It is a frigid Saturday evening on the campus of Ithaca College in Ithaca, New York. Inside the Whalen Center a pre-game locker room vibe permeates a classroom. The men of Casual Harmony, an all-male a cappella group from Rutgers, anxiously wait for their moment to take the stage.
Some of them stretch. Others take swigs from water bottles. Michen Sirleaf, a muscular upperclassman, detects a languor amongst his teammates.