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Off Center members place 4th in Natioonal Competition in Chicago

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Stevens Innovation Expo 2016 displays projects of over 500 seniors

by RAMI KAMMOURH Staff Writer

Off Center members posing with Jonathan Pitts, Executive Producer of Chicago Improv Tournament.

by MARYIA SPIRYDONAVA Managing Editor

This past weekend Steven’s very own Off Center participated in the national round of the ninth College Improv Tournament National Championships held in Chicago, Illinois, proceeding their victory in the Big Apple regional earlier in the year. Off center sent a competitive team to represent Stevens at the National round. The competition began with an improv jam with the other teams on Friday evening. They performed their first set at 11 a.m. on Saturday morning, competing with two other regional champions with a wild card team. Off Center was able to win first place in the first bracket, which gave them the title of the East Super Regional Champions. This victory allowed the improv team to move to the top four, allowing Off Center to face off the winners of the re-

maining three Super Regionals.

Off Center’s hard effort and two hilarious sets won them fourth place in the nation, among 136 total teams, and first place in the East Super Region.

Along with winning fourth in the nationals, the Off Center team won some fans at the competition, according to former president Zack Kastner, “Even though we got 4th place, one judge gave us a first place vote.

Pretty crazy to think that there’s a person out there who considers Off Center to be the best team in the country.”

The Off Center team stressed that their main concern was having fun and putting on an entertaining show. According to Chris Fitzgerald, Off Center president, the team was able to win against teams that had coaches and those that consisted of theater majors, all because they were simply having fun with their friends, which an important factor in improv. Improv is supposed to

come naturally when one is simply having fun, not concerned about winning. Jonathan Pitts, CIT Nationals Producer and the executive director of CIP, who also cofounded the Chicago improv festival, was a relaxing part of the competition. He helped keep the teams calm before the competition and gave the atmosphere a feeling of collaboration instead of competitiveness.

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On Wednesday, 144 Senior Design teams showcased their projects at Stevens Innovation Expo 2016. The projects presented at the expo encompassed everything from Sustainability to Robotics to Education and the Arts, and drew in the largest crowd to ever attend an Innovation Expo at Stevens.

In Canavan Arena, Walker Gymnasium, and the Griffith Building, 544 students split into 144 teams presented their Senior Design projects.

All of these teams had spent either the past two or three semesters working on sponsored consulting, entrepreneurial or product development projects in order to gain real-world experience by working on real-world problems. Of the several projects presented at the expo were a sustainable and resilient playground, an automated surface cleaning robot, and the infamous HangoverLyte beverage. “It all seems so effortless, and yet the students work really diligently for a year,” said Sandra Furnbach Clavijo, Manager of the Office of Innovation and Entrepreneurship and one of the Innovation Expo’s organizers.

“It’s just really nice seeing campus come together to see

their work.” The expo drew in not only Stevens students, but employers and members of the general public as well, including Thomas Kean Jr., a member of the New Jersey State Senate.

After the seniors had presented their projects, attendees were welcomed to attend a lecture on the future of research, a research networking session, and a lecture on the history of the internet.

Later in the day, Senior Design teams were invited to compete for $16,000 in total prizes in the Elevator Pitch and Business Service Pitch competitions, sponsored by the ANSARY foundation. First place for the Elevator Pitch Competition was won by the WHISPER team. Coming in first for the Business Service Pitch Competition was the Nuclear Solutions team.

“It took a lot of staff, member and department coordination, and everyone working really hard to put [the expo] together,” said Clavijo. Stevens Innovation Expo 2016 was innovative in its own regard, having come up with new ways of branding itself. This was the first year for which a promotional video was made to advertise the event to employers and businesses, and a recap video is being made in order to spark interest in the same audience for next year’s expo.

see INNOVATION EXPO PHOTO SPREAD • Page 7

Photos courtesy of Off Center

Photos by Russell Bechmann

INSIDE THIS ISSUE: Work as a team, Stevens CPAC to a freshman Architectural advancements with tech

Roving Reporter What are your summer plans?

Asian Cultural Night

Letter to the Editor

KSA Family Celebration

Last little cybersec tips

Women’s lacrosse player hits 200 goals

Exploring the Financial District

Saturday men’s lacrosse #AllRise Game

Food review: Otto Strada

Polling Pierce What movie are you looking forward to this summer?

Innovation Expo photos

Women in Tech Spotlight: Jennifer Pahlka

100th career singles for Heinrich in men’s tennis

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PULSE 4

NEWS 6-7

OPINION CONT’D 8-9

SPORTS 10

Kielbasa Festival

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Opinion The Stute Editorial

Restarting to move forward: needing a fresh start The only thing that gets me through finals (other than coffee) is looking forward to the relaxing summer and then the new start next semester. Each week we print a new issue it’ s (almost) a blank slate and a lowstress, fresh start. I think that it’s really important to be able to have this “reset” once in while and then move forward.

Over the weekend, I had a really big disagreement with a friend and I think (or hope) that the same “reset” logic can be applied here. Sometimes people just need a break from each other. It’s good to get some space, maybe send a few texts, snapchats, or slack messages, and then come back happy in the fall semester.

With some groups, this reset happens naturally. For example, “my Stute family” freshman year.

It was great. We would always see the same people on Tuesday and Thursday nights in the office to make the paper. That was basically it. I never really bothered with them outside of the second

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people and we know how to get under each other’s skin.

I have to say that it’s really fun to be involved with your friends if you have the same interests, but take time for yourself, too.

Me-time-Mondays are not overrated.

When we all come back to campus (minus the seniors, but I’ll save that for next issue) and it’s Orientation and sunny every day — when my friend and I forget that we had our little fight, and we can actually stand being around each other — then I’m looking forward to the fresh start and an amazing junior year of college.

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Mind of a Freshman

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floor of Jacobus, and so we never really got too annoyed or exhausted from each other (that I know of). Then, we started the next semester doing the same thing. We had no problems because it was more like we were colleagues than best friends.

With other groups of friends, you kind of need to force yourself to take some time apart. I had this kind of friend in high school. We were in pretty much all of the same classes and extracurriculars. It seemed like a good idea, and it was a ton of fun, but we also got on each other’s nerves sometimes.

For the friend that I had a disagreement with over the weekend, it was just not the way I wanted to end this year and say goodbye until after the summer.

I guess in the middle of CPAC weekend craziness, me scrambling keep track of Editor-inChief tasks, and both of us feeling the end-of-semester pressure of classes, there weren’t a lot of positive vibes between us. Plus, we can both be really stubborn

Freshman Software Engineering Major

As just about everyone may know, last weekend Stevens had hosted their 9th Annual Castle Point Anime Convention, or CPAC for short. Being a freshman, I had only heard of what would be in store for the weekend festivities. Needless to say, no matter how much I had heard from

upperclassmen, nothing could have prepared me for what I saw. On Saturday morning, the convention had begun.

I just so happened to be walking from the Edwin A. Stevens building and I saw the line for check in had gone all the way from Babbio, down past McLean and toward the park just outside of campus. I was shocked.

It was interesting, however, to see the different costumes that everyone had on for the event.

I wasn’t very familiar with the different characters that they were portraying, but all of the costumes were very well made and unique.

As the day progressed, the campus was buzz-

ing with energy and full of people who had come just for the convention. Even at Pierce there were many people who had arrived for the convention, and it was interesting to see the many different personalities and stories being told by the CPAC guests.

By the end of the day, the amount of people on campus was winding down. I was excited to see what was in store for the next day of CPAC, and at that time I had not known the sheer number of people I would see the next day.

By noon on Sunday, I had left my dorm ready to go to the dining hall for food. When I stepped

outside, I was shocked at the thousands of people I saw in lines three to four people wide going from Canavan and down the hill toward Babbio. There were at least three to four thousand people on campus, more people than students at Stevens. I spent the day walking through the crowds observing the goings-on of the convention and took refuge in the library to do homework when I too overwhelmed by the crowds. Overall it was a great experience to see and experience something different than I ever had before, and I look forward to seeing what next year has in store.

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Stevens should start acting like a team

by JOSEPH BROSNAN

5/5 Civil Engineering Major

I want to specify that this column reflects only my own opinion. I cannot, will not, and do not speak on behalf of CPAC as a whole. I also want to make it very clear, as it should be painstakingly obvious, that I have an extremely high standard for my school, so take that into consideration when reading this column.

I dealt with tons of departments during CPAC, and overall, everyone collaborated to produce a pretty damn stellar event.

I don’t know all of the details yet, as we are still getting numbers in, but I want to take a minute to reflect on my time at Stevens and how my experiences with CPAC this year mirror the rest of college for me.

I was in communications with Compass One, University Events, Athletics, IT, Stevens Police, Student Life, Physical Plant, and the Fire Safety Department at Stevens.

My experience was what you’d expect.

Each department had its own hoops to jump through, and each had wildly different personalities that were sometimes insanely difficult to work

with. Student Life was always tricky. In CPAC and The Stute, I’ve found most staff to give me the run-around, or mysteriously vanish when I need them the most, or give me a lot of unnecessary tasks or requests that ultimately slow everything down for no particular goal.

Athletics always struck me as a haughty organization who is separate from everyone else. I tried to coordinate with them about some things, and someone in University Events essentially screamed at me to never do that again. Unsurprisingly, a day before the convention, Athletics tried to deny our swipe access to the building because they didn’t know what was going on.

University Events had too many people working

with us with too many different ideas. Because of constantly switching between people as they took vacations or conferences or whatever, our schedule of events took forever to fully hammer out and it led to a lot of people being confused the day of, despite all of the hours we spent working on the thing. Different people had different desired outcomes for the meeting. Because of this, the generators that were ordered were too small for their intended purpose, and we only managed to get the layouts of the build a week before the convention. It was frustrating.

Compass One really stepped up and tried to get involved, and a lot of what they brought to that table was good. Unlike

Sodexo, Compass One actually talked to me to get the adequate amount of eateries up and running.

In addition, they worked with us to set up additional stands. I couldn’t help but notice that there was a significant lack of detail or care with the catering that was called for.

There were some staff who had gluten allergies and they got stuff for us that was “gluten free” but still made in a factory that processes wheat or whatever - effectively contaminating the food supply. The Kosher food had rising bread, making it non-kosher for Passover, and sometimes there were things that were just left out even though they said they’d take care of it. And at the end of the day, they had a bunch more additional

stands out, more than intended, and never bothered to notify me. Very aggravating for me.

You guys are not administrative staff. You are Stevens administrative staff. I cannot stand the fact that you won’t jump through extra hoops for me. If you are, I don’t see it - and if you say you are, I don’t believe you, because the lack of progress you make on basic things I ask astounds me.

Talk to one another, help me out, don’t make me go to each individual. Prioritize me! Anything but the stagnation and the twiddling of your fingers that you’re doing now. I pay a lot to go to this school. I want you to be so much more than average. I need you to be extraor-

see TEAM • Page 8

Friday, April 29, 2016 • Page 3

Technically Speaking

Technology and architecture, the dynamic duo

by TARIK KDIRY

Freshman Software Engineering Major

Throughout the history of mankind, we humans have been able to consistently amaze ourselves with the heights we can reach when constructing our world.

Whether it is because of the actual altitudes our buildings have reached, or the very design itself, we have been able to revolutionize the world

of architecture.

What I find most interesting about this is that not only are we building higher and higher, but also more beautifully. Our high-rises and homes, in general, are becoming more modern and more suited for our tastes. But why now more than ever? Why else, besides our technological innovation?

Cylindrical skyscrapers are cool and all, but why has their creation never been successfully attempted? It’s a good thing you have someone like me to tell you!

Unfortunately, Leonardo Da Vinci didn’t have a school-sponsored subscription to SolidWorks.

As our concepts and

ideas grow and innovate, so do our tools.

How astonishing is it to witness? Building better tools to aid us in our mission to create taller and more abstract buildings.

What originally started out thousands of years ago as a way to shelter ourselves from the elements has now become a way to express our artistic ability and explore our technological curiosity.

My favorite feats of architectural brilliance include the National Library of Belarus for its futuristic design, FORM houses created by Kimura architects in Japan for their cubist-style, evocative of Japan’s historical styling, and of course, our very own Freedom

Tower for its elegance and backstory.

All of these wonderful structures were built and conceptualized using simulation and design software that brings creativity to architecture. Programs like these created by software engineers worldwide have provided us with the steps that lead up indefinitely.

Technologically advanced architecture has proven to be a great way to differentiate groups of people too. Though most modern metropolitan areas in this world appear to look the same from a distance, one can easily recognize cities by their architectural style and taste. Some examples of this would include Par-

is’s Eiffel Tower, Dubai’s Burj Khalifa, and New York’s own Freedom Tower. All of these buildings were most likely built similarly with similar tools and particular techniques.

However, it is obvious that those

three creations look differently. The breathtaking attributes that make these buildings a sight to see are purely due to the technology that went into building them during their respective time periods.

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Scientific Curmudgeon

The singularity and the neural code

by JOHN HORGAN

Director, Center for Science Writings

I wish I could believe that we are rapidly approaching “The Singularity.” Like heaven, the Singularity comes in many versions, but most involve bionic brain boosting. At first, we’ll become cyborgs, as brain chips soup up our perception, memory, and intelligence and eliminate the need for annoying TV remotes.

Eventually, we will abandon our flesh-and-blood selves entirely and upload our digitized psyches into computers.

Singularity enthusiasts, or Singularitarians, tend to be computer specialists, such as entrepreneur Ray Kurzweil. Citing the explosive progress of information technologies captured by Moore’s Law, Kurzweil prophesies a “merger of biological and nonbiological intelligence” that will culminate in “immortal software-based humans.” The Singularity will supposedly happen within decades.

Specialists in real rather than artificial brains find these predictions laughably naïve, because we are still so far from understanding how brains make minds. “No one has the foggiest notion,” says Nobel laureate Eric Kandel. “At the moment all you can get are informed, intelligent opinions.”

Singularitarians nonetheless insist that brains are just complicated computers, and there is some

basis for this analogy.

Neurons resemble transistors, absorbing, processing, and reemitting the electrochemical pulses known as action potentials. Also called spikes, a reference to their appearance on oscilloscopes, action potentials serve, supposedly, as the brain’s basic units of information.

Barring our admittance to cyber-paradise, however, is the neural code.

That phrase refers to the software, or algorithms, that transform action potentials and other physiological processes into perceptions, memories, meanings, intentions.

The neural code is science’s deepest, most consequential problem, but it is also by far the hardest. The prominent neuroscientist Christof Koch doubts that the neural code “will be anything as simple and as universal as the genetic code.”

Otto Strada

by KATRINA GUIDO

Sophomore Physics Major

Hoping to end the semester on a sweeter note, my partner and I decided to splurge both in price and health by searching for a decadent dessert. Looking through menus online, I came upon Otto Strada located at the corner of Park and Eighth St, which is convenient because the name translates to “Eighth Street”

cerebroscope reconstruct what Rose is feeling? No, because his neural response to even that simple stimulus grows out of his brain’s entire previous history, including a childhood incident when a bus almost ran him over.

To interpret the neural activity corresponding to any moment, Rose elaborates, scientists would need “access to my entire neural and hormonal life history” as well as to all his corresponding experiences. Scientists would also need detailed knowledge of the changing social context within which Rose has lived; his attitude toward buses would be different if terrorists had recently attacked a bus.

This analysis implies that each individual psyche is fundamentally irreducible, unpredictable, inexplicable.

It is certainly not simple

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from Italian.

The dessert menu caught my eye with its nontraditional takes on traditional Italian fare such as a Nutella or cannoli cream calzone and pear robiola pizza. My partner’s addiction to Nutella led to the choice of the Nutella pizza, and my love of cannoli’s led to ordering cannoli cones. Coming to a grand total of $32, I was hesitant, but hey sometimes you just have to splurge.

Walking up, we were met with the low roar of restaurant-goers beneath strung lights but that was not quite so striking as the delicious smells of garlic and tomatoes which greeted the nose.

Seeing as the wait for a table for two on a Friday

He adds that there may be “no universal principle” governing neuralinformation processing beyond the insight that “brains are amazingly adaptive and can extract every bit of information possible, inventing new codes as necessary.” So little is known about how the brain processes information that “it’s difficult to rule out any coding scheme at this time.”

British neurobiologist Steven Rose points out that each individual’s brain is unique and everchanging. To dramatize this point, Rose poses a thought experiment involving a “cerebroscope,” which can record everything that happens in a brain, at micro and macro levels, in real time.

Let’s say the cerebroscope records all of Rose’s neural activity as he watches a red bus coming down a street. Could the

night was 45 minutes, we decided to do dessert take-out. While we were waiting, I couldn’t help but glance around at the abundantly filled plates of aromatic Italian fare.

After about 20 minutes, our food was ready, and we made the trek back to campus, all the while the scent of Nutella was wafting up from the pizza box. Anticipation building, we opened the box back on campus, and well, what a letdown. The box revealed pizza crust with some Nutella spread on top. That’s it. Nothing else. Biting into a piece, the crust was nice and crispy – perfect for a savory pizza, but perhaps not the best for dessert – and the Nutella, of course, was creamy and

chocolatey. However, 16 dollars for some bread and Nutella is a tad of a rip-off. Come to think of it, you could buy some pita bread, spread on some Nutella, and heat it in the oven with similar results. You could even slice some banana and mix in some peanut butter if you feel like splurging a bit.

As for the cannoli cones, which by the description are homemade cannoli cream in sugar cones with chocolate chips, pistachios, and drizzled raspberry sauce, looked very pretty, much nicer than the plain pizza. I enjoyed the cannoli cream, as it was creamy and not overpoweringly sweet and mixed with the raspberry sauce was really

enough to be extracted from a brain and transferred to another medium, as Singularitarians assume.

Let’s face it: The Singularity is a religious rather than a scientific vision.

The yearning for transcendence, whether spiritual or technological, is all too understandable. Both as individuals and as a species, we face deadly serious problems, from terrorism to climate change.

Engineers and scientists should be helping us face the world’s problems and find solutions to them, rather than indulging in escapist, pseudoscientific fantasies like the Singularity.

John Horgan directs the Center for Science Writings, which belongs to the College of Arts & Letters. This column is adapted from one originally published on his ScientificAmerican.com blog, “Cross-check.”

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quite good. However, the cones seemed to be pulled straight out of a supermarket box. Save the cones for ice cream, I’d take a straight cannoli any day.

Despite dessert being an overpriced disappointment, I want to try Otto Strada again. Maybe it was the soft glow of the strung lights and

dimly lit inside or more likely than not the aroma of the savory dishes, but something is drawing me back. Though based on the prices, which are on par with other Hoboken spots of the same atmosphere, Otto Strada is perhaps best saved for a slightly nicer occasion such as a date or dinner with the parents.

Photos courtesy of Katrina Guido

Friday, April 29, 2016 • Page 4

Campus Pulse

Roving Reporter What are your summer plans?

“I’m just taking classes and looking for a job.”

“I applied for a job here. If that doesn’t work I’ll work at a summer camp teaching Java and Python.”

“Hanging out with my friends going down to Miami Beach, and going to Brazil with my girlfriend.”

Kevin Raleigh

Andrew Grochan

Koby Garcia

“Gonna go home and then I’m going to Dublin Island for an internship with Microsoft.”

“Summer Internship.”

“Chilling in Egypt.”

Richard McIlraith

David Valian

Faris Ibrahim

Polling Pierce

What movie are you excited to see this summer?

Based on 100 responses

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Where the Duck?

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Other

Neighbors 2

None

Civil War

Suicide Squad

X-Men

Finding Dory

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SASE hosts Asian Cultural Night to send off their seniors

This past Thursday night, the Society of Asian Scientists and Engineers held an end of the year event to unite all the Asian clubs and say farewell to the SASE seniors. Since this event was the last SASE event this year, the seniors were given a warm farewell with gifts and sashes. SASE members discussed the new eboard, plans for next year, and celebrated all the successful events from the year. The event additionally had food from all the different Asian culture clubs. To the surprise of SASE, the night had more attendees than expected, filling up most of Jacobus and forming a line outside the building to enter the event.

Photos by Tarik Kdiry and Maryia Spirydonava

Korean Student Association shares traditions at “Family Celebration”

Photos by Ellen Drennan

This past Wednesday, the Korean Student Association held its second annual Family Celebration. In Korean culture, May is a time for giving thanks and spending time with family. Parents’ Day and Children’s Day, which both take place during this month, are key in helping to bridge the gap between generations. Parental respect is very important because it enables the passing down of familial values and in turn keeps traditions alive.

The KSA also used this opportunity to recognize four graduating seniors and transition in the new executive board. Traditional Korean food (rice, glass noodles, tofu, kimchi, and Korean-style meats) was served, along with Korean juice drinks and bubble tea. Attendees were invited to take photos in traditional clothing, enjoy Korean music, and participate in the Parents’ Day tradition of writing “thank you” cards to their parents.

Polish American Cultural Society wraps up the year with Kielbasa On Wednesday, students gathered on Palmer Lawn for the Polish American Cultural Society’s semesterly Kielbasa Fest. Attendees ate over 250 pounds of fresh Kielbasa (the most ever ordered for the event) as they enjoyed the nice weather and listened to Polish music. Also available at the event were pickles, spicy ketchup, and mustard, condiments typically served with kielbasa, as well as angel wings, a traditional Polish desert.

When asked what makes the Kielbasa Fest special, upcoming PACS president Kristian Cichon said “Everyone enjoys a nice Kielbasa.”

Photos by Lisa Mengotto

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Girl Talk

Women in Tech Spotlight: Jennifer Pahlka

by NAMANKITA RANA Freshman Engineering Management Major

At first sight, government and the tech industry may seem like two worlds that do not go together in the slightest — the former is notoriously slow, inefficient, and full of bureaucracies, while the latter is quick, hyper-efficient, and ever-evolving.

Bringing these two sectors together would seem like an impossible feat — but that’s exactly what Jennifer Pahlka has done.

As founder and executive director of Code for America, her mission is simple: she captains a brigade of 16,000 volunteer programmers who use technology to make government websites,

services, and software better, one city at a time.

Founded in 2009, she described the group in a 2012 TED Talk by saying it’s “like the Peace Corps for geeks.” In 2013, Pahlka, 45, took a page from her own playbook and did a fellowship herself: she spent a year as the deputy CTO for government innovation at the White House, where she helped build the U.S. Digital Service, an elite new technologist team for the federal government. Nearly seven years after she founded nonprofit Code for America to improve clunky federal websites, 46 year old Pahlka has left a trail of civic innovation that stretches from local city halls all the way to the White House. Her organization also helped spark the “civic hacking” movement, in which residents gather to use public data and code to solve community problems.

Her journey to Code for America comes as no surprise once you hear her background. Raised in both New Haven and

New York City, she graduated from Bronx High School of Science, and Yale University after that. Her first job out of college was at the nonprofit Children’s Home Society of California, a social services provider.

However, she eventually transitioned into the tech world. Pahlka spent eight years at a company called CMP Media, where she led the Game Group, responsible for the Game Developers Conference (GDC), Game Developer Magazine, and Gamasutra.com. She oversaw the dramatic growth of GDC from 1995 to 2003, and launched the Independent Games Festival and the Game Developers Choice Awards. She was also the executive director of the International Game Developers Association (IGDA), an independent non-profit association serving game developers around the world. During this time she also served on the advisory boards of the Electronic Entertainment Expo (E3) and the GDC, and on the board of directors of the IGDA.

More recently, from 2005 to 2009, she was the co-chair and general manager of the Web 2.0 events for TechWeb, a division of United Business Media, in partnership with O’Reilly Media. In that role, she proposed the creation of the Web 2.0 Expo, and became the co-chair for the event. She also played a key role in managing the Gov 2.0 Summit and Gov 2.0 Expo.

In 2009, Pahlka founded Code for America, a San Francisco-based non-profit organization that aims to make government more transparent and connected.

According to the Washington Post, she was “[offering] an alternative to the old, broken path of government IT.” In her 2012 TED Talk on the topic of the intersection between government and IT, Pahlka stated that we as citizens will not be able to reinvent government unless we also reinvent citizenship—which is exactly what Code for America does. She famously asked the crowd who attended,

“Are we just going to be a crowd of voices, or are we going to be a crowd of hands?”

In an interview with Mercury News, she was asked a bit more about the initial days of the nonprofit . She admitted that when she first started, “...venture capitalists were not very interested in government for the reasons one would expect: a lot of paperwork and long sales cycles.”

But, she added, “we’ve shown that it’s an enormous market: about $180 billion in federal, state and local ...there are so many people in government looking for new tools… venture capitalists are much more open.” The group’s initial projects were not all knockout successes, either. “Our first year,” she recalled, “ we worked in three cities. Boston was thrilled, and … Philadelphia did great as well. A lot of its outcomes were about culture change (such as using text messages instead of town halls to field input in lower-income neighborhoods). But in Seattle,

we tried to build a platform for neighborhood civic engagement that didn’t work. The team was fantastic, but we learned that the best civic engagement is about specific things, not about general engagement.”

Still, she made the failure of Seattle a lesson to be learned rather than a disappointment to be swallowed. “Now,” she says, “every project we do very clearly meets a real user need.”

When asked in a Mother Jones interview about how to get more women in tech, she was candid enough to admit that she didn’t know. However, she acknowledged that “in the next 50 to 100 years, you’ll be considered illiterate if you can’t program” and that, inevitably, when it comes to the tech field “there’s a history there that’s really hard to overcome.”

Well, there may be a history to overcome, but with women like Pahlka rewriting it every single day, it won’t be too strange to see more girls at the forefront of tech than ever before.

Across the Hudson

Old food and other BS in the area

by DAVID ROGERS Freshman Mechanical Engineering Major

Whenever I go to another city, I tend to enjoy the oldest parts of that city, especially cities like Boston and Philly that were central to the revolution and still have a colonial feel to them. However, the oldest part of New York,

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dinary. Don’t engage in department squabbles, work together for me.

You aren’t what make the school great - not by a long shot. That is my job. I am a student, and we the students are the best thing about Stevens.

You brag about us and our accomplishments, so why don’t you do EVERYTHING in your power to enable us to do the BEST things that no other campus can do. Why can we make Stevens a great university?!

During the process of CPAC, I have felt spat on, trampled on, ignored, and given the runaround.

And I am sick of it. I want to be happy, and I want to be proud. So work with me, not against me, and enable me to make

now called the Financial District, is just as busy as the rest of Lower Manhattan and Midtown with its Statue of Liberty tourists, Wall Street people, endless construction near the World Trade Center, and increasingly hectic nightlife. However, there are still a few places left in the Financial District that still seem very old and colonial.

The first place that retains a colonial feel is Fraunces Tavern. Fraunces Tavern is semi-famous because George Washington bid farewell to his troops there. It keeps its colonial feel in its design. Instead of leather, the booths are made out of fur. Instead

of chairs at the bar and tables, they use old stools.

Their attempts to make the place seem somewhat colonial get more interesting with their menu.

Some of their ingredients seem more of a continental throwback than most ingredients, such as syrup from Vermont instead of a factory in God-knowswhere, Cheddar Cheese instead of American Cheese, which didn’t exist at the time. The menu lists “dirty mustard” as an ingredient, which I think may be a reference to the sanitation standards of the time. I’ve had some of the weirder ingredients, and they are safe for consumption despite being strange.

All this being said, if you still want to get a boring burger or steak, you can still get it at Fraunces Tavern. Also, a couple of notes on Fraunces Tavern: first, while this place is more expensive than most restaurants, it won’t break your wallet. Second, do not bring a fake ID to Fraunces. You will not be the person who shuts down a 254-year-old restaurant (visited by George Washington) over an underage drinking lawsuit.

A little further up Pearl St. and down Coenties Slip on the left, there’s a single short street, Stone St., that’s been almost completely preserved (aside from the fact that

they have electricity).

It’s a cobblestone road of course; there are no cars, and it was clearly designed to be a walkable area. It has a special type of charm to it, being a small, old street full of small, older buildings in the middle of the city filled with the tallest skyscrapers.

Unfortunately, neither of these have as much of a colonial feel as old areas of Philly and Boston. The bar in Fraunces Tavern is still crowded at night, and sometimes the Stone St. restaurants take over the street and fill it with tables. I guess it’s just one of the difficulties that come with the neighborhood be-

ing in the most lively and densely populated county in the country. Everything has to update with the times to some degree, even if it tries to keep its route. However, between the places listed above, the famous bull that was installed after the market crash of ‘29, the Battery with the war memorial, the proximity to Ellis Island where many New Yorkers’ ancestors first landed in the States, and Trinity Church, the Financial District is the place to be if you want to feel in tune with New York’s (and America’s) history, or if you simply enjoy places with some historic charm to them.

things happen. Don’t chastise me, lecture me, inhibit me, or slow me down.

That all aside, I need to change gears and draw attention to something positive. Despite all the screw-ups from the Howe Building, there is one specific department that I want to praise relentlessly: The Stevens Police Department. These guys are the absolute greatest. I may not always get their sense of humor, but when they say “if you call us, we’ll be there in probably 30-60 seconds”, they are not joking around.

I had an issue at CPAC with some people that needed removing from a location and about 40 seconds after the call, an officer was on the scene, calm and composed. After two minutes, three more officers were standing behind him backing it up. No run-around,

no questions, no deliberation, just action. They were always friendly, always happy to help, and even if the request was strange they were patient and worked so hard to make sure nothing got out of hand.

Compare that to Student Life, who freaked out when there was an accidental mention of installing a rented radio repeater on the roof of the Howe Center. The rental company was misinformed and we were about to correct it, but members from Student Life made a couple of brash comments that made my team look incompetent in front of the rental company. What the hell is wrong with you guys? You are supposed to help me out, not make me look like a fool in front of our suppliers!

And how insulting — as if I didn’t have it un-

der control? Doing that in front of the suppliers brings down the reputation of the convention, and really pisses me off on a side note.

Did the Stevens Police get tired of me? Probably, and I wouldn’t blame them if they did. I asked a lot out of them during the convention. But they didn’t complain, they just kept helping out. No matter the request, no matter the distance, they always pulled through. If there were doors that needed locking and unlocking, they were always at the ready. If someone was being a problem, they helped take care of it. Accidents? Calm, cool, collected, and always there to help. And better than anything, they are proud to be Stevens Police, not just police.

Every other department at Stevens could learn a thing or two from

the Stevens Police. They are, without a doubt, the most reliable, easyto-work-with, and trustworthy department that I have ever teamed up with, and it pains me to think that the rest of the administration is probably getting paid more. If I had a say in it, I would absolutely change that.

I like as many members of the administration as I dislike officers — at best I tolerate the administration. I am pleased that I no longer have to work with most post-graduation, it will certainly make my life less stressful and aggravating.

And I want to reiterate this: This entire experience has been indicative of my whole time at Stevens. I have been encountering increased resistance and stubbornness from the Howe Center in regards to just about anything. You constantly

badger me to participate in your stupid bureaucratic dance where I send emails, get ignored, and schedule meetings weeks in advance that are no longer relevant by the time it comes around, then chide me for scheduling it in the first place.

Cut the crap and help me out. Be accommodating and welcoming and friendly. Remember this, because I cannot stress it enough: the students are what make Stevens great.

We are the backbone of CPAC, we are what you brag about to your sponsors, and we are your financiers, as students and alumni.

I just want to be happy at Stevens, and nothing would please me more than having us all work together and collaborate more effectively, not just passing off responsibility to other parties at the earliest convenience.

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Always Right

You’re gonna carry that weight

by DENNIS STEWART Senior Cybersecurity Major

It’s hard for me to believe this is my final issue of The Stute. I was a member of The Stute before I was a student at Stevens; I first explored campus and Hoboken as part of The Stute’s Freshman Weekend. I’ve worn a lot of hats at The Stute (Writer, Layout Editor, Systems Administrator, Business Manager), but this semester was the first time I was a columnist. The past few months have flown by, and when I sat down to write this last column, I realized how few of my original topics had been covered.

I didn’t want Always Right to turn out so political. I also didn’t foresee the Crypto Wars starting up again. I intended to completely avoid politics in my column. Always Right would be a place for me to rant about clickbait, audio and video codecs, why video games aren’t fun anymore, and how Sayaka did absolutely nothing wrong. However, when it’s 2 A.M. and I’m over a day past deadline (sorry Lisa!), I find it easier to write about something that I really know and care about. I’d also rather write about things that The Stute’s readers (at least should) care about too.

My original, apolitical column ideas ended up taking a back seat to current events in information security. Taking that di-

rection was probably for the best. If you talk to me in person I can rant about any of these topics for at least an hour, but for now I’ll give them each a paragraph.

If you don’t already, use a password manager. Use different passwords for everything, that way if (and when) there’s a screwup, it won’t effect any other services you use. While I’m a fan of KeePass, LastPass is also good and is easier to use.

Never pay more than 20 bucks for a video game.

Yes, that’s after including DLC. Don’t preorder video games either. A preorder campaign is a publisher hedging their bets: if the game is good, they’ll make money; if it’s bad, at least a bunch of suckers already paid them.

When you buy something online, it’s unlikely that you actually own it.

When you read the fine print, you’re only renting Kindle eBooks, Steam games, and movies from iTunes. These services can shut down at any time and take your purchases with them. Whenever possible, buy digital goods without DRM. In high school I was a CNN junkie, constantly refreshing the website.

I remember wondering why anyone would read the newspaper when they could get the news online.

Then, everything went tumbling down. Buzzfeed became a billion dollar company, and older news outlets attempted to emulate its success. I got fed up with the clickbait and stopped reading CNN in 2011, switching to BBC News. In 2013 they went down the path, and I switched to reading directly from AP wire.

Less than a year later I’d dropped general, non-specialized news entirely. I couldn’t find any non-partisan sources that didn’t

try to trick me into clicking low-effort slideshows or listicles. If a headline doesn’t tell you any useful information, don’t click on it. If a “news” story isn’t actually news, don’t read it. Very few things in life would make me happier than to watch Buzzfeed, the Huffington Post, and the rest of their kind burn to the ground.

Smartphone games are almost universally garbage. Relying on microtransactions means that developers are encouraged not to make their games too much fun. If a player is having lots of fun without paying, they aren’t likely to pony up.

Instead, games try to compel you into logging in daily to view advertisements by waving virtual currency in front of you. When you aren’t getting enough of a dopamine rush from your “progression,” you’ll pay for a hit. This has all been carefully calculated by developers. While these practices used to be confined to free Facebook and smartphone games, it has become standard in full-priced titles, sucking almost all enjoyment out of modern video games for me. In the past few years I’ve been playing more games from the 80’s to mid 2000’s, when game developers were encouraged to make good games rather than use psychological tricks to keep players paying.

With the exception of The Stute, I don’t like writing anything unless I’m at least pseudo-anonymous. Unless someone is an expert, their identity generally isn’t as important as the ideas they are expressing. Anonymous posting keeps the focus on the content of the message rather than who’s delivering it, and helps keep egos in check. Plus, you should always assume that everything posted with a user-

name (and most likely without) is being logged somewhere, and can come back to bite you in the ass.

Crunchyroll and Funimation both do a worse job than pirates at translating and releasing anime. Because they have no legal competition in the United States, and because each service gets exclusive licenses for shows, there is no incentive for them to improve their services. While these sites should be able to produce higher quality translations than pirates because they have access to the original scripts and video masters, translation and video quality are both mediocre.

Their subscribers are complacent, and often misled (pay extra “HD” video with low bitrates). Pirate fansubbing groups produce better releases because they are comprised of fans who want to make the things they like available worldwide in the best quality possible.

I feel much better having gotten that all that off my chest. Before I sign off of The Stute’s Wordpress for the last time, I need to acknowledge a few people. The Stute is in good hands with Lisa Mengotto and the rest of her executive board. I look forward to seeing where they, and the next generations, bring this paper.

I also need to thank former editors-in-chief Joseph A. Brosnan and Frankie Guarini. Stress from incidents like the Spring 2015 SGA budget meeting probably shaved a few years off my life, but the past two years of working with you on The Stute have produced many of my best memories at Stevens. Together, we’ve made the paper the best it has ever been (trust me, I checked the archives). And if whoever is reading this disagrees, I’m always right.

Letter to the Editor

Maturity on campus and Stevens Patriotism

by JOSEPH A. BROSNAN

I had planned a whole Letter to the Editor regarding my thoughts and opinions on “HangoverLyte”, which as you are surely aware is the most current Stevens Scandal.

I rescinded that letter for a few reasons, one namely being that I have decided to no longer participate in that silly nonsense anymore.

If I got involved, I’d just spread more fires, which is exactly what I don’t want at this point in time.

You see, in many ways, I see myself as a Stevens Patriot. I know that sounds really weird, coming from the guy who consistently and actively tries to deface different departments on campus. It’s true, I hate a lot of things at Stevens right now. But, I am doing it because I want it to be better.

Take students like Shane Arlington and Matt Hunt take Stevens and praise all of the great things about it. I don’t. I criticize all of the bad and horrible things about it. In my opinion, we must first stop doing the bad things, not just advance in the right direction, in order to progress.

So when there is something ugly or dumb or bad about Stevens, I will naturally rise to the task of critiquing it and outlining what makes it negative. This “Hang-

overLyte” issue is one of the things that Stevens should be distancing itself from. It is a stupid mistake that should just be avoided if possible.

The team that made it should’ve had their advisor direct them away from making such controversial statements (unless that was their aim) and the United Greek Council should have taken a different course of action if they wanted this dilemma resolved better - like going to the project advisor or filing a complaint with the Howe School of Business first.

The issue is an immature mistake that I am ashamed of.

But the way all of the parties involved have been acting, especially some of the HangoverLyte team has just been piss-poor. Some of the comments these kids have been saying are outright rude and not at all representative of this school, It pains me to think that these are the products of Stevens Institute of Technology.

I sigh openly as I write this. I want to be so proud and happy about Stevens, but nonsense like this happens and just makes me think “why bother”.

I hope these kids are just faking it and all of their responses are part of their Senior Design Project, but I don’t have much hope.

Stevens has taught me that much.

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Through Adversity, The Stars

Starring… Dylan Sidali

by MIA HILDEBRANDT Freshman Mechanical Engineering Major

Dylan Sidali is a first year undecided engineering student originally from Jackson, New Jersey. He currently plays in the Stevens Jazz Band, in addition to working in the QuEST lab, building basic circuits involving chips and optical fibers, Dylan enjoys playing his saxophone and watching movies in his free time.

Like many freshmen students on campus, Dylan is in the process of figuring out his major. He is

currently leaning towards Electrical or Computer Engineering. As nice as it can be to have your study plan all figured out, there is some excitement in allowing the time to just see what inspires you. Despite all the uncertainty surrounding his academic life, Dylan can rely on his music to be a constant. He says, “music has always been a sure thing,” and that no matter what the circumstances, he knows that he can always just sit down and play.

Dylan picked up the saxophone in the 5th grade.

He was immediately drawn to the sax, and “from there, I was pretty obsessed with it,” Dylan says. He continued to play the saxophone in middle school, and later in high school, he tried to play his instrument in every music ensemble because he liked it so much. Dylan was in the Marching Band, Jazz Band, Pit Orchestra, and Woodwind Ensemble.

While being a part of multiple musical groups, Jazz Band was Dylan’s biggest priority because that was the music he liked to play the most in high school.

“Jazz Band was my first experience playing music where there is nothing written on a page,” Dylan explains. He further describes, “So you can play a part of a song that’s written and then it gets to an improv section where it’s your turn to write your own music.” This key characteristic of Jazz Band music is a main reason why Dylan likes Jazz Band so much. He adds, “even if the solo is bad, it’s okay!”

In addition to having always enjoyed improvising, Dylan enjoys Jazz Band in the sense that it is very much about “doing your own thing.” This is a different mindset than Marching Band, for example, which is “very structured, and it’s the same thing over and over and over again until

you get it perfect,” Dylan says.

To explain how he started improvising, Dylan admits that “[he] was really bad at it for a really long time, and then [he] got a little less bad. It was a lot of being uncomfortable for a while with it.” Whether it is learning a new software program like LabVIEW or learning a new style of music, putting yourself out of your comfort zone can help expand your horizons and can inspire you to learn about new and different things. Doing these things for the first time can be intimidating, but the more you do it, the more natural it can become. Dylan remembers his band director pushing him to improvise a lot, which helped him improve his improvisation skills. His mindset during these challenging moments was to remind himself that, “the more [he] tried to do it, the better [he] would probably get.” In order to

make these improvements a reality, it takes time and practice, and it is important to appreciate the progress you have made along the way. Dylan explains that he was “better than [he] was when [he] started.” In addition, Dylan adds that “It helps if you enjoy it,” whether that is improvising jazz music or constructing a HEMS for Design II. Being super uncomfortable is perfectly normal—it is how you respond to it that matters.

Improvising and the willingness to learn new things are skills that extend beyond the music realm. One of Dylan’s favorite parts of taking classes at Stevens is that you can walk into a class at the beginning of the semester knowing nothing about it, and by the end of the semester, you can have a new understanding of a topic you once knew little to nothing about. Through studying and working hard on a subject or piece of mu-

sic can help you learn fascinating things. With Jazz in particular, you have no idea what it will sound like at first glance. By working on it consistently, you can pick up a new style of playing or even improve on something you have been struggling with. The thing with music and most things, is that there is always room for improvement, and there are always more things to learn.

To all the students, musicians, athletes, and passionate people who want to do something great, “just do it” and “don’t take it too seriously,” Dylan says. Sometimes life is unpredictable, and inevitable there are uncertainties in our lives, so do not stress out. Instead of stressing yourself over things out of your control, try improvising and not over-planning things whether that is concerning your major, or the outfit you are going to wear tomorrow.

Varsity Sports

Friday, April 29, 2016 • Page 10

Wilcox hits 200 in women’s lacrosse’s Senior Day rout

SSI – Stevens Institute of Technology women’s lacrosse senior Erika Wilcox scored her 200th career goal five minutes into regulation Saturday in the Ducks 16-4 win over Hartwick College.

Wilcox is just the third player in the history of the program to achieve the milestone, joining Valerie Barnhart and Alyssa Pigott.

The win moved Stevens to 9-6 (6-2), while Hartwick fell to 4-9 (1-5). Prior to the game, Stevens honored its five seniors in Wilcox, Mackenzie Swartout, Angela Bauroth, Amanda Kowalski, and Melissa Conklin.

Wilcox led all scorers with six goals off seven shots to go along with a pair of assists and four ground balls, while junior Kathleen Kalbian scored three goals with an assist. Freshman Mackenzie Metzler chipped-

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in with two goals, and junior Mariel Haubrich scored once with two assists.

Sophomore Victoria Alvarez caused two turnovers to lead a Ducks defensive unit that forced 20 Hartwick turnovers, in what was the sixth opponent held to five goals or less for Stevens

this season.

As a team, the Ducks dominated the draw 16-6, in addition to a 30-19 margin in ground balls.

Wilcox’s milestone goal gave the Ducks the early lead, before Haubrich, Kalbian and Wilcox combined for three unanswered to

build the lead to four.

Metzler got into the scoring with her first score of the game just over midway through the half, followed by another to make it 6-0.

Wilcox tallied two more to balloon the lead the eight, but Hartwick responded with three unan-

swered to slice the lead to five. Stevens responded with two quick ones out of a timeout however, before Swartout connected on the score in the final minutes to send Stevens into the half up 11-3.

Junior Cami Santor and Kalbian quickly continued the Stevens run early in the second, before Wilcox’s freeposition goal with 24:40 on the clock put Stevens up 143.

Hartwick got one back near the midpoint of the half, but it’s all the scoring they would do the rest of the afternoon as sophomore Bridget Reed and junior Jess Leiby put the finishing touches on the rout with their first goals of the game late in regulation.

The Ducks will close out their regular season next Saturday with a 1 p.m. game at Elmira College.

Outdoor Track competing at two meets this weekend SSI – The Stevens Institute of Technology outdoor track and field teams will be competing at a pair of meets starting on Thursday.

PENN RELAY INFO On Thursday, Friday and Saturday, select members of the Ducks will be competing at the prestigious Penn Relays, hosted by the University of Pennsylvania. Thursday will feature three events, while Friday and Saturday will see Ducks competing in two events.

YALE INFO The Ducks will also be competing in the Yale

Springtime Invitational on Sunday, with field events beginning at 10 a.m. and track events starting at 11 a.m. All events will take place at the Dwyer Track in New Haven, Conn.

SHANE TRAIN Senior Shane Chiaravalle took home second place in the 400 meter hurdles at the Empire 8 Conference Championships Saturday.

Chiaravalle set a schoolrecord time of 52.99 while also qualifying for the ECAC Championships and his time is the fourth fastest in Division III this year.

The senior will be competing at the Penn Relays on

Men’s lacrosse game tabbed #AllRise Game Of The Week

Friday morning at 9 a.m.

JUMPIN’ JUMPIN’ Senior Gladys Njoku will be competing Thursday at 10 a.m. in the high jump at Penn Relays. Last week at the E8 Championship, Njoku won the high jump while also placing first in the 200 meter run with a PR of 26.08.

GOING THE DISTANCE Distance runners Mary Visca and Amy Regan will racing Thursday night in Pennsylvania. Visca will be running in the 5,000 meter at 8:50 p.m. while Regan will be participating in the 10,000 meter run at 10:30 p.m.

RELAY THE MESSAGE The men’s and women’s team will each bring a relay squad to the event. The men’s 4X400 meter relay team is competing Friday at 5:20 p.m. while the women’s 4X800 will go off Saturday at 4:10 p.m.

WOMEN’S E8 REWIND The Ducks placed third last weekend, as Visca and classmate Paige Metzheiser recorded personal best performances. Visca was second in the 1,500 with a time of 4:44.08 while Metzheiser was third in the 800 in 2:19.69. Both qualified for the ECAC meet in May with their

performances.

MEN’S RECAP Senior Thomas Cunningham and junior Nicholas Zickgraf won events to help the Ducks to a third place team finish at the E8. Cunningham won the 5,000 meter with a late kick and turned in a time of 15:06, while Zickgraf was first in the 1,500 in 4:05.

FINDING FORRESTER Junior Neil Forrester won the shot put, setting a school record of 15.21 meters. The 15.21 meter throw also qualified Forrester for the ECAC Championship meet.

Heinrich tallies 100th win in victory against TCNJ

ON DECK IN SPORTS

Friday SOFTBALL AT HUNTER COLLEGE [DH] 3 pm New York, NY

SOFTBALL AT HUNTER COLLEGE [DH] 5 pm New York, NY

BASEBALL AT HOUGHTON COLLEGE 6 pm Houghton, NY

MEN’S TRACK & FIELD AT PENN RELAYS TBD Philadelphia, PA

WOMEN’S TRACK & FIELD AT PENN RELAYS TBD Philadelphia, PA

Saturday BASEBALL AT HOUGHTON COLLEGE 1 pm Houghton, NY

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SSI – The Stevens Institute of Technology men’s lacrosse game against Nazareth College on Saturday has been selected as #AllRise Game of the Week by the Stevens Athletics department.

The game will begin at 1 p.m. and Jimmy John’s will be distributing free sandwiches starting at 12:30 p.m. Also, #AllRise

t-shirts will be handed out at the gate collection tables while supplies last.

Both teams have been ranked in the USILA Top 20 this year, with Nazareth coming into the game with an 11-5 record. The Ducks enter with a 13-3 record, and both teams have one loss in the Empire 8 Conference.

SSI – Stevens Institute of Technology men’s tennis senior Matthew Heinrich became the first player in the history of the program to record his 100th career singles win Monday, in an 8-1 victory for the No. 21 Ducks over The College of New Jersey.

The honor is another in a long list as the Stevens veteran is already the program’s all-time wins leader at singles and doubles.

The win moved Stevens to 14-7, while TCNJ fell to 9-6.

Heinrich and senior Ben Foran continued their

dominance at doubles this spring with an 8-3 win at first, followed by junior Michael Feldman and sophomore Danny Polk’s 8-2 win at third.

The win moved Feldman/Polk’s record to 3-0 this season, while Heinrich/Foran rose its record to 14-2. Sophomore Kyle Henry and freshman Kyle Cenderelli completed the sweep soon after with an 8-6 victory at second.

Heinrich continued the rout with the milestone win at first, followed by Foran’s match-clincher in the form of a 6-1, 6-4 win at fourth.

Junior Charles Drake won in a tiebreaker in the first set at third before completing the win with a 6-0 win in the second set at third, before Polk won his eighth straight with a 4-6, 6-4, 10-5 win at second.

TCNJ picked-up its first win of the day with a 7-5, 6-3 victory at fifth, but it came after Henry’s 7-5, 6-2 win at sixth that sealed the 8-1 win.

The Ducks will wrap up their regular season Saturday when they host Hartwick College and Utica College starting at 11 a.m. in Hoboken.

AT HARTWICK COLLEGE 11 am Hoboken, NJ

WOMEN’S LACROSSE AT ELMIRA COLLEGE 1 pm Elmira, NY

Astel, Haughey honored by met basketball writers SSI – Senior Kaitlyn Astel and Stevens Institute of Technology women’s basketball Head Coach Megan Haughey were honored by the Met Basketball Writers Association Wednesday.

Astel was named All-Met Division III women’s college basketball Player of the Year and tabbed First

Team All-Metropolitan. Last spring, Astel was also chosen to the first team.

The Staten Island, N.Y. native closed out a stellar senior campaign by being named First Team All-East Region by d3hoops.com, after previously being named First Team All-Empire 8 Conference. For

the second straight year, Astel was also named Empire 8 Conference Player of the Year after recording her 1,000th career point, leading the Ducks with 15.7 points and 4.0 rebounds per game.

Haughey led the Ducks to the program’s first-ever trip to the Sweet 16, notching a 23-7 record.

The fourth year coach was also selected as the Empire 8 Coach of the Year and was the d3hoops.com East Region Coach of the Year.

Both Astel and Haughey will be honored with the rest of the First and Second team players April 12 at the 83rd NIT/MBWA Haggerty Awards dinner in Tarrytown, N.Y.

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