[The Stute] February 5, 2016 (Issue 16, Volume CXIII)

Connecting with each other Sorority recruitment, an epic LAN, a new song, Leadership Connect, and Carlos Alomar show the value of friendship.

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by OLIVIA SCREIBER Outreach Chair

For many Stevens students, the third week of the semester marks a return to normalcy. Classes are in full swing, classes can no longer be dropped, and the countdown to graduation has begun for many seniors. For the four sororities on Stevens campus, these past two weeks have been intense as the sisters of Phi Sigma Sigma, Sigma Delta Tau, Delta Phi Epsilon, and Theta Phi Alpha educated, socialized, and hoped to impress one of the largest recruitment classes the campus has ever seen.

For those who are not familiar with the Greek life processes, Formal Recruitment is a time for women on campus to learn about soror-

ity life and ultimately find a home in the Panhellenic community. Greek Adviser and Associate Director of Student Life Thea Zunick describes the recruitment process much like dating. “You’re going to go on a lot of dates.

Some you’ll enjoy more than others. Some dates, you’ll find compatibility with, others you won’t. Ultimately, you’re going to want to find your lifelong partner.”

The activities of sorority recruitment occur in a series of events called rounds. “Meet the Sisters” is a preemptive event that is not required for potential new members, but is a way for current sorority members to introduce those who are interested in sorority life. “[The sisters] don’t wear letters or reveal their affili-

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“Quite honestly that’s what we try to do here in the SSRC — we’re really trying to make sure that academia does not diminish passion,” says Carlos Alomar, Distinguished Artist in Residence, professor, and director of the Sound Synthesis Research Center (SSRC), as well as David Bowie’s former guitarist.

From a 30-year career playing with Bowie, to playing the studio guitar for Bruno Mars’ “Uptown Funk,” to coming to Stevens 10 years ago, and becoming the Distinguished Artist in Residence, to his recent appointment as director of Stevens’ SSRC, Almoar has had an illustrious, bright, and eventful career.

The SSRC enables students to engage in groundbreaking sound research and development, as well as enable creative and artistic expression and performance of electronic music. “It is very difficult to stay in those classrooms and learn, and learn, without ever having a chance to apply it.

The students here are fortunate to have a space like this that’s dedicated to their exploration and experimentation,” Alomar says. “Remember, they can teach you things, but they can’t define your direction. You’ve got to leave the classroom and come in here and press a few buttons and see what they do. Why? The SSRC is dedicated to the fact that, more than likely, everything you learn might be outdated by the time you leave here in four years. We have to make sure that these students are able to see technology in its best form, so that they can learn how to control it.”

As these burgeoning musicians go out and get themselves careers in the music field, they’ll be exposed to equipment and technology that they may have never seen before, and the SSRC gives them a chance to use advanced technology and equipment to prepare them for the road ahead. “You take engineering, you take music, you take electronics, and you take all the courses that the College of Arts and Letters allows you to.

I want you to build the next

generation,” Alomar says.

At 10 years old, Carlos Alomar was given his first guitar.

By age 14, he was playing professionally. Before his father passed away, he gave Carlos his blessing to pursue music as a profession, and Alomar did just that at the Apollo Theatre. “The next thing I knew, I found myself in this little workshop in the basement of the Apollo Theater, and there I began my music education.

I started getting after-hours gigs and touring with James Brown and working with Wilson Pickett and Edwin Starr and Chuck Berry and all of that. Then when I was only 22 years old I met Bowie. After that, well, it’s history.”

Alomar’s primary driver was his immense passion for music.

He says, “Passion is that which won’t let you go to sleep, and passion is what wakes you up in the morning. It’s a burning fire in your soul. I really had no choice. Once I got my father’s blessing I could never get enough of music. I would learn the top ten songs of the week, or of the month. All the

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Concrete slab collapses in Walker Gym Varsity Weight Room

by TYLER ROMEO Staff Writer

A campus-wide alert was sent out to all faculty, staff, and students concerning a concrete slab that had collapsed in the Walker Gym Varsity Weight room on Wednesday.

Part of the fire proofing separated from the slab, and fell onto the ceiling of the weight room. The room was immediately closed as the Facilities staff responded to the incident.

Union Stone and CEC Engineers, contracted by the University, began work on fixing the collapse immediately. They plan on finishing the repairs next Friday, February 12. The repairs will involve inspecting

the extent of the damages, removing any loose sections of fire proofing, and installing new fireproofing where necessary. Until then, the weight room is expected to remain closed, and there will be intermittent noise in the surrounding areas due to the construction.

The Stute reached out to John Lanza, the interim Director of Maintenance in the Division of Facilities and Campus Operations of Physical Plant. Unfortunately, he was not available in time to comment on the collapse. The issue is not expected to interfere with day-to-day operations in Walker Gym, but hopefully this is not a precursor to further structural issues with Walker Gym.

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INSIDE THIS ISSUE: Back to the grind Maturity on campus Custom computer How physics lost its fizz Review: Luca Brasi’s Deli

OPINION 2-3

3D fashion models Letter to the Editor

“Stevens, My Life Is You” 2.0 Physical Plant Ken Thompson Babbio sinkhole repaired

Blocking online ads

JanLAN: gamers unite

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NEWS 6-7

No. 7 Men’s Volleyball to battle Sacred Heart 4th Overall in the Viking Classic New

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The “RSO summit” finally gets it right I was fully prepared to attend the RSO summit this past Saturday, recently renamed Leadership Connect.

My mindset entering Connect was entirely negative. Having sat through this event in the three years past for either The Stute or the Art Club (or both), I was not looking forward to a PowerPoint presentation containing information that I could access online. However, I was excited to bring my laptop, work on my thesis, and eat some SGA-funded pizza.

Well, when I realized I had no idea where Connect was that Saturday morning, I checked my phone and saw it was in Bissinger. I was admittedly frustrated that I had to walk up campus because I live in 604 River and am not a morning person, but once I made the trek, I realized I was going to have no opportunity to use my laptop. With a new five-hour length for the summit, I realized that this was going to be a long day — and I enjoyed every minute of it.

The notion that I enjoyed what is bemoaningly referred to as the “RSO summit” so thoroughly and genuinely is shocking to me. When one of my friends asked how the “summit” was, I replied that it was great. He thought I was being sarcastic. I’ll now conclude my burial of the SGA’s past RSO summits. The reason I am being so harsh is to illustrate how significant this 180-degree shift in SGA-toRSO proceedings is.

When Assistant Director of Student Life Chris Shemanski kicked off Connect, he reviewed the schedule and explained that there was a keynote speaker discussing mental health, which intrigued me. He also mentioned two breakout sessions that would require everyone to walk from Bissinger to Babbio and back, which annoyed me. Shemanski then reas-

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sured everyone that there would be lunch, and that instead of pizza — the most popular extrinsic incentive on Stevens, if not the world — Compass One would be catering food. At that moment, the crowd went mild — strike one. Although Connect seemed to be off to a humdrum start, there was a different aura about the gathering.

One noticeable difference was that everyone, despite embarking on a five-hour journey at 10 a.m. on a Saturday, was cheerful, energetic, and sociable. I sat at a table with folks I knew of but didn’t know well.

Strike two, I thought. However, after the first breakout session in Babbio on motivating membership, traveling back to Bissinger with a slew of other RSO leaders and members, an apparently well-known motivational speaker took the stage to talk about mental health, which was something I valued highly at that moment, because I was a bit of an uncertain wreck.

The speaker’s name was Ross Szabo. He was a charismatic, funny, and direct person who told his story about his near-death struggles with bipolar disorder, and flipped the alltoo-common perception of mental health on his head. Szabo’s take on mental health was that it was not a negative aspect of humans, something that distinguished the unstable and abnormal from the stable and normal, but a facet of humanity that applies to all and can be refined, just like one’s body. At the end of his talk, Szabo had me filling three pages of my notebook with quotes, diagrams, and advice on how to deal with mental health, not just as some student organization leader, but as a human being.

When the time came for the SGA

to speak, which they alone had done in past summits, I was full from Compass One’s delicious chicken parm.

Okay, I just read that sentence back to myself, and it looks like it’s laced with sarcasm and disapproval; I assure you, it’s not. After the Chair of the Committee on Student Interests (CCSI) Thomas Daly finished his review of the SGA’s budgeting guidelines and other important dates and such, a final breakout session focused on transitioning to a new executive board, I headed back to Bissinger, filled out a survey, and left.

I spoke to Matt Hunt towards the middle of Connect and explained to him that Connect was so far ahead of anything I have ever seen the SGA pull off, that he deserves huge credit for what he’s done. Hunt was quick to explain to me that he had nothing to do with it; instead, Chris Shemanski, Thomas Daly, and former CCSI Emily Noonan were to thank.

So, to everyone who made Connect happen: thank you. Thank you for making a student-to-student government experience worthwhile, and thank you for covering a topic like mental health seriously and passionately by hiring Szabo. Thus far, the new SGA Cabinet and senators have talked the talk, but with Leadership Connect, I am seeing the first evidence in my soon-to-be four years at Stevens that this iteration of the SGA can walk the walk. It’s a good thing that I’m leaving! (Now, that’s sarcasm.)

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Mind of a Freshman

Back to the grind

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by GABRIELLE McCORMACK Freshman Software Engineering Major

It has been almost two weeks since the start of the new semester and I have already become busier than I was last semester.

Some people would find this stressful and nerve wracking, but personally

I find it very refreshing.

Last semester, I had many commitments, including the Honor Board, writing for The Stute, and playing club lacrosse, among other things on campus.

With this new semester, I find myself going to more meetings during the day, and having less time to do other things.

With applying for internships and scholarships, filling out applications to become a counselor for the ECOES program, and going through formal recruitment for Greek Life all within these past few weeks, it has certainly been

a busy start of the spring semester. Just thinking about all of the applications I had to fill out was a bit overwhelming. Just yesterday, I was talking to one of my friends about everything that is going on. They said that it is definitely difficult here sometimes with the workload and everything else that comes with the territory of applying for new positions.

Although it may seem tough at times when there is so much change happening all at once - whether that be change at school, in the workplace, or in your personal life, it is always

nice to have someone to talk to about it. Being able to speak to someone and voice your opinions about your concerns, or even just talk about what is new within your life definitely allows you to lessen or even completely let go of your apprehensions of the future.

I know that this usually works for me. Being able to talk to someone is always the best. I often find comfort in that and in the end, it allows me to gain control and achieve more than I had originally set out for, which is the best feeling in the world.

taken out of its distribution rack on frat row and thrown across the street recklessly.

In my time as Editorin-Chief, we had similar issues in other locations.

Why though? What is the fun in that? It is nothing but littering (and, in a sense, theft, as you’re only technically allowed to take one), and not to mention rude. Like, what the hell guys? Some people — your fellow classmates — worked their asses off to get you this newspaper, and you’re going to be funny by throwing them on the streets? Grow up!

You’re almost adults now. If you want nice things — money, respect, stability — then act like an adult. I pity the souls who work so hard to keep you and your campus safe and reputable. It isn’t that hard to straighten up!

Just stop getting drunk, stop being slobs, start thinking before you act, and don’t try to one-up your friends by being more obnoxious. Just be good citizens and stop embarrassing yourselves and the school. I am sick of you, and sick of the way you act. Grow up, or go home to your parents.

Senioritis

Grow up

by JOSEPH BROSNAN

5/5 Civil Engineering Major

I have attacked elements of the Stevens Administration on poor performance in the past.

Now, I direct my rage towards the students.

I know that I am old for my age. I don’t par-

ty hard, I don’t stay up past 2 a.m. playing video games (unless on weekends sometimes), and I am very career minded, even though I don’t have a job yet (please hire me). I see everyone at Stevens, and overall, most don’t want to grow up. I can respect that; the prospects of adulthood are terrifying. But, that doesn’t excuse you from acting like a high school student.

What brought this on, you ask? Well, one night I was walking up 8th Street and a bunch of (possibly drunk?) people spotted me from

frat row and started yelling for me to tell them my League of Legends information. They kept remarking loudly how I was definitely a guy who plays League. I didn’t pay them any attention, because I don’t affiliate with low-lives, but also because I don’t play League.

Now, if you’re not familiar with this behavior, you’d probably think, “What’s the big deal?” But, to those of us who were bullied in high school, this is what happened. These days, I have a thicker skin than I used to, so I don’t really

care. However, someone less comfortable with themselves would have been flush with embarrassment and shyness, or even anger and rage.

I felt anger and rage, but not just because these kids were being jerks, but because they were being kids.

I am sorry, but we’re in college now. We’re on the cusp of adulthood, and with that status comes the requirement to act a little more maturely. Also, to snowball onto this, I recently heard that there was a pile of newspapers (The Stute, of course) that was

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Technically Speaking

Thinking about building a computer?

by TARIK KDIRY

Freshman Software Engineering Major

As many students can attest to, the number of customized computers on campus is pretty high.

Whether you see them at the LAN parties (guilty as charged), or in dorm rooms, these cool and unconventional looking towers are everywhere. Why do students go out of their way to build these bulky

hunks of metal? Not only is it a cool representation of what you are capable of, it also provides a rich and rewarding experience.

From what I have noticed, most of the students here on campus use their computers for gaming.

There are many other reasons to build your own computer, such as the benefit of knowing every aspect of your computer and what role each part plays.

This can be very helpful for troubleshooting, as you will know the roots of any problems you should encounter. Other than that, the feeling of carefully putting in each part, seeing it all come together, and powering everything on is gratifying.

I have asked those that I know about their experience with building their computers and comparing them to mine. A good friend of mine, freshman Evan Bedser, commented on the matter.

For him, the act of building his computer was a chance to experience the freedom of being able to play around with the internal parts and learn what role each part played and how to configure them.

He has assembled three computers, and each was a learning experience.

Though the task seems daunting at first, it is easier to begin building computers now more than ever.

There are hundreds of forums filled with experi-

enced computer enthusiasts who can lead you in the right direction. These sites include Reddit’s /r/ buildapc, where many redditors post their own personal builds as well as solutions to any problems one may encounter while assembling a computer. YouTube, in my experience, has also acted as a useful resource for building computers. Other than that, there is a site, pcpartpicker.com, that I have used the most while assembling my computer. It allows us-

ers to input parts they are looking for, and where to find them at the lowest price.

I can confirm these feelings because I also have a custom computer. In the summer before my senior year of high school, I had gathered enough cash to finally build a computer.

Originally I had wanted to assemble my own computer to run video games that were impossible to run on my poor Mac Mini.

After receiving my parts in the mail, I eagerly set

them up on my table and started watching tutorials on the internet. I thought I could assemble anything.

Though it took me a couple hours, the computer turned on and it was the best feeling I have had in a long time.

My advice to those who haven’t assembled a computer before: take the time to do the research. List everything you want to do with it and build your computer to be optimized for your tasks. Besides that, have fun!

Scientific Curmudgeon

How physics lost its fizz

by JOHN HORGAN

Director, Center for Science Writings

Physics, more than any other field, lured me into science journalism more than three decades ago. Physics represented a kind of scientific theology, an empirical, rational way of probing, if not solving, the mysteries of existence. Physicists were discerning resonances between the smallest and largest scales of reality and spinning out astonishing conjectures about our universe and even other universes.

My favorite scientif-

ic theologian was John Wheeler. Musing over how observation seems to influence the outcome of quantum experiments, Wheeler challenged conventional objectivity and materialism, and hinted that we humans might not be just a cosmic afterthought. We live in a “participatory” cosmos, he proposed, which emerges from the interaction of consciousness and the physical realm.

Wheeler popularized the anthropic principle, which purports to answer one of the deepest of all questions: Why are the laws of physics as we find them rather than some other way? What explains the precise strength of gravity and other constants of nature? The universe seems so, well, arbitrary. According to the anthropic principle, the universe must be as we

observe it to be, because otherwise we wouldn’t be here to observe it.

Moreover, our universe might be one of many.

The big-bang theory led Einstein, among others, to propose the oscillatinguniverse theory. Our cosmos will eventually stop expanding, collapse back in a “big crunch” and rebound in yet another big bang, which will in turn implode and be reborn, ad infinitum.

Quantum mechanics-which implies that a particle such as an electron, when we’re not looking at it, follows many paths-yielded an even weirder multiverse theory. In the late 1950s, Hugh Everett proposed that each particle pursues each possible path—in another universe.

What can physicists do to top these far-out visions? Not much, if books

Cuisine Corner

Luca Brasi’s Deli (100 Park)

by KATRINA GUIDO

Sophomore Computer Science and Physics Major

Oozing in Italian/Italian-American references, Luca Brasi’s Deli at the intersection of Park Avenue and First Street is yet another café-meets-oldworld-grocery that tells, or rather shouts, the tale of Hoboken’s heritage.

I really wasn’t quite sure what to expect. Rave reviews and numerous recommendations aside, with a name that references The Godfather, and menu items named after Sopranos characters, I was afraid the whole thing would seemed forced.

The outside doesn’t shout “I’m Italian,” which is a

good sign, but it’s not exactly hard to miss. The inside seems cozy but leans more toward café than grocery, as the walls are filled with pictures of famous people and whatnot rather than the usual imported items for purchase.

Now to what’s actually important — the food.

Figuring most students, and customers for that matter, wouldn’t really be ordering actual dishes per se, my partner and I opted for sandwiches.

The cold sandwich, the “Fuggeda’ Boudit” ($10) (if you don’t know how to pronounce it, I shake my head at you) ordered off of the Sopranos-inspired “Meat the Family” menu, is composed of ham, salami, cappicolla, mozzarella, and roasted peppers.

After having spent part of winter break in the land of flavorless food, or as I affectionately entitle it “15 minutes outside of the middle of nowhere, Pennsylvania,” I was excited to

say the least. I was looking forward to the salty creaminess of mozzarella mixed with the various spicy and subtle meats, all topped off with tender peppers dripping of balsamic vinegar and olive oil. I don’t know if I over-exaggerated the experience in my mind, but I was sadly disappointed.

Everything seemed fresh, but my taste buds were left wanting more. The mozzarella and bread both had barely any flavor, and there weren’t nearly enough peppers to provide any dripping of juices.

The chicken parm hero ($8.50), on the other hand, was a treat. Ever since I was little, my mom has always been drilling into my head the idea that good chicken cutlets have to be pounded thin and tender and coated with breading that actually sticks to the cutlet, and this sandwich got that right. The cutlets practically melted in my mouth,

written over the past decade by leading physicist/popularizers are any guide. For the most part, they merely recycle the once-startling propositions of Wheeler and other precursors.

The old oscillating-universe theory is revived in Cycles of Time by Roger Penrose. In The Beginning of Infinity, David Deutsch dusts off Everett’s manyworlds hypothesis. And in his bestseller The Hidden Reality, Brian Greene extols all the varieties of multiverse, including the old idea that our universe may be a simulation running on the computer of an alien civilization.

These fantasies are not just stale. Increasingly, they strike me as escapist and even irresponsible, because they are so lacking in evidence. If theories are being passed off as science, shouldn’t they have

at least a remote chance of being empirically corroborated?

Otherwise, how do they differ from pseudoscientific ideas like intelligent design?

To recapture its fizz, physics desperately needs not new ideas but new facts. Ideally, physicists will stumble on something so astonishing that they abandon their pursuit of multiverses and other fantasies and return to reality.

In the late 1990s, astronomers studying supernovas deduced to their astonishment that the expansion of the universe is speeding up. But this discovery, the most exciting since I became a science writer, has not forced radical revisions of the big-bang paradigm. Similarly, the Higgs boson, detected a few years ago by the Large Hadron Collider, merely confirmed

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Sun.: 7 a.m. – 9 p.m. and didn’t become a mess of breading that had been easily stripped via friction from the bread. My partner agreed that this sandwich was much better than what he gets at Gio’s.

Again, the mozzarella was a bit of a letdown, but the cutlets more than made up for that.

To finish off the meal, we then ordered the staples of popular ItalianAmerican desserts: tiramisu and a cannoli. The

the standard model of particle physics. Ho hum.

Things have gotten so bad that physicists are openly fretting about the future of their field. In a recent TED Talk, “Have we reached the end of physics?”, Harry Cliff states that “for the first time in the history of science, we could be facing questions that we cannot answer, not because we don’t have the brains or technology, but because the laws of physics themselves forbid it.”

I still keep an eye on physics, but my go-to source for fizzy ideas now is research into the brain and mind. Science’s wildest frontier is inside our heads.

John Horgan directs the Stevens Center for Science Writings. This essay is adapted from one originally published in The Chronicle of Higher Education.

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cake of the tiramisu tasted dry, which is strange because, for those of you who don’t know, tiramisu is cake soaked in coffee and rum layered with the equivalent of Italian cream cheese. The cannoli was definitely the better of the two, but the filling was a bit too dry (probably too much confectioner’s sugar), and since the cannoli had most likely been filled earlier that day rather than fresh

upon ordering, the shell was a bit soggier than I prefer.

I would probably go back: the prices are a few dollars cheaper than Vito’s and the sizes are similar. Also, the distance is just right to get off campus and see a little bit more than your classrooms and dorm for a bit. However, I would still take Fran’s mozzarella and Fiore’s bread any day.

Katrina Guido

Opinion

Friday, February 5, 2016 • Page 4

Letter to the Editor

Not With Those Shoes

Louis Vuitton loves gamers

by HOPE BRANDES

Sophomore Visual Arts & Technology Major

If you’re familiar with the latest installments of the Final Fantasy franchise, you might be aware that a certain pink-haired heroine is the new face of Louis Vuitton’s Spring 2016 ready-to-wear collection. That’s right, Final Fantasy XIII’s lead character, Lightning, is the new model of Louis Vuitton. In collaboration with Square Enix and Tetsuya Namora, the ad campaign is the brainchild of Vuitton’s new creative director Nicolas Ghesquière.

The ad campaign has featured posters of Lightning wearing the Spring 2016 collection from the Paris runway placed in stores and in magazines, predominately in Japan. The images are also featured on Louis Vuitton’s official website and Twitter, and Ghesquière has posted the images to his Instagram along with a short, ani-

mated video.

In addition to Final Fantasy, audio clips from the revered sandbox platformer, Minecraft, and the 2010 movie Tron: Legacy were included in the Louis Vuitton runway. More importantly, the clothing pieces themselves have fans drawing parallels between the new Vuitton collections and anime series like Sailor Moon and Neon Genesis Evangelion.

From structured leather shirts and jackets to shiny, metallic bubble skirts, studded dresses and half-hand gloves, the models looked as if they just stepped into a world of cyber punk. Backstage, Ghesquière told Dazed magazine, “We’re all confronted by the digital world in a good way and we’re influenced by cyber, influenced by the images that make us a dream or judge. But at the same time, we have this real life.

And we’re all managing to have this real dimension.

And that’s exciting. It’s a real reality influenced by the virtual world.”

Surprisingly, this is not the Final Fantasy franchise’s first foray with fashion. Back in 2012, a handful of characters from both FFXIII and FFXIII-2 modeled the Prada Spring/ Summer menswear collection in which Lightning

made her first modeling debut. The fashiongaming crossover doesn’t stop there either. The next expected installment for the Final Fantasy franchise, FFXV (formerly FF Versus XIII), saw the collaboration of Square Enix with the Japanese fashion brand Roen, which was hired to create the new characters’ outfits. Roen also created a collection of real-life fashions based on the ones they designed for FFXV back in 2008.

The digital age has not left fashion untouched.

Designers are always

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Always Right

Why I’m blocking your ads

by DENNIS STEWART Senior Cybersecurity Major

PageFair and Adobe recently published a study that claimed “$21.8bn in advertising revenues will be lost in 2015 due to ad blocking.” I feel obliged to dispute this claim. PageFair’s methodology was poor, and even in a parallel universe where their data is correct, they and other ad publishers deserve to lose out on more than $22 billion.

PageFair estimates that 16% of the US’s online population is using ad blockers. Monthly ad block users are “calculated by combining a number of sources.” While PageFair describes how they get these sources, they do not provide raw data, or their method of “combining” it together.

Next, they divide the previous year’s reported revenue by 1 minus the ad block percentage to get “potential” revenue. The difference between reported and potential revenue is counted as “lost.”

Assuming that their estimated percentages of adblocking users is correct, they are further assuming that those users click on

ads at the same rate that non-blockers do. The majority of online advertising is performed on a pay per click (or thousand clicks) basis. I find it hard to believe that users who go out of their way to install tools to block ads would click on ads as much as others.

PageFair is making another assumption (for those keeping count, we’re at assumption level 3): advertisers are willing to spend an additional $22 billion. The report does not account for price elasticity. If there is such huge demand for ad space that can’t be filled, prices should increase. Every major online ad publisher supports pricing based on demand. For $22 billion to be lost, advertisers must want to spend that much more in the first place.

Why do people block ads? I presume the primary reason is because ads are annoying. Nobody wants to watch a 30 second ad before a 20 second video on YouTube. People don’t want to struggle to click a tiny, moving close button on an ad displaying over the article they’re reading. Users sure as hell don’t want their ears assaulted by an advertisement that automatically plays after they’ve started to scroll down a page.

Ads also consume a considerable amount of data. On mobile networks where users pay by the gigabyte or megabyte, is there anyone who wants to spend that money on

pushing boundaries and technology has provided them with a new playground for models, materials, patterns, but the reviews are mixed. Not everyone seemed as excited as me to see Lightning as the lead face. Understandably, I don’t often meet people who are both avid buyers of Louis Vuitton and video games, but it is a testament to how technology has really blurred the lines between worlds that otherwise may have never crossed — even if some still wish they never had.

advertisements?

Researchers at Simon Fraser University found that installing ad-blocking filters on a university network switch decreased bandwidth usage by 25%.

On streaming video sites, bandwidth usage was reduced 40%. The Simon Fraser study had a small sample size of only 6 computers, but it goes without saying that downloading ads (which are frequently the largest elements of a page) will use more bandwidth than not downloading them.

Advertisements also can create massive security risks. Ad publishers frequently serve malicious ads. Scams like “6 simple tricks this single mom discovered to make $85,000 a year working from home” are irritating, but more dangerous are malware-infested ads.

Since ads are tailored to users and are frequently cycled, it can be hard to track down which ads are infected. On Halloween, PageFair served advertisements with JavaScript that downloaded trojan viruses. Of course, this was only an issue for those who were not using ad blockers.

PageFair’s $22 billion number probably isn’t real. Honestly, I wish it was. If starving these companies out was as simple as downloading an adblocker, maybe they wouldn’t be around to drag the internet down with them.

The rebirth of The Stute

by KATIE BROWN Guest Contributor

It’s not the end of fall finals period until I pick up a copy of The Stute and use the gloriously festive and free wrapping paper provided on the back pages. Since my freshmen year, these red and green pages of advertisements have been used to wrap my presents for my friends and, when I really got lazy, my family (they didn’t appreciate it as much).

Last fall semester, I was bummed to discover that the wrapping paper was not in the last issue of The Stute. Considering I was counting down all semester for the “gloriously festive” issue when I was picking up the weekly paper, I was bummed to have to fork over the couple bucks at CVS for actual wrapping paper last holiday season.

Over break, however, I did realize I started doing something at Stevens that I haven’t done before the Fall 2015 semester. Though I may have been bummed for the lack of wrapping paper near the end, I

was actually picking up The Stute every week.

Frankly speaking, the only time I ever cautiously read The Stute was to read the Cuisine Corner when my boyfriend was the columnist. I’m not sure what exactly motivated me in the first place, but after picking up one Stute last semester, I kept picking up more. The articles have developed into students genuinely reporting on what is occurring on campus, and not just summaries of events I attended or writers hogging the spotlight on topics that I didn’t care for.

I firmly believe The Stute has developed into the college newspaper you hear about in the movies or expect out of a college campus. It has been reborn into newsworthy pieces of literature that our campus should value, critique, and of course read more. Congrats to The Stute on their rebirth, and I hope people begin admiring the work of your staff as much as I have last semester and moving forward. Also, bring back your wrapping paper next Fall.

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ation,” said Zunick. The first official night of formal recruitment is Orientation, which is when prospective sisters learn the rules of recruitment and the expectations that sisters are held to as members of the Greek community.

Out of all the potential new members who registered for Orientation, 123 women were eligible to attend, which according to Zunick is a 44% increase in eligible women going into the first round, as compared to Spring 2015 data.

“I think as our sorority community grows, there are more options for women to join,” said Zunick. “Because our [Panhellenic] community is larger and more visible, people are noticing that being in a sorority is a great way of being involved on campus.”

Following Orientation are the rounds, which include Round Robin, Philanthropy Night, and Preference party.

At Round Robin, potential new members have the opportunity to see each chapter. Marielle Jankowski, Membership Recruitment Chair of Phi Sigma Sigma, finds Round Robin to be the most difficult aspect of recruitment. “This is the event we all put our time and creativity into. With the presentation of our house, we are putting our best foot forward [by] inviting the potential new members into our home to give them a feel as to who we are and why they’d want to join our sorority.”

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guitar parts, all the saxophone parts, all the horn parts, everything. Then I would go and play at little after hour joints with a four or five piece band.”

When Alomar first met Bowie, he was a session musician for RCA Records. He describes their first meeting: “I was told that a lady called ‘Lulu’ was coming to record. I really wanted to work with her, because I had seen her in a movie called ‘To Sir, with Love’ with Sidney Poitier back in the day. I was really enthusiastic, but she wasn’t there. It was just her rhythm section, and the producer was Bowie.

He had just left Spiders from Mars so he still had that pasty white skin, that orange — orange, not your Mamma’s orange, some crazy orange — bright orange hair, but the sweetest guy.

I told him ‘You know what, you’re pretty thin, why don’t you come over to my house and let my wife make you a nice

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the causes they are most passionate about, including Anorexia and Associated Disorders, Women for Women International, Glenmary Home Missioners, and School and College Readiness. After Philanthropy Night comes Preference Party, which is an invitational round.

Potential new members can receive a maximum of two invitations and a minimum of zero. After the three rounds, each of the sororities conduct bid matching, which Zunick describes as a “mutually selective process.”

Zunick works alongside a Release Figure Method Specialist, who comes directly from the National Panhellenic office. “The [Release Figure Method Specialist] is specifically trained to determine how many women can be invited back for each round to maximize the number of women who can join a sorority,” said Zunick. While the potential new members attend rounds, both the interests and the sororities rank each other on a system called CampusDirector. It is with the aid of the Release Figure Method Specialist and the CampusDirector software that enables sororities to offer bids to potential new members.

“There is a scientific method to recruitment,” said Zunick.

The recruitment process is an underlying theme in many of the sororities’ initiatives.

“Recruitment is always at the back of mind for our women because everything they do represents their organization,” said Zunick. “Most often our [Panhellenic] community is just trying to get women interested in joining a sorority. It

is not until these two and a half weeks where the individual chapters start recruiting for themselves.”

Of the 123 women that attended Orientation, not all will find homes in sororities this year. “For our sorority, it is extremely exciting that there are so many women that are coming out, but it makes the decision even harder,” said Jankowski. As of Thursday, February 4, all 102 women who participated in the Participation party received bids from a sorority, according to Zunick.

The sheer number of women interested in joining a sorority might suggest changes in the near future. As recruitment comes to a close, the Panhellenic community will vote to decide whether to bring on Alpha Phi as a new sorority, as a continuation of its extension, or initiative to bring on new sororities to campus.

“Should Alpha Phi come as planned, that will be this fall in 2016,” said Zunick.

Whether or not Alpha Phi comes to Stevens, the Panhellenic Community is excited to see that women are joining sororities at higher rates as the campus continues to increase the number of women who attend Stevens each year.

home cooked meal?’

Next thing I know, his limousine drives up to my home in Queens we had a great time. We talked about my doing the Chitlin’ Circuits, and my working with all these people. Next thing I know, a little while later he asked me to tour with him, and I said yes.”

Since Bowie’s passing, Alomar has been asked for numerous interviews, and speaks very highly of participating in these interviews. He says, “He has allowed us to not only look at life as art, but he’s also allowed us to look at death as art.

By treating death the way that he did he allowed us all to interpret what we feel and express it in as many individual ways as possible.”

As such, he’s now faced with the dilemma of expressing his exaltation of Bowie’s teachings in musical form. “The way that I do it is by getting to work with my students and getting them to express it. I’ll help them to do songwriting. I’ll give them the linear teachings of Brian Eno, and show them how to look

at electronic music the way that we did. I’ll give them courses on what are the components for electronic bands. These are things that you’re not being taught. Why? Because of the new millennium of technology there are events that are happening all the time and we have got to stay on top of them. Not only stay on top of them, but also we’re responsible for teaching the next generation how to maneuver those waters.

And that’s the purpose of the SSRC.” The SSRC is located on the second floor of Morton, and is chockfull of state-of-the-art equipment, and intuitive teaching methods by which students can teach themselves how to operate this equipment, and express their creative selves. Eventually, Alomar plans to move to a larger space, and open the SSRC up to the general Stevens populous.

Alomar urges those mourning Bowie to create, to be passionate, and to continuously learn and improve. It’s what Bowie would have wanted.

“Stevens, My Life Is You” writer announces new “On Castle Point” song

by MARYIA SPIRYDONAVA Staff Writer

How many students constantly complain about the different minute hassles about Stevens, such as Pierce food or the ratio?

Well, if this is students’ idea of a fun pastime, then they might want to listen to “Stevens My Life Is You” (if they haven’t already), written by Stevens’ own Hart Welles. “Stevens My Life Is You” is a musical parody of Stevens, filled with different anecdotes that will have laughing hysterically. Today, Welles has written a second song called “On Castle Point” after encouragement from his friends and fans. This second song will be released within the next couple of weeks, and will be accompanied by a music video, unlike the first one.

Welles has been a fanatic

of musical comedy since childhood, which played an immense part for his inspiration in writing “Stevens My Life Is You.” So, when he noticed that Stevens didn’t have a school song, like most other universities, he was inspired to write one. Welles also thinks complaining over things is a good way for people to come together and bond, which was one of his main goals. Most of the material from the song was gathered from comments posted by Stevens students on the Stevens version of the “my life is average” website. Once the song was released, it was met with warm embrace by the Stevens students. In fact, Welles says that one of the nicest things his fans did was do a cover at an open mic night. “They did a better job than I did,” recalled Welles.

“On Castle Point” is

written from Welles’ senior year perspective, compared to the first song that was written from a younger, sophomore year perspective. The melody is very similar to the original song, once again played on a ukulele. The basic idea of the two songs are very similar: some of the new jokes included are regarding Techfest and the Howe “wind tunnel.” One major difference between the songs is that the music video that will have shots accompanying the lyrics; it will even have special guest stars like Kevin Ryan, who said he would be “honored” to be in the video, and, potentially, Captain Maggi. Stay tuned to Welles’ YouTube channel (youtube.com/Picklejohn12) for the song’s eventual release. Welles will also be performing the song at the next open mic night.

Video still courtesy of Hart Welles

Ken Thompson has the will (and skill) to teach selfdefense at Stevens

by FRANKIE GUARINI Editor-in-Chief

Although hard to miss at 6-foot-2 and 250 pounds, Stevens Physical Plant electrician Ken Thompson has a history and skill set not known by many students. During the 1980s, Ken Thompson was a professional wrestler under the name of “Cowboy” Ken Thompson. A roughneck heel, or villain in pro wrestling, Thompson used illegal tactics during his matches, despite his imposing frame. Thompson wrestled in the Hoboken, Jersey City, and Bayonne areas, and even briefly performed in the World Wrestling Federation (now World Wrestling Entertainment) with the likes of Jesse “The Bodybuilder” Venture and Greg “The Hammer” Valentine.

In 1981, Thompson arrived at Stevens as a part of campus police, having worked as a Hudson County corrections officer in Jersey City. After 6 years, Thompson became Stevens’ locksmith, left in 1993 for Ohio, and returned to Stevens in 1996 as a member of Stevens Physical Plant, a jack-of-all-trades at first until he settled in as a campus electrician.

Perhaps the most sur-

prising tenet of Thompson’s resume is that he is an accomplished martial artist and a member of the Team Wright New Jersey USA Hall of Fame, led by Austin Wright, Sr., a threetime international gold medalist and holder of the grand champion belt. Ken Thompson is currently a coach at Wright’s Universal Warrior Arts (UWA) school in Bayonne, his hometown.

With his history of in martial arts, Thompson wants to educate students, especially at Stevens, about selfdefense.

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should know some kind of basic self-defense tactics,” Thompson said.

“You need to know how you have to think before you can do anything.” Knowledgeable in combative arts, techniques to cause damage while inflicting physical self-harm, Thompson is willing to work with interested students, or even host a workshop if there is enough interest.

For students interested in learning selfdefense techniques or looking to organize a workshop, they can contact Ken Thompson at cowboythompson@ gmail.com.

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Over winter intersession, Stevens repaired the sinkhole in the parking lot in front of Babbio

by DAVID OVSIEW Staff Writer

Stevens repaired a sinkhole that had formed outside the Babbio Center over the winter intersesssion. The sinkhole formed due to a gap between Babbio garage and the adjacent rock ledge. The gap formed during the garage’s construction in the early 2000s. In response, Stevens placed two steel beams running down the gap, one along the garage and the other along the cliff. Between the beams, timbers were stacked to form a retaining wall and dirt was poured in to fill the resulting space. Finally, asphalt was laid down to form a parking lot on level with the Babbio first

floor.

However, the wall was not impervious. Over the years, some of the beams began to rot and dirt began to seep out. In December, rainstorms washed away enough soil to cause some of the asphalt to collapse, resulting in a sinkhole.

Fortunately, no one was hurt by the sinkhole, nor was any property was damaged. Stevens immediately called contractors to assess the sinkhole and the threat it posed. Although it did not seem like the sinkhole would expand and cause any more damage, the hole was still cordoned off to prevent any accidents.

The sinkhole was repaired over winter intersession, with the structure receiving several improve-

ments to prevent a collapse from happening again.

The dirt is now mixed with gravel, allowing water to be absorbed easier.

The wooden wall was also completely rebuilt, this time with small spaces between timbers to allow excess water to escape.

Stevens does not plan for this wall to be permanent.

When work begins to complete the Babbio garage, the barrier will be replaced with something much longer lasting. However, Robert Maffia, Vice President for Facilities and Campus Operations, stresses that the parking lot is perfectly safe. In fact, the new wall could last for many years if necessary. “It’s a long-term solution,” says Mr. Maffia, “but we don’t need to have it long-term.”

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C2GS holds Jan LAN, showcasing gaming and community

by ANDY WALDRON Staff Writer

Tabletop players, Smash Bros. enthusiasts, and a hundred-plus members of Stevens’ gaming community gathered last Saturday for the Computer & Console Gaming Society’s “Jan LAN.” Students played some of the “over a hundred video games” and “well over fifty board games” Vice President Alex Massenzio detailed that the club had at their disposal, alongside many that members had brought, until 7:00 a.m. the following day.

The first Epic LAN of the semester, referring to the local-area networking system that helps make communal gaming

possible, took place after being postponed by the recent blizzard. This delay had no effect on the event’s momentum, however, as Babbio 122 and 104 were packed with students’ desktops, CRT monitors, consoles, board games, and several tournaments of Duck Game and StepMania. The latter, a Dance Dance Revolution clone, crowned Chris Byrne with first place and Amy Hans with second. The increasing popularity in the past year of the Epic LAN events, which occur once a month alongside the smaller, weekly events, has resulted in a larger turnout. Massenzio called the LAN events “a nice place for people to unwind and find similar players to hang out

amid classes.”

The introvert-leaning, community aspect the LAN provides becomes more apparent after talking to many of its members. While on line for pizza — a reliable draw for any campus event — Ryan Flynn, a 3/4 Mechanical Engineer, echoed this. “It’s fun to sit in a room where everyone else is on their computers.” Emily Raque, a 2/5 Civil Engineer playing Magic, the Gathering, remarked how she “knows enough people here” to attend regularly, adding that this was “her second LAN this week.”

Massenzio said C2GS’s events are “a great way to get a good sample size” for collaborations with Stevens Game Development Club, which

College of Arts and Letters

The Literature Faculty The Women’s Fencing Team

and DeBaun Center for Performing Arts present

STEVENS’ 16th ANNUAL V-DAY

Featuring a performance of:

EVE ENSLER’S THE VAGINA MONOLOGUES Thursday, February 18, 9pm DeBaun Auditorium

Tickets $5.00 Purchase at door or from a member of the women’s fencing team Proceeds donated to Domestic Violence Program of

WomenRising, Inc.

sometimes brings in-progress games to test out. With weekly LAN’s and another Epic coming up on the 20th, C2GS and the Stevens gaming community will have many opportunities to showcase what 3/4 “and a half” B.M.E. Kat McGuire describes as her reason for being there: “Gaming is socializing without anything to say.”

Andy Waldron

Varsity Sports

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No. 7 Men’s Volleyball to battle Division I Sacred Heart

SSI – After sweeping the Clash at Kean tournament last weekend, the No. 7 Stevens Institute of Technology men’s volleyball team is back in action Friday night, taking on Division I Sacred Heart University.

MATCH INFO The Ducks will travel to Fairfield, Conn. to take on the Pioneers, with first serve scheduled for 7p.m.

CLASH AT KEAN RECAP Stevens went a perfect 3-0 at the second annual tournament at Kean University, dropping only one set. They defeated Marymount University 3-1, Rivier College 3-0 and Lasell College 3-0.

SCOUTING THE PIONEERS Sacred Heart is cur-

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rently 0-6 on the year so far, and are coming off a loss to fellow United Volleyball Conference member SUNY-New Paltz last Wednesday. Junior Chris Delucie leads the Pioneers with 65 kills while Eduardo Zardo has dished out 167 assists.

Women’s indoor track and field to compete in two weekend meets SSI – The Stevens Institute of Technology women’s indoor track and field teams will be competing in a pair of the meets this weekend.

MEET DETAILS Two of the Ducks will be taking part in the Armory Track Invitational Friday and Saturday, while the rest of the squad will be taking on the East Stroudsburg College Invitational Saturday.

NYC BOUND Senior standouts Amy Regan and Gladys Njoku were selected to compete in the Armory Invitational, a prestigious event that features many Division I athletes.

Njoku will be competing in the high jump, while Regan will be taking on the field in the 5,000-meter.

GOING THE DISTANCE The women’s distance medley relay team of freshmen Mary Visca and Jackie Endres, along with sophomore Samantha Rokicsak and Regan, established a

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new school-record in the Terrier Classic Saturday.

The quartet hit a time of 12:13.23 and is the fifth best in Division III this year.

MILES FOR MARY Visca currently sits in 21st nationally in the 3,000-meter (10:16.84) and is 24th in the mile run (5:10.36).

PLAYING THE FIELD The Ducks saw Njoku and junior Gina Salmins finish in the top-10 of the long jump at the Springfield College Invitational Saturday.

Njoku set a school-record with a jump of 5.17m to place first, while Salmins was 10th at 4.39m.

SPRINT TO THE TOP Njoku also established a new school-record in the 60-meter dash, grabbing a new time of 8.09. The record eclipsed the old school record by .06 seconds. Salmins was first in her 60-meter hurdles heat, and finished second in the finals, missing a personal-best by .21 seconds.

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*For the entire event. Not individual scores.

RETURN TO FORM After missing a majority of last season with an injury, junior Gabe Shankweiler has returned to the 2014 form where he was UVC Rookie of the Year.

Through 13 sets, Shankweiler is tied for the team lead with 41 kills and is

second with six service aces.

THREE HEADED MIDDLE MACHINE Senior Etan Bennett, junior Jordan Stuart and sophomore Thomas Burrell have all contributed at least 21 kills from the middle spot this year.

Bennett has also seen time as an opposite, and the three have combined for 67 kills and 31.0 total blocks.

ACES WILD Senior Tim Ferriter leads the club with seven service aces, and is third with 26 kills.

BLOCK PARTY The Ducks hold a 38.023.0 edge over their opponents in total blocks through the five matches this year.

SETTING THE TONE Junior Scott Russell was named to the All-Tournament team at the Clash last weekend, handing out 81 assists in eight sets while only committing five errors. Russell leads the team with 122 assists this year.

Men’s Basketball seeks wins during E8 road trip

ON DECK IN SPORTS

Friday Men’s Swimming at NYU INVITATIONAL 5 p.m.

New York, NY

Women’s Swimming

at NYU INVITATIONAL 5 p.m.

New York, NY

Women’s Fencing

at NYU INVITATIONAL 5 p.m.

New York, NY

Men’s Basketball Stevens Sports Information

SSI – The Stevens Institute of Technology men’s basketball team (8-10, 4-5) will look to stay in the Empire 8 Conference Championship mix this weekend with road games at Houghton College and Alfred University.

The road trip starts Friday with a 6 p.m. game at Houghton, before Saturday’s contest at 2 p.m. at Alfred University.

Senior Alex Lorenz’s layup in the closing seconds sent the Ducks into overtime against No. 22 New York University Tuesday, before the Ducks fell in the extra frame, 74-66.

At 8-10 (3-7), Houghton is coming off an overtime loss to Utica College, while Alfred (8-11, 4-6) will be hosting Hartwick College on Friday night after a win last weekend against Utica.

The Ducks enter the weekend in fifth place in the E8 sitting just behind Ithaca College (5-5), and slightly ahead of Alfred.

With the non-conference slate now complete, Stevens will play five of its last seven games on the road, all against E8 opponents.

The Ducks already played both Houghton and Alfred in a home back-to-back this season, resulting in a

Opponent/Event BU Terrier Classic St. John Fisher College Marymount University St. John Fisher College Springfield College New Jersey Institute of Technology Boston College Brown University Massachusetts Institute of Tech.

Brown University Massachusetts Institute of Tech.

Brown University Massachusetts Institute of Tech.

Boston College New Jersey Institute of Technology Brandeis University BU Terrier Classic Springfield College Rivier College Gettysburg College Hartwick College Hartwick College Elmira College Lasell College Brandeis University New York University

double-digit win against the Highlanders and a fourpoint loss to Alfred.

Lorenz has tallied doubledoubles in three of the last four games for the Ducks, giving him six total for the season.

With a 19-point performance Tuesday against NYU, junior Patrick Barron extended his double-digit scoring streak to six. Barron’s hit the mark in 11 of the last 12 games.

Sophomore Chris Cosgrove has limited his turnovers to less than two in Stevens’ last three games, and owns the best assist/turnover ratio in the conference.

Score 102-95 3-1* 51-35 8-19 13-14 10-17 11-16 11-16 19-8 11-16 19-8 10-17 19-8 15-12 3-0* 33-6 170-91 179-83 70-75 3-0* 11-16 66-74

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at HOUGHTON COLLEGE 6 p.m.

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Men’s Volleyball

at SACRED HEART UNIVERSITY 7 p.m. Fairfield, CT

Women’s Basketball at HOUGHTON COLLEGE 8 p.m.

Houghton, NY

Saturday Track & Field

vs EAST STROUDSBURG INVITATIONAL 10 a.m.

East Stroudsburg, PA

Wrestling

vs MCDANIEL COLLEGE 12 p.m.

Hoboken, NJ

Wrestling

vs WASHINGTON and LEE UNIVERSITY 12 p.m.

Hoboken, NJ

FOR MORE INFORMATION, HEAD TO: STEVENS DUCKS ONLINE

Club Sports

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SKI AND SNOWBOARD STEVENS REC – This weekend the Ski and Snowboard team traveled to Belleayre Mountain in Highmount NY. On Saturday, the competitors were challenged by an icy

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giant slalom course. Tim Kania finished 33rd out of 62 competitors, while Haley Hyland, Steve Zisa, Jesse Stevenson, and Daniel Pallone were all unable to finish

Game Summary in Highmount NY the course on both runs. As for the snowboarders, Preston Tarry finished 5th out of 13 for males and Sigourney Beada finished 4th out of 8 for females.

Sunday had good conditions for a long slalom course. For the men, Billy Harris took 17th, Steve Zisa took 18th, and Daniel Pallone took 21st out of 62 competitors.

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ICE HOCKEY STEVENS REC – The Stevens Ducks took home a win on Monday against the King’s Point Mariners. The Ducks started off the first period strong with extended amounts of time in the Mariner’s zone. They took the lead early

02.04.16 with a goal from #23 Michael Ferris, assisted by #77 AJ Bruce. The Ducks’ tallied another goal about midway through the period, shot by #44 Eric Heinowitz and assisted by #19 Marc Chiapperino. The Ducks’ extended

Stevens Ice Hockey vs. King’s Point Mariners their lead yet again nearly halfway through the second period, with a goal by #17 Victor Bech-Hansen, assisted by #21 Owen Egbert. King’s Point tallied their first goal shortly after and the second period ended with

a score of 3-1. The Ducks retained their strong defense throughout the third period, with a late goal shot by #96 Poongi Hong, assisted by #12 Greg Caminneci, bringing the team to a 4-1 victory.

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ICE HOCKEY STEVENS REC – With the season coming down to a close, the Ducks played one of their last games of the season against Maritime. The period started off rather slow, until Maritime scored on the Ducks midway through and ignited a fire. The Ducks scored shortly after thanks to captain AJ Bruce who was assisted by Poongi Hong and Matt

BOWLING STEVENS REC – Stevens Institute of Technology finished 4th overall in the Viking Classic. The tournament went decently well for the team.

During the doubles set, there were a few 200 games from different mem-

02.04.16 Jansen. Maritime racked up 4 penalties in the first, ending it up at 1-1.

The Ducks kicked off the second period with a powerplay goal scored

by Matt Jansen who was assisted by Mike Ferris and Poongi Hong. Maritime didn’t want to let the Ducks have the lead and scored a short handed goal while Robert Coffman was in the

Stevens Ice Hockey vs. Maritime penalty box. Before the period was up, Poongi Hong scored two more goals for the Ducks, assisted by Marc Chiapperino and Matt Jansen. Maritime managed to score one more goal before the period was up, leaving it at 4-3 Ducks.

The Ducks weren’t going down without a fight. Maritime scored, leveling

02.04.16 bers of the team. Thomas Wisnewsk shot a 238 early on, while both Alex Buhse and Alex Mori bowled 204.

The singles portion of the tournament was where the team really began to struggle but they were

up the score to 4-4. In the last 5 minutes the Ducks scored their final goal, scored unassisted by Poongi Hong followed unfortunately by 2 more goals from Maritime. The evening ended at 5-6 score with Maritime taking home the win. The Ducks will be playing their final home game prior to the playoffs Saturday February 6.

4th Overall in the Viking Classic nonetheless able to overcome it and prevail. Justin Holdridge manage to shoot a 237 towards the end of the singles portion. Gearht VanVoorhis finished the day with a final average of 177 across 6 games. Overall, it

was the bakers where the team truly shined, claiming 4th place in the tournament by the end of the day.

This may not have been an exceptional day, but it was definitely still a victory for the team.

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Friday, February 5, 2016 • Page 10

Campus Pulse

Roving Reporter

What are you doing during Superbowl 50?

“Going with my girlfriend to her house.”

“Visit some friends.”

“Watch the game.”

Luis Mendoza

Shemar Yap

Steven Gunarso

“Going to a party. We’re bringing chicken wings!”

“Going to the EC event.”

“Working at Court Street.”

Bredan Gallagher and Sheila De Assis

Nicole Fosko

Kris Alvarez

Polling Pierce Who do you think will win Superbowl 50?

(Based on 100 responses)

Panthers

Neither

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Pearls of

Wisdom Sometimes with so much going on we forget to thank the people who make our lives happy in their own simple ways. Sometimes we forget to tell them how much we appreciate them for being a part of our lives. I just want to thank all of my ducklings and chat with me, because you all make my life more colorful — because life is nothing without the love of a friend. Friendship doubles your joy, divides your sorrows, and are the most important ingredients in this recipe of life. In my friends I find a second self, and so I thank you all.

Love from your girl,

Broncos

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Where the duck?

StevensTHON is a year-long philanthropy that raises funds for the patients at the Children’s Miracle Network Hospitals. The best part: all the money we raise will stay right here in New Jersey and is donated to local hospitals.

We get to see where the money goes and hang out with the kids it directly affects. Whether you’re one person, a small group, or a huge organization, everyone and anyone can make a difference for the kids.

Go to stevensTHON.kintera.org and join a Miracle Child team today!

There will be various food discounts throughout Hoboken until the day of the event. Once you join a team, we will keep you in the loop on these.

Know where this is? Let us know at eboard@thestute.com!

Last Week’s Answer: 2nd Floor of the Library

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