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RIT CONSTRUCTING NEW CYBERSECURITY BUILDING

T E CH 8

I’M SMART — SHOULD MY HOUSE BE, TOO? Is smart technology right for you?

LEISURE 10

The new Global Cybersecurity Institute will aid in industry education and research

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ARTISANWORKS: ART IN ALL THINGS ARTISANworks is an unforgettable immersion in creative expression of every form

THE RISING SPOTLIGHT ON PERFORMANCE ARTS Munson’s future plans for the performance arts at RIT

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RIT CONSTRUCTING NEW CYBERSECURITY BUILDING by Efe Ozturkoglu | photography by Diana Spencer | design by Nick Bober

he construction of the new building near Golisano Hall is not just an expansion of the Computing Security department, but also an initiative to grow RIT’s status in cybersecurity education and research. The graduate program director within the Golisano College of Computing and Information Sciences (GCCIS) and professor in the department of Computing Security, Dr. Sumita Mishra, sees the building — the Global Cybersecurity Institute — with a vision that is much broader than the Computing Security department. “[The new center is a] focused area where all kinds of things in cybersecurity coexist, and that’s the exciting part. The depth that is required is unique. I don’t see many places where you’d have a dedicated space like this for hosting all kinds of things,” she said. “In the long run, this gives us a visibility for our programs, for our cybersecurity education as well as our research.” According to Dr. Matthew Wright, director of the Center for Cybersecurity Research, the new institute will include faculty from the Computer Science, Software Engineering,

Computer Engineering and Computing Security departments to work on interdisciplinary cybersecurity research. Having all of these resources and faculty in one area will improve RIT’s renown in this field.

BENEFITS FOR STUDENTS The facility will feature a variety of areas for people to work and hang out; this includes amenities such as student lounges, research labs, instructional labs and spaces for faculty and Ph.D. students. The most anticipated of these state-of-the-art lab spaces are the new Cyber Range and the air-gapped lab. The Cyber Range will be a cybersecurity training facility for students, faculty and industry professionals. It will be modeled after the IBM X-Force Command Cyber Range — a lab created by IBM to model and simulate real-world cybersecurity threats for training and practice.

According to Wright, this will allow training through real, hands-on cyber threats, such as ransomware and distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks. The former, ransomware, entails a virus encrypting your hard drive and forcing you to pay a fee to unlock it and regain access. The latter, DDoS, is an attack in which many computers bombard a target with repeated requests, with the goal of causing this target to crash.

“I don’t see many places where you’d have a dedicated space like this for hosting all kinds of things.” Meanwhile, the air-gapped lab will be a computer lab completely disconnected from the outside world. This will allow students and faculty to study and analyze malware without the danger of wreaking havoc on RIT’s network. Wright also stated that other departments in GCCIS are beginning to add computing security classes to their curriculum. The increased physical space will help the department to accommodate more of these students from other majors. The new complex is expected to be completed as early as summer 2020, and the department is hoping to settle into their new home before the next Fall semester. Until construction is completed, the exits on the west side of Golisano Hall will be inaccessible to students, along with several sidewalks in the area.

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In addition to the new perks for cybersecurity students, the new building also provides the department a platform for their long-term growth. Wright said that the building will also allow the Computing Security department to increase their number of undergraduate students from around 400 to 500. They will also be able to double the number of master’s degree students to 100 and double their number of Ph.D. students to about 40. “This growth would have been impossible without the new building,” Wright said. According to Wright, the Ph.D. students have simply run out of space. Despite the Computing Security department’s expansion within GCCIS over the years, the extra space has always filled up as soon as it became available. The new building will allow these students to have more space to work, and they will be able to accommodate a larger group of students. This will help the department increase the amount of research being done. The new building will also be full of resources that will foster research in cutting edge technology. “These labs will be equipped with the latest security equipment. In terms of research labs, we will have things like IoT (internet of things) devices, anything that is current,” Mishra said. “It will include technologies that exist today, as well as the infrastructure to carry out cutting-edge research.”

Mishra explained that one of the most important aspects of the Global Cybersecurity Institute is the emphasis on global outreach, which increases the visibility of RIT’s programs internationally. Wright is confident the new institute will help RIT “develop more partnerships with organizations and universities in other countries ... with the purpose of doing joint research, ... dual degree programs and student and faculty exchanges.” Both Mishra and Wright emphasized that creating more connections and developing partnerships with other universities will improve the overall quality of RIT’s long-term cybersecurity research and education. Wright said, “If everyone thinks the same way, you don’t innovate very much. So when you bring in diverse viewpoints, it helps to accelerate and improve the quality of innovation.” This will also have tangible benefits for students interested in cybersecurity as the institute works toward advancing its cybersecurity program further.

RIT’s campus in Dubai is also growing its cybersecurity program as part of the university’s global ambitions in the field. Wright elaborated that they are in the process of adding a Computing Security master’s degree program to complement their existing undergraduate program. The new Global Cybersecurity Institute marks a new direction in the university’s desire to compete in the global computing security field. The resources, facilities, faculty and extra space of the new institute will allow the Computing Security department to keep up with the growing demand for the major and to grow in unprecedented ways by taking in more students and fostering more connections with the global cybersecurity community, according to Mishra. In Mishra’s opinion, “the exciting part of this is that it gives a presence for not just our department, but cybersecurity professionals in entirety.”

“It will include technologies that exist today as well as the infrastructure to carry out cutting-edge research.”

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Should My House Be, Too? by Cayla Keiser illustration by Maggie Dybas design by Jiayi Zheng

wenty percent of U.S. households will have smart technology by 2022, according to Forrester Research. From smart light systems to voice-activated ones like Amazon Alexa and Google Home, smart technology is rapidly becoming a part of many people’s lives. Smart technology — according to Miguel Cardona, an assistant professor in New Media Design and Visual Communications Design — is any kind of technology that can augment your abilities and help you accomplish everyday tasks. “The idea is that it kind of helps you live your life,” Cardona said.

Convenience Factors Strategically placed around Cardona’s home are smart buttons he can use to control his lights. Each light in his house is also connected to his phone and watch. His phone knows when he’s close to his home, and can then control the lights accordingly. “The best benefit is when I get home, my lights are on,” Cardona said. “It’s one less thing on my cognitive load, and that to me is important because it brings peace of mind.”

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The best benefit is when I get home, my lights are on. On the other hand, sixth year Mechanical Engineering Technology and Mechanical Manufacturing Systems Integrations dual degree student John Chambers said he’d be hesitant to have these devices in his future home. Per the American Council for an Energy Efficient Economy, smart technology can lower utility bills, lower waste and optimize home energy use. Despite the end product’s energy-saving benefits, however, Chambers argued that energy is still used to produce these smart devices. “Essentially the only thing it does is, if you forget to turn off lights as you leave, [it does it for you],” Chambers said. “It’s a question of: Do you want the device to be smart or do you want to be smart and learn to turn off the lights when you leave your house?” The constant connectivity to our homes can be a blessing, but also a curse.

Constant Notifications Smart technology makes it easy to be constantly connected to our devices — even on vacation. The average American checks their phone 80 times per day when traveling, according to Asurion. This is partly due to smart devices sending constant notifications, such as who’s at the front door. Cardona has a front door camera at his home. Any time there is activity, he gets a notification on his watch. He believes that sometimes he gets notified simply to remind him the technology exists — even if there’s no activity — since companies don’t want you to “set it and forget it.” Despite the notifications, Cardona appreciates the sense of calm he gets knowing all is well at home. But with the amount of notifications coming through, Chambers said a disadvantage to smart technology is it “lends itself to a higher level of reliance.” “There are all of these things you have to worry about, and smart technology winds up bringing all those things [together],” he said.

Both Cardona and Chambers mindfully manage their notifications, allowing the useful ones and silencing the others. “The way we approach smart technology needs to be flipped ... we’re giving everything else access to us, rather than giving ourselves access to it,” Chambers said. By modifying notification settings, you can specify when you interact with products. There is a responsibility between the product users and designers, and Cardona said companies need to make it easier for users to control those settings. “We kind of ‘hire’ these products to do things for us. Yet, their defaults are such that they want us to constantly use them,” Cardona said. Cardona and Chambers also believe companies need to be more transparent with users’ private data.

Privacy Concerns The market is booming and competition to get smart products out while they’re in demand is intense. Due to this, security features could end up a lower priority, according to a New York Times interview with Charles Henderson, head of a professional hacking team at IBM Security. Home devices such as Amazon Alexa and Google Home continuously collect our data while listening for their “wake phrase.” Companies say they use recorded data to improve the technology and user experiences. “There’s always a challenge in terms of ethics, because you have all this information going back and forth.” Cardona asked, “How are you [the company] doing things responsibly for the user? How are you making sure the user is aware of the security concerns around this type of product?” There also exists the threat of hackers breaking into your personal devices. Smart TVs and home cameras can be hacked,

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though it might not be as easy as one would think, Chambers said. Given time and access, someone could break into your home electronically. But they could also do the same thing mechanically. “The common criminal does not have such high-level access to different technologies. And [it takes] time and investment to figure out how to do that [hack in] to someone’s home, ‘cause it’s not just an easy access,” Chambers said. “You [can’t] walk up to the door and hit a car keychain and — dink! — grant yourself access.”

What to Consider There are many factors to evaluate when investing in smart technology. Chambers warns that people could end up relying too much on the simple interaction smart technology provides. Eventually, people might not know how to proceed with a task or fix the device if it malfunctions. Cardona suggests considering the company you are purchasing from and how invested in your privacy they are. If one has concerns about privacy, smart technology might not be for them. On the other hand, smart technology has the potential to add a new level of ease to your life. “What if the spice rack told you how best to store your spices?” Cardona asked. “What if [you could alert the shower] as to your intention to take a shower and it would prepare the water for you?” Ultimately, whether you choose to deck your home out with smart technology or keep to just a smartphone is up to you. “You have this technology, but fundamentally, what is it trying to solve?” Cardona questioned. “Is it taking away from your cognitive load, or is it adding to your cognitive load?”

Do you want the device to be smart or do you want to be smart and learn to turn off the lights when you leave your house?

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ARTI SANWORKS : ART IN ALL TH INGS by Catherine Rafferty | photography by Tess Roberts | design by Nick Bober

reative. Overwhelming. Stunning. Genius. A lot of words come to mind when you step into the 50,000-squarefoot transformed warehouse that is ARTISANworks. Part museum, part gallery and part event space, ARTISANworks is the brainchild of founder Louis Perticone — a Rochester native who’s been a collector since he was a child. “We’ve had people — really articulate people — try to explain what the experience is and you can’t,” Perticone said.

“We’ve had people — really articulate people — try to explain what the experience is and you can’t.” Upon your arrival, piano music greets you at the door from a woman who’s playing like there’s no tomorrow. From there, you are transported from one otherworldly microcosm to another. Ornate area rugs line the floors in every room. Floor to ceiling is bursting with wild self-expression, from antique cars and model airplanes, to large canvases painted in broad strokes of acrylic paint and prints by your favorite famous photographers. In Perticone’s eyes, it’s all art and it’s all good. It doesn’t matter if you like art or whether you’ve been taught how to properly appreciate it — at ARTISANworks, cars are art, taxidermy is art, crafts are art, the stuff of life becomes art.

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“I was never that interested in actually being an artist,” Perticone said. “But I always loved creating spaces.” The ARTISANworks experience is themed rooms that are built around the objects in their massive collection. The Marilyn Monroe Room and Prairie Room pay tribute to famous figures in entertainment and design. A 1950s dentist office mixed with inspiration from “A Little Shop of Horrors” was created for Les Krim’s “Idiosyncratic Pictures” retrospective show. The Mississippi Juke Joint is based on Jeff Dunas’s “State of the Blues.” There’s a cozy bar dedicated to the film Casablanca. It’s like being on the movie set. At the same time, you enter corners that radiate with what Perticone describes as “the warmth of something that’s original,” filling the space in rooms that loom so large. In curating thousands of pieces of art, Perticone looks for the artists who’ve found their voice. “The reality is you can always tell when somebody found their hand,” he said.

’ ABOUT IT S T HE ARTIS TS ARTISANworks’s mission is to be a place where people can experience creation and inspiration. They also want to make sure artists are supported financially so they can keep creating.

Galleries typically purchase art for consignment and take a large part of the profit. In their unique approach, all the pieces in the collection are paid in full by Perticone, usually bought as entire bodies of work. There are just over 500,000 pieces in the collection stored in warehouses offsite. Perticone used to discover artists by going to gallery openings and clearing out the unsold pieces. After 20 years in the business, artists have now discovered how much the organization values art and will search out ARTISANworks themselves. “Because we’re nuts,” Perticone said. “We buy whole books of photography. Why wouldn’t you find us?” According to Perticone, ARTISANworks funds and buys more artworks than all other Rochester art organizations cumulatively. They no longer do gallery openings because it’s unnecessary with ARTISANworks purchasing the work displayed. This takes the typical art world business and turns it upside down. The organization believes the arts should be able to fund themselves. A 501(c)(3) non-profit, ARTISANworks is completely self-funded without government aid. This is done in a few ways. Primarily, it’s through hosting over 300 events a year in their themed rooms throughout their various buildings in one large industrial complex on Blossom Road. They also get corporate sponsors through their lease-to-own art program, one of their largest benefactors being Rochester Regional Health. They support projects through their incubator program in which artists are creating whole bodies of work with funding from ARTISANworks. They also sell memberships, accept donations and now lease office space in their newer building. These are all just a means to get more people to experience art in their lives in a new and interesting venue, as well as to support the creative community. “This is never about the money. It’s about how to feed the creative process,” Perticone described.

ALWAYS GROWING Linda LaTempa, Perticone’s sister, sits as the front desk receptionist at ARTISANworks. She observed that local people come through for events, but visitors come to the warehouse as a tourist destination. “Ninety-nine percent of people who come through here are in awe,” she said.

One of the gallery’s next steps is hopefully to make tours a new form of income. Perticone anticipates ARTISANworks evolving to accommodate even larger and more diverse crowds. “ARTISANworks’s job is to create experience,” he said. “Not for hundreds of thousands, but hopefully for millions someday.”

So, what is the best way to really embrace ARTISANworks for what it is? “We’re not going to tell them [visitors] what to look for,” Perticone said. “But they have to come here with zero preconceptions. That’s the key to what they’ll get out of it.”

HOW TO VISIT Where: 565 Blossom Road Hours: Friday and Saturday, 11 a.m. to 6 p.m; Sunday, noon to 5 p.m.

“This is never about the money. It’s about how to feed the creative process.”

Admission: Adults $12, seniors and students $8, children five and under free, members free. Introductory tours every Saturday and Sunday at 2 p.m., included with admission. For more information, visit www.artisanworks.com or call (585) 288-7170. This year is the 20th anniversary of ARTISANworks’s main event space. They will be hosting a celebratory Old and New Auction on Sunday, Nov. 24, 2019 from 1 to 5 p.m. It’s free admission with a cash bar.

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rom Fringe Festival in the fall to Jazz Fest in the summer, Rochester is a hub of activity for performance arts. Visitors from all over come to our festivals to have a good time, but Rochester has a special place in its heart for performance arts. This can be seen in the theaters dotting each street corner, to our museums and music halls — there is something so valued in the arts that Rochester loves and celebrates. But what does it mean to celebrate the performance arts at a tech-focused school?

PERFORMANCE ARTS: THEN AND NOW One of the objectives RIT President David Munson wants to focus on is putting more of a limelight on performance arts. Munson’s interest stems from his family, where practically everyone was invested in a STEM field and skilled in performance arts. “I was just very accustomed to the fact that [because of my family] people that were interested in ... math and also science were often good at music,” said Munson. “It’s not a perfect correlation, but it was often.”

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Munson also saw this trend when he was a dean at the University of Michigan. Through an inventory, he found that 70 percent of the engineering students were also musicians. Regardless of Munson’s push for the performance arts, it’s been a staple in the clubs we have on campus. Whether it be organizations like RIT Players or Eight Beat Measure, performance arts have been active among the community years before Munson. However, students interested in the performance arts and those who actively participate in them have felt underrepresented in the past. “There just wasn’t a lot of representation for the arts before,” Kelsie Fobare, a second year Biomedical Engineering major, said. Fobare based this on her interactions with older students as the programming officer for RIT Players, a theater group on campus. Older students in RIT Players, such as fifth year Mechanical Engineering major Joseph Buck, noted that performance arts were more so underrepresented. “The club [RIT Players] wasn’t as huge in my first semester compared to it now,” Buck said. “There’s definitely been a lot more

excitement about the performance arts ... and the different possibilities [Munson] is bringing to the table.” Some of the possibilities Munson brings are programs like Munson’s Challenge and the new Performance Arts Scholarship offered to incoming freshmen.

CHALLENGE AND SCHOLARSHIP One way Munson is advocating for the performance arts is through “Munson’s Challenge” — a contest in which all current students at RIT can showcase their talent on stage. So long as they’re not guided by faculty members, student groups are also encouraged to participate. This challenge was introduced as a way for students to display their talents and express themselves in a more creative way that their majors may not allow. Munson is also advocating through recruitment of artistic students. He is seeking students from high school who are involved with performance arts to continue this pursuit through the Performance Arts Scholarship. “We’re sort of thinking of it like athlete scholarships,” Munson said. “But instead of competing on the field, [students] are going to be enriching the performance arts activities throughout the institution.” The Performance Arts Scholarships this year were given to high school students who were interested in RIT and demonstrated skills in the arts. The administration allowed applicants to submit an audition to display their talents, and those accepted were given this particular scholarship. To incite continued interest in the arts, accepted applicants have to be involved with performance arts throughout their time at RIT, whether from club involvement or through classes. Though the increase of attention on performance arts has its perks, there are downsides to it that can be improved for future considerations.

IMPROVEMENTS One of the most emphasized possible improvements to Munson’s plans is the need for more performance space. “Our club has been expanding so much in the past few years ... and now we have a lot more club members, but there’s just not enough space for that,” Fobare said. One part of this struggle for space is that performance arts areas such as Ingle

Auditorium are also shared with academic events, so it’s hard to not have conflicting schedules. “Sometimes academic events take priority — which they should — but there are other places just as viable for them to host those events that aren’t viable for performing arts to host,” Buck said. Munson, in addressing this issue, has been working on several projects to construct two large spaces dedicated specifically for performance arts. One of these buildings will connect the Wallace Library and Student Alumni Union, tentatively titled the “Innovator Maker Learner Complex.” It will have a black box theater and possibly a dance studio. Note that a black box theater doesn’t have a traditional theater stage and is exponentially smaller than the Ingle Auditorium. This leads to a separate project RIT is still preparing for. The other project will be the creation of a performance arts center. There is a plan for two theaters in this space, both of which would be larger than the existing theaters at Ingle and Panara. At first glance, some might wonder how RIT will fund these projects. However, the Innovator Maker Complex has already been funded, and donors have a vested interest in seeing the rise of RIT’s performance arts.

THE MEANING OF PERFORMANCE ARTS For performers, there is something special in being a part of a performance. “More than doing it outside of my major, it’s my passion,” Buck said. Performance arts can affect people in a way that sometimes just watching a movie or concert on screen can’t create. For the people making these productions and overseeing it to its completion, a performance is so much more than just a one-off event. It’s an experience that can stay with you in a variety of ways, such as connecting with others. “For me, personally, it’s a lot more for the community,” said Fobare. “In a show, you have to spend so much time with these people and you get to see so many different sides to them. You just get so close — it’s like a close-knit family.”

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Pumpkin Spice Russian

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WHO THEY ARE

Chris Allman moved to Rochester in July 2018 from Madison, Wis. to work as the program manager at Bill Gray’s Iceplex. While Allman lived in Wisconsin, he played in the Madison Gay Hockey Association (MGHA), which is one of the largest gay hockey leagues in the United States. “The inclusiveness of the MGHA really blew my mind,” Allman said. “We didn’t go over like how good of a skater, shooter or passer are you. We literally went over pronouns for our first practice.” This inclusiveness inspired Allman to start a similar program at the Iceplex. When Allman was recruited by his friend, Chris

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“We didn’t go over like how good of a skater, shooter or passer are you. We literally went over pronouns for our first practice.” Woodworth, to work as the program manager at the ice area, both he and Woodworth decided to use the model from MGHA to start Rochester Pride Hockey. In the summer of 2019, the Rochester Pride Hockey league was launched. Since the launch of the league, there have been recurring scrimmages on Friday nights. In December, Allman hopes to launch a draft league, where two or more teams are drafted to play top to bottom for an eight-week season.

WHAT THEY STAND FOR

In addition to playing games, Allman plans to incorporate social events. The league will attend the Rochester Americans’ (Amerks) Pride Night on Jan. 17, 2020, where they will have a shootout during the first intermission. Bill Gray’s Regional Iceplex already has a strong partnership with the Amerks, as the team practices at the Iceplex facility and has a locker room there. This, combined with the

Pride Night, makes it an ideal time for the Rochester Pride Hockey team to participate. “They’re going to be really celebrating us out there on the ice and in front of the entire crowd,” Allman said. Most importantly, Allman hopes that the Rochester Pride Hockey will create a fostering environment for LGBT people. When Allman was growing up, he was the captain of his football and hockey team, but he hid his sexuality from his teammates. He feared what they would think of him. “I was closeted, [and] being in the closet in a sports environment is a scary place — like the worst-case scenario scary,” he said.

However, Allman soon realized that it was only the negative perception of sports that made coming out so daunting. “What I thought was going to happen was the exact opposite of what was going to happen,” Allman said, “which is what I hope we can do for the LGBT community here in Rochester.” He came out and was met with positivity from his teammates. Now, he looks to foster an environment through Rochester Pride Hockey where players feel safe and can have another outlet for sports, entertainment and a

“Being in the closet

in a sports environment is a scary place — like the worst-case scenario scary.”

healthy fitness lifestyle.

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MORATORIUM TO END THE WAR: 50TH ANNIVERSARY by Morgan LaMere \ images compiled by Catherine Rafferty courtesy of Reporter archive \ design by Cassy Smithies

he Vietnam Moratorium Committee staged what is believed to be the largest anti-war protest in United States history 50 years ago on Nov. 15, 1969. Nearly half a million citizens attended the largely peaceful protest, including politicians and musicians. While smaller than many modern-day protests, the Moratorium to End the War in Vietnam and other protests like it were some of the first of their kind. They helped usher in a new era of dynamic protests that are spurred on by free speech, more direct news reporting and youth engagement. One of the more defining aspects of the antiwar movement were the protests on college campuses, incentivized by the ever-increasing aggression of the army draft. Protesters on college campuses were frequently the first and loudest voices to speak out, even when the vast majority of the American population still supported the war.

THE CENTER OF A MOVEMENT Campuses all across the country were hotbeds for anti-war activism. Tamar Carroll — an associate professor of history, specializing in U.S. history from 1945 to the present — explained some of the context. “It started in Harvard University, it’s an outgrowth of McCarthy-era suppression of labor unions and left-leaning activists in general when people were being purged from the U.S. government,” she said. “A film that showed an HUAC (House Un-American Activities Committee) committee meeting was shown at Harvard University, and students felt that [what] the film depicted was contrary to democracy as they understood it.” Carroll suggested this was where students began protesting the Cold War, and where the activism of the New Left, a new form of student social activism, first originated. Later,

the University of California Berkeley would help create the Free Speech Movement and protest for other causes. During the Vietnam era, students on campuses across the country participated in the protest, including some from RIT. While infrequent in the beginning, Reporter began to cover the divisive topic; Neil Shapiro, a column writer at Reporter during this time, covered anti-war activities on campus. “I was at Reporter all four years, from freshman through senior [year],” he said. “I started just writing for the magazine, then I was the editor in chief.” Having experienced it, Shapiro said that students’ initial reactions were ones of support toward the war, but mentioned that this outlook would change as the war did. There were few who had any real idea why America was involved in the first place, or what it would cost. As these truths emerged, support shifted.

Protesting by its nature is controversial; not everyone appreciates it. “When the country goes to war, there is a great deal of support — at least at the beginning,” Shapiro said. “[Then] it became clearer and clearer that nobody knew ... why we were over there.” As the war dragged on, more students became involved in the war through enlistment or the draft. It was stated in the January 1969 Reporter magazine that draftees went from 4 percent college graduates to 90 percent. They would return home with terrible stories — if they came home at all. As Shapiro stated, this support turned into tremendous protest. Unlike UC Berkeley or Harvard, RIT staged no major protests and was a relatively quiet campus with only a few marches against the war, according to Shapiro. Only a few small organizations known for anti-war activism tried to gain membership. “The Students for a Democratic Society [a major anti-war organization] tried to get a presence at RIT, very few people were really interested in it,” he said.

The administration also engaged in protests, permitting students to take final exams early if they wanted to participate in the protests.

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REPORTING THE WAR

Reporter covered several anti-war activities over the years, starting in one of the earliest recorded weekly magazines. These included the introduction of ROTC to RIT’s campus in February 1969 and the plan brought forth by Reporter editor Bob Kiger in an April 1969 edition titled “Five Months to End the War,” which was adapted by a national committee and made into a nationwide Moratorium to be held on Nov. 15, 1969. Reporter also covered the March on Washington protest, attended by 80 RIT students, which would become the largest anti-war protest in U.S. history at the time.

WONDER WOMAN MEETS GI JOE

Despite future coverage, Reporter was somewhat absent from early protests. “One of the main complaints was that Reporter never did anti-war stuff and never gave a voice to the other side,” Shapiro said. However, that was about to change. According to Shapiro, RIT had always been a conservative campus. When a conservative photography professor was accused of grading a student negatively in part because the student was anti-war, the professor set out to prove a point. “He basically replied, ‘Well, you know what, I could take better anti-war pictures than you if I wanted to because I’ve got talent and I know technique,’” Shapiro recited. The professor, Robert Keough, took said images to Reporter where Shapiro was directed to write a story on it. This article became known as “Wonder Woman Meets GI Joe,” and was published in the April 4, 1969 issue as the first part of a satire against the war. The second part of the installation was published on April 25, 1969. Later that night, Shapiro, Keough and then-Editor in Chief Robert Kiger were arrested by state police. “People who didn’t like the article went to the justice of the peace court and pressed charges against the university and Reporter about desecrating the flag,” Shapiro said.

“Wonder Woman” in April 25, 1969 issue of Reporter. Photo by Bob Keough. The reasoning behind the arrests related to an obscure section of New York state business law that kept the flag from being desecrated. The article showed the photographs of a woman draped in the American flag and little else standing behind a man dressed in a marine outfit. To three RIT students, this choice of apparel constituted desecration, and they reported it to the authorities. In less than a week, the two models included in the photographs were also arrested. After being found guilty, the group was ordered to write an apology to the city through the Times Union, which they never wrote. Despite this ruling, their lawyer, Julius Michaels, petitioned the case to the NYS supreme court. “He asked that the ruling be overturned, and he based it on the freedom of the press amendment and various other things,” Shapiro explained. “It wasn’t until a year after I graduated from RIT that it was totally overturned … the New York state supreme court ruled in favor of freedom of the press.”

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“When the country goes to war, there is a great deal of support — at least at the beginning.”

Pull quote from Dec. 5, 1969 issue of Reporter.

While they were only held in jail for two hours, the actions created a tense conflict between the RIT administration, the student body and Reporter. “The RIT administration started off not being very supportive,” Shapiro said. “They shut off publication of Reporter magazine for a week.” Rather than halt publication, an understaffed Reporter published their next magazine with a blank cover. Facing an ongoing battle with the administration, many of Reporter’s staff simply resigned. Eventually, once the case was finally resolved, the administration became more supportive and the staff were reinstated.

THEN AND NOW

Protesting in America, both on campus and off, has changed dramatically. One difference, as stated by Carroll, is the lack of youth activism. “There’s no draft, so students aren’t worried about being drafted themselves,” she said. “So we don’t see the same level of youth activism as we did in the Vietnam era.” Shapiro agreed, saying to keep in mind that people were being picked in a lottery to go to war, being yanked out of their lives with only some returning. While this loss of life was very apparent during the latter parts of the war, we don’t see the gruesome reality as much now; civilians aren’t as exposed to the graphic images, body bags and other direct impacts.

“People have been desensitized because of the lack of news. The lack of news coverage in Vietnam was tremendously different than the news coverage we see now,” Shapiro said. According to Shapiro, the hopelessness and loss of life was more apparent, as it was a regular occurrence to lose a friend. With this desensitization, and even before it, there is complacency that comes with detachment. Sometimes, this apathy can even turn hostile. “When Susan B. Anthony protested, she had a lot of bad things thrown her way,” Carroll stated. “Protesting by its nature is controversial; not everyone appreciates it.” Carroll believes that in the coming years, there will be more attention paid to current events like climate change and, when they look back, people will recognize these individuals were on the right side of history.

POLITICAL DIVIDE

While many students tend to be apathetic toward certain events, there are just as many that take firm opposing sides in an everincreasing divide that is only getting worse. In this way, protests haven’t changed much.

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According to Shapiro, things only became more divided as time went on. Most students, detached from the war, could not rationally form an opinion on the conflict. This lack of information was easily abused by those in power. “The leaders [of the organizations] worked solely for their own ideals without any real attempt to make the issue clearer to their followers but simply use their followers to further their own ends,” Shapiro said. Shapiro saw the Vietnam War turn Americans against each other. In the beginning, many were directly opposed to the soldiers that were fighting in the war, rather than the administration sending them. It wasn’t until soldiers began to return and tell their stories that he saw people recognize soldiers for who they were and turned their anger away from fellow Americans and onto the government instead. While he recognized that we are not opposed to soldiers in more modern protests and that we learned good lessons during the Vietnam protests, we have also never been more divided in modern times. “One of the main problems we had in the ’60s is people only talked a lot on each side

to each other and drummed up emotions,” Shapiro explained. However, even over 50 years later, Shapiro still sees these same issues. Today, he attributes this to social media. “They only showcase the opinions of the worst of the people who have opinions,” Shapiro said. Shapiro just wants to see students spending time talking to each other, regardless of the issue or the side that they are on. As he stated, in the end, we’re all Americans in this together. While the nature of protests and the manner in which they are covered has

changed over the years, there are a surprising number of similarities between then and now, and lessons we still haven’t learned. When it comes down to it, protesting shouldn’t devolve into what the protest was likely about in the first place: hatred for others. Ultimately, Shapiro implored that “students today need to reach out — I don’t care what side of the issue they’re on — and try and find what the real issues are, not what some jerk says they are, and discuss these things and decide what the best is for you.”

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NEW AGE NICOTINE by Tyler English | illustration by Unique Fair-Smith | design by Ella Mathewson

aping and electronic cigarettes are said to be safer than smoking combustible cigarettes — but that doesn’t mean they aren’t harmful. E-cigarettes are just as addictive as traditional cigarettes. Both have levels of nicotine that can lead to addiction and numerous health risks, according to John’s Hopkins Medicine. On top of the addictive qualities of nicotine contained in e-cigarettes, many unknown factors further add to their foggy nature. What is the vapor exactly? What are the true long-term health risks for someone who vapes? How can these devices be legally regulated with so many unknowns? Health professionals and engineers are working to get these answers.

Health Hauntings Dr. Caroline Easton, professor in the College of Health Sciences and Technology, is conducting research into the health effects of vapes and e-cigarettes. “Everyone may have thought that the e-cigarette was safer than your standard cigarette with nicotine ... but no one knew back then if it could be as detrimental or more,” Easton said.

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Moving Parts Given the recent boom in vaping popularity, the number of reported health problems linked to vaping are continuing to grow. Easton said that every day she is reading news stories about more and more young people being hospitalized with similar pulmonary symptoms that can be traced back to e-cigarettes. The target market is focused on the younger demographics, the people who are not fully aware of the effects caused by such a normalized behavior. With this, the majority of health-related cases caused by vaping is centered around younger generations. “We need more educational materials on it, we need more ads on [television] showing it, showing the negative effects of it,” Easton said. “It might look cool and innocent, like a watch or a jump drive, and it smells good ... but look what happened to this person. Look what medical consequences can occur.”

“Electronic cigarettes are highly engineered devices, and the e-liquids that go into those devices are highly engineered.” Easton said that when side effects of smoking combustible cigarettes grew more and more dangerous, commercials and advertisements sharing smokers’ stories were released. With regards to vaping, medical concerns are beginning to pop up even faster than they did with cigarettes. How can medical professionals prepare vape and e-cigarette users for potential side effects if those side effects are still unknown? The simple, yet scary answer: they can’t.

Dr. Edward Hensel, associate dean of research and graduate studies in the Kate Gleason College of Engineering (KGCOE), is working alongside other researchers to view the different aspects of the evergrowing vaping culture. The research he and his team are doing focuses on the interface between the health risks and the regulatory actions and environments that control these substances. “No tobacco products are safe; all regulations are focused on is really minimizing the harm,” Hensel said. With a background in engineering, Hensel is targeting his aspect of the research on the devices and liquids themselves — specifically, how they work and how they are designed. E-cigarettes use what Hensel calls e-liquids — the oils and mixtures that are put into the device and form vapor. These contain a combination of chemicals to not only deliver nicotine and effects similar to tobacco, but also flavorings and other additives. Little is known about the liquids themselves, let alone what happens to them when they are turned into cotton candy-scented clouds. “Electronic cigarettes are highly engineered devices, and the e-liquids that go into those devices are highly engineered,” Hensel said. Hensel compared modern day e-cigarettes to a classic combustible cigarette. A combustible cigarette could be pure tobacco crushed and rolled in paper, then smoked. Whereas that may not sound like a safe thing to do, users of pure rolled-tobacco cigarettes know exactly what is going into their body. “Our lab is focused on ... the product characteristics that influence what emissions get delivered from the exit plane of the device to the mouth of the user,” Hensel said.

User-Centered Research Hensel is working closely with Dr. Risa Robinson, head of the Mechanical Engineering department in KGCOE. Robinson and Hensel have created research that utilizes actual user data to determine levels of emissions. Robinson first began to focus her research on the particle patterns of inhalants back in college.

“I started looking at engineering and public policy and how that fits together, along with the physics of the particles,” Robinson said. “Use your peripheral vision to solve this problem.” Her passion grew as the market for safer cigarettes also grew; however, cancer cases continued to rise. Now her research is focusing on e-cigarettes. “We are looking at what they are vaping, how often they are vaping, how many puffs they are taking [and] what is in each puff,” Robinson said. Robinson is using a device to measure an e-cigarette user’s daily puffing routine. The device is attached to the vape and measures how long each puff is, how much product is passing through it and how often it is puffed. The collected data is then run through a system to report the emission of the individual.

“By the time you add up all the puffs, they are actually getting the same amount of nicotine.” “When e-cigarettes first came out in 2006, people were saying that they have so much less nicotine in them than cigarettes,” Robinson said. “It turns out that if people are vaping [e-cigarettes] all day long, by the time you add up all the puffs, they are actually getting the same amount of nicotine.” As time went on, Robinson said that e-cigarettes became more complicated and the levels of nicotine delivered to the users increased alongside different additives and chemicals. For Robinson, Hensel and Easton, this research is more than what they learned in textbooks and from their research. It’s about the interplay between health, engineering and public policy that makes this issue complex. Experts are asking the questions and performing the research with new findings and new cases appearing every day. How can policymakers keep the public safe from what is currently being discovered? We just don’t know.

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Blood Doesn’t Choose Your Family,

You Do

by Ali Johnston \ illustration by Juho Choi \ design by Cassy Smithies

rowing up, I believed that I hated my family. We fought almost every day and I never felt they understood me. It often seemed as if my parents saw me as a project rather than a member of the family — they demanded constant change and personal growth from me at such a young age. To make matters worse, nobody else seemed to have this problem. Sure, not all of my friends got along with their parents, but none of them were constantly arguing, either. In retrospect, I was a terrible child, and that’s why we fought. They made me do chores, but now I live on my own and know how to wash my own dishes — thank you, Mom. My parents taught me a lot and I realize that now; but they still don’t understand who

I am. They understand the numbers of me — my SAT score, my GPA and the hours I work every week. But I am a human being, not something to be graded on a 1600-point scale. That’s something only my friends seem to understand. Why is it, then, that I was scolded every time I told someone that I found more comfort in my friendships than my family? Time and time again, I heard that “family is most important” and “nobody should come before your family.” It’s taken me 20 years to realize all of that is wrong. Michigan State University scholars analyzed surveys that included both selfrated mental health and the strength of participants’ relationships with friends

and family. Overwhelmingly, the study showed that long-term happiness is far more dependent on friendships than familial relationships. My chosen family will always be more important to me than my blood. Of course, there are members of my chosen family that I do share blood with, but I don’t love them because of that. I love them because they have stood by me year after year and shown me more than unconditional love — they’ve shown understanding. Family is about so much more than blood or a signature on adoption papers.

Understanding

My biological family has always loved me unconditionally, but it wasn’t enough. I

“ Every time we walk back into our families’ houses, we must remember

we are still our own people.” wanted to be understood. I wanted someone who would know why I did the things that I did, just because they knew me so well. I found those people in high school. In my junior year of high school, a friend of mine ended his life. I returned home after nearly an hour of nonstop tears. My eyes were red, but the first thing that my mother asked me was if I had been smoking weed. While she later apologized for making assumptions, the conversation mostly ended there. My family never understood things like depression or anxiety and, in this situation, my mother didn’t really know how to act. She didn’t know how to comfort me when comfort was what I needed. What my family couldn’t understand, my friend Cameron could. The night our friend passed away, Cameron invited me over to her house. We didn’t get into discussions about mental health; instead, we made dozens of pancakes and cried with one another — both over the loss of a dear friend and over our lack of syrup.

Research from the Mayo Clinic suggests that friendships are crucial in dealing with trauma. That night, Cameron and I didn’t need anything but support from one another, and that’s exactly what each of us provided. Ultimately, that’s what friends are for. They understand what you need when it seems like nobody else does. They support you through anything, even when your blood may not.

biological family “ My has always loved me unconditionally, but it wasn’t enough.

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Growing

Five years later, and so much has changed. The changes are most evident every time I return to my parents’ home. They are constantly surprised at the shifting of my mannerisms— many of which I’ve picked up from my friends. I am still changing every day, but it is no longer at the hands of my parents. I am growing with the people I choose to surround myself with. The people I have chosen to call family, blood or not, are the ones who I want to come home to. These people have made me feel like I belong, regardless of where we are. Only my friends — my chosen family — could make me feel the sense of belonging I feel today. It doesn’t matter where we are, because I’ll always find more comfort in the people I’m with than in the walls surrounding me. Home is not a place, it’s a people.

In an article titled “Family Dynamics during Holidays,” author Claire Maisonneuve explains why it can be so stressful to return home. The article discusses differentiating, or remembering that you are allowed to be your own person. You don’t need to play the role of the malleable child anymore. Every time we walk back into our families’ houses, we must remember we are still our own people. Through no fault of their own, our parents may revert back to old habits of treating us as children, making it difficult for many of us to feel like we’ve grown up at all. Friends have a unique ability to show you who you are through the interactions you share; whereas with family, it can be exceedingly difficult to find yourself when your parents treat you as a child. Holidays look a little bit different for me now. There aren’t as many decorations, but there’s also not as much fighting. My friends and I always buy each other gifts, even if those gifts are socks from Target. Even when we have barely enough in our bank accounts to afford rent, we always make sure that everyone feels loved.

Realizing

The older I get, the more I realize that I have been choosing my family for 20 years. I got lucky growing up how I did, but not everybody does. Family isn’t your DNA. Love, support and understanding mean more than your genetic makeup ever will. As kids, we’re taught family comes first, but that should never mean a mother or a father needs to come before a best friend. The blood running through your veins may keep you alive, but it does not always make life worth living.

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March 8, 5:57 p.m. So my roommate called me into the bathroom cause there was a spider and it was a GIANT one. I was gonna kill it but I felt bad cause people always say spiders are good and you shouldn’t kill them. But, since it was huge I was too scared to catch it and take it out. So my roommate calls down our upstairs neighbors who are dudes and out comes Pieter, Jacob and Jesus. Pieter was also just wearing his boxers.... just nonchalantly. And then they come in and freak out cause the spider

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is like we said but Pieter eventually brings it outside. Then they leave but Jesus gets locked out so he comes back over. Then Pieter comes back looking for Jesus and then they both hide in our bathroom cause now Jacob is at the door. And when we tell them Jacob is gone, they sneak out but then Pieter takes a long hard look into my bedroom for some reason, like I guess “to see if Jacob is hiding” and Jesus tells him off cause that’s weird lol. And then they left. Now Jesus is my fav. He is the most quiet and respectful out of the bunch. Too bad he lives above my roommate and not over my room.

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