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Friday, April 1, 2016

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Important budgeting announcement from the SGA by CHANA MEYSTLEMAN Staff Writer

Students all around Stevens dedicate their time to the different clubs and organizations all around campus. Recently, the recognized student organizations held their annual executive board elections. Positions were announced, nominations were made, all that was left to do was hold the actual elections. Nominations were announced before spring break; however, elections were only held in the following weeks. This week marked the first week of the newly student-run e-boards. These new e-boards have control of the budgets allocated to each Jeffrey Vock

by JAMES MURPHY Staff Writer

Michael Hayden, former Director of the NSA and CIA and US Air Force four-star general, gave a talk as part of the President’s Lecture Series on Wednesday, March 16. In a lecture titled “Danger, Complexity, and Immediacy: Today’s Security Challenges,” General Hayden spoke on some of the major issues affecting domestic security at the moment, dividing them into five “tectonics,” or macro movements. Hayden covered a lot of ground over the course of the hourlong lecture, touching on subjects ranging from technological advancements in terrorist groups, to the changing geopolitical boundaries of nation-states over time, to Russian and Iranian nuclear operations, to our tenuous relationship with China. He began the talk by reassuring the audience, “As ugly as the world is today, I have seen

it more dangerous,” though he quickly followed up with, “But never more complicated.” The first tectonic that Hayden covered was the rapidly changing nature of how power is defined on a geopolitical scale. He first cited an article written by former National Security Advisor Brent Scowcroft, who said that the only “pieces on the board” that mattered during his tenure (the Ford and first Bush administrations) were nation-states and “hardpower,” or “masses of men and metal.” Power during Scowcroft’s active years was recognized as industrial actors that “strengthened the [central government].” The biggest threat in that era was a malevolent government. Today, we see that dynamic shifting. While the industrial era was defined by power accumulating to the center, in the post-industrial era (now) we see power being pushed out to the fringes. “Things for which we used to rely on an empowered central govern-

ment are now within the reach of sub-governmental groups, gangs, and individuals,” said Hayden. He pointed out that while this has been a good thing for many areas of society, it has also allowed greater sophistication in the attacks of malevolent actors. Terrorism, transnational crime, and cyber attacks no longer require state-sponsored actors. “I never used to lose sleep over religious fanatics living in the Hindu Kush. But we now do,” Hayden said. Hayden expanded on this technological advancement angle with a brief mention of domestic surveillance. Due to the increasing ability to use technology instead of humans to fight our enemies, “we are having discussions and arguments about [how this technology is applied]. [Americans] have not decided how we want to deal with these threats.” Unfortunately, for what was arguably the most controversial

see HAYDEN • Page 6

Honor Board hosts history exhibit in library seen from Weehawken, and the Stevens’ prayer book. There were also several pieces from Martha Stevens, who played an influential role in establishing Stevens Institute. Many DaVinci artifacts can be found in John Lieb’s room. Lieb, a Stevens alumnus and former professor, went to Italy to work with an Italian engineer on a dam. While he was in Italy, he became fascinated with DaVinci. Lieb began collecting DaVinci artifacts and brought them to Hoboken when he returned to the U.S. Included in the collection are models of DaVinci’s machine gun and self-propelled ship, the title page of the Divina Proportione, and a small library. Frederick Winslow Taylor was a distinguished alumnus

of Stevens. His room contains a few of his patents, including a metal cutting tool, tennis racket, and a unique golf club. The Frederick Winslow Taylor and John Lieb rooms are both located on the second floor of the library. Artifacts from the University can be found in Sam’s Room, located behind the circulation desk. Stevens banners from the 1940s were on display next to freshman handbooks from 1925 and 1947. Old lab equipment including a marine boiler and voltmeter can be found on the shelves. One table contained Coke bottle prototypes, Stevens’ first yearbook, and ∫(events)dt, an old university publication with cartoons and information on various activities happening on campus.

Roving Reporter What are you going to do on April Fool’s Day?

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by DAVID ROGERS Staff Writer

The Honor Board hosted “Behind the Books,” on Wednesday evening in the S.C. Williams Library. The library’s four exhibit rooms, the Mary Stuart Stevens Room, the Lieb/ DaVinci exhibit, the Frederick Winslow Taylor exhibit, and Sam’s Place, were open to all students between 8 PM and 10 PM. The Mary Stuart Stevens Room is full of Stevens family relics and portraits. Notable items include a model of the America, the ship sailed by Rob Stevens and America’s Cup namesake, paintings of the Stevens family, an 1835 picture of New York and Castle Point as

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student-run organization. Each e-board will be responsible for submitting an organization budget request through DuckSync by 11:59 p.m. on April 4th 2016 in order for their budgets to be taken into consideration. The due date for submitting these forms was specifically chosen to be after e-board elections as to give the new e-board a say in deciding the budget. Once the budgets are submitted, Student Government Association Treasurer Jacob Vanderbilt and the SGA chairman committee of student interests (CCSI) Thomas Daly will spend the next three days reviewing the proposed budgets, as well

see BUDGET • Page 6

Comedian Maysoon Zayid talks disability, prejudice, and determination

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by OLIVIA SCHREIBER Staff Writer

“My name is Maysoon Zayid, and I am not drunk, but the doctor who delivered me was.” That is how PalestinianAmerican comedian Maysoon Zayid began her presentation to a roomful of men and women this past Wednesday in honor of Women’s History Month. Zayid is many things: a comedian, an actress, an activist, and a Cliffside Park, New Jersey native. She is also someone who lives with cerebral palsy, a condition that affects movement and posture due to damage of the developing brain during or shortly after birth. Zayid entertained and educated as she sat on a tall, black stool in the front of Babbio 122. She explained that her father lived according to the mantra, “You can do it! Yes you can, can!” Her family’s persistence and her determination paid off, as she is able to walk, a feat that is often very difficult for those living with cerebral palsy. Unlike today, Zayid grew up during a time before the word “Muslim” was not tainted, before the American Disabilities Act was codified, and before the Internet and social media platforms became “the place

where you can say the things you would never say.” She attended Arizona State University when affirmative action policies were implemented in university admission offices across the nation. “My application was basically Willy Wonka’s golden ticket,” she said, referencing her inclusion in multiple minority groups. She was an avid student, excelling in her theater classes. “I got all A’s, and I got all A’s in [my classmates’] classes.” Despite her success, she was not casted, even for a main role that portrayed a girl living with cerebral palsy. “I was told, ‘You can’t do the stunts.’ I said, ‘If can’t do the stunts, neither can the character!’” Both her disability and her ethnicity proved to be extremely limiting in her acting career, which is when she turned to comedy. She started doing comedy when she was 21. “It was the perfect place for me. It was a place filled with people who didn’t make it in acting.” She was thrilled when, after 10 years of traveling as a comedian, she was invited to become a full-time contributor on “Countdown” with Keith Olbermann. She admits that her early comedic work was “super vile,” and she didn’t find her voice

see ZAYID • Page 6

INSIDE THIS ISSUE: Growing The Stute The Mockingbird’s call Beginner tips for coding Safety of drone strikes

Women in Tech Spotlight: Padmasree Warrior

Baseball sweeps doubleheader versus Utica

Hayden main talking points

A decade of horse armor

No. 16 men’s lacrosse gets past Montclair

SGA open office hours

Men in skirts

More sports news and scores

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OPINION CONT’D 7

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Some of you older ducks may have noticed great changes in The Stute during the past few years, but the freshmen are lucky enough to only know a quality campus newspaper – what we have internally named “Nu Stute.” I would like to thank a lot of people who built up this organization, especially because they did it by creating a positive atmosphere for growing younger members. I hope I can continue building where they left off, one column at a time. If you haven’t caught on yet, The Stute had executive board elections this past Tuesday! Some of you might remember me from the “Mind of a Freshman” column last year, and I am so excited to be back at it again! I literally have butterflies in my stomach. 665 days ago, I came to The Stute’s Freshman Weekend and fell in love with every part of this organization. It has brought me so much happiness, a “Stute family,” a second home. I hope that, as 113th Editor-in-Chief of The Stute, I can give back to this club as much as I have gained. The first person I need to thank is Joseph A. Brosnan. Many of you might recognize the name – he’s a proud civil engineer, anime nerd, and outspoken critic

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quality of The Stute to the best it’s ever been. By encouraging younger members to try out a different type of article, page layout, or new internal system, he grew contributors into strong members. He got us above ground, a serious job well done, while keeping the atmosphere light and fun with his pro wrestling jokes. I also need to thank the rest of the previous executive board for spearheading their own improvements. Dennis Stewart has taken care of all of the computer improvements, which doesn’t include his serving as Business Manager, having a column, and actively contributing to The Stute since his freshman year. I am completely tech-clueless so this is a big deal that The Stute has taken advantage of technology so that we could better work on the paper. Olivia Schreiber has been a dedicated writer, Outreach Chair. She has always been so reliable, and a great role model for the younger members. I need to send a special thank you to Chris Chiu, who was Layout Editor and is now Business Manager. If Chris wasn’t returning to the executive board, I would be really alone and entering my term in a fearful and stressed mindset. I

am so thankful to have another experienced member by my side. All of the other members who have stuck around to keep building up The Stute deserve to know that they’re really appreciated. Having a bigger staff makes the incredible amount of work each week just so much easier to complete. I thank you guys for staying around. Lastly, I need to send a special thank you to all of the newest members of The Stute. Phil Fishbein, Tarik Kdiry, and David Ovsiew are three freshmen we welcomed onto the new executive board Tuesday. I know that that I’m going to overwhelm them with information the next few weeks, but it’ll be a good challenge. I hope all of the other ducklings stick around too because The Stute is only going to keep on building up as they grow. I know that I will make them work really hard, but I promise that it will all be worth it. The hole has been filled, the real foundation has been laid, and now we are going to keep building up.

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of all Stevens things. But I appreciate Joe so much. He welcomed me onto The Stute staff and showed me the ropes. I knew that I could get a very honest and thorough (and long) answer from Joe, for even yes-or-no questions. He let me take on new initiatives like being Photo Editor and trusted me to layout pages. Having his support meant a lot to me. Believing in the younger members is something that, I’ve heard, was totally unheard of for “The Old Stute.” His spirit changed the dynamics of the organization in a really great way, and started getting us out of “the hole.” The second person I need to thank is Frankie Guarini. I remember the last day of Stute Weekend when we rushed to finish the paper and you were so appreciative that I stayed to work on it. I am so happy that I stuck around to work with him for so many Tuesday and Thursday nights. I have looked up to him so much – as a Stute mentor and a friend. The amount of visible change he brought was an incredible accomplishment. Frankie questioned all traditions of “The Old Stute” so that “Nu Stute” was born tabula rasa (I know he loves Latin, haha). He really knew what he was doing and brought the

by GABRIELLE McCORMACK Freshman Software Engineering Major

Writing this article, I am sitting on my bed at home typing away at my computer. It is currently 12:34am and it has been a great few days being able to relax after a long week of midterms. I live in an area where the sky is so clear

that you are able to see millions of stars in the sky and pick out constellations with ease. Ever since my family and I moved here years ago, that has been one of my most favorite pastimes. Another one of my favorite parts of living where I do now is hearing the constant chirp of birds of many species outside my window. I live in an area that is surrounded by relatively untouched woodland, with trees that reach heights of over 100 feet tall and have been standing for at least 75 years, unscathed by harsh storms or by man’s chainsaw. Because of this, there is a plethora of dif-

ferent species of birds that migrate through and live on my property. With this in mind, there are many different species that can be heard and seen on a regular basis during most of the year. Because of the harsh winters, however, the bird calls are usually not heard. Just as I was thinking about this while sitting on my bed, I began to hear the chirp of a mockingbird outside my open window which I opened to let in the cool breeze from the late winter’s night. Even though it was past midnight, the mockingbird strangely sings throughout the night,

as if calling out for help. After it sends out its distinct call, soon enough others begin to respond. Like the mockingbird’s call into the dark night, sometimes I find myself calling out for guidance when I am unsure of certain decisions that I am called to make within my life. However, I always find that someone is there to help me like the bird that always responds to the mockingbird’s call outside my window. No matter how helpless someone may feel, there is always someone who can respond to their call and assist them in whatever they may need.

Senioritis

Why did Spring Break have to end?

by JOSEPH BROSNAN

5/5 Civil Engineering Major

We are in the home stretch. I have roughly 1 month to finish all of my Senior Design project, and about 2 months to get a job before I graduate formally. The end is so near it is hard to contain the bubbly sensation to just skip all the way to Biergarten.

I notice this feeling, but I realize how risky it is to have it. In 6 weeks, I have three projects to complete, a convention to oversee, speeches to perform, interviews to do, and columns to write. I am by no means done. But mentally, it is getting increasingly difficult to keep on task and ready, especially with Spring Break so heavily on my mind. It is my hope that coming back from Spring Break will be a big wake-up for me (we’ll see how I do these next few weeks.) In the time since my last column, I’ve traveled a lot. I went to Boston around March 10, and San Diego over Spring Break. When I was in Boston, I got to explore around the

beautiful campus of Northeastern University as part of the Chi Epsilon Conclave (if you didn’t know, Chi Epsilon is the National Civil Engineering Honors Society, and I am currently an office of the Stevens branch.) The campus was gorgeous, and the city was amazing. Yes, the roads were curvy and complicated, but overall they were so well maintained! Bridges and underground highways made the whole city somewhat of an engineering marvel. I was so impressed and enamored with the whole place. In Northeastern, we spent most of our days working within the Curry Student Center, a massive 5-story complex with multipur-

pose, moveable-furniture classrooms, dining services, a bookstore, the SGA headquarters, IT support, like, anything you could think of could be found in this building. The building alone was immaculate, with windowed elevators and glass stairs, and completely ADA compliant (from what I could see). Do you know what our Student Center is? Jacobus. Freaking Jacobus. Ugly, outdated, completely impossible to navigate in a wheelchair, and smelly. The roof and floors sag in certain locations. I know I’ve had issues getting soap in the two bathrooms in the whole complex. Northeastern had a “Gender Neutral Restroom” for crying out loud.

Look at what they can do with a comparable cost of tuition room and board (from what I have heard.) Stevens disappoints me utterly. I get that we don’t have a lot of room to expand, but Northeaster was in Boston, one of the bigger cities in the U.S., and we are only in Hoboken, next door to the Big Apple. Then, a week later, I packed my bags and went to San Diego, and I don’t think I’ve come back yet. Every day was at least 65F, and it never rained. Sure, there were some concerns getting water everywhere, but everyone was outside and having fun. I know, it was a tourist location, but even when my

girlfriend and I traveled to Scripps Institute of Oceanography, none of the professors were in their offices – they were out surfing!! A few of the people we met and hung out with even told us that they have special agreements with their places of work to show up for work later and work later, in order to enjoy a bit of the day at the beach first – most of them surf. San Diego was gorgeous and well connected, and most of the areas I ventured around in were well maintained, clean, fresh, and sometimes sandy, but not without reason. Then, without warning, it ended and I had to come back to New Jersey.

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Campus squirrels furious at Res Life

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This week, all undergraduate squirrels gathered in Palmer Lawn in outrage over recent issues regarding Stevens OnCampus Housing against Palmer Lawn’s own rodent residents. The leader of this response, Bushy But Not Too Bushy Tailed Squirrel, decided he/she/it wanted to share a few words

with us. After hours of deciding amongst the 14 Palmer Lawn residents who is the right Mr./ Ms./Chancellor Bushy but not too Bushy Tailed Squirrel, we, here at the Stupe, managed to get a few words from the rodent resident. “Squeek squeeker squak squeek.” outraged Bushy but not too Bushy Tailed Squirrel. “Squeeeeeeeeek squeek squack squeek.” We at the Stupe apologize for Mr./Ms./Chancellor But Not Too Bushy Tailed Squirrel’s vulgar words. After careful translation, it turns out the outcome of the lottery numbers assigned to each Stevens Resident has been the main reason for this outrage. “It is unfair that we, the ro-

dents of Palmer Lawn, were assigned freshman Lotto numbers.” said surprisingly literate squirrel, Mr. That One Squirrel That Chases Other Squirrels. “We have been on this campus since before the Ten Year Plan was established twenty years ago.” Resident Director Snevet Couras had a few words to say to the movement. “Squeek squeeker squak!” proclaimed Resident Director Snevet Couras at the protesters. As impressed as we are here in the Stupe of Mr. Couras’s ability to communicate with squirrels, it is unfortunate that his last words have done all but settle the Palmer Lawn residents’ outrage.

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by Chris T. Penguin

Like I’ve always upheld, people have the right to their informed opinions. No one has the right to be ignorant. That being said, I’ve noticed that small, insignificant, supposedly “political” issues generate a majority of modern day internet outrage. What’s even more confusing is that the outcomes of these issues have little to no effect on people’s everyday lives. These little distractions are pulling attention away from larger issues. Who

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cares what Donald Drumpf said?! Has he done anything? Has he blocked any bills from being passed? Has he held up the senate for 13 hours just to state how much he hates Obamacare? Ignore The Drumpf and he’ll go away. Besides, the republican party is doomed since it has a terrible history of disenfranchising anyone who wants to breathe new life into the party. So instead of a refresh, the grand old party will have their windpipes stomped on.

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WHAT IS KHODA

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KSA hosts ramen :3

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babbio sinkhole claims babbio cent4rt

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Women’s basketball advances to suburban Sweet Sixteen Party Men’s lacrosse drops tough one to no. 1 Tusks No. 5 men’s volleyball tops Ted Cruz

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Sinceraly yours, Ethan D. Crux

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WTH Snevets Reslife? What the heck is your problem? Seriously, what did we ever do to you? You’ve just gotten worse. Leave.

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DON'T ALWAYS BELIEVE WHAT SCIENTISTS AND OTHER AUTHORITIES TELL YOU! BE SKEPTICAL! THINK CRITICALLY! THAT'S WHAT I TELL STUDENTS, AND SOME LEARN THE LESSON ALL TOO WEL FGDEY L.' I WANT TO GIVE STUDENTS THE BENEFIT OF MY HARD-

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WON KNOWLEDGE OF SCIENCE'S FALLIBILITY. EARLY IN MY CAREER, LIKE MOST SCIENCE WRITERS, I CELEBRATED SCIENTISTS' ACHIEVEMENTS, FROM THEORIES OF COS'MIC CREATION AND THE ORIGIN OF LIFE T'O THE LATESTTHE BRAIN SOTHOROUG HLYT HAT

THEY WI LL BE ABLE TOBUILDARTIFICIAL BRAINS MUCHMORE POWERFUL THAN OUR OWNBALDERDASH! I TELL MY' CLASSES(OR WORDS TO THAT EFFECT). SCIENT' ISTS HAVE PROPO'SED COUNTLESS THEORIES' ABOUT HOW THE BRAIN ABSORBS, STORES AND PROCESSES IN-

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FORMATION, BUT RESEARCHERS REALLY HAVE NO IDEA HOW THE BRAIN WORKS. AND ARTIFICIALINTELLIGENCE ADVOCATES HAVE BEEN PROMISING FOR DECADES THAT ROBOTS WILL SOON BE AS SMART AS HAL OR R2-D2. WHY SHOULD WE BELIEVE THEM NOW? DFS EFW AJHL

MAYBE, JUST MAYBE, I SUGGEST, FIELDS SUCH AS PARTICLE PHYSICS, COSMOLOGY AND NEUROSCIENCE ARE BUMPING UP AGAINST INSURMOUNTABLE LIMITS. THE BIG DISCOVERIES THAT CAN BE MADE HAVE BEEN MADE. WHO SAYS

SCIENCE HAS TO SOLVE EVERY PROBLEM? SO HOW DO MY STUDENTS RESPOND? SOME REACT WITH HEALTHY PUSHBACK, ESPECIALLY TO MY SUSCIENTIFIC DISCOVERIES MIGHT BE OVE A SCALE FROM.

Straight outta the Hud’

NY summer starts early

by DAVE AMERICA Phreshman REKTanical Engineering

In New York, spring weather typically begins in late April, but the weather these past few weeks makes most people believe spring and summer have be-

gun early. Because of this, several downstate New York summer staples are opening early as soon as this weekend. Coney Island opened as scheduled this past weekend on March 26th, although most of its traffic comes in the summer. The original Nathan’s is there near the amusement park, as well as a popular beach. To get there, take F, D, N, or Q train to the last stop in Brooklyn, or if you prefer to drive, take the Lincoln Tunnel, Battery Tunnel, Brooklyn-Queens Expy, and Belt Pkwy to exit 7.

Farther east, the Rockaways are a great string of beach communities in Queens. Even during a year like this, it’s simply not in the Rockaways’ character to open early. It would be best then to wait until May to go there, but when you do, there should be no problem getting in or out of the Rockaways. Simply take the downtown A train to the last stop. The Rockaways are one of the more carfriendly parts of the city, so you may want to drive. Take I-95 through the Bronx to the Whitestone/Van Wyck Expy (I-678) and Belt Park-

way Westbound. Take the Broad Channel Bridge at exit 17S or Marine Parkway Bridge at exit 11S. Once again, the Rockaways will most likely not open early, so go there at the end of the semester or during the summer if you are going to be in the tri-state area. Even further east, the Long Island beaches are opening on the second weekend in April. My recommendation is Smith Point Beach. Among the fine sand, the Beach Hut resturant/bar, and the otherwise quiet and peaceful beach, Smith Point makes for a great

beach. You certainly want to drive to Smith Point as there is no subway or heavy rail leading there. Take the George Washington and Whitestone Bridges to the Long Island Expy Eastbound. Take exit 47S until you get to Sunrise Highway, and then take William Floyd Pkwy Southbound to the beach. The drive is a bit complicated, but it’s worth it. Finally, there’s Splish Splash, Suffolk County’s big water park. Most of Splish Splash’s regulars are from either Queens or Long Island, as it is too long of a

drive for people from the other boroughs, especially considering the fact that no one in Manhattan or Brooklyn has a car. However, the few times they do go, most of them enjoy it. An analogy New Jersians may understand better is to think of it as a trip to Six Flags. After speaking with the Stevens Entertainment Committee, I managed to get a bus to Splish Splash along with 40 tickets. It will leave from Humphrey’s at 6:30 on April 2nd, and tickets will be given out on a first-come, first-serve basis.

/News/: Snevets gets something right, campus in chaos ANDERSON BIRDSTEIN 360 When the student body returned from spring break this past Monday and found a new River Lot adorned with one way signs, an increase in parking spots available, and a general job well done, a previously unimaginable chaos erupted. Students were reported as left dumbfounded by a product of the administration they genuinely could not complain about, form an uninformed bitter reaction, or even use the word “innovation” ironically as they

do with literally everything else. In this state of cognitive dissonance, many felt the only appropriate reaction was utter discontent, in a fashion seen commonly on American universities upon racial injustice or administrative embezzlement. Since such passion in a shared emotion has been unheard of on campus, violence ensued, reminiscent of the popular film, The Purge, except with STEM students not knowing how protests work. The sense of discord was felt in all facets of campus as images of mechanical engineers commandeering 3D

printers to print weapons, a boarded up Samuel C. Williams Library taken hostage by entitled graduate students, and Pearl Foster and Professor Ryan looking upon the shards of the Babbio Center with a single tear in their eyes were now forever engrained in Snevets history. While hiding from the now-rabid and disturbingly violent Martini Favardin behind a pile of burning copies of “Knowledge, Nature, and Culture,” Sophomore владимир басков reiterated how “It’s almost as if the rigorous education I’m getting along with the close-

to-guaranteed job prospects are actually positive aspects of my attendance at Snevets instead of things I constantly ignore because Pierce had bad pizza this one time. Ridiculous.” In a video message released from what seemed to be an underground bunker fashioned from the Motion Capture Lab, President Favardin assured that the lot’s completion, an act of Snevets finally improving the campus in a meaningful way done in a timely manner, was “only a once in a lifetime occurrence,” pointing to “the haphazard housing

process, the not-so-intuitive VLE system, student life’s mishandling of finances, malfunctioning classroom technology, a lack of diversity alongside a sizable arts culture, failure to properly acknowledge a problematic, slave-owning family history, a dearth in meaningful environmental impact, and the feeling when you go to a club event just when the food runs out” as perpetual issues students can take refuge in and make snide jokes about without taking any action to mend. While the world waits for a reaction video completed

by frustratedly maligned CAL students, not all are finding the state of Snevets to be a particularly negative environment; Senior Aaggaataat Aapplittuatsiaq reiterated “While I am now constantly in fear of the sentient blinking garbage and recycling bins developed by the Computer Science department, I will say it’s nice to see the often-touted Snevets community, talked about but never seen, come together for once instead of fragmented demographics often united in cynicism, the occasional tragedy, and stress.”

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Technically Speaking

So you want to learn how to code?

by TARIK KDIRY

Freshman Software Engineering Major

In the insanely competitive world of finance and technology, it is absolutely essential to make yourself stand out to employers with your skills. As reported on LinkedIn, some of the top skills that employers have valued on a potential employee’s

profile includes programming languages. Knowing how to communicate with your computer has never been more valuable. These languages include Ruby, Python, Javascript, C++, Java, and many more. Languages such as Python and C++ are popular amongst employers that need back end programmers for web development while languages such as Javascript and Ruby on Rails are desired amongst employers that need front end programmers for web design. Both prove to be very useful skills that can help you stand out against the competition. Personally, I have al-

ways thought that these skills are reserved for the Computer Science majors with some sort of extensive training specific to the different applications of programming. With many resources online, it is now easier than ever to begin learning how to code from anywhere. Without the need for an extensive education. I myself have made thorough use of Code Academy by using their HTML/ CSS program, a program for front end web design, Ruby, and Javascript. It is designed to guide you step by step through the basics until you end the courses with a small program. Along with the courses,

there is also a community filled with experts and beginners alike to refer to for help. Other online sources include code.org, Code School, Khan Academy, and so much more. The best part about these sources is their incredibly reasonable price tag of zero dollars and zero cents. With sites like these it is almost a tragedy to not use them to their full extent. Though some of these sites offer a paid service with personalized help and courses, but the majority of their content is free and available for use whenever and wherever. It costs nothing but time to add more value to your resume, and expand

your interests and skills. There are many other benefits to learning how to code besides the professional benefits. From my experiences, coding has proven to expand and sharpen my mind and thought processes. The main challenge in learning how to code, as well as actually coding, is being able to think outside the box while remaining in the box at the same time. By that I mean being able to take very simple words and strict syntax, and arrange them into lines of code that do various things. Any programmer can make a small calculator or a small roleplaying story, but it is up to the in-

dividual to make it unique and interesting. That’s where thinking outside the box becomes necessary. Contrary to popular belief, coding does require intense critical thinking and a ton of creativity. To me, I think there is one very unique aspect of coding that wasn’t mentioned before. It is the ability to create anything and make it so personalized that whatever you create is a reflection of you. There are thousands of ways to arrange lines of code to create the same thing; it is how those lines are created and arranged that varies from programmer to programmer and makes them unique.

Scientific Curmudgeon

Are drone strikes really making us safer?

by JOHN HORGAN

Director, Center for Science Writings

Michael V. Hayden, a central figure in the U.S. war on terror, spoke at Stevens recently. Hayden directed the National Security Agency from 1999 to 2005 and the Central Intelligence Agency from 2006 to 2009. In his new book Playing to the Edge: American Intelligence in the Age of Terror, Hayden advocates “playing to the edge,” which apparently means skirting the boundaries of legal and ethical rules. He

defends counter-terrorism programs such as warrantless surveillance, enhanced interrogation (also called torture) and drone strikes. In a recent New York Times essay on drones, Hayden writes: “The [drone] program is not perfect. No military program is. But here is the bottom line: It works… Unmanned aerial vehicles carrying precision weapons and guided by powerful intelligence offer a proportional and discriminating response when response is necessary. Civilians have died, but in my firm opinion, the death toll from terrorist attacks would have been much higher if we had not taken action.” First, here are some data on civilian deaths. Micah Zenko, a senior fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations, a think tank, has compiled data on drone strikes from several inde-

pendent sources. He estimates that U.S. drone attacks in Pakistan, Yemen and Somalia have killed 3,875 people, including 470 civilians. Zenko conjectures that Hayden, while director of the CIA, “personally authorized an estimated 48 drone strikes, which killed 532 people, 144 of whom were civilians. At 27 percent, this is more than twice the 12 percent of estimated civilian deaths from all of the U.S. drone strikes conducted through January 2016.” Zenko’s estimates— which exclude data on strikes in Iraq, Syria, Afghanistan and Libya–are based on reports by nonprofit groups such as the Bureau of Investigative Journalism, which in turn are based on reports from human-rights groups, government officials, media and other sources. The esti-

mates are almost certainly too low, because not all attacks and casualties come to light. A 2012 report by scholars at Stanford and New York University on drone strikes in Pakistan rejects the claim that drones are “a surgically precise and effective tool that makes the U.S. safer.” Based on “more than 130 interviews with victims, witnesses, and experts, and review of thousands of pages of documentation and media reporting,” the report concluded: *while civilian casualties are rarely acknowledged by the US government, there is significant evidence that US drone strikes have injured and killed civilians. *US drone strike policies cause considerable and under-accounted- for harm to the daily lives of ordinary civilians, beyond death and physical injury.

*Serious concerns about the efficacy and counterproductive nature of drone strikes have been raised. The number of “high-level” targets killed as a percentage of total casualties is extremely low—estimated at just 2%. Furthermore, evidence suggests that US strikes have facilitated recruitment to violent nonstate armed groups, and motivated further violent attacks… Drone strikes have also soured many Pakistanis on cooperation with the US and undermined US-Pakistani relations. *current US targeted killings and drone strike practices undermine respect for the rule of law and international legal protections and may set dangerous precedents… As drone manufacturers and officials successfully reduce export control barriers, and as more countries develop lethal drone

technologies, these risks increase. During the Q&A after his talk, I asked Hayden whether armed drone strikes might do more harm than good, as the Stanford/ NYU study suggested. He replied that critics have overstated casualties from drone strikes, and that he has seen no evidence correlating U.S. attacks to increases in Muslim militancy and violence. But he acknowledged that drones should be used sparingly, “with a dial, not a switch.” If I had been allowed a follow-up question, it would have been this: Shouldn’t the U.S. set a higher moral example for the rest of the world than “playing to the edge”? John Horgan directs the Center for Science Writings. This column is adapted from one on his ScientificAmerican.com blog, “Cross-check.”

ous with their homemade spreads. All of these do nothing to cover up the fact that the bagels aren’t that great. Maybe I haven’t had enough store-bought bagels in my youth, but they taste a small step above what you can get in a supermarket. Despite the quantity of bagel shops, Hoboken is lacking in all-around quality. With that being said, the best bagel in my opinion came from Hot Bagels

(my partner is more of the white bread-type and preferred Bagels on the Hudson, though I think their chocolate chip bagel may have had something to do with that), but the best sandwich came from Bagels on the Hudson. JP’s isn’t a bad option if you’re down by the PATH, and their bagels are slightly better than Bagels on the Hudson. Both my partner and I agree to skip on O’Bagel.

Cuisine Corner

Bagel showdown

by KATRINA GUIDO

Sophomore Physics Major

Everybody has their own opinion of what makes a great bagel, and it’s certainly not my job to convince you that round white bread with a hole in the middle is not even close. If I may opine, however, a great bagel has a doughy inside with a slightly crunchy, crackly crust, indicative of boiling. The bagel need not (and really, should not) be toasted when purchased fresh from the bakery. Now if you have a bad bagel, then by all means toast it to create a fake crust and flavor that it currently lacks. For this week, I chose

four of the more popular bagel places in Hoboken: JP’s Bagel Express, located down by the PATH, Bagels on the Hudson, Hoboken Hot Bagels, and one of Washington Street’s newest additions, the popular Jersey chain O’Bagel. At each place, I ordered an everything bagel and a specialty bagel, one with a spread (though the spread should not make the bagel), and one with egg and cheese. First up was JP’s. They had blueberry bagels, a rare find for Hoboken, which actually tasted like blueberries. The everything bagel looked as though it was accidentally dropped into a bag with other random bagels and that’s how the toppings came to be - barely anything on top. The flavor of the bagel itself did nothing to compensate either. Sadly, neither of the bagels had that lovely crispiness which I was seeking. From there I went to Hoboken Hot Bagels, and finally got a crisp crust. The

bagels themselves were not overly large and had the texture and flavor of having been boiled. The everything bagel had a good amount of toppings, and even their plain bagels had flavor. However, it seems as though good bagels are all they have, as my order, the egg sandwich was microwaved leaving a rubbery egg taste, and the strawberry cream cheese was pulled out of a store-bought container. Onto the new guy on the block. Both times I’ve gone, I felt like I was thrown into the middle of chaos, with customers everywhere, and no one really quite sure where to wait — and wait they will — for their order. Their everything bagel had even fewer toppings than JP’s, and neither the cinnamon raisin nor the everything bagel had much in the way of crust or flavor. On the bright side, their eggs are cooked on a grille, but I really don’t understand why this place has become

so popular. Lastly, the Stevens students’ staple – Bagels on the Hudson. The largest of the store fronts and with the largest selection, Bagels has the whole crazy weekend morning breakfast thing organized with a constantly moving line and short wait time. The everything bagel had the most amount of toppings of all of the places, their eggs had the best flavor, and they are gener-

Katrina Guido

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Campus Pulse

Roving Reporter What are you going to do for April Fool’s Day?

“Hide my roommate’s Yeezy’s and make him think he lost them.”

“Light a firecracker and throw it at one of my friends while he’s in the bathtub.”

“Get a fake tattoo and show it to my parents because they’re really against tattoos.”

Ryan Lansen

Alexander Slizewski

Lucas Gallo

“Work with IT to block certain people out of rooms.”

“Some prank on my advisor. I don’t know what, but definitely on my advisor.”

Dakota van Deursen

Joana Cardoso

“I’d wear some kind of special shirt in Kevin Ryan’s class and when he asks me what I’m wearing, change the shirt and pretend I’m someone else.”

Polling Pierce What do you think of the new Stevens website? Based on 100 responses

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48 I like it

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guably the most controversial part of Hayden’s career, this was the only allusion to the PRISM program in his presentation. Hayden’s second tectonic was an examination of the geopolitical boundaries we have historically used to divide continents into countries and how impermanent they actually are. He showed the audience two maps of Europe with different lines drawn on each one, and pointed out how much the boundaries have been modified over the course of about 50 years. Even the more recent map still showed Czechoslovakia and Yugoslavia, which were deprecated in the Velvet Divorce nearly 100 years ago, though Hayden noted, “there was nothing velvet-y about it.” Hayden showed how Scowcroft’s ‘game piece’ metaphor starts to falter as the pieces on the board change shape and character. Hayden looked at the borders drawn with a ruler by the British and French government officials Sykes and Picot to divide the Middle East. He cited New York Times writer Tom Friedman, who said to “distrust all straight lines on maps,” because they don’t reflect reality. “These lines were drawn for the convenience of the European empire, indifferent to commercial, historic, linguistic, ethnic, and

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religious realities on the ground. They were kept in place for a hundred years by the raw imposition of external power,” Hayden said. After the Cold War, these lines were kept in place purely because of the autocratic power of Middle Eastern countries. However, even now that some of these autocracies have been dismantled, we can’t expect things to simply return to form. “These countries aren’t coming back… What’s going on here is generational. It’s not going to be fixed by a good deal in Vienna. It’s going to take a long time for this part of the world to re-settle into a new equilibrium… The pieces aren’t what they used to be,” Hayden said. To illustrate this point, Hayden examined Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, the leader of ISIL. al-Baghdadi has rejected the idea of sovereign nations entirely. Hayden elaborated, “Even though he calls it the ‘Islamic State,’ it’s not ‘State’ in the [traditional sense]. It’s a caliphate. His view is that ‘states,’ as you and I know the concept, are on their face, blasphemous. Why in God’s name would you put a man-made institution between the creator and his creatures? It’s not about re-drawing the lines between Iraq and Syria… The concept on which the old lines were based is being challenged.”

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as making any objective cuts they see fit. They will be going over the budgets from Wednesday the 6th until Friday the 8th. For any questions or concerns, Vanderbilt and Daly are open to discussing them; they will be in the SGA office, located on the second

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until she became a touring comic. She started in New York and traveled to places including Palestine and Jordan. It has been said that she is the first person to ever perform standup comedy, however she herself is unsure whether that is true. Wherever she is, she uses humor to “humanize and equalize disability.” Zayid stated that 70% of Americans living with a disability are unemployed and are the most underrepresented in media, TV, and film. “We have a long way to go,” said Zayid. Her commentary on disability, stereotyping, and social stigma was intermittent with light-hearted humor on topics including her family, marriage, and her cat named Beyonce. As she concluded her presentation, she challenged the audience to think about the importance of

floor of Jacobus, from 1-6 p.m. on Wednesday, 7-10 p.m. on Thursday, and 2-9 p.m. on Friday. Jacob commented, “The goal is to be as open and available to budget requests. It is a cooperative system.” On April 11th, the SGA will return the budget requests through DuckSync along with their comments and cuts. If an organization disagrees or has questions concerning the budget cuts

made by the SGA, they can bring up a dispute with the SGA treasurer, the CCSI, or their SGA Committee Head or Representative. However, disputes must be lodged before 11:59 p.m. on Saturday, April 16th. The SGA will have open office hours on Tuesday from 1 to 6 p.m., Wednesday from 2 to 5 p.m, Thursday from 1 to 4 p.m. and again from 6 to 8 p.m., as well as Friday from 2 to 5 p.m., to discuss

any disputes. Ultimately the final budget approvals will be made on April 17th 2016. This is the second year the SGA has used this system for determining budget cuts. Last year, no disputes were brought to the SGA, and so they hope everything will go about smoothly as it did last year. So far, less than 15 clubs have submitted their budget requests.

words. “Say no to violence on campus. Say no to being an internet troll. And finally, say no to being silent because silence is acceptance.” The talk ended with a brief Q&A session. One woman asked under what minority group she is most discriminated against: Muslim, female, or disabled. She answered that, up until now, most of the discrimination she faced originated from the fact that she is a woman. “Now, it is being a Muslim. I get death threats daily.” Zayid said that the past three years have been extremely difficult for her. Even after her 2014 TED Talk “I got 99 problems…. palsy is just one” received over 11 million hits, even after she has proved her skill as an actor, comedian, and commentator, she has still not been given a chance. Zayid travels constantly and loves speaking to college students. “[Students] are challenging because they are here for one of

two reasons: either they have to or because they have nothing better to do.” She also believes that college students are at the age where they can “understand that our actions have reactions,” something that the Women’s Programs at Stevens strives to illuminate by bringing speakers such as Zayid to campus. Zayid is married and still resides in Cliffside Park with Beyonce. She co-founded the New York

Arab-American Comedy Festival in 2003, which attracts Arab comics, actors, filmmakers, and playwrights from all over the world to come together and increase awareness of the immense talent that originated and currently resides in the Arab-American community. Zayid is also the founder of Maysoon’s Kids, which is an organization that addresses the needs of the growing population of disabled children in Palestine.

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Always Right

Not With Those Shoes

A decade of horse armor

Men in skirts, oh my!

was pioneered by John Carmack and id Software. Id’s earliest major success was 1992’s Wolfenstein 3D, one of the first first person shooters. The game gathered a cult following eager for more levels. In these early days of bulletin boards, fans programmed tools to create new “maps.” Seeing the potential, Carmack created the WAD (Where’s All the Data?) file for id’s 1994 followup, Doom. WADs contain levels, graphics, and most of the other data needed for a game. Fans ran with the WADs, creating tens of thousands of new levels (Doom mods are still being produced to this day). While most WADs contain a single level, “megawads” could contain more content than the original game. Doom also introduced the world to total conversions, massive mods changing every aspect of a game except for the engine. The first total conversion, Aliens TC, changed Doom‘s theme and setting to James Cameron’s science-fiction epic. In a 2007 interview, Carmack talked about the first time he saw a Star Wars mod for Doom. “Seeing how someone had put the Death Star into our game felt so amazingly cool. I was so proud of what had been made possible, and I was completely sure that making games that could serve as a canvas for other people to work on was a valid direction.” In 1996, id again revolutionized video games with Quake. Quake introduced many new techniques for rendering 3D graphics, and was one of the first multiplayer games to be played over

the runways. This year Prada and Givenchy both featured women models in their menswear runways while a black knit skirt was one of the most recurring pieces on Givenchy’s male models. This isn’t just a trend among big names though, many newer or up and coming designers have been founded exclusively in the androgynous. Barney’s uptown New York location just recreated a life-size replica of the Hood by Air (HBA) spring 2016 fashion show. HBA has blown up in the last few years and is supported by celebrities like Rihanna, Kanye West and Drake. While officially categorized as menswear, HBA’s current collections feature crop tops, sheer button downs, short shorts, and a pair of “tube top overalls.” Gender blurring is not just a runway exclusive either, other celebs have been rocking clothes of the opposite sex for some time now and it’s becoming less unusual. Jaden Smith created quite a stir when he appeared as one of the faces of Luis Vuitton’s new 2016 Spring/Summer campaign. This is not the first time Smith has dabbled in women’s wear either and is probably the best known male celeb that can pull off skirts! Pharrell Williams is another star famous for incorporated women’s clothing into his personal style. A recent video shows him trying on feminine pieces at the Chanel flagship store in preparation for the 2016 Autumn/Winter show. I could go on. The point is, unless you’re watching runways and looking in the right places, it’s easy to miss these tiny details that form a pretty big picture when put together.

by DENNIS STEWART Senior Cybersecurity Major

Over Spring break, The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion had its 10th birthday. Bethesda Game Studios’ followup to their 2002 Morrowind introduced voiced characters and brought greater balance between combat styles (as well as removing spears, never to be seen again). However, Oblivion‘s greatest impact was horse armor. April 3rd, two weeks after Oblivion‘s launch, marked the release of the Horse Armor Pack. Players who forked over $2.49 were given the ability to purchase two new sets of armor for their horses. The armor had no effect on gameplay, it simply changed the horse’s appearance. While not the first-ever downloadable content (DLC) or microtransaction, it was notable for selling widely despite much ridicule. In the days before Oblivion, conventional wisdom dictated that enabling users to create more content for your game would increase its value. Game developers would create tools and documentation to enable users to create modifications, or mods. Mods are typically new levels, items, or entirely new games (referred to as total conversions), released non-commercially. This style of game design

TCP/IP, the cornerstone of the modern internet. In magazines and on their website, id advertised mods and total conversions as a key reason to buy their new game. Quake spawned many mods, most notably Team Fortress which has become a game franchise moving tens of millions of copies. Horse armor represented a new school of selling games. While mods increased the value of the original product, they now became competition as well. Fewer people will pay $2.49 for two sets of horse armor when there are hundreds of options available for free, or pay $15 for four multiplayer maps when there are 11,000 at their fingertips. To their credit, Bethesda have continued to release mod tools. Their games, even post-Oblivion, are known for massive community support. Over time, the developers have put modding utilities at a much lower priority, releasing them later in their titles’ lifespans. Fallout 4 released almost 6 months ago and there is no release date or estimate set for official modding tools, likely as an attempt to drive DLC sales. Ironically, id was purchased by Bethesda’s parent company, ZeniMax Media, in 2009. John Carmack, the final remaining id founder and the father of the game modding community, left to become CTO at Oculus VR in 2013. A reboot of Doom is set to release in 2016, with no mod support. It’s OK though, there’s plenty of horse armor armor sets, paint schemes, consumable items, and more DLC to buy.

by HOPE BRANDES

Sophomore Visual Arts & Technology Major

No, it’s not an April fools joke, I’ve actually got something more serious for you guys this week. I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again, fashion is much more than what you wear. It’s one of the most noticeable forms of self-expression and through that a reflection of our culture. In an era of worldly interconnectedness, the status quo is slowly becoming more receptive to change and the fashion world is changing with it. Gender has been a hot topic recently, though maybe it always was, and designers have followed suit by adding more androgynous styles to their collections and blurring the lines between male and female exclusive. Women have been wearing menswear since the 20’s, but androgyny has created a new aesthetic equally accessible to both genders. Last year, Prada and Gucci’s men’s lines experimented with traditionally feminine styles in their men’s lines, including lace shirts, ruffled blouses and straight-cut dresses. On each seat at Prada’s fall runway were cards reading, “Gender is a context and context is often gendered.” It’s also becoming more common to see women modeling menswear and men modeling women’s wear on

Fashion seems to be the one area where women are ahead of men, and I don’t say that lightly. Women still face many changes and have a long way to go from being equal, but men are still pigeonholed too. We forget women wearing pants was once just as radical as men wearing skirts now seems. Androgyny is an interesting solution because it avoids the problem of a dramatic crossover. Instead of putting one sex directly into another’s shoes (literally), it creates a new platform that is aimed at both genders from the start. Not to mention it also caters to the millions and millions of people who don’t specifically identify as one gender or another anyway. If it isn’t already, the day is coming when men in skirts won’t seem quite so “oh my!”. Besides, Ewan McGregor looks awesome in a kilt.

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Women in Tech Spotlight

Padmasree Warrior

by NAMANKITA RANA Freshman Undecided Engineering Major

It’s been very gratifying to shed light on the struggles and issues women face, but as of late it’s also been a bit personally draining to read and write up on some of the more negative aspects women face. I think it’s time this column shift from talking about challenges women face to instead celebrating what women ARE doing in STEM fields, and the successes they’ve had. The next few installations of this column are going to be dedicated to shedding a spotlight on powerful women in tech. So without further adieu, the first woman to

take the spotlight is Padmasree Warrior! Besides having an incredibly badass name, she’s been on top of the tech field for years now. Some fast facts: Padmasree Warrior is the CEO of U.S. operations for NextEV, an electric vehicle company, and was called the “Queen of the Electric Car Biz” by Fortune magazine. She is the former Chief Technology & Strategy Officer (CTO) of Cisco Systems, and the former CTO of Motorola, Inc. As of 2015, she is listed as the 85th most powerful woman in the world by Forbes. And in 2005, The Economic Times ranked Warrior as the 11th Most Influential Global Indian on the planet. But her influence extends far beyond her corporate power– she has 1.46 million Twitter followers (@Padmasree), and her feed is filled with selfies, art, and haikus along with tech news. At 55 years young, Warrior defies the stereotype of a single-interest tech success– she has an interest in fashion, meditates nightly,

and often paints in her free time. Intrigued? Here’s more about the woman behind the warrior. (Get it?)Warrior was born to a Telugu family and raised in Vijayawada, a city in Andhra Pradesh, India. In 1982, Warrior went to study chemical engineering at the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) in Delhi—no ordinary feat three decades ago, considering that IIT is essentially the India equivalent of MIT and the fact that women are a tiny percentage at IIT even today. Warrior then moved to the US, where she got a master’s degree in chemical engineering at Cornell University. At grad school, she found herself waiting around for a friend at a career fair. On a whim, she filled out a job application for Motorola. The rest, as they say, is history. Warrior climbed the ranks of Motorola over the course of 23 years to earn the title of CTO, and joined Cisco as CTO shortly after. When she joined as the

CTO of Cisco, the company was trying to transform into a young, consumerfriendly technology firm. Over the years, Warrior was at the forefront of transforming Cisco and building the company’s strength around its focus area of internet of things— the concept of connecting things ranging from soccer balls to household gadget through the internet. She was the reason Cisco was at the forefront of cloud computing for eight years. Named among the top 15 most influential women driving innovation (and revenue) in corporate America by PINK magazine in 2008, Warrior is a member of the board of trustees for Cornell University. She also serves on the boards of cloud storage company Box, and American clothing and accessories retailer Gap. She was also once considered for the newly created CTO position within the Obama administration. What’s next for her? Warrior is taking on none other than Elon Musk. Yes,

you read right. NextEV, a Chinese electric car company potentially taking on Tesla and Faraday Future, has tapped Padmasree Warrior for the U.S. CEO position. Warrior will also head up software development and the user experience globally for the company. According to Warrior, NextEV has already pulled in half a billion dollars of the $1 billion it plans to raise and has plans to grow the business and hire in the hundreds under her leadership in the near future. The company plans to build an electric vehicle model rivaling Tesla in late 2016 – including a model that will reportedly match Tesla’s “Ludicrous” speed (0 to 60 mph in 2.8 seconds). The vehicles will first roll out to Chinese consumers and then to other parts of the world, including the U.S.This is her first startup gig, and the first time she’s ventured into the automotive industry. She tells She’s also been a vocal advocate for empowering women in the workplace .

As she said in an interview with Tech Republic, “What women need is encouragement that it’s okay to share doubts and ask for advice, as long as we create that environment where we can talk about what excites them, and what they’re afraid of,” she said. Concerns like when or if women should postpone work and have a baby, or make a career change, or choose to leave the corporate world to become an entrepreneur, are all things she’s referring to. “There’s no right or wrong in all of these examples, she said in that interview. “When you’re making career decisions, nobody knows the right answer.” Warrior said she never knew the right answer in her own career. She just advises people to take the path she has always strongly believed in: seize opportunities as they come along, even if you aren’t sure of the timing. Well, it seems to have worked for her. Seems to be advice all women and men in tech could take to heart.

Varsity Sports

Friday, April 1, 2016 • Page 8

Baseball sweeps doubleheader versus Utica

SSI – The Stevens Institute of Technology baseball team swept an Empire 8 Conference doubleheader 3-0 and 12-4 against Utica College Wednesday. The Ducks moved to 13-8 and 5-0 in the E8, while Utica fell to 1-12 and 0-5 in the conference. Utica threatened with bases loaded in the top of the first and one out, but junior Zeph Walters recorded a strike out and fly out to escape without allowing a run. Walters helped his own cause, leading off the second with a single. After the next two hitters got on, freshman Matthew Pasko delivered an RBI single past a diving shortstop to give the Ducks a 1-0 lead. Walters cruised through the third, and senior Nick Sieber doubled the Ducks lead in the bottom of the third with a ribbie double scoring junior Nolan Bennett. Sieber again drove in the final run for the Ducks in the fifth, knocking Bennett in with a single to left.

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After a perfect sixth inning by senior Ryan Patterson, sophomore Andrew Hamel escaped a two-on, no out jam in the seventh to record his first save. Sieber and Walters each went 2-for-3, while Bennett reached base twice and scored a pair of runs. Walters tossed five shutout innings, fanning five with only one walk. The Ducks jumped all over Utica starter Josh

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Luczak in the first, scoring two runs. Bennett drilled a ground-rule double to left center, scoring senior Jayson Yano. Three batters later, junior Michael Mule’ hit a sacrifice fly to left to give the Ducks a 2-0 edge. The Pioneers got within one on an infield hit by Tim Quinlan in the top of the second. Stevens broke the game opened in the second, putting up a five spot. Sopho-

more Drew Hanke led off with an infield single, and moved to third a sac bunt by Pasko that was thrown away. Yano hit a sacrifice fly and classmate Jonathan Toro dropped down a squeeze bunt that scored Pasko. Bennett once again singled, and Walters lambasted a three-run home run to right center for his third long ball of the year. Freshman Charlie Ruegger gave up an unearned

run in the fourth on a sacrifice fly, and exited the game after five innings, striking out eight in his first collegiate start. Sieber collected another RBI in the sixth, knocking home Yano. After Utica tacked on runs in the seventh and eighth, Mule’ ended the Ducks scoring by blasting a three-run home run to right field, his second of the season. Every Ducks starter collected at least one hit, and Bennett had a career day, going 4-for-5. Walters was 2-for-4 with three RBI’s and Mule’ had four RBI’s in the win. Yano, who had his 11 game hitting streak snapped in the first game, responded with a 3-for-4 outing. Matthew DeMartino had two hits for Utica, while Josh Luczak gave up 11 hits and eight runs in five innings. The Ducks will take on Ithaca College for a threegame series beginning with a doubleheader Saturday starting at 3 p.m.

No. 16 men’s lacrosse gets past Montclair

ON DECK IN SPORTS

Friday SOFTBALL AT ALFRED UNIVERSITY (DH) 3 p.m. Alfred, N.Y.

MEN’S TRACK & FIELD AT RAMAPO ROADRUNNER INVITATIONAL 4 p.m. Mahwah, NJ

WOMEN’S TRACK & FIELD AT RAMAPO ROADRUNNER INVITATIONAL 4 p.m. Mahwah, NJ

SOFTBALL AT ALFRED UNIVERSITY (DH) 5 p.m. Alfred, N.Y.

Stevens Sports Information

SSI – The Stevens Institute of Technology men’s fencing team concluded its 2015-16 season Saturday at the NCAA Regional Championship. The one-day championship took place on the campus of Moravian College. George Allen led the Ducks with five wins at foil, while senior Daniel Tracey won twice. Freshman Brenna Casey and junior Stephen Rienzi each won one at epee, while

freshman Leonard Behrens won twice. Sophomore Ian Fan and freshman Timothy Steinberg led the Ducks with four wins each at sabre, in addition to three wins from freshman Wesley McDowell, and two from sophomore Jeffrey Paine and freshman Brennan Wu. The loss ends a 20-win campaign for the Ducks that included 10 wins against Division I competition.

SSI – The No. 16 Stevens Institute of Technology men’s lacrosse team put together a strong defensive effort in the final minute to hold off Montclair State University 8-7 Wednesday. The Ducks moved to 8-2, while Montclair fell to 4-6. It was second straight victory for the Ducks, who avenged an 11-9 loss to Montclair a year ago. The Red Hawks controlled the opening five minutes, and eventually scored the first goal. Senior Matt Ferentini knotted the game at one with 4:41 left in the first. The Ducks played better as the first quarter wore on, but Don Finn added a goal just as a man advantage opportunity expired to send MSU to a lead heading into the second. Just 15 seconds into the

second frame, freshman Max Bailey took a feed from Schoonen and leveled the score at two. Sophomore John Boutureira added a marker to give the visitors their first lead, but Montclair scored two goals just 1:31 apart to regain the edge. A big save from freshman Carson White led a Ducks breakout, and freshman Dean Peluso ripped a shot that beat the keeper to once again even things up. Zach Schreck scored 48 seconds into the third on a man advantage, but senior Andrew Scrutchfield countered with a man up goal 1:51 later. Boutureira added his second of the contest at 9:38, but Brady Wulster took advantage of a Stevens turnover and tied the score at six all. Finn added his second of the game to

give MSU its last lead of the game with 11:56 left. Freshman Eric Radbourne tallied the Ducks second man-up goal of the game with 7:35 left on a pass from sophomore Tommy Dawson. Ferentini scored the biggest goal of the game with 3:2 left, as senior Connor O’Shea collected his second assists of the game. Montclair had the game’s final five shots, but White made a pair of saves to preserve the lead. Junior Jan Schoonen led the way with six ground balls, with White making 15 saves, a season-high. Boutureira, Ferentini and O’Shea all added two points while combining for 16 shots. The Ducks will be travel to Ithaca College Saturday for a noon showdown with the Bombers.

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Men’s Track & Field Women’s Track & Field Men’s Volleyball Wrestling Men’s Volleyball Women’s Basketball Baseball Men’s Track & Field Women’s Track & Field Women’s Fencing Men’s Fencing Men’s Tennis Wrestling Men’s Swimming Women’s Swimming Men’s Volleyball

NCAA Championships NCAA Championships Marymount University NCAA in Cedar Rapids, IA Lancaster Bible College Amherst College MIT NCAA Championships NCAA Championships NCAA Regional NCAA in Bethlehem, PA Brandeis University NCAA in Cedar Rapids, IA NCAA Championships NCAA Championships Juniata College

N/A N/A 3-1* N/A 3-0* 48-82 6-5 N/A N/A N/A N/A 5-4 8th N/A N/A N/A

Complete Complete W Complete W L W Complete Complete Complete Complete W Complete Complete Complete Complete

03/11 03/11 03/11 03/11 03/11 03/12 03/12 03/12 03/12 03/12 03/12 03/12 03/16 03/16 03/16

WRITE + TAKE PHOTOS FOR THE STUTE

MEETINGS TUESDAYS AT 9 P.M. JACOBUS 2ND FLOOR

Saturday MEN’S TRACK & FIELD AT RAMAPO ROADRUNNER INVITATIONAL 10 a.m. Mahwah, NJ

WOMEN’S TRACK & FIELD AT RAMAPO ROADRUNNER INVITATIONAL 10 a.m. Mahwah, NJ

EQUESTRIAN AT ZONE REGIONALS 10 a.m. Long Valley, N.J.

MEN’S TENNIS VS ALFRED UNIVERSITY 10 a.m. Hoboken, N.J.

MEN’S VOLLEYBALL VS PENN ST. BEHREND 11 a.m. Hoboken, N.J.

WOMEN’S LACROSSE VS HOUGHTON COLLEGE 11 a.m. Hoboken, N.J.

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