault in their fields of
work, I cried. And when I saw the courageous teen survivors relent-
lessly advocating for gun control, I felt myself rooting for them.
The cover of Year in Review intends to capture that optimism. The
photograph of 3-year-old Orion Hanson-Chisolm holding up his
light-up necklace at Ithaca College’s 125th Anniversary, combined
with the photos behind him, are meant to communicate a sense of
promise for the future. Despite the dark stories dominating head-
lines, there’s still much to celebrate, from winning the year’s most
anticipated football game to ushering in a new president after years
of unrest.
This is what I intended to capture with this magazine — a glimmer
of calm amid the chaos and hope amid the heartbreak. Because while
we may be tempted to believe that the world is in ruins based on the
push notifications we get on our phones, there are always stories ly-
ing beneath the surface, shining light into the darkness. We just have
to look a little harder.
Editor, Year in Review
Celisa Calacal
| BY CELISA CALACAL

August
08 TIMELINE
September
A Unite the Right rally in Charlottesville, Virginia, led to
clashes between white supremacist groups and hundreds of
counter-protestersinoneofthelargestwhitesupremacistevents
in U.S. history. Fights frequently broke out between white su-
premacists and counter-protesters, and more were injured when
a car sped through a crowd of people, resulting in the death of
32-year-old Heather Heyer. The Unite the Right rally was orig-
inally formed to respond to the removal of a Confederate statue
in the city.
The 2017 hurricane season was particularly
devastating, as a series of hurricanes between
August and September caused immense destruc-
tion in parts of the Caribbean, the Gulf Coast
and the U.S. The first of the hurricanes to hit
the U.S., Hurricane Harvey, was a Category 4
storm that caused millions of dollars’ worth of
damage across Texas and Louisiana. Hurricane
Irma followed, bringing strong winds and storm
surges to parts of the Caribbean, Florida, Geor-
gia and South Carolina, becoming one of the
strongest Atlantic basin hurricanes ever record-
ed. Hurricane Maria then became the strongest
storm to hit Puerto Rico in 85 years and caused
widespread and lasting damage across the island.
Following Maria, 2 million people were without
power, and residents as of April 2018 still lack
basic amenities.
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august
17august
President Donald Trump ordered the end to the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals
program, which was initiated under former President Barack Obama’s administration to
protect young undocumented immigrants. As part of the announcement, Trump said the
program will be phased out over the course of six months. The president criticized the DACA
program, saying it hurt American citizens by taking away job opportunities and repressing their
wages. Trump’s announcement sparked widespread protests across the country.
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September
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TIMELINE 09
October
November
A gunman opened fire on a country
music festival in Las Vegas, killing 58
people and injuring hundreds more in
one of the deadliest mass shooting in
U.S. history. The shooter fired more
than 1,100 rounds on the crowd from
a broken window on the 32nd floor of
the Mandalay Bay hotel overlooking the
concert. Authorities later found an ex-
tensive weapons cache in the gunman’s
hotel room, with some guns outfitted
with bump stocks to make them fire like
fully automatic weapons. Following the
shooting, lawmakers, including Trump,
showed interest in passing regulation to
banthesaleofbumpstocks.
TheNewYorkTimespublishedabombshellreportinwhichmultiplewom-
en, including actress Ashley Judd, accused media mogul Harvey Weinstein
of sexual harassment stretching back decades. The story sparked a wave
of sexual-assault allegations against powerful men in media and politics
and led to the birth of the #MeToo movement — a phrase that was origi-
nally coined by activist Tarana Burke in 2006 — in which countless women
shared their experiences of sexual harassment and abuse across social me-
dia platforms. Following Weinstein, other men who were accused of sexual
harassment include former Minnesota Sen. Al Franken, comedian Louis
CK and news anchor Matt Lauer.
01October
05October
The Houston Astros won
their first championship
after beating the Los An-
geles Dodgers 5–1 in
Game 7 of the World Se-
ries. The team’s win came
four years after losing 111
games in one season, a
franchise record, which
then led to an extensive re-
building project to better
the team.
A gunman opened fire at First Baptist Church in
Sutherland Springs, Texas, killing 26 people.
The victims ranged from ages 5 to 72, with sev-
eral children killed. The shooter, who was found
dead shortly after fleeing the church, had a histo-
ry of sexual assault against his wife and their child
and was court-martialed in 2012 because of these
assaults. He was sentenced to 12 months’ confine-
ment and then received a “bad conduct” discharge
in 2014.
01November
05November

10 TIMELINE
December
January
Democrat Doug Jones narrowly defeated Republican Roy
Moore in Alabama’s special election, making Jones the first
Democrat from Alabama to serve in the U.S. Senate in 21
years. Given the close margins between the two, Moore
did not immediately concede to Jones but instead demand-
ed a recount. The months leading up to the special election
were especially heated after several women accused Moore
of inappropriate conduct of a sexual nature when they were
teenagers. Despite the accusations, a CBS poll found that 71
percent of Republicans in Alabama believed the allegations
against Moore were false.
A government shutdown ensued after
Senate Republicans and Democrats
failed to pass a stopgap bill to contin-
ue funding the government, leading
to the shutdown of federal operations.
The shutdown ended Jan. 22 after the
parties reached a bipartisan agree-
ment to pass a short-term spending
bill that would fund the government
until Feb. 8. The bill was also passed
with a promise from Senate Majority
Leader Mitch McConnell to allow a
vote on legislation that would protect
young undocumented immigrants
from deportation.
MinnesotaSen.AlFrankenannouncedhisintention
to resign from the Senate following a number of al-
legations accusing Franken of sexual harassment
whichincludedgropingandforciblykissingwomen.
Franken responded by denying these allegations. A
number of Senate Democrats, including most wom-
en and a number of men, pushed for Franken to step
down from office after these accusations became
public. His last day as U.S. senator was Jan. 2.
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December
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December
19
January

TIMELINE 11
February
March
In Super Bowl LII, the Philadelphia Eagles pulled off a 41–33
upset against five-time champions the New England Patriots
to win the team’s first Super Bowl in franchise history. Some
decisive plays include Eagles quarterback Nick Foles — who
later was crowned Super Bowl MVP — catching a touchdown
pass on a fourth down and a diving touchdown catch from Zach
Ertz that bumped the Eagles’ score to 38. Super Bowl LII was
followed by riots and celebratory marches through the streets
of Philadelphia.
Renowned physicist
Stephen Hawking died
at age 76. Throughout
his life, Hawking was
known for groundbreak-
ing discoveries, which
were published in his
best-selling book “A Brief
History of Time: From the
Big Bang to Black Holes.”
Diagnosed with Lou Geh-
rig’s disease in 1963
while at Cambridge Uni-
versity, Hawking defied
expectations by continu-
ing to study the cosmos
and explore theories of
black holes.
04 February
A school shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School
inParkland,Florida,resultedinthedeathsof17people,includ-
ing students and teachers. The gunman was a former student of
the school. The mass shooting once again fueled debate on gun
control, with a group of Stoneman Douglas survivors leading
the charge to enact stronger gun control laws across the coun-
try.Intheweeksfollowing,FloridaGov.RickScottsignedagun
control safety bill that included raising the minimum age to pur-
chase a gun from 18 to 21.
An estimated 2 million people crowded busy streets
at763locationsacrossthecountryduringtheMarch
for Our Lives rally, becoming the third-largest day
of protest since Trump’s inauguration last year. The
March for Our Lives was primarily organized by the
survivors of the Stoneman Douglas High School
shooting in an effort to rally support for stronger
gun control and safer public spaces. Marches in
the nation’s capital and around the U.S. drew par-
ticipants of all ages, from children to seniors, and
emphasized the racial dynamics of gun control to
highlight the violence faced by children of color in
urbanareas.
14 February
04 March
24 March

12 SNAPSHOTS
For many college students, Thursday nights are reserved for drunk renditions of Billy Joel
T
he walls of Kilpatrick’s are vibrating, as
a mess of college students and young
adults crowds every inch of hardwood
floor from the bar to the stage, sheltered from
the constant sheets of wintry rain outside. The
air thickens with humidity as more people
squeeze into the already-packed bar, with frag-
ments of conversation melding together into
a raucous symphony that defies the looming
winter storm.
But, rising above the chatting and the
yelling and the screaming, the voices of two
women brazenly belt out Aretha Franklin’s
“R.E.S.P.E.C.T.” Their off-pitch screeching
into the plush microphones sounds noth-
ing like Franklin’s soulful gospel vocals, but
they don’t care. This is their concert, their
two minutes and twenty-nine seconds of
college-bar fame.
The crowd below does not seem to mind
this group’s blatant inability to cover Aretha
Franklin’s hit (aside from one glasses-wearing
man in a Christmas-red penguin sweater who
says he doesn’t like this song). Nope, they’re
grooving and bobbing their heads in appre-
ciation, their hands casually clutching clear
plastic cups filled with alcoholic concoctions.
During each “R-E-S-P-E-C-T, find out what
it means to me,” the crowd faithfully fulfills
their unspoken duty to sing along with the per-
formers, their voices swelling together in that
fleeting yet euphoric karaoke moment when
the crowd and the singers singularly turn a
packed bar into the world’s drunkest choir.
The end of the song is met with claps and
“woohoos,” and the women exit down the
stairs, leaving the small stage to await its next
performers. The karaoke master, a heavy-set
man with a thick mustache who always seems
to have the suggestion of a smile on his face,
takes charge of the lineup, ensuring that each
performance is readily followed by another by
announcing who’s up next and who’s on deck
with the roller coaster–like intonations of a
game show host.
A college guy squeezes his way through the
throng and makes it somewhat close to the bar,
hisgraylongsleeveandblueandredpuffervest
slightly dampened from the current drizzle.
“What is going on?”
With widened eyes scanning the room, he
seems perplexed at this perfect concert of bod-
ies too immersed in the drunken music fest to
neither know nor care about the steady rain
awaiting them. Or maybe he’s dumbstruck
at the gaggle of ladies bunched near the bar
holding plastic champagne flutes that sorely
stick out amid the sea of plastic cups.
As he collects himself, lines of traffic push
past him without so much as a polite “excuse
me.” Some eagerly await to enter the mosh
pit near the stage, their heads sticking out
like giraffes to get a glimpse of the current
performers, who, at this moment, are giving
their rendition of “Hooked On a Feeling” 110
percent. Others stand on tiptoes to hopefully
catch the attention of a bartender for another
$3 rum and coke.
And, as a constant, there is that beeline of
patrons who rush to the bathrooms as fast as
possible, exiting the room during a song they
don’t know but rushing so they make it back
before the performance ends. They don’t want
to miss the next song.
A swell now moves herd-like to the stage
upon recognizing the soft opening notes to
Neil Diamond’s “Sweet Caroline” over the
loudspeakers, their hands tightly clutching
their refilled plastic cups to avoid spilling on
the hardwood floor.
The college guys carrying this song seem to
have no difficulty on the verses as they talk-sing
— a quality that can be attributed to Neil Dia-
mond’s low-range crooning — which doesn’t
require the same vocal strain as Aretha Frank-
lin. Then, the chorus.
“SWEEEEET CAR-O-LIIIIINE…”
The crowd’s voice booms out once more,
drowning out the karaoke singers while at the
same time symbolizing their verbal approval of
the song choice.
These participants take their jobs as kara-
oke patrons deathly serious. For without their
| BY CELISA CALACAL
KARAOKE — THE MUSICALKARAOKE — THE MUSICAL
ILLUSTRATIONS BY AVA KENDRICK
“without their
exuberant half-singing
and half-yelling to fill
this bar, the performers
would be exposed.”

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exuberant half-singing and half-yelling to fill this bar, the performers
would be exposed, naked on stage, stripped of the overconfidence that
transforms them from mere humans to superstars.
“BA BA BAAAA.”
In a moment that defies Neil Diamond’s classic hit, the crowd de-
cides to vocalize the crisp trio of successive trumpet blasts. It’s unclear
whether this was a conscious decision or whether they truly believe
these are actual words in the song, but it doesn’t matter. Anything goes
in karaoke.
What follows is Billy Joel’s “We Didn’t Start the Fire,” a song that
mandates the patrons to train their eyes on the television screen in the
corner displaying the rapid-fire lyrics that turn from yellow to blue in
classic sing-along fashion. But these karaokegoers are unfazed, and
they belt out “Birth control, Ho Chi Minh, Richard Nixon back again/
Moonshot, Woodstock, Watergate, punk rock,” with an incensed
fervor that turns comical when considering that the song’s cultural
references predate this generation by about 30 years.
There is, however, at least one girl who seems to know all the words
to this song — yes, even the verses. To prove her prowess, she deliber-
ately turns her back to the stage and the screen and recites the lyrics
with rote, poetic precision. Her friends stare back at her with eyes of
incredulity, now more enamored by her memorization skills than the
performers themselves. Impressive.
The college guys are succeeded by a girl with long and wavy brown
hair who takes on Bonnie Tyler’s “Total Eclipse of the Heart,” a song
that demands complete mastery of voice. She knows this and breezes
through the song with the casual confidence of a chef crafting her sig-
nature entree. She’s done this before. And although the song is not a
duet, the crowd makes it so and takes on the responsibility of singing
“Turn around, bright eyes” before brown-haired girl belts out “Every
now and then I fall apart.”
Then, at half past midnight, a break in the drunken din. A man
with blonde hair strides onto the stage, a microphone in one
hand and a glass half-full in the other.
“OH SHIT, OH SHIT, IT’S PIANO MAN, woah woah
woah, IT’S PIANO MAN.”
A few karaoke regulars call him by this stage name, his claim to local
fame. The opening chords of Billy Joel’s “Piano Man” begin to play,
and loud cheers erupt from the crowd.
Piano Man, so aptly named because this, clearly, is his song, suc-
cessfully matches every pitch change, from the melodic croon of the
verses to the controlled belting of the chorus. The crowd is momen-
tarily snapped out of their karaoke-and-alcohol-induced haze to realize
that, wow, this guy is good.
A tall glasses-wearing fan abruptly leaves his front row spot to speed-
walk to the bar and then returns with two shot glasses filled with that
familiar honeyed hue of whiskey. Piano Man graciously accepts the free
alcohol and tips the liquid into his mouth without ever missing a word.
His smooth vocals reverberate around the entire bar, and the crowd
scream-sings along, their arms half-raised and their fingers pointed at
the star performer. In the Thursday night concert that is karaoke, Piano
Man is the headlining act.
“This is all you,” Piano Man instructs to his audience. He holds the
microphone out to them as they belt out, “La la la, di da daaa … La la, di
da daaaaa da dummmm …”
“SING US A SONG, YOU’RE THE PIANO MAN, sing us a song
tonight” — the crowd takes particular joy in belting these lyrics toward
the stage. It’s their turn to serenade Piano Man.
“Well we’re all in the mood for a melody, and you’ve got us
feeling alright.”
During the final chorus, Piano Man grabs his phone from his pock-
et and holds it up, taking a video of the sea of patrons shout-singing
and stumble-swaying before him. This is his concert, and these are
his groupies.
The performances that follow are less “Piano Man” and more “Sweet
Caroline” — inebriated, impassioned renditions of throwback hits
that spark the crowd’s adolescent memories — but they don’t seem to
care, and they continue to sing along with drunken rambunctiousness,
their voices melding together to create a singularly spectacular
Thursday night soundtrack.

14 SNAPSHOTS
drunk bus blues
I
t’s 11 o’clock, and rain is falling softly
against the pavement. Pools of moisture
gather into puddles indistinguishable from
the darkness of the night sky, and the sound of
precipitation forms a muffled drip that inter-
mingles with the cadence of a dozen voices.
Split into groups of twos and threes, the voices
wait, occasionally stealing glances down the
sharp curve of the road that leads up the hill
toward Garden Apartments.
Then, a faint rumble sounds in the distance,
followed by a blaze of neon orange lights. “11
— Ithaca College Circle Apts,” the lights read.
The students pile onto the bus, dispersing
themselves among dozens of rows that house
padded seats. As they settle in, a few latecom-
ers sprint toward the bus, and it permits them
to clamber aboard. “I don’t like running,” one
of the latecomers gasps to his friend.
At last, everyone is situated and the bus
pulls away with a roar of locomotive power. As
it climbs its way up the hill through the dark,
quiet campus, rain continues to spat-
ter against elongated windows,
covering them with
a thin layer of
foggy gray. “Where are we?” a guy asks his
friend, squinting out a window.
“I have no idea, love,” she answers with
a sigh.
More passengers arrive. As they take their
seats, fragments of conversation criss-cross
around the bus.
“I told Emily before I left, you better not tell
my mom,” one girl says.
“Arewethereyet?”adifferentgirlcomplains.
One dude leans over to greet someone in a
seat opposite him and almost falls over in his
enthusiasm. A guy hands his business card to a
girl he’s been chatting up; she wonders to her
friends if it’s his way of trying to get with her.
After completing its campus circuit, the
bus winds its way down the hill, and the chat-
ter intensifies as the prospect of freedom
approaches. When it pulls into
the downtown station,
the students
quickly stream off, excited about what lies
ahead even as the rain dampens skin left ex-
posed by going-out clothes. The bus waits a
few beats, looking empty, sad and forlorn, be-
fore pulling away into the night.
***
It’s after 1 in the morning, and rain is still
falling, pattering off the roof of the Seneca
Street station. A crowd of students sit in clus-
tered groups, most mired in drunken hazes
that make some of them silent and stony-faced
and others exuberant and obnoxious.
The voices of a group of frat boy types climb
above the rest, drowning out even the sound
of the rain on the roof. They shout various He-
brew phrases, laughing maniacally.
“Shabbat Shalom!” one yells.
“It’s okay. He has trouble with English,”
one of his friends jokes. But the jab falls flat,
and he turns away.
| BY EVAN POPP
On weekend nights, the TCAT transforms into a vessel of inebriated college students
ILLUSTRATIONS BY AVA KENDRICK

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The second to last bus of the night arrives,
and the students spring toward it, scrambling
onboardasiftheyarelostatseaandhavefound
their lifeboat. “This is route 11,” drones an
automated voice as the bus pulls away from
the station.
The frat boy types take over the back of the
bus and loudly discuss football. But one bro,
overtaken by fatigue, leans his head on anoth-
er bro’s shoulder. It’s a surprisingly tender
moment, particularly amidst the hullabaloo
of masculinity playing out around them. The
moment is soon punctured, though, as one of
the frat boys yells of someone unknown, “He
sucks dick!”
The bus approaches the last downtown
station. Streams of students emerge from
The Commons, racing toward their lifeboat,
forming a blob that collectively pushes its way
forward. But just as the mass solidifies, a group
of girls, oblivious to the bus’s approach, jumps
out into the street in front of it. The bus comes
to a screeching halt as the driver slams on the
brakes, staring in disbelief. The girls pay him
no heed, running across the street with reck-
less abandon — fearing nothing, believing
nothing can hurt them. A girl on the bus turns
to her friend, shaking her head knowingly.
“They’re probably freshmen.”
With the bus at a standstill, the blob moves
forward, shoving its way on until it seems that
every square inch has been filled. Students
jostle into each other, creating a sea of bodies
pushed together in much the same way they
just were on the Moonies dance floor. The
driver waits for any semblance of calm. But
after a minute or two, a group of guys gets im-
patient. “MOVE THAT BUS! MOVE THAT
BUS! MOVE THAT BUS!” they chant.
“SHUT UPPPP!” someone yells back.
Finally, the driver — a middle-aged man
with dark bags under his eyes — gives up on
controlling the situation. The bus pulls away
from the stop and begins to climb the hill, its
engine straining against gravity like an ex-
ercise junkie trying to finish a long series of
pull-ups. As it advances, the bus hits a series
of bumps, knocking around its passengers —
whose alcohol-filled bodies are already having
difficulty maintaining a center of gravity — and
producing melodramatic yells and screeches as
the students tip into one another.
The bus continues to move forward, and
the voices of its passengers combine to form a
cacophony of sound — a din that reverberates
around the close confines of the bus. Still, the
voices of the frat boys manage to rise above
the rest.
“It’s fucking Friday,” one hollers.
“I love AEPi,” shouts another.
Around them, an array of passengers sits
(and stands) in sullen silence. Their dilemma
is simple: Many are drunk enough to want to
be home, but not drunk enough to be amused
by the discordant tones of masculine-driven
tomfoolery echoing around them. To them, the
bus ride feels as if it will never end — like they
are stuck in some science-fiction continuum
where time ceases to move forward.
Astheclamorofvoicesfromthebackcontin-
ues, a girl in the front slumps into her friend’s
lap. Her friend reaches forward and hugs her
close. The bus stops midway up the hill to let
some people off, opening its doors and expos-
ing the continued pitter-patter of rain outside.
The noise from inside the bus swells, and the
driver leaves for a moment, ostensibly to check
that everything is still intact after the bumpy
ride up. More likely, though, he just needs a
minute of peace away from the horde. Soon,
he returns and drives on. When he pulls away
from the stop, the lights from inside cast a glow
on a figure walking up the hill; he looks dazed,
confused and windblown as he’s left behind.
Back on the bus, what is a party for some
and a nightmare for others continues on. Soon
they’ll all clamber or stumble off. But for now,
pressed against one another, they yell, chant,
slump and roll their eyes as the bus pulls itself
up the hill, advancing farther into the night.
At long last, for one guy at least, it’s over.
The door swings open, and he steps off. The
bus rolls on, the only source of light in the dark
of the street. Still, for a few seconds, the voic-
es of its babbling passengers are still audible,
drunkenly whooping their way up the hill. It’s
fleeting, though, and soon the sound of inebri-
ated shouting fades, followed by the roar of the
engine. Finally, as the bus turns the corner, all
that’s left is silence — a silence only broken by
the soft sound of falling rain and the wisp of a
gentle, calming wind.
“STudents jostle into each other, creating a sea of bodies
pushed together in much the same way they just were on the
moonies dance floor.”

16 ANTHONY NAZAIRE
Nagee Green
Sentenced
Over a year later, Nagee
Green was found guilty for
the murder of
Anthony Nazaire
Nagee Green, the man convicted of
killing Ithaca College student Anthony
Nazaire, was sentenced to 20 years in jail
Nov. 6, 2017.
Green was sentenced to 17 years for
Nazaire’s murder and three years for sec-
ond-degree assault for stabbing junior
Rahiem Williams, another student at the
college, in the same incident. The crimes
took place in August 2016, when a large
fight broke out as an event at Cornell Uni-
versity’s Willard Straight Hall dispersed
close to 2 a.m.
When announcing his decision, County
Court Judge John Rowley said that Green
“aggressively re-entered the fight” that
took place the night Nazaire was killed
and Williams was wounded and that Green
seemed to be there to cause trouble. How-
ever, he also said that Green has had no
prior criminal convictions and that the
fight happened very fast, which is why he
said he was not prepared to give Green a
life sentence.
Rowley said Nazaire was a student with a
bright future. He said he admired Nazaire’s
| BY GRACE ELLETSON
Anthony
Nazaire:
One Year
Later
A tree and plaque were erected near
Muller Chapel to honor Nazaire’s life.
SAM FULLER/THE ITHACAN

ANTHONY NAZAIRE 17
dedication to the Brothers 4 Brothers or-
ganization, a student organization that
provides support for mar-
ginalized men on college
campuses.
“There is nothing you
can do but admire where
he was putting his energy,”
Rowley said.
At the sentencing,
Nazaire’s sister, Kiara Nazaire, and
Nazaire’s father, Reginald Nazaire, also
spoke. The prosecution also read a let-
ter from Williams to Rowley in which
he discussed the pain he has endured
since the death of his friend. In his let-
ter, Williams explained that the trauma
he suffered was not only from the phys-
ical damage the stab wounds caused, but
also the emotional damage that came from
losing one of his best friends. He said
in the letter that he also still has around
$2,000 left in medical bills to pay from
the stabbing.
This, combined with the trauma
Nazaire’s other friends and family have en-
dured, is why he said he wants justice to be
found in Green’s sentencing.
“What I found to be so profound is that
an event that happened so quickly can re-
sult in immense pain,” Williams wrote.
Kiara Nazaire told Rowley that her
brother had a wide, positive effect on
the lives of others. She said her broth-
er was very ambitious and that he
wanted to break away from the stereo-
type that he was just another young man
from “the hood.” She said he wanted to
change lives.
“My family didn’t just lose an amazing
young man, so did the Ithaca community,”
she said.
GREEN
It was raining. A crowd of approximately 100 students, faculty and
staff were tucked under a white tent; the rest scattered around it with
umbrellas. But when Sean Reid, dean of the business school, walked up
to the microphone to commemorate the life of Anthony Nazaire, the for-
mer Ithaca College student who was killed Aug. 28, 2016, rays of sun
began to shine.
“It’s hard to believe it’s been a year already since his tragic loss,”
Reid said.
Reid was the first speaker at the remembrance gathering held Sept.
8, 2017 outside the Dorothy D. and Roy H. Park Center for Business
and Sustainable Enterprise. The gathering was held to commemorate
Nazaire, who was stabbed and killed after leaving a party at Cornell
University, and to unveil a plaque and pear tree that were erected in his
memory. Nagee Green, the man on trial for the murder of Nazaire, was
convicted in June for second-degree assault but the jury deadlocked
on the murder charge. A retrial was held this fall to settle the murder
charge. Jury selection for the retrial was scheduled for Sept. 15, 2017.
Before the ceremony began, Nazaire’s sister, mother and grand-
mother walked up to the plaque under the pear tree and were able
to reflect before the ceremony began. President Shirley M. Colla-
do led them over to the memorial and comforted them. The crowd
fell silent.
Reid said the placement of the plaque and tree was closest to the
two classrooms in the Business School where Nazaire spent the
most time. One was the student organization room. The other was
Business 206, where Nazaire took a class with one of his favorite
professors, Don Lifton, who died Dec. 5, 2015. The plaque was also
placed near the Muller Chapel, where students of different faiths hold
religious ceremonies.
“I hope any student, of faith or not of faith, will walk down that path
toward the chapel and say a prayer or that they’ll think of Anthony and
remember him in their thoughts,” Reid said.
RahK Lash, assistant director in the Office of Student Engagement
and Multicultural Affairs, spoke next. He remembered that the last time
he had a conversation with Nazaire, they discussed his leadership role
on the executive board of Brothers 4 Brothers, a student organization
dedicated to providing a safe space and support system for marginalized
men on campus.
“Anthony and I had a very, very deep conversation about his goals and
his aspirations and his ambitions,” Lash said. “I didn’t know that was
the last time I would actually get to see Ant.”
Lash said Nazaire was ambitious, inquisitive and projecting
for success.
“Anthony was that dream of tomorrow,” Lash said.
Nazaire’s legacy, Lash said, would live on through other students
of color with similar aspirations through the Anthony Nazaire ’19 En-
dowed Scholarship. Sophomore Christopher Ford, the first recipient of
the scholarship, attended the ceremony to accept a plaque given to him
in honor of Nazaire’s life.
Nathaniel Gonzalez ’17 also spoke at the gathering, reflecting on the
day he and his friends became aware of Nazaire’s death. He said he re-
membered how dedicated the college community was to helping them
heal and come to terms with the loss of their friend.
“In the past year, this campus has shown how strong it is and
what it’s capable of,” Gonzalez said. “This community of color has
shown just how strong it is. I can’t put into words how thankful I am
for that.”
After the remembrance gathering, Ford expressed how grate-
ful he was for receiving the scholarship and said that while he did
not know Nazaire personally, he feels connected to him through
the award.
Ford is a member of the the National Association of Black Accoun-
tants and is on the executive board of Brothers 4 Brothers. He said he is
trying to be as ambitious as he has heard Nazaire was.
“We didn’t know each other, but we were going to have each others’
backs regardless just because we were black men trying to succeed,”
Ford said.
Ford described himself as a religious man, and when he received the
scholarship, he said, he saw it as a blessing. He said that since receiving
the award, he prays more, and he also said he plans to visit the plaque
honoring Nazaire often, just to talk to him and be thankful.
“Just from hearing different stories from people, they ex-
plained to me just the kind of person that he was,” Ford said. “And
I definitely do wish I was able to meet him because … we would have
instantly clicked.”
| BY GRACE ELLETSON
The Ithaca College community held a
memorial on the one-year anniversary
of Anthony Nazaire’s death

20 CARVING NEW PATHS
New Beginnings
A
pplause, music and confetti filled the Athletics and Events
Center as Ithaca College President Shirley M. Collado was
inaugurated as the college’s ninth president on Nov. 4, 2017.
Collado’s inauguration took place during the weekend of the col-
lege’s 125th Anniversary celebration, as well as the annual Family
Weekend and Alumni Weekend. Hundreds of staff, faculty, students,
parents,alumniandIthacacommunitymembersgatheredfortheevent.
During the ceremony, members of these different constituencies stood
by to officially welcome Collado to the community.
Julia Alvarez, author, poet, writer-in-residence at Middlebury
College in Vermont and a close friend of Collado’s from their time
together there, spoke at the ceremony. Freeman A. Hrabowski III,
president of the University of Maryland in Baltimore County and a col-
league of Collado’s in the higher education community, also addressed
the audience. Poet A. Van Jordan, a professor at the University of Mich-
igan and Collado’s husband, read, for the first time at the inauguration,
a poem about being good to our neighbors in the country’s current
political landscape.
Collado was announced as the new president in February 2017 and
assumed the position July 1, 2017. Former President Tom Rochon re-
tired from his presidency after protests at the college concerning his
administration’s handling of racial bias and campus governance.
Tom Grape ’80, chair of the Ithaca College Board of Trustees,
introduced and installed Collado as president. For her introduc-
tion, Grape gave a speech about Collado’s qualifications, putting an
emphasis on her capacity to care and her knowledge of the higher
education community.
“She is leader who works hard to ensure that higher education can
become a catalyst for personal growth, social mobility and communi-
ty impact,” Grape said. “She cares deeply about students, about their
academic and professional development, their personal and social
well-being and their ability to thrive in college and in the rest of their
lives. She understands today’s complex higher education landscape
and anticipates the kind of changes that are on the horizon.”
In her inaugural address, Collado talked about how she hopes to
form an inclusive, intellectual campus that rejects the current political
and social boundaries.
“In our country right now, we are seeing what happens when people
hide, when they act on their fear, their bias, their rigidity of thought,”
Collado said. “When boundaries disappear, we can realize the full po-
tential of a residential campus where everyone is welcome to practice
deep intellectual inquiry and everyone is empowered to collaboratively
create and consume knowledge.”
Hrabowski spoke about Collado’s generosity and integrity. He said
he was eager to see the changes she would make and said she would
haveapositiveimpactonthecollege,especiallyduringthecurrenttime
of political turmoil in the country.
“Ithaca, you have been preparing for years for this moment,”
Hrabowski said. “This is the president who listens carefully, who will
ask questions, who will do her homework, who will speak with compas-
sion, who will have the hand and heart involved.”
Alvarez said she was pleased with what Collado’s presidency as the
first Dominican-American college president meant for inclusivity and
diversity in the academic community.
“We Dominicans, as you can tell, are very proud of our own, and
not only of our baseball players,” Alvarez said. “Shirley’s roots might
be on a half-island in the Caribbean, but she is not peninsular in her
concerns for leadership. She is all about collaboration across borders,
about empowering others and building Martin Luther King’s beloved
community together.”
In addition to those who spoke at the inauguration, members
of the community expressed their confidence and excitement for
Collado’s presidency.
Walter J. Smith, a former member of the board of
trustees for 10 years, said Collado’s background and
experience is what the college needs to rebuild and improve itself
in terms of bringing in more students from various academic and
socioeconomic backgrounds.
“She’s a natural leader, and she’s got the gifts of both mind and
heart,” Smith said. “Many presidents have great gifts of mind but few
gifts of heart. I think she’s going to be both a healer and a rebuilder of
Ithaca College.”
Members of the Ithaca College Alumni Association expressed their
excitement for Collado’s inauguration and said they are optimistic
about her presidency and the impact she will have on campus in the
coming years. Chris Lee ’10 said that Collado has already successful-
ly engaged with faculty, staff, students and alumni, especially with the
alumni board.
Sophomore Evan Jones, a member of the student greeter group
at the inauguration, said he hopes Collado can bring the campus
community together.
“I really think she’s done a great job so far really invigorating the
campus community and getting everyone really hyped up for her inau-
guration,” Jones said. “Now that she’s official, we’ll see what happens
in the years to come. But I’m really excited.”
Echoing the hopes of the faculty, staff and students, Colla-
do ended her inauguration address with a call to action for the
campus community.
“Let’s be daring, let’s be confident, and let’s step arm-and-arm bold-
ly into the future,” Collado said.
| BY MADISON FERNANDEZ AND MEREDITH BURKE
The Ithaca College community celebrated the inauguration
of Shirley M. Collado as the college’s ninth president

CARVING NEW PATHS 21
“This is the
president who
listens carefully,
who will ask
questions, who
will do her
homework, who
will speak
with compassion,
who will have
the hand and
heart involved.”
– FREEMAN A. HRABOWSKI IIII
Shirley M. Collado, the ninth president of the college, gives a speech
during her inauguration Nov. 4 in the Athletics and Events Center.
CONNOR LANGE/THE ITHACAN

I
thaca College will be the fifth institution
joining the BOLD Women’s Leadership
Network, a program founded by the col-
lege’s new president, Shirley M. Collado.
The four-semester program will consist
of activities with faculty mentorship and net-
working opportunities to develop leadership
skills and community building. Using these
skills, the scholars aim to create projects to
bring positive change and increased inclusion
on their respective college campuses. Rising
junior women at the college can apply for the
program, according to the BOLD Women’s
Leadership Network website.
Collado said she is very pleased that the col-
lege joined the BOLD Women’s Leadership
Network program.
“We are very thrilled to bring this program
to Ithaca College and look forward to recruit-
ing an outstanding cohort of junior women
leaders,” Collado said.
The program emphasizes diversity, leader-
ship, critical thinking, community building
and facilitation of challenging discourse, ac-
cording to the BOLD Women’s Leadership
Network website. There will also be an an-
nual scholarship of up to $25,000 for BOLD
Scholars during their junior and senior years
of college. The program plans to accept ap-
proximately 10 students from the junior class,
according to the college.
Additionally, 15 female freshmen will be
selected as BridgeUp Scholars. The program
provides a one-year $10,000 scholarship.
During their sophomore year, each BridgeUp
Scholar will be paired with a BOLD Scholar
peer mentor.
Sabrina Ahmed, a current BOLD Scholar
at Rutgers University–Newark, said the men-
torship at the program has helped her improve
her leadership and advocacy skills.
“BOLD has given me a network of amazing
and diverse women leaders that I have learned
and will continue to learn so much from,”
Ahmed said.
This summer, she and some of her fellow
BOLD Scholars went on an international
immersion trip in Cameroon, India, Laos
and Peru, she said. During her time in Peru,
she said she learned the importance of
self-empowerment as a woman in environ-
ments where it is harder for women to excel.
The BOLD initiative is funded by The
Pussycat Foundation, which is a nonprofit,
private foundation that honors Helen Gurley
Brown, the former editor of Cosmopolitan
magazine. Brown’s estate funds the program.
In addition, the Pussycat Foundation also
awarded Collado the Helen Gurley Brown Ge-
nius Grant for her development of the BOLD
Women’s Leadership Network program,
which she started at Rutgers–Newark, Janet
Williams, interim vice president for Finance
and Administration, said.
The fund will be used for the better-
ment of women in education at the college,
Collado said.
“I want to carefully consider how those
funds can best be used to benefit women in
education,” Collado said. “We will certainly
make sure that the Ithaca College community
is kept informed about decisions on the use of
the grant money and all aspects of the BOLD
Women’s Leadership Network at IC.”
The college joined this program as a re-
sult of Collado’s personal connection to
the program. The four other institutions
that belong to the program are Rutgers
University–Newark, Middlebury College,
Smith College and California State Uni-
versity, Fullerton, according to the BOLD
Women’s Leadership Network website.
Collado has connections to Rutgers Uni-
versity–Newark and Middlebury. She was
formerly the executive vice chancellor and
chief operating officer and associate professor
in the sociology department at Rutgers. Prior
to working at Rutgers, she was vice president
for student affairs, dean of the college and
associate professor in the Department of Psy-
chology at Middlebury.
The inaugural class of BOLD scholars
from 2017–2019 are juniors Nabilah Abdal-
la, Chasia Bambo, Hannah Cayem, Candace
Cross, Grace Elletson, Terri Landez, Julissa
Martinez, Avery Santiago, Kat Walsh and
Laura Waxman.
| BY FALYN STEMPLER
A BOLD FUTUREA group of Ithaca College women will have the opportunity to enact change on campus through the BOLD program

COLLADO ON CAMPUS
Ithaca College
announced
that President
Shirley
M. Collado
will soon
live in a
presidential
residence
on campus
grounds
I
thaca College will be constructing a new presidential
residence on campus. This building will be the first
major construction project on campus since the con-
struction of the Athletics and Events Center, which was
completed in 2011.
The residence will be located near the Emerson
Hall dorm, according to an Intercom announcement.
Construction will begin in Fall 2018 and is antici-
pated to be completed by Fall 2019. Doug Weisman
’78, chair of the board’s Buildings and Grounds Com-
mittee, said there is not yet a complete budget for the
construction project.
An ad-hoc committee consisting of members from the
board of trustees and leadership from the college has
been planning the development of the residence for the
past year, according to the Intercom announcement re-
leased April 3.
Weisman said the ad-hoc committee made the deci-
sion to build the residence on campus because Fountain
Place is located far from the college. The mansion is ap-
proximately 2 miles from campus.
“Since the distance of Fountain Place to campus was
one of its drawbacks, we decided early on that the new
residence should be either on or adjacent to campus,”
Weisman said via email.
An estimated 72 percent of college presidents are
required to live on campus as per their contracts,
according to data from Inside Higher Ed. Ithaca College
requires its presidents to live in housing provided by
the college.
The college is working with Ikon.5 Architects to de-
sign the residence. The firm has designed buildings
in Ithaca previously, such as the Collegetown Terrace
apartment complex on East Hill.
“We are honored to have been given the opportunity
to design Ithaca College’s new presidential residence,
and very much look forward to working with the college
on this project,” Arvind Tikku, principal of Ikon.5 Ar-
chitects, said via email.
Weisman said the design will be appropriate not
only for college presidents and their families but the
rest of the campus community as well. He said this resi-
dence differs from 2 Fountain Place because it is being
constructed with the specific purpose of presidential
housing, whereas the mansion was built in 1892 and was
later purchased by the college.
Collado said she is excited about the new house and
anticipates a strong connection with the campus com-
munity as a result of the new residence.
“This space will not only enable presidents to main-
tain strong ties to the pulse of the college community,
it will provide a necessary space to connect with and
appropriately welcome to campus our friends, partners
and visitors from surrounding areas and from other or-
ganizations and institutions around the nation and the
world,” Collado said via email.
| BY MADISON FERNANDEZ
President Shirley M. Collado does not live in 2 Fountain Place, pictured above,
a mansion that previously housed six presidents of the college since 1938.

CENTERING STUDENTSIthaca College President Shirley M. Collado hired Rosanna Ferro to lead the Division of Student Affairs and Campus Life
I
thaca College President Shirley M. Collado announced
Sept. 21, 2017, the creation of the Division of Student Affairs
and Campus Life and the appointment of a vice president to
head that division. In addition, she added two new counselors at
the Center for Counseling and Psychological Services and a case-
worker in student affairs, among other positions.
Rosanna Ferro was directly appointed by Collado without a for-
mal search, which is typically conducted by a search committee.
Ferro officially began her role Oct. 30, 2017. She leads the Div-
sion of Student Affairs and Campus Life.
Prior to joining Williams in 2013, Ferro held various positions
at Rutgers University–New Brunswick, including serving as as-
sistant director of the Office of Multicultural Engagement and
assistant director of learning communities. Collado came to the
college from Rutgers University–Newark, although the two did
not work together there.
Ferro and Collado met three years ago when Collado was leav-
ing Middlebury College and Ferro was at Williams.
Ferro said she is looking forward to focusing on the student ex-
perience through the newly dedicated division.
“From afar the obvious thing that stands out to me is the fact
is that there hasn’t been a standalone student affairs division, and
so there hasn’t been kind of this intentional focus on the work,”
Ferro said.
Ferro acknowledged that, given the college’s past, there will be
challenges to address in terms of student satisfaction.
“Right now, there has been a lack of vision at the senior leader-
ship level because it was kind of impossible for one person at the
provost level to take all of this on,” Ferro said. “I think that now
going in, it’s really about reassuring students that their experience
outside the classroom is just as important as inside, and having a
healthy campus life is integral to having a student be happy.”
The Division of Student Affairs is independent of the provost’s
office, and the provost continues to serve as a chief academic
officer and leads the Division of Academic Affairs. Provost Lin-
da Petrosino is slated to remain in that role until the end of the
academic year.
Carlie McClinsey, president of Student Governance Council,
said this is a change the college has needed for a long time.
“The real reason they were combined was to create more col-
laboration between those two departments, but I think it ended
up overwhelming that department and hurting both student affairs
and academics on campus,” McClinsey said.
In addition, Collado announced that she will be adding one case
manager in student life and two counselors in CAPS. These are
areas where campus constituencies have demanded action in the
past. Collado said in her announcement that the demand for coun-
seling has increased both nationwide and at the college and that the
college must offer student support to be “truly student-centered.”
Assistant News Editors Sierra Guardiola and Sophia Adamucci
contributed reporting.
| BY GRACE ELLETSON AND SOPHIATULP
Rosanna Ferro was appointed to lead the
Division of Student Affairs and Campus Life.
COURTESY OF ROSANNA FERRO

Gracing the Stage
D
uring Ithaca College’s Commencement on May 20, the Class
of 2018 will become the first class in over two decades to walk
and have their names read during the ceremony.
David Prunty, executive director of auxiliary services, who co-chairs
theCommencementcommittee,saidthatthecommitteeisstillworking
out some of the logistical changes that will have to be made to ensure
that everyone’s names are read without adding too much additional
time to the ceremony. Some of those logistical issues include whether
the names will be read as the entire class body or names will be called
broken up by the individual schools, but Prunty said that he anticipates
that students will have their names read by school.
“As soon as we made the decision to go in this direction, the com-
mittee’s been meeting not every day, but close, to figure out all the
implications of that decision,” he said. “There’s a lot of things that
need to be figured out, both from a purely logistical perspective and
from a symbolism perspective.”
This change is a result of months of deliberations by the Ithaca
College Commencement Committee. At the beginning of the fall
semester, President Shirley M. Collado tasked the commit-
tee with developing logistical options for having names read
during Commencement.
During the fall semester, a group of parents created a petition on
Change.org asking the college to let students walk and have their
names read during graduation. The petition garnered over 2,150 sig-
natures and prompted the Commencement committee to host a forum
to get feedback on the issue.
In addition to the forum, the Commencement committee conducted
a survey of over 2,600 parents, students, alumni and faculty. A majority
of participants supported the decision to read names and let students
walk during Commencement.
Prunty also said he anticipates that there will be an opt-out mecha-
nism in place for students who do not want to have their names called
or to walk during graduation, but he said nothing has been finalized.
The Commencement committee does not have an estimate for how
much time this change will add to the ceremony, but Prunty said they
are looking into cutting different components of Commencement to
save time. One thing in particular that he said could be tweaked is the
procession and seating, which currently takes about an hour.
Lisa Kleeman, a parent and one of the creators of the petition, said
that she was really excited about the change. While her eldest daughter
was not allowed to walk during her Commencement at the college in
2015, her youngest daughter, who is currently a freshman, will walk.
“It was great that it went through so quickly,” she said. “It just shows
you that you can really make change. … I am just really pleased that
[Collado] wants to make changes to the school.”
Fatoumata Jallow, Class of 2018 president, has been on the commit-
tee since Collado asked it to explore the possibility of having students
walk during Commencement. She said that she tried to remain neutral
during the process in order to better represent her class but said that
since the decision has been announced, she is excited.
“It does set a tone and definitely says that Ithaca College is trying to
be more student-focused,” Jallow said. “For me, it will definitely be an
uplifting moment, even if it is a mere 10 seconds, and I think that’s how
it is for a lot of students.”
Senior Karielle Williams said she was initially not planning on at-
tending Commencement but changed her mind after the college
announced the decision to read names during the ceremony.
“I have family coming from out of the country … and the whole
purpose is to have 10 seconds of walking across the stage,”
Williams said.
| BY RYAN KING
The Class of 2017 celebrates during Ithaca College’s 122nd Commencement on May 21. The 2018
Commencement speaker is Daniel Weiss, president and CEO of the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
During the 2018 Commencement, graduates will walk across the stage and have their names read

A
s Ithaca College welcomed President
Shirley M. Collado, the first woman
of color to hold the position, it also
welcomed seven new Ithaca College Board
of Trustee members. Six of the seven new
board members were white men — an identity
that is already predominantly represented on
the board.
Out of the seven new board members — Mi-
chael Conover ’81, Jack Dembow ’77, Dave
Fleisher ’91, Gary Gross ’81, William Nel-
ligan ’83, Jeff Selingo ’95 and James Taylor
’00 — only one is a man of color. Out of the
25 members on the board, 16 are white men,
five are white women, three are men of color,
and there is one woman of color. That means
approximately 64 percent of the board is made
up of white men and 84 percent of the board
is white. The college’s lack of diversity on its
board is reflective of other institutions across
the country that face the same issue.
Trustee members are elected for an initial
term of four years and can be re-elected for up
to two additional three-year terms. Following
the completion of their first three terms, mem-
bers have to rotate off the board for at least one
year until they can be re-elected for another
term. The new members began their appoint-
mentsinMay.Andwhiletheboardislackingin
gender and racial diversity, some are members
of the LGBTQ community.
Trustees are expected to strengthen the col-
lege financially through investment planning
and expected to donate personally to the col-
lege. They are also charged with managing the
overall long-term stability and growth for the
college, according to the college’s website.
James Nolan ’77, chair of the Gover-
nance Committee on the board of trustees, is
charged with finding, vetting and interviewing
potential new members. He said that this pro-
cess takes time and that it often takes years to
develop relationships with candidates before
inviting them to join the board.
“We go through a process to find indi-
viduals who have both the qualifications, the
desire, the interest to participate with us on
the board,” Nolan said. “It could take upwards
of one to three years to cultivate a relation-
ship with an individual to ask them to become
a trustee.”
This is why, Nolan said, it is taking the board
longer to diversify its membership.
“We’re confident that [diversity] will con-
tinue to be top of mind for us,” Nolan said.
“And I feel confident that we’ll continue to
make progress on it.”
In a paper titled “Diversifying the Board — A
Step Toward Better Governance,” Eric Leung,
lecturer at The Chinese University of Hong
Kong Business School, outlines why homoge-
nous boards can be problematic. It highlights
“groupthink,” the practice of minimizing
conflicts and reaching a consensus decision
| BY GRACE ELLETSON
WHITEWASHEDThe Ithaca College Board of Trustees is predominantly made up of white men
28 SHAKINGTHINGS UP
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without evaluating alternative ideas, as a major
issue among boards lacking diversity.
“Combining contributions of a group of
people with different skills, backgrounds and
experiences is assumed to be able to approach
problems from a greater range of perspectives,
to raise challenging questions and to debate
more vigorously within top management
groups,” the report states.
The Association of Governing Boards of
Universities and Colleges found in a 2010
survey that about 71.6 percent of all public
board members and 69.8 percent of all board
members from independent institutions were
male. The survey also found that 74.3 percent
of public institution boards and 87.5 percent
of boards at independent colleges were white.
Some faculty do not believe that it could
have been difficult to find at least one woman,
or woman of color, to join the new member-
ship. Vivian Conger, associate professor in the
Department of History, said she thought it was
horrible that the board could not manage to
diversify more.
“I think it sends a bad signal and … frankly,
I just can’t imagine they could not find quali-
fied women to serve on the board of trustees,”
Conger said.
Nolan said the selection process for po-
tential board members depends on the
college’s needs at a given point in its history.
He said that during this past selection pro-
cess, the board was looking for people with
backgrounds in investing and those who have
extensive knowledge about higher education.
For example, Conover, Fleisher and Nelligan
all have backgrounds in finance, and Selingo
used to be the top editor for The Chronicle of
Higher Education and has written three books
focusing on major topics in higher education.
Alvin Schexnider is a senior fellow for the
Association of Governing Boards of Universi-
ties and Colleges, an organization focused on
governance in higher education. He said that
while it is a lengthy process to find the right
trustee who is dedicated enough to fill the po-
sition, diversifying a college’s board needs to
be an intentional goal for trustee leadership.
“There is a general understanding that if
we are diverse and inclusive, it helps to better
inform policy, it helps to better inform deci-
sions, it helps to raise the level of awareness
about issues that sometimes boards, while
well-intentioned,maynotbeawareof,”hesaid.
Ellen Chaffee, also a senior fellow for the
Association of Governing Boards, said there
are multiple ways for boards to be more inten-
tional in finding diverse board members. She
recommended that boards go outside of their
ordinary networking zones to find more di-
verse candidates.
“Network beyond your traditional sources,”
Chaffee said. “They can go to places they hav-
en’t been before, whether it be service clubs or
hospitals or nonprofits and organizations that
help people in the area … to network.”
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2.4% Hispanic/Latino
1.6% Asian/Pacific
0.4% American Indian
0.7% Other

30 SHAKINGTHINGS UP
A TARNISHED
REPUTATION
An assessment of the Office of Public Safety
outlines 40 recommendations to consider
A
n external assessment of the
Ithaca College Office of Public
Safety and Emergency Manage-
ment conducted in November 2016
found that the office’s credibility and le-
gitimacy are “deeply tarnished” among
campus community members, specifical-
ly students. The assessment made more
than 40 recommendations for Public
Safety, some of which the college has
already addressed.
The assessment outlined six priority
areas, in which it made 47 recommenda-
tions for the office. In order of urgency,
the priority areas include a comprehen-
sive program for producing unbiased
policing; selection, staffing and re-
tention; branding the Office of Public
Safety and Emergency Management;
bias incident response protocols; cul-
tural competency training; and crisis
intervention training.
The college released the external as-
sessment of Public Safety on Feb. 22.
Margolis Healy, a campus safety and
security consulting firm, conducted the
assessment for the college. The assess-
ment consisted of 21 group interviews,
138 individual interviews and answers
to an anonymous feedback Google forum
from students, faculty and staff.
On Sept. 15, 2015, then-Provost
Benjamin Rifkin announced that
then-President Tom Rochon requested
that an external party review of the Office
of Public Safety and Emergency Manage-
ment. The request followed a protest by
resident assistants because of what they
called racial profiling and harassment by
Public Safety officers.
Two campus police officers made
comments that RAs called “racially in-
sensitive,” during a training session with
RAs. Sergeant Terry O’Pray dismissed
the RAs’ concerns about racial profiling,
saying it does not happen at the college.
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SHAKINGTHINGS UP 31
While talking about weapons on campus, Master
Patrol Officer John Elmore held up a black BB
gun and allegedly said, “If I saw someone with
this, I would shoot them.” One RA related this to
the police’s killing of Tamir Rice, a 12-year-old
boy who was shot while carrying a black BB gun in
November 2014.
A number of students of color came forward
during the Fall 2015 semester with their stories
accusing campus police officers of racial profiling.
Steven J. Healy, CEO of Margolis Healy, pre-
sented the report at an information session Feb.
22. The information session was attended by stu-
dents, faculty, staff and a large contingent of staff
from Public Safety. He said the report represents
the college at a snapshot in time, November 2016.
“Anytime we do an assessment or a review, it
is a point-in-time assessment,” Healy said at the
session. “We can only look at what we are hearing
when we were here.”
Healy said he thought Public Safety had made a
number of positive changes since the assessment.
Bill Kerry, director of the Office of Public Safety
and Emergency Management, said his office takes
the report earnestly.
“The study itself is something we take very se-
riously, and we will continue to take very seriously
in looking at those recommendations,” Kerry said.
“But nothing will be more valuable than our com-
munity doing what that study did, which is tell us
whatyouneed.Telluswhatyouwant,andworkwith
us to make our campus more safe and cohesive.”
At the information session, Kerry presented
on how his office has addressed some of the rec-
ommendations, as well as how they have tried to
engage with the community.
Unbiased policing
Themostrobustareaofrecommendationscomes
in the report’s Comprehensive Program for Pro-
ducing Unbiased Policing section. The executive
summary states Public Safety has taken some steps
to “address the challenges of bias-based policing,”
such as providing cultural competency training for
Public Safety staff members and developing drafts
of written directives to address bias-based policing.
However, the report states that these steps suffer
from two “significant pitfalls” — a lack of an overall
strategy and a lack of momentum.
To manage addressing these changes, the report
recommends the college develop a comprehensive
strategic plan to address bias-based policing policy.
The report makes 17 recommendations under
the comprehensive program for unbiased policing
priorities. Some of these recommendations have
already been implemented, such as moving for-
ward with a body-worn camera program, which was
rolled out in April 2017.
Public Safety has attended a series of trainings
with Student Accessibility Services about “invis-
ible disabilities” and another with Sean Eversley
Bradwell, director of Programs and Outreach,
regarding “inclusive excellence,” according to
Kerry’s presentation on the office’s campus en-
gagement activities. Kerry said that in April, the
office will be starting “eat and greet” events in the
campus dining halls.
“A Perfect Storm”
The findings mention a “perfect storm” that
created an oppositional relationship between the
campuscommunityandPublicSafety.Thisincludes
the office’s being unable to adopt many progressive
approachesittriedtoadoptduetoasenseofinertia,
the report states. The report goes on to state other
contributing factors as to why it was unable to adopt
other approaches, such as the national dialogue
about the police and their relationship with people
of color, partly because of high-profile police kill-
ings of African-American men.
“In our view, these factors created a perfect
storm that erupted shortly after a tense interac-
tion between an Ithaca College police officer and
a resident advisor at a training session,” the report
states. “This situation, and the resulting public
discourse, virtually paralyzed the department and
its leadership, halting progress and creating an
oppositional relationship.”
Since the assessment was conducted, the office
has changed leadership, with Terri Stewart leaving
the position of director of Public Safety in Janu-
ary 2017 to become director of Campus Safety at
Nazareth College. Kerry, who was an operations
lieutenant for Public Safety for 14 years before
leaving in June 2016 to become associate director
of Campus Police at Tompkins Cortland Commu-
nity College, took over in February 2017.
Junior Carlie McClinsey, Student Governance
Council president and member of the Public Safe-
ty Student Engagement Working Group, said she
read the report. She said she thinks Kerry has en-
hanced the reputation of Public Safety.
“Reading over it, I was skeptical just because
I think Bill [Kerry] has ushered in a new era for
Public Safety and community policing at IC,” Mc-
Clinsey said. “When reading the report, I have
very much taken it with a grain of salt just because
of all the things that have happened. That being
said, the recommendations put forward and a lot
of the things that are in that report we do need to
take seriously.”
Kerry said Public Safety will continue to listen to
the campus community and attempt to build trust.
“It takes time,” he said. “These things don’t
change overnight, and it takes time to get to where
we want to get to. Today was another step in the
right direction as far as getting to where we want
to be.”

32 SHAKINGTHINGS UP
W
ith only 11 percent
of faculty at Ithaca
College identifying
as African, Latino, Asian or Na-
tive American, the college has
identified issues in the hiring
process and launched new initia-
tives which include outreach and
better-trained search committees
to identify biases.
The college is a predominate-
ly white institution, with 72.9
percent of its students and 84.4
percent of its faculty identifying
as white. There are only 17 Af-
rican-Americans, 25 Asians and
30 Hispanics out of the 732 fac-
ulty that work on campus.
One of the initial prob-
lems the college has in trying
to recruit faculty of color is
broadening where departments
post job search ads and how they
are communicating the position,
said Donathan Brown, associ-
ate professor and director of
humanities and sciences faculty
diversity and development.
Brown is working on finding
ways to communicate ads differ-
ently to reach a wider audience
in job searches. Instead of relying
heavily on outlets such as The
Chronicle of Higher Education
to post job descriptions, Brown
said in an email that the college
should look at other academic,
graduate student and minori-
ty-serving organizations that
could provide the college with
greater exposure.
Brown and his team are also
conducting audits to find out why
faculty of color leave the college,
and Brown’s team is engaging in
small focus groups with faculty of
color to find out what their needs
and wants are.
Brown said there are multi-
ple reasons why faculty of color
are not staying at the college,
including the feeling of lacking
institutional support.
“That’s the million-dollar
question,” Brown said. “I see it
as a series of issues. One, for any
group of individuals, having a
strong cohort that already exists
is helpful. … Two, institutional
culture and climate.”
Aside from working on the way
that the college reaches wider
audiences, Brian Dickens, vice
president of human resourc-
es, is partnering with Cornell
University and the Tompkins
County Chamber of Commerce
to create a Recruit to Ithaca
campaign in an effort to better
advertise to academics and the
social and professional opportu-
nities in Ithaca. This campaign
includes trying to recruit people
who grew up in Ithaca to come
back and work here, but also
trying to recruit people from
diverse populations.
Dickens said he believes that it
is hard to recruit minority faculty
to the Ithaca region. Faculty may
not want to stay in Ithaca because
they don’t feel supported or they
feel their needs aren’t met within
the community, Dickens said.
The college recently started
a new initiative to better train
the search committees that hire
faculty across the campus. Da-
nette Johnson, vice provost for
academic programs, was part of
this committee alongside Be-
lisa Gonzalez, director of the
Center for the Study of Cul-
ture, Race and Ethnicity and
Michelle Rios-Dominguez, as-
sociate director of Provost and
Educational Affairs.
Johnson is also tasked with
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SHAKINGTHINGS UP 33
Looking
to hire
Ithaca College explores new initiatives
to recruit and retain faculty of color
reviewing finalists and semifinal-
ists in faculty searches to make
sure that diversity is appropri-
ately taken into account by the
search committee and that there
are no candidates who, while they
appear to be comparable with
candidates who moved forward,
they have been excluded based
on race.
One way that the college re-
cruits potential faculty is through
the Dissertation Diversity Fel-
lowship Program, also known as
the Diversity Scholar Program,
that was started by the School of
Humanities and Sciences during
the 2010–11 academic year.
This program hires scholars who
are in their final year of writing
their dissertations or who have
just completed their disserta-
tion and supports them in their
research for the academic year.
These scholars teach one course
per semester. Of the 26 full-time
diversity scholars who have been
a part of this program over the
years, nine have been hired on as
full-time faculty once the fellow-
ship was over.
The hope with this program
is that the diversity scholars will
be hired as faculty members to
their departments after the year is
up, Carla Golden, professor and
Women’s and Gender Studies
program coordinator, said. She
said she believes that the pro-
gram is not big enough and that
there should be more scholars
in the program. Golden said she
believes expanding this program
will help with recruitment of fac-
ulty of color in the long run.
Getting faculty in the door
is only half of the battle. The
college also must create a safe,
welcoming and supportive at-
mosphere for faculty of color to
ensure that they stay here. John-
son, along with Gonzalez; Wade
Pickren, director of the Center
forFacultyExcellence;andRoger
Richardson, associate provost for
Diversity, Inclusion and En-
gagement, worked together on a
retention committee to address
the needs of the pretenured
faculty of color at the college.
Johnson said mentoring and sup-
port for scholarly work are the
two biggest areas that need to be
focused on based on feedback.
Cynthia Henderson, associate
professor in the Department of
Theatre Arts, has participated
in a few of the ALANA faculty
meetings, as well as other faculty
luncheons and talk circles when
she can.
In 2007, Henderson became
the first African-American wom-
an to be tenured in the history of
the college.
“I think it was a little more dif-
ficult for me because there are
aspects of my background,
my upbringing, who I am as a
woman of color, that were not
understood or taken into ac-
count … not because necessarily
a mean-spirited nature, but not
understanding or not taking the
time to find out who I am as a cul-
tural being,” Henderson said.
Henderson said her cultural
differences factored into her hav-
ing a difficult time going through
the tenure process.
Aside from the tenure pro-
cess, Henderson said, because
the college is such a white in-
stitution, it has been harder for
her to feel supported in some
aspects of her career. Henderson
also said there have been mo-
ments of sincere support from
her colleagues during her time at
the college.
ILLUSTRATION BY ADRIANNA DEL GROSSO

34 SHAKINGTHINGS UP
Collado has
sex abuse
conviction,
denies
wrongdoing

SHAKINGTHINGS UP 35
Ithaca College President Shirley M. Collado
speaks at the All-College Gathering Jan. 26.
MAXINE HANSFORD/THE ITHACAN
I
thaca College President Shirley M. Collado was accused of sexually abusing a
female patient while working as a psychologist in Washington, D.C., in 2000
and was convicted of sexual abuse in 2001.
Prosecutors argued Collado took advantage of a vulnerable, sexual-abuse sur-
vivor with mental illness by entering into a monthslong sexual relationship that
started when Collado was the patient’s therapist. Collado denies having any sex-
ual contact with the patient.
Collado admits to living with the patient after the latter was discharged from
The Center at the Psychiatric Institute of Washington. This violated her em-
ployment contract at The Center — a program specializing in post-traumatic and
dissociative conditions at a private psychiatric hospital — as it was considered
to be an unethical outside relationship and grounds for immediate termination.
Collado said she was trying to help her by providing her a place to stay.
Collado pleaded nolo contendere — no contest — to one count of misdemeanor
sexual abuse in the Superior Court of the District of Columbia in August 2001
for a sole charge of placing her hand on the patient’s clothed breast with sexual
intent while Collado was her therapist. Collado knew, or had reason to know,
that the sexual contact was against the patient’s permission, as the patient was
an inpatient at a psychiatric hospital, according to the charge against Collado.
“The laws and ethical rules prohibiting sexual and outside relationships with
former or current patients are designed to prevent the very activity that oc-
curred in this case,” Assistant U.S. Attorney Sharon Marcus-Kurn, the case’s
prosecutor, wrote in the Government’s Memorandum in Aid of Sentencing.
“The law recognizes that individuals that are wards of psychiatric institutions
are extremely vulnerable to being abused and taken advantage of. The laws are
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36 SHAKINGTHINGS UP
designedtoprotectthemandpunishanyonewhoviolatesthetherapist/
patient relationship.”
By pleading nolo contendere, Collado did not admit guilt but accept-
ed a conviction. After a defendant enters a nolo contendere plea, the
case moves forward as though the defendant pleaded guilty. With this
plea, there is no trial.
Collado maintains her innocence and said she never had any sexual
contact with the patient.
“I didn’t have the legal resources; I didn’t have the financial resourc-
es to, and I didn’t have the emotional wherewithal to really take this on
the way I would have preferred,” Collado told The Ithacan. “So I took
a different route. And like many people in this country, young people
in this country, people of color, people who don’t have networks, that
was me. This happens all the time, where you make this really difficult
choice, even if it goes completely against the truth of who you are.”
The patient affirmed that she stands by the account of the case she
gave the prosecution in 2001.
Collado was one of the the patient’s treating therapists when the pa-
tient was an inpatient ward between May 12, 2000, and June 9, at The
Center, Marcus-Kurn wrote.
Collado, who graduated from Duke University with a Ph.D. in
1999, was 28 years old when she was treating the patient. She did
not have a therapist’s license and was practicing under the super-
vision of a licensed therapist who was also employed at The Center,
Marcus-Kurn wrote.
Marcus-Kurn wrote that the patient’s two therapists and The Cen-
ter’s director — it is unclear whether Marcus-Kurn is referring to
Joan Turkus, The Center’s medical director, or Christine Courtois,
The Center’s clinical director — all believed the patient’s allegations.
Marcus-Kurn wrote that the two therapists had known the patient for a
long time through numerous hospitalizations.
“They both find her to be an extremely truthful person, and al-
though she may have flashbacks of prior abuse or may relive traumatic
experiences, her therapists have stated that she does not fabricate or
hallucinate things that simply did not happen,” Marcus-Kurn wrote.
“In other words, she has not experienced psychotic episodes and has
never been diagnosed as psychotic.”
One of Collado’s co-workers at The Center, who was familiar with
the situation and wished to remain anonymous due to the sensitive na-
ture of the story, told The Ithacan they believe the patient’s allegation
that she and Collado had a sexual relationship.
“She had no reason to lie about them,” the co-worker said. “She had
no reason to lie.”
Collado was sentenced to a 30-day suspended sentence, 18 months
of supervised probation, an order to stay away from the patient, and 80
hours of community service.
The court recommended that the community service should “not
directly involve vulnerable people.” She was also ordered to pay $250
under the Victims of Violent Crime Compensation Act of 1981.
Chronology
The patient was receiving therapy for post-traumatic stress at The
Center, as she had previously been sexually abused by a doctor — who
was convicted for the abuse — and as a child, according to the prosecu-
tion. The patient, who was 30 years old at the time of the court case,
was diagnosed with having bipolar disorder and a dissociative identity
disorder and had experienced lengthy periods of deep depression and
suicidal thoughts, Marcus-Kurn wrote.
The patient alleged that she began a sexual relationship with Collado
on May 20, 2000, which lasted until October 2000, according to the
prosecution. Marcus-Kurn wrote that the patient recorded encounters
with Collado in a journal that was submitted to the court but is not in-
cluded in the case file.
Collado told her that their sexual contact would be “therapeutic”
and would “bring her out of her shell,” the patient said. Collado denies
this allegation.
Collado said she was working in the trauma unit at The Center when
her first husband committed suicide on July 9, 2000, starting a very
difficult time in her life. She said she resigned from The Center, as she
was grieving her husband’s death.
“I, at that point, was sought out by a patient who I had treated before
on the unit who really needed my help and was in crisis and didn’t have
a place to stay,” she said.
ThepatientmovedintoCollado’shouse“shortlyafter”herdischarge
from The Center, according to the prosecution. Collado supported the
patient with a place to live after she was discharged from the hospital,
Collado’s attorney, William Hickey, wrote in the defendant’s memo-
randum in aid of sentencing.
Marcus-Kurn declined to comment, and Hickey did not respond to a
request for comment.
The patient alleged that she had participated in a three-way sexual
encounter with Collado and an adult male on Sept. 9, 2000, according
to the prosecution. The patient alleged Collado told her it “would be
psychologically helpful for her.” The man and Collado denied that the
interaction had taken place.
Collado said the patient moved in either in the late summer or fall of
2000andmovedoutbyNovemberafterColladoaskedhertomoveout.
“I learned, and it came to me, that that was probably not a good idea,
that I needed to really focus on myself and that I was not in the position
to help someone who I knew had a pretty troubled past,” she said.
May 12–June 9, 2000
Late Summer 2000
November 2000
August 29, 2001
Colladoisoneofthepatient’stherapistsatTheCenteratthePsychiatric
Institute of Washington in Washington, D.C. The patient alleged that
she and Collado entered into a sexual relationship when Collado was
one of her treating therapists. Collado denies the allegation.
The patient moves into Collado’s home following the
suicide of Collado’s husband on July 9, 2000. The
patient alleges she and Collado continued a sexual
relationship during this time.
Collado tells the patient to move out. The patient calls Nora Rowny, The
Center’s social services director, and tells Rowny that she had been having a
sexual relationship with Collado, according to an email sent by Rowny and
acquired by The Ithacan. Collado said she resigned around this time to focus
ongrievingherhusband’sdeath,whiletheprosecutorssaidshewasterminated.
Timeline
Of events Collado pleads no contest — nolo contendere — to
one count of misdemeanor sexual abuse in the
Superior Court of the District of Columbia for
placingherhandonthepatient’sclothedbreastwith
sexualintentwhileshewasthepatient’stherapist.

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The patient notified Nora Rowny, The
Center’s social services director, about her
relationship with Collado in early November,
according to an email message Rowny sent to
Turkus. The email was obtained and verified
by The Ithacan. Turkus forwarded the mes-
sage to Courtois.
Rowny wrote in the email that on Oct. 30,
2000, the patient called her and told her
she had “lost her housing, felt betrayed and
frightened and wasn’t sure where to go” and
that she needed to move out in two weeks.
Rowny wrote that the patient told her on
Nov. 4, 2000, that the patient had a rela-
tionship with Collado, saying she had been
living with Collado and they had been having
a “‘sort of’ relationship” that began when she
was a patient at The Center. She told Rowny
she and Collado had “expressed a mutual at-
traction and that Dr. Collado had kissed her”
two weeks before her last discharge from The
Center. The patient told Rowny she con-
tinued to call and see Collado after leaving
the unit.
Rowny wrote in the email that she called
one of the patient’s other therapists, Amelie
Zurn, on Nov. 4, 2000. Zurn said the patient
“had told her about the involvement with
Dr. Collado only recently.” Zurn told Rowny
she was not sure what to do as “the story
unfolded slowly concerning the extent and
timing of the relationship.” By the time the
patient told her about it, Zurn said, the pa-
tient had not been at The Center for a few
months and Collado was on leave.
Rowny wrote that Zurn said she had
decided not to immediately disclose the
relationship because the patient said she was
invested in her relationship with Collado and
had told Zurn not to get Collado in any trou-
ble. Zurn said that alerting others would be
a breach in her therapeutic relationship with
the patient and that the patient may “decom-
pensate lethally” if Zurn alerted leadership
at The Center too quickly. The patient had
told Zurn she had ruled out returning to The
Center in case of decompensation because of
her relationship with Collado and would not
“easily accept hospitalization elsewhere.”
Zurn said she was afraid the decompensation
without the patient’s regular hospital could
be lethal.
Zurn and Rowny discussed the matter and
decided it would be best for The Center to be
aware of the situation, as the patient had told
both of them about the situation.
Courtois, Turkus, Zurn and Rowny all de-
clined to comment. The patient also did not
want to discuss the case.
Collado’semploymentagreementwithThe
Center stated that “any personal/friendship,
intimate/sexual, or business (apart from clin-
ical referral and services) relationships with a
current or former patients constitutes a dual
relationship and is an ethic violation. Any
such relationship is grounds for immediate
termination of employment,” according to
the prosecution.
Collado said the patient needed her help.
“One of the things that is really hard when
you are doing work, especially around trau-
ma, is I think all good therapists see people as
whole people, and I thought that I was mak-
ing a thoughtful decision, and then I quickly
learned that I wasn’t,” she said. “I put myself
at risk by allowing her to live in my home.”
She added that she was on leave, not work-
ing at the clinic, when the patient moved in.
“I treated this person with integrity as a
psychologist, I treated her on the unit appro-
priately and professionally,” she said. “And
then I took a leave, and again, I tried to help
and make a decision, and then these allega-
tions were made.”
The co-worker said that The Center had
approximately 15 to 20 patients and 10 staff
members, who were caught off-guard by
the allegations.
“People were very shocked and very be-
trayed because it struck at the heart of what
we were trying to do with the patients who
suffered trauma,” the co-worker said. “They
need to have very strict boundaries and
relearn what normal separation is between
people. We tried to build up those boundaries
— internal boundaries and external boundaries
— so they can get through the world.”
Legal Case
In her interview with The Ithacan, Collado
said that shortly after she asked the former
patient to move out, she became aware of the
claims the patient made against her. She said
she did not have the resources to fight the al-
legations and wanted to take care of herself
and figure out a way forward.
Collado pleaded nolo contendere on
Aug.29,2001.Byenteringthisplea,Collado
waived her right to a trial by jury or the court
and gave up her right to appeal the conviction
in the Court of Appeals. The three conditions
of the plea were that the government would
allow the no contest plea, the government
would recommend suspension of all jail time
if the judge considered incarceration, and
the government would not pursue any other
charges based on the allegations to date.
Marcus-Kurn wrote Collado had met the
patient when the patient was emotionally vul-
nerable, had encouraged the patient to open
up to her and knew the patient had been sexu-
ally abused in the past. After Collado realized
she did not want to continue the relationship,
she ended it abruptly, Marcus-Kurn wrote.
“The defendant had to have known that, in
the long run, her relationship with the victim
would cause great emotional damage to the
victim,” Marcus-Kurn wrote.
The patient told Marcus-Kurn that she was
emotionally unable to write a formal letter to
the court. While she said she really wanted
the court to know how she felt, she was con-
cerned reliving the painful experiences could
lead to suicidal thoughts she was unsure she
had the strength to fight.
November 20, 2001
February 22, 2017
January 16, 2018
December 2017
Collado is sentenced to a 30-day suspended
sentence, 18 months of supervised
probation, 80 hours of community service
and ordered to stay away from the patient.
Collado is named the ninth president of Ithaca College after working in
administrative roles at Middlebury College, Lafayette College, Rutgers
University–Newark and the Posse Foundation, a nonprofit that promotes
college access and youth leadership development. The Ithaca College
BoardofTrusteesexaminedthefullcasefileandprovidedthePresidential
SearchCommitteeasummaryofthecaseduringCollado’ssearchprocess.
The Ithacan and other media outlets
receive anonymous packages
containing court documents and
other relevant records.
Collado releases a statement
describing her version of
events. Within an hour,
The Ithacan publishes an
investigationintothecase.

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