[KarlMalone]

Topless standoff sparks campus protest

Students at the Troy campus of The Sage Colleges are planning to go topless Wednesday to protest what they believe was discriminatory police treatment of a student who identifies as androgynous.
The incident happened Sunday evening, when a school security officer approached Cedar Brock, who was sunbathing topless in a public park that fronts the campus and is across from the Troy Public Library.
"Are you a boy or a girl?" the officer asked.
"I'm neither," Brock said. "I'm androgynous."
What followed, according to Brock and others at the campus, was a Sage Park standoff that soon involved Troy police, who insisted that Brock put on a shirt and repeatedly told the student that city law forbids women from going topless in public...


Brock, 22, a junior who is studying theater arts and is from the small Rensselaer County town of Berlin, was sitting in the park with friends for a few hours while wearing a "binder" that restrained and hid Brock's breasts. "It was just so hot," Brock said. "I just thought, 'I'm going to take this off.'"

Sage protest goes topless to support androgynous student

Students at Russell Sage College showed their support for a student who was questioned for sunbathing topless on campus by taking off their own shirts during a Wednesday afternoon protest.

The protest was organized in support of Cedar Brock, a Sage junior who identifies as androgynous and was questioned by both campus security and city police while sunbathing topless in Sage Park, a city-owned park maintained by the college in front of its campus