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Recently, Stevens has accepted over $20M in donations from alumnus and RightNow Technologies founder Greg Gianforte, primarily from two $10M donations. The first one occurred 3-5 years ago, while the second donation was announced this past December.

In return, Stevens agreed to

name the proposed Gateway Complex after the Gianforte family and have an acknowledgment to his parents in the building once it replaces the Lieb Building in 2019.

On Monday, April 3, 2017, alumni Joseph Risi, Kyle Gonzalez, Michael Abramavo, Matthew Mildeau, and current senior student Andy Waldron started a petition on activism website, change.org, to ask

President Nariman Favardin to “publicly explain their reasoning behind accepting the donation and honoring Greg Gianforte in light of what he stands for, condemn the discriminatory rhetoric of the groups who received donations from Greg Gianforte, and reaffirm their commitment, in actions and not just words, to be an inclusive campus regardless of race, gender, or sexual

orientation.” The petition notes Gianforte’s opposition to LGBTQ protections ordinance in Bozeman, MT, as well as over $1.5M in donations to the Montana Family Foundation, Focus on the Family, Alliance Defending Freedom, the NJ Family Policy Council, the Family Research Council, and the American Center for Law & Justice.

Four of the aforementioned organizations have public stances against legalization of same-sex marriage in the U.S. Both The Family Research Council and American Center for Law & Justice have opposed efforts to legalize homosexuality in Uganda and Zimbabwe – the former classified by the Southern Poverty Law Center as an anti-LGBTQ hate group.

The American Center for Law & Justice supported an effort in Kenya to remove an exception to the country’s abortion laws that allows abortions to take place if the mother’s life is at risk. The petition also mentions Gianforte’s donations to a creationist museum and the Heritage Foundation.

The creators of the petition organized information over spring break, gathering insight from Montana State University students like Haley Cox, who

Stevens’ Dramatic Society goes Into the Woods Into the Woods Feature on Page 5

protested Gianforte’s donation to its Computer Science Department in 2016, citing “an institutional level of acceptance of discrimination and hatred”. Waldron presented their findings at the following Student Government Association meeting. At the meeting, he proposed ideas of starting a petition, releasing an SGA statement on the matter, and working with the College of Arts and Letters and Samuel C. Williams Library for names that “represent diversity in Stevens and STEM history.”

This was met with responses from SGA senators including concerns about the administration’s transparency, a drive for the student government to be neutral, and a notion that “nothing can be done about it and we [can] work on this for the future.” Waldron countered this with the idea that “there’s no real precedent for this, so we can be leaders in ensuring students don’t feel discriminated by the kind of rhetoric this donor is supporting.”

The group reported receiving a “great image of what our community felt” following the release of the peti-

see PETITION • Page 6

Engineers without Borders host a charity golf outing

by JAY RUNGTA Staff Writer

Minsu Park

The Steven’s chapter of Engineers Without Borders (EWBSIT) is set to host a golf outing and wine tasting event on May 3rd to help raise funds for their cause. EWB-SIT is selling various types of tickets for the event, which will be held at the Crystal Springs Resort, approximately an hour away from campus.

The “Golf Ticket” comes with a full 18-hole game of golf, lunch, dinner, access to a silent auction, and various other goods. On the other hand, the “Wine Tasting Ticket” comes with a tour of an award-wining wine cellar, two glasses of wine, and a cheese platter.

The proceedings collected from the event will go to EWBSIT’s project of building a sustainable drinking water distribution system for a region in rural Northern Thailand, called Long Khot, a region of 4,600 people living in two communities in the area which are forced to spend

organization and asked for old furniture to be donated and results were evident. Emily Tyler, who plays Jack’s mother in the production said, “...it’s honestly really magical...the whole set is just amazing. It kind of has this storybook, steampunk kind of theme to it. The stage crew put a lot of effort into the set.”

Both the president of the SDS, Josh Phillips, and the director, Mark Cirnigliaro, agree that this one of the most ambitious productions SDS has put on so far.

Cirnigliaro, who directed Guys and Dolls for SDS two years ago and is the Associate Artistic Director of the Miles Square Theater in Hoboken, is excited to be

working with them again in this production of Into the Woods.

“SDS’s talent is off the charts... their commitment to putting on amazing work is second to none.

I love working with them. This is my second time and I love it.

I would work with them every semester... I love the students, I love the organization, I love the school, I’m just so happy here.

And this is a testament to what they can do given the opportunity. SDS has taken a very difficult show...and owned it and made it amazing.”

In whole, a lot of effort was put into the production. “It took a lot of people to make this production happen. Not just the ac-

tors, but the designers… from lighting to set construction and without the help of probably 25 production board members, and another probably 20 cast members, what you see would not happen right now. And as a professional artist, this is maybe the most exciting show I’ve been a part of in years,” said Cirnigliaro.

“We really enjoyed going through all these months of rehearsing it, I hope [the audience] does too,” said Tyler.

Into the Woods can be seen on Thursday: April 6th a9 p.m., Friday: April 7th at 8 p.m., and Saturday: April 8th at 2 p.m. and 8 p.m.

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Cuisine Corner: Cluck-U

Softball splits with Ramapo

Dozens killed in Syria

Letter to the Editor

Lacross falls at TCNJ

Should you skip class?

Roving Reporter What is your opinion on Gianforte?

Polling Pierce What’s your favorite variety of Oreo?

Inter-feminist wars

Baseball wins over Ramapo

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Into the Woods, a mystical -yet humorous- play, intertwines several fairy tale stories into one, but with a twist. Cinderella, Jack, the Baker and his wife, Little Red Riding Hood, the witch, and Rapunzel all coexist in this dark retelling of classic fairy tale stories. “It’s a found object show, which means all the props and set pieces that we use aren’t typically used for those things,” said Kiera Dillon, who plays Cinderella. The props and the set are used in this production are recycled items. SDS sent out an email to the alumni of the

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We must unite now more than ever It’s with great pain that I have to write this and have it be read rather than just assume everyone gets the picture. My friend, I implore you to continue on and take what I say with great attention. As I am writing this, I am hearing the cries of children, some not even the age of four, after they have been attacked in Syria. I can understand if you are tired of hearing about the violence in Syria because your one to two seconds of sadness and discomfort should be of greater importance than the lives of innocent men, women, and children. But if you could just hear me out, we can move on with our fortunate and safe lives. Every news station is currently reporting on the sarin gas attack in Idlib

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to show our facades of solidarity, but to what benefit is it for the children who will never remember a peaceful time in their lives? Our best weapon against tyrants is unity. We must unite as humans, not just as Americans. There is a severe injustice being committed on innocent people that are receiving an extremely pitiful reception. Our president speaks of this “red line” that was crossed when he was informed that sarin gas was used in Syria. This red line wasn’t crossed after the shootings, the bombings, the drone strikes, or even the invasion. This red line was crossed after chemical warfare was used to end the lives of many innocent people. That is not good enough for me. A red

line means less than nothing to hundreds of voices now silenced due to the tyranny they have no say against. We need to come together as humans and ignore the insignificant differences that seem to easily divide us in this world.

I implore you, my friend, to get informed. Watch the reports and look at the images. Words can only do so much for you, but your eyes will show you the true effects of our negligence.

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Province in Syria, that killed dozens of people, including children, while injuring many others. There is discussion regarding who is to blame for this heinous crime. Suspects include local rebels, Russia, Assad’s regime, and, most worryingly, the United States.

Putting political suspicions aside, many innocent lives were painfully lost. How can we sit back and watch this happen? Are we not human too? What reason is there for this violence? We can continue to ask ourselves what is happening to this planet, despite the fact that there has never been an instance in history where this sort of violence did not happen. We can continue to share NowThis and Aljazeera posts all we want about the violence

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by KATIE BROWN

Senior Chemical Engineering Major

Recently, I learned what a “Finstagram” is. I’d consider myself a very “in the know” person when it comes to social media, so I simultaneously felt ashamed and wrong that I was out of touch with a common type of Instagram accounts. For those who also need to be educated, a “Finstagram” is a “fake Instagram.” Under that definition, I immediately believed that it was for celebrities to have their “real account,” and then their “fake accounts” that are made by their fans. I was, again, wrong. Anyone, even the students you sit in

classes with, utilizes their finstagram to post their “real lives.” As opposed to their filtered and touched up selfie on their Instagram, their Finstagram would contain the raw photos or the sloppy selfies they told their bestie that they would delete from their phone. Finstagram accounts are kept private and only open to select people to follow, so there is a guiltlessness when posting literally whatever you want.

Upon first learning what a finstagram was, I really didn’t understand the point.

When it comes to my social media accounts, I thought I was providing the “raw photos” that a finstagram does. I post every cool thing I do on my social media accounts, and Instagram is no exception. If I were to get a finstagram, I would find myself to be lost what to even post. My immediate reaction to finstagram accounts was “That’s so stupid.” After thinking about it further, though, maybe finstagrams are trying to get at some-

thing everyone strives to do on social media: be honest about their lives.

After going through my own account, I noticed patterns. Photo of a playbill, photo of my beer at a cool location, actual photo of me with someone, photo of a playbill, photo of my beer at a cool location, actual photo of me with someone, rinse, lather, repeat. Sure, my posted photos are taken at the best shows/concerts/ games in the area, but there aren’t any photos of me doing homework or stressing out about senior year or anything really depicts what is happening. My account, and probably yours too, is putting on a facade of the realities in my life currently. It’s the recent scrolling of photos that honestly made me question what kind of life am I depicting to an outsider looking in versus what kind of life am I living. Would my Instagram account be as interesting if I posted videos of my sleepless nights working on assignments and/or thinking

about future plans? Probably not but perhaps it would be more accurate to who I actually am. Finstagrams provide an outlet to post more liberally, and honestly, that I can see why people have created them. Instead of my super awesome seats at the Mets game, my finstagram could display how I have minimal amount of money left in my bank accounts, for example.

My Instagram isn’t as real as it could be, but am I going to make a finstagram? Hard no. As easy and more factual a side account would be, I feel incredibly weird making my life that public to anyone. Social media is there to keep your friends and family connected to you, but not so connected they’re basically in your head. Sorry to those who wanted in on the real life and times of a Stevens student with a terrible case of senioritis, but I’ll keep my facade up and the cool, yet repetitive photos, coming on my normal Instagram account. Shameless plug: find me on Instagram.

Mind of a Freshman

Should you skip class?

by AUDREY DSOUZA

Freshman Business and Technology Major

Tick, tock... tick, tock.

Sitting in some classes, I wonder, “Why am I even here? What is the purpose of the lecture I’m sitting through, if it’s not being covered on the test, or final? Why did I only sleep 4 hours last night and make the choice to marathon “13 Reasons Why?”” Do you feel similarly in

your classes sometimes?

These days, I’ve been making the bold decision to skip class. It started when my friend from Rutgers talked about it to me over spring break.

He told me, “Why should you bother going to class if you’re not going to pay attention anyway?”

I was taken aback. All of first semester, I was so diligently going to class, despite of how boring I knew certain lectures would be and how unhelpful and irrelevant the recitations were in relation to the actual exams we had. But this semester, I came to a new realization: I have the freedom and power to decide what I want to do with my time.

In the past, I was kind of a pushover. As a child, my teacher’s comments

about me were always along the lines of, “Audrey gets along with her peers well” and “Audrey is a good listener.”

I was. I was cooperative and diligent, and I would read all the time. People think I’m quiet now, but back then, I was really, really quiet. I only had one other friend, she only had me as well I suppose, and we only spoke with each other. To everyone else, my teachers included, I would maybe say a few words and do as they asked to move on with my life. And they called that being a “good listener.”

Fast forward ten years to now, this doesn’t hold true for me anymore.

There are two types of students, I noticed, in my classes. Students who are “good listeners”: those that generally have a gist

of what’s going on, and not-so good listeners.

People who skip class, watch sports live streams during class, text through their MacBooks or Facebook messenger during class, or even just zone out and sleep during class, I all consider under this category. When I look at these students, I wonder, why do they even come to class? And why are they even are in college if they don’t even want to learn? Of course, everyone has some bad days, myself included. Maybe their friend is having an emotional crisis during their class and they’re consoling them, maybe they had a midterm and an essay the night before and could only sleep 3 hours. But these kind of circumstances aren’t there every single day of

the semester.

It’s always the same people I notice, to be honest, doing the same things during class. The same people volunteer to speak, the same people don’t. The same people are texting their friends, and the same people skip every time. I wonder why no one wants to change when we have so much new freedom and power in college to reset and try new things any time we want.

My goal this semester is to be less of a goody two-shoes. It was a big shift for me, but I went to a party this semester.

And I hated it less than I expected. I skipped some of my recitations, and I spent a little more time hanging out with people past my “bedtime.” I spent a lot of money over

the weekend on food: more than I was comfortable with, but really enjoyed the meals and conversations I had during them.

College gives us so much freedom and power to change our lives and make our own choices. I want to change in small ways, and valuing myself and my time, and more importantly, figuring out what I want to do with my life, are all things I want to accomplish during my time at Stevens.

To answer my question, should you skip class?

Yes, but only if you’re doing something more worthy of your time, something that is helping you accomplish your own personal goals. Because if you calculate it, the extra hour or two is a very expensive exchange.

Friday, April 7, 2017 • Page 3

Across the Hudson

Bending into the ugly future

by DAVID ROGERS

Sophomore Mechanical Engineering Major

Last Wednesday, Oiio Design Studio released a concept for “The Big Bend,” a skyscraper that bends into a semicircle at the top and makes its way back to ground level. It would be one continuous building, so you could get on an elevator on one side of the building and come out on the other side of the building. Oiio, and most news outlets reporting on the building, say it will transform the city’s skyline, so this week my column will actually be some opinion on how it could transform the city.

First, I don’t want to overlook the work that must have gone into this design. Aside from the el-

evator (and probably stair) designers needing to come up with a completely new elevator that can travel in curves, there was also a lot of legal effort to find loopholes in the city’s zoning laws. If the current design were to be built, it would be the longest skyscraper in the world while only being the third or fourth tallest.

Cool way to think about it.

Despite the concept being very cool, I’m rather skeptical about The Big Bend. There isn’t enough information out about what the skyscraper will be used for, which is important for what I’ll discuss later, but it reminds me of 432 Park.

On paper, 432 Park sounded like it would be an efficient use of space and take what New York has always done, build up instead of out, and do it to a higher degree. Once it actually went up though, nearly the entire city hated it. It look ugly and out of place, many of us call it “The Finger”, and it seems to accelerate the massive change the city’s been dealing with for a while, that massive change being native New Yorkers being pushed out

of their old neighborhoods by rents and new developments that only the very wealthy can afford. How wealthy is very wealthy?

The least expensive rental is $35,000 per month, but most apartments in 432 Park are selling for over $20 million. I don’t think 432 Park is as bad as the demolition of Penn Station, but it’s certainly a gilded development.

Given the proposed location of The Big Bend, on 57th St near 7th and 6th Avenues, I can’t help but think that it will likely be a multi-millionaires’ playground. That part of Midtown has generally been extremely wealthy, it’s the land of Carnegie Hall and Trump Tower, so if the Big Bend is going to be a residential building, it’s certainly going to be like 432 Park. I think The Big Bend, if it is built, will be best for the city as an office building. Sure, 57th St is close to the fringes of the business headquarters-dense area of the city, but physical proximity to other businesses is becoming less of an issue as more businesses begin using video conference calls.

Photo Courtesy of OIIO STUDIO Still, given the neighborhood Oiio wants to build it in and the nice views of Central Park from the higher levels of the building, it’s inevitable that The Big Bend will be at least partially residential, which could accelerate the problem I talked about earlier.

Growing up, I always thought of the Empire State Building as the building that symbolized New York, especially our common “get work done” attitude. It was built during the worst economic period in the country’s history, which affected the city in some

unique ways, it’s located on one of the city’s most famous streets in the heart of the city, and it was the tallest building during my childhood. I barely remember the Twin Towers, and the Freedom Tower was either just a concept or under construction for most of my life. It even gives the illusion of being made of gold if it’s a particularly sunny day. It’s been quite amazing to see how the city’s skyline has changed over such a short period of time with the additions of the Freedom Tower, Hudson Yards, and what I call

“Jenga” in TriBeCa, among others. At the same time, it’s been disheartening to see the older architecture disappear. I admit, I find it difficult to imagine a New York exclusively filled with modernist, neoclassical, and generally old architecture, but I still think it’s better. I’m sure that 20 years from now, short of my architecture propaganda campaign being successful, the next generation will feel the same way about the Freedom Tower and maybe the Big Bend that I feel about the Empire State Building.

Technically Speaking

Haru Hallyu

by MARK KRUPINSKI

Freshman Computational Science Major

Two weeks ago, I had the opportunity to go a BTS, a K-pop boy group, concert. It was an amazing experience with onpoint dancing, rapping, and just performing.

However, looking back, how did I learn about BTS and K-pop, including Gangnam Style, as a whole? Answer: the internet.

K-Pop and the whole Hallyu Wave, the global spread of Korean culture, is entirely dependent on the internet. But first, what is Hallyu? Hallyu, in Korean, translates to “flow of Korea”. How-

ever, in essence, it refers to the global spread of Korean culture. This includes K-pop as well as Korean Beauty, Korean Dramas, Korean cooking, and anything else Korean. This movement is only growing. Seven Years ago, a compilation of several top K-pop artists failed to sell out Madison Square Garden.

Now? One artist sells out a venue of the same size in minutes.

If you ask anyone who has embraced Korean culture how they discovered it, chances are they will say “The Internet” or more specifically “YouTube”. The internet has existed as a network for spreading ideas since its inception – so this isn’t a new idea. Why did K-pop only take off in the past five years as opposed to the roughly twenty years the modern Internet has existed? Again, this relies on the specific answer – “YouTube”. Discovering new music online isn’t a

new thing; music sharing services such as Napster and Limewire have existed since the late 1990s, but digital video sharing has only existed via YouTube for about 10 years.

This is important for Kpop. With its bright visuals and complex dances, K-pop is very visual. It would be impossible for it to take off relying solely on the audio product. As a result, YouTube was essential to K-pop’s growth.

As a result of this dependence on YouTube, the K-pop community is tremendous digitally.

Fans post dance cover after dance cover, song cover and song cover on YouTube – and other fans are always there to support them. Similar to how they used YouTube and other platforms to discover K-pop, they use it to spread their own content. Additionally, the K-pop community dominates in online polling; this is, again, based on

Photo Courtesy of BTS official twitter

Photo Courtesy of Gangnam Style MV how K-pop is predominately found on the internet. To actively look for something on the Internet (like K-pop) multiple times, you have to be dedicated to it. As they rely primarily on the internet, most K-pop fans are dedicated. Dedicated fans spend hours voting for their favorite artists on, to an outsider, meaningless polls to ensure their favorite group wins.

For the YouTube Music Awards in 2013, Girls’ Generation’s, a popular K-pop girl group, song “I Got A Boy” won video of the year by nearly ten times the votes of the runner-up. While to an outsider these polls seem meaningless, for most Kpop fans, they are only helping their music reach a larger audience through its most valuable form – videos on the internet.

Aside from fans, the whole K-pop industry has embraced this global technology relationship.

Many labels have their own English YouTube channel for music. On this channel, they broad-

en their audience with subtitles on their own videos. In some cases, they promise to release special videos for a certain number of views on YouTube. YouTube no longer just aids their company, but the companies use it actively to increase their brand’s region.

Additionally, One of the fundamental parts of K-pop is its idol (a member of a group) and fan interactions.

Idols typically has multiple fan meets a week in which dedicated fans will attend all of them.

These meetings are typically small and intimate; however, the industry has embraced technology in order to expand these events to international fans. With the app “V”, idols host seemingly personal videochats with fans. While they aren’t personally interacting with the idols, International fans are given a taste of the fan meetings which are prevalent in Korea. Additionally, “After School Club” is a webseries in which se-

lect international fans are given the opportunity to interact with and even perform for their favorite K-pop idols. Personal idol interactions has spread globally using technology.

Korean Culture has spread enough that Hollywood and popular American culture is starting to take inspiration from it. The recently renewed NBC Show “Better Late Than Never” is an exact copy of the Korean variety show “Grandpa over Flowers”. Additionally, FOX has picked up the rights to make an American version of the popular Kdrama, “Reply 1997”. On multiple occasions, American artists such as Missy Elliot and will.i.am have performed with Korean Artists. And like most things, these videos or collaborations are shared rapidly on YouTube the internet.

The internet was essential for K-pop and the Hallyu Wave is guaranteed to be essential for its continued growth in the future.

Campus Pulse

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Roving Reporter What is your opinion on Gianforte ?

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“I don’t think it matters if we name the building for him, as long as we don’t support his ideals.”

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“He helped our school with that money, his personal opinion shouldn’t be the focus.”

“I feel that it is an important issue that needs to be discussed.”

“If the school needs the money, and the money isn’t enforcing his ideals, go for it”

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News

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Dozens killed in Syrian chemical attack

by ALEX MURTAGH Staff Writer

On Tuesday, April 4, the Syrian government was accused of carrying out a chemical attack on an area held by rebel groups. This is the first chemical weapons attack in months but it is not the first-time chemical weapons have been used in Syria’s 6-year civil war. This attack killed dozens of civilians including men, women, children, and the elderly. When news of the attack broke, the US and other western countries were quick to blame the Syrian government and call on its president, Bashar al-Assad, to stop the use of chemical weapons immediately. The US and its allies even called upon the Syrian government’s allies, Russia and Iran, to condemn and help stop these attacks.

The attack came in the form of a military air strike, dropping bombs on the people below. Shortly after the chemical attacks, rescue workers moved in to try and help the victims.

Unfortunately, those try-

ing to help were caught in a second wave of the attack and were also killed.

The current estimate is that over 100 people were killed during these attacks.

According to rescue workers, this chemical attack is not like any that they have been seen recently. In the majority of cases, the Syrians have used chlorine in their chemical attacks, but in this case, a nerve agent was used. This is known due to the symptoms found in those who were in the attack. Chlorine attacks usually only have an effect on those who are trapped in closed spaces, however, this attack killed many of those who were outdoors.

Some of their symptoms included constricted pupils, suffocation, foaming at the mouth, and more.

All of these are characteristic of nerve agents which have been banned by the Geneva Convention.

Many volunteers in Syria are begging for U.S. intervention in the situation, most notably Kassem Eid. Eid discussed his experience with a CNN news anchor during a 2013 chemi-

cal attack during which he was almost deemed dead by rescue workers. Kassem has spoken to many important groups in the United States about his experience, and he is now begging for the US to intervene and help the Syrian people. He called out the broken promises of politicians in the past, specifically President Obama.

That same day, an emergency meeting was called by the UN Security Council to discuss and take action on the issue. The US, Britain, and France accused the Syrians of conducting this attack and Russia for not intervening to help stop the attack.

The three countries had also drafted a resolution condemning Syria and demanding specific information regarding the attack.

Many of those on the security council are concerned about what the future may hold if no action is taken.

According to US ambassador to the UN, Nikki Haley, the US might “take our own action” in dealing with the chemical attacks if the UN does not step in.

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StevensTHON hosts Spell-a-Thon

by ALEX MURTAGH Staff Writer

On Wednesday April 5, StevensTHON hosted a spelling bee which raised $740 for the Children’s Miracle Network. Each of the 22 competitors represented various clubs and organizations on campus, such as Alpha Phi Omega, Habitat for Humanity, and

the track team. The winner and runner up each won a prize. After five rounds, eight competitors remained. In the end, Athina Cordero, representing SHPE, came in first place and won a $50 gift card to Bareburger, while Pete Goggi, representing Kappa Sigma, came in second place and won a $25 gift card to Bareburger. Both

Athina and Pete donated their prizes back to help contribute to the money raised by the spell-a-thon.

According to Stefanie Moran, the internal direct for StevensTHON, “we raised in total $740 which exceeded our expectation!”

StevensTHON biggest event of the year, their 12hour long dance marathon, will be held on April 28.

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a majority of their income on bottled drinking water, due to a lack of access to clean drinking water. The project would involve piping water from a nearby dam to the communities, where the water will be treated, filtered, and stored

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tion. In faculty email correspondence, there was support (“Talks regarding the implications of Gianforte’s donation were sporadic since the December announcement”) and more critical feedback (professors cited disparate concerns of political correctness.)

Many commenters on Facebook were concerned about the implications of accepting Gianforte’s donations, while many criticized the wording of the posts disseminating the petition. Conversely, the 335 signees and 85 comments on the petition (as of writing) conveyed support from current students, professors, and alumni – including former SGA cabinet members.

In a meeting with SGA President Thomas Daly

in water tanks. EWB-SIT has previously traveled to Long Khot, in January 2015, and again in May 2016, to assess the region and gather information.

EWB-SIT’s goal is to provide Long Khot with a water distribution system that is not only efficient and sustainable, but most importantly is driven by its community’s wants and needs.

They are currently planning an implementation trip that will take place in June this year.

Tickets to the fundraising event can be purchased at https://connect.stevens. edu/rsvp/ewbgolf, and donations to the cause can be made at https://connect. stevens.edu/makeagift/ewbgolf . EWB-SIT can be contacted at ewb@stevens.edu.

and Cat Oesterle on the issue, Farvardin reaffirmed Stevens’s openness to all sexual orientations, gender identities, and political views. He also stated that by accepting Gianforte’s donation to improve the institution, neither Farvardin nor the university is accepting or endorsing Gianforte’s views, and the university would never accept a donation with “strings attached” that would violate Stevens’s core values or the law. He also stated that the naming of the building is binding. In a call with President Farvardin, Gianforte stated that he does not want any students or staff to feel uncomfortable in the Gateway Complex and wants the space to be inclusive. As of writing, President Farvardin nor the SGA have released public statements on the matter.

The Torch Alliance,

Stevens’s LGBTQ organization stated “We find it disappointing that donors who are so generous to the future of students pursuing higher education have such outdated views. However, The Stevens Torch Alliance remains true to its mission statement to be an educational and community tool for this campus.

Individuals who feel marginalized by recent events are more than welcome to visit our meetings or contact us at torch@stevens.edu.”

Gianforte ran for Governor of Montana as a Republican in 2016 but was defeated by incumbent Steve Bullock (D).

Due to Ryan Zinke’s (RMT) Senate confirmation as Secretary of the Interior, Montana’s at-large congressional district is holding a special election. Gianforte and Rob Quist (D) are the two major candidates campaigning in the election.

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Torch runs a Drag Race

by NAMANKITA RANA Staff Writer

by TARIK KDIRY Editor-in-Chief

On Wednesday, April 5 at 9 pm in Hayden Lounge, Torch hosted a Drag Race organized

by Torch Vice President Courtney Evans.

Torch is the LGBTQ society at Stevens that offers a safe space on campus for students to express their sexuality and support the LGBTQ community. The Torch Drag Race is an annual clothing drive for the Hoboken Shelter, located on Third and Bloomfield, and provides an opportunity for Torch members and the Stevens community to donate clothes. The event is hosted every spring semester and is open to everyone.

Stevens celebrates women in leadership

Bernard Feeney

On Thursday, March 30th, the Development Office along with Student Affairs and Alumni Office held “A Celebration of Women in Leadership” event in Bissinger, as a part of the Week of Women. The event was held to not only discuss women’s leadership at Stevens but also as a way to celebrate the relaunch of the Lore-El Center as a hub for women’s programs for undergraduate women, faculty, staff and alumni.

The event started with a welcome address given

by Susan Metz, the Executive Director of Diversity and Inclusion, followed by further remarks by President Farvardin. Both made clear in their speeches the importance of women and their ground-breaking accomplishments at Stevens.

Path breakers included the first female professor at Stevens, Emme Fishell, a refugee woman who taught physics at Stevens

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in the 1940s -- a full three decades before women were admitted as students.

Another who was mentioned was Beatrice Hicks, who was the first woman engineer to be hired by Western Electric, and both co-founder and first president of the Society of Women Engineers. She attended Stevens for her master’s in Physics.

The highlight of the event, however, was a panel conversation with female alumnae leaders.

This panel notably included Martha J. Connolly ’75 M.S. ’75 (Director, Mtech Baltimore and Director of Bio-Entrepreneurship at University of Maryland) who was the first woman admitted to Stevens in 1971. To put that in context -- women engineers were almost unheard of in the early 1970s. The year Stevens admitted them, a mere 361 women across the country had earned undergraduate degrees in engineering, and women accounted for less than one percent of the Ph.D. students to receive doctorates in engineering, according to data from the National Science Foundation.

Other panel members included Mary Anne Cannon ’86 (Vice President Commercial Engine Programs at Pratt & Whitney), Suzanne M. D’Addio ’07 (Associate Principal Scientist at Merck), and Laura A. Dorival Paglione ’90 (Director of Strategic Initiatives at ORCID). The panel was moderated by the Chair of the Honor Board and Staff Writer for the Stute Olivia Schreiber.

The panel conversation was casual in nature and littered with humor, profound self-awareness, and wonderful anecdotes of wisdom from all four panelists, who, despite the weight of the issues, carried the topics of conversation lightly.

The conversation started with a great question -- what moment what impelled these women to keep going, even in the face of so many challenges?

Suzanne M. D’Addio kicked off the conversation by talking about how she used failure led to success. High school was not great for her, so Stevens was a fresh start. As she put it, you have to take it one day at a time, and you have to put the time and sweat in to get the results.

Martha J. Connolly, who was the first woman admitted to Stevens, gave an unusual response to the same question by choosing not to talk about herself, but rather, someone else who inspired her-- her mother. She was an incredible woman, Connolly said, and incredibly smart, too. She told the audience how, during the second World War, her mother joined the Women Accepted for Volunteer Emergency Service (WAVES), the women’s branch of the United States Naval Reserve.

Given that her mother was a schoolteacher, a profession that did not immediately lend itself to trans-

ferable job skills, the hiring folks had her mother take a math test on a whim. Her mother ended up scoring the highest in math in the nation and ended up having a long and successful career with the US government, doing work that including research that laid the groundwork for the modern GPS systems.

Connolly also told the audience how her mother passed her love of mathematics to her children, and eventually inspired Connolly to become an engineer. She also joked that her mother would not give them dinner until their math homework was done. They all wanted dinner, so they all became very good at math.

The topic of the panel then shifted to discrimination on the basis of gender. Mary Anne Cannon, who graduated in 1986, related an extraordinary story about a time she faced discrimination based on her gender. During her freshman year, the chemistry professor addressed the class and openly stated that he did not agree with the policy of letting women study engineering at the school. Instead of becoming despondent, Cannon simply redoubled her efforts in the class, determined to prove him wrong and show that women, too, could excel in STEM. She succeeded, getting an A in the notoriously difficult class but also striking up a genuine friendship with the professor who once believed she should not have been there.

When asked about what advice they would give to current female engineers, Suzanne M. D’Addio said to appreciate the nuance of modern day approaches to women’s issues. After all, she argued, the issues important to women are no longer just “women” problems. Issues like the pay gap, paid maternity and paternity leave, and diversity are quickly becoming issues that people, men and women included, are more willing to discuss.

Meanwhile, Laura A. Dorival Paglione advised female students to do something, however small, to get involved with the campus and remain in touch with other women at Stevens.

Martha J. Connolly capped off the discussion with a trite piece of advice to women at Stevens -- to stop railing against other women. It doesn’t hurt you to help each other out, she said. There are so few women, and such huge odds against us -- it’s better that we stick together.

The closing remarks were given by Marybeth Murphy, the Vice President for Enrollment Management and Student Affairs, and then attendees were free to mingle further. Overall, the event was a highly successful celebration of women at Stevens and timely kickoff to the renovation of the Lor-El Center, which promises more advancements for women at this school for the years to come.

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Cuisine Corner

Cluck University: College in an Egg Shell

by MARKO DJAPIC

Sophomore Chemical Biology Major

The last time I did a chicken themed place I opened with a furious cluckster of puns. Well, not this thyme. Cluck U

isn’t the place for jerks who make puns and want to get jalapeño business.

Only bring your sweetest attitude if you don’t want to catch some poppers.

People think this easy but it is mustarder than you think. Air Spud all day.

With that out of the way.

Cluck University is a fast food (?) joint right on First and Washington specializing in all things chicken and even burgers. If you like wings, tenders, sandwiches, wraps, salads, burgers, fries, onion rings, buns, and all the bells and whistles of sauces that come with

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it, Cluck U is the place for U. While it certainly caters to the cheap, greasy food crowd (we all need that occasionally, admit it), don’t be fooled. Cluck U’s quality is leagues above your average bar wings. Finally, they’re even Halal, and their website claims you can order up to **2500** wings at once. Just wow.

Given that trains last weekend were running local because of the incident at Penn Station, I decided I better load up on food for the long, arduous journey. I ordered a 15 piece of Caribbean jerk wings, a medium order of sweet chili barbecue fries, an order of onion rings, a bottle of water (which I forgot to grab), and an order of cinnabees to top it all off. It was all out within 15 minutes.

Overall, I’d say I was quite impressed. Cluck U has been capturing my eye for a while now, and I’m glad they delivered as strongly as they did.

The wings were not quite as crispy as I personally would have preferred, but they more than made up

for that in terms of flavor and quality of the wing.

These wings were not covered in fat with barely any meat towards the center.

These were REAL chicken wings, which just shows how much quality of the ingredient can influence your end result. The sauce was also the perfect combination of sweet, tangy, and smokey to complement the meat. As an interesting side note, while I didn’t find the wings particularly hot, my friends claimed their lips were on fire despite not tasting much heat also.

The “spuds” were also very nicely made. They weren’t your typical McDonald’s fries, but they also weren’t entirely baked potatoey. I’d say they struck a great medium and were just the perfect size and texture for maximum munching alongside your wings. The sauce I got with them, the sweet chili, was definitely more of a conventionally hot sauce, and it was absolutely delicious.

It was sweet, a little sour, and had a nice chili flavor

Scientific Curmudgeon

Philosopher Garry Dobbins Defends His Calling

by JOHN HORGAN CAL Professor

My last five columns explored philosophy’s purpose. The series was provoked, in part, by the claim of physicist Stephen Hawking that science has rendered philosophy obsolete as a truth-seeking method. Even some philosophers are worried about how, or whether, their field achieves “progress.” My friend Garry Dobbins, a philosopher at Stevens, responds to these issues below.

–John Horgan Those who don’t take the trouble to spend the years of study necessary to master the science, who give out as their opinion the claim that global warming is a hoax, are not to be taken seriously.

I myself would not like to think that my considered opinions are justly to be ignored in such a way. How much philosophy has Hawking read?

Has he read Hegel’s Phenomenology of Spirit?

Or Wittgenstein’s late work? What about Plato’s Theaetetus? If so I’d like to know why, in face of these works, he says philosophy is not concerned with truth? And if not, what can his opinion of philosophy be worth?

Nietzsche and Wittgenstein both observed that language itself seems to suggest to us that things, including our thoughts about things, must be thus and so, in many instances, where in reality the logic, or as they call it “grammar,” is in fact misleading, and things are not, as our thoughts too are not, as we take them to be.

Those who think they can take the word “progress” from where it does make clear sense, and then simply stick it to philosophy and expect it to make the same sense, are laboring under precisely such a grammatical illusion.

Wittgenstein replies to those who say philosophy makes no “progress” by observing that so “long as there is still a verb “to be” that looks as though it functions in the same way as “to eat” and “to drink,” as long as we still have the adjectives “identical,” “true,” “false,” “possible,” as long as we continue to talk of a river of time and expanse of space etc., etc., people will keep stumbling over the same cryptic difficulties and staring at something that no explanation seems capable of clearing up.”

Then another point: if the discipline of philosophy aims to produce, and does in some measure succeed in producing greater clarity – as well of whatever we are thinking about and too what in us hinders, obscures, or distorts the quality of our thinking--isn’t this of value? Couldn’t we even and fairly say that the sciences – consider only physics for example – has

made what its idolaters call “progress” only insofar as, over time, and responsive to new experiences, the likes of an Einstein had the impudence – the word he himself used in this connection – to repudiate the received wisdom in favor of a greater clarity over a wider conceptual landscape?

Then too the word “truth” has rather a checkered history, but in the case of the sciences it isn’t a word that can be used without mystification, for as Thomas Kuhn was not the first to note, Heinrich Hertz having made essentially the same point in the late 19th century, scientific theories can’t be said to be true, at all. They are “models” we use for various purposes, some of them no doubt of great practical interest, and value: but they are not “truths” in any obvious sense of that word.

We find in Aristotle’s physics, for example, not a truth or falsehood, but a more or less fruitful way of looking at some things not considered from Descartes’, or Einstein’s, point of view. Different perspectives reveal to us different things: different features or dimensions of whatever the issue is at hand. And so we might find it more useful to us to study and reflect upon a partial truth than something that is true, without qualification.

John Horgan directs the Center for Science Writings, which belongs to the College of Arts & Letters.

throughout that went great with the wings. I definitely recommend the sweet chili sauce in particular and the spuds in general.

The onion rings and cinnabees were also very good. The onions were perfectly caramelized and the outer breading was not just a mess of a shell that would fall off hopelessly. It was a nicely fried, though not as crunchy as I would have preferred, breading that went very nicely with the inner onion. Finally, the cinnabees were great but also very standard.

They reminded me very heavily of monkey bread.

If you are feeling a doughy pastry after Cluck U, their “bees” will definitely satisfy you.

Cluck U is a great place to go if you’re craving anything chicken. Their menu is quite big for such a speciality place, its also quite accommodating. If you need particularly chrunchy wings, I might shy away, but if you don’t mind something a little different, their wings are some of the best in town.

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Letter to the Editor

Gianforte Academic Center

by ANONYMOUS

The naming of the Gianforte Academic Center is a disgrace to this University and a testament to the rampant corruption in colleges nationwide. Stevens is an institution of higher learning; we

are supposed to represent humanity’s best and brightest. We value reason above all. Yet, here we have buildings soon to be named after a man who outwardly supports falsehoods.

Mr. Gianforte supports creation “science”. Pseudoscience has no place at a research university - or

in society at large, for that matter. This naming is a direct slap in the face to biology students and faculty. It is antithetical to the very ideals we stand for. Should this name remain, the Stevens community will know for certain that the administration can be bribed.

Girl Talk

Inter-Feminist Wars: Drawing the line between conversation and cannibalization

by NAMANKITA RANA

Sophomore Engineering Management Major

Having a conversation about feminism with people who don’t know too much about it is actually usually a relatively easy conversation to have. With a few exceptions, most folks you talk to are generally in favor of women having equal social, political, and economic standing in society -- and of course, the discussion is rarely ever more indepth than that.

It’s when you have an

in-depth conversation about feminism with other feminists that the conversation can suddenly become an exceptionally tricky ground to navigate. When you factor things like race, class, gender identity, and sexuality -- all very important things to include, mind you -- the conversation around feminism becomes infinitely more complicated and difficult to have. Difficult conversations, of course, are not necessarily bad conversations, or unimportant ones. But it is when conversation turns into cannibalization, our differences turn into divisions, and the movement starts to splinter at its core that we lose sight of the point of the movement altogether.

This is not exactly surprising -- US feminist history has been marked by profound divisions, dissension and exclu-

sion. It’s very much in the DNA of the movement. For example, some prominent early feminists – such as Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton – opposed the 15th Amendment because it gave suffrage to “ignorant” black and immigrant males while excluding educated native-born women like themselves. Later, women of color and genderqueer women felt marginalized or entirely excluded from mainstream feminism, which they saw as a lily-white middle-class movement.

Betty Friedan, the founder of the National Organization for Women, lamented the “lavender menace” of lesbians infiltrating the women’s movement, and later “women-born women” did not want to include transgender women into their ranks.

So there is definitely

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Inter-Feminist Wars Continued history there to back up, and it’s easy to see why people can be at unease with other feminists’ politics and opinions. Discussion and dissension is important and necessary.

But rather than civil discussion, the trend of conversation I’ve seen within millennial feminist circles is what I refer to as callout culture, where feminists will “drag” or “call out” someone publicly for perceived exclusionary or unfeminist behavior -- even if the behavior was done by accident or out of sheer ignorance.

Calling people out for obvious, pointed bigotry towards women is fine.

But there’s a difference between someone who is actively trying to be bigoted and non-inclusive, and someone who is simply misinformed on the topic, or isn’t aware of the latest feminist minutiae, or doesn’t want to speak on something because they simply don’t know better.

I go back to Emma Watson, who I wrote about a few weeks ago.

She is interesting to me, because in a time where most female celebrities still shy away from saying that that they are feminists, she has gone a step further and taken up that very heavy feminist mantle almost singlehandedly. She became a UN Goodwill Ambassador and launched HeForShe back in 2014, a year that I distinctly remember as one where being a feminist still wasn’t “cool”. In fact, in a 2014 Economist/YouGov Poll, just one in four Americans ( and one in three women) called themselves feminists. It takes a lot of courage to become the flagbearer for anything, and she was only 24 when she took on the task of becoming a global face for a movement that most people still weren’t all that comfortable with.

That’s an enormous and difficult burden to carry -- but instead of encouragement, the vast majority of what she received and still receives from the online feminist community is accusations of ‘white femi-

nism’, ignorance, and of mediocrity overall.

I’m sorry, I’m not even a huge fan of Watson, nor do I follow too much of what she does, but giving a UN speech on gender equality to a standing ovation seems far from mediocre.

And under all of it is the unmistakable undercurrent of vicious glee, of cattiness couched as critique -- look, there’s a woman who’s not getting feminism right enough for us. Let’s drag her down, because jealousy or hatred. We’ve internalized misogyny to the point that the only people who hate women more than men... are other women. At the end of the day, we hold women to exponentially higher standards than men. A man can be ignorant, but heaven forbid a woman be ignorant or tone deaf as well. That’s simply not allowed.

Criticism also has to be reasonable. Discussions about ridiculous minutiae that are more a distraction than anything of actual meaning actually takes away from the momentum of the feminist movement.

What comes to mind is the outrage a few weeks ago over the live-action Wonder Woman’s armpits. Yes, you heard me -- Wonder Woman’s armpits. If you missed it, Wonder Woman’s bare armpits caused nothing short of an inter-feminist crisis, and at the height of the controversy, googling “Wonder Woman armpits” would get you half a dozen think pieces from publications like Mashable, Huffington Post, Forbes, Slate, Telegraph, Independent and Refinery29.com all covering a non story.

As the original author puts it, covering nonstories like this one defeats the point, because “no one loves a faux feminist rage quite like those who are decidedly against equality.” And in the long run, whether or not Wonder Woman has body hair is a very small portion of who she is as a character -- and isn’t that what feminism is all about? Not making character assessments of

women based on what they look like?

(Also if we’re really going to nitpick Diana Prince’s character, she was also canonically made of out mud and clay. Like, pick a better hill to die on. Seriously.)

Finally, there’s the casual tossing around of words that carry far more weight than the casualness with which they are thrown around in feminist circles.

White feminism. Privilege.

Intersectionality. Bigotry. Sexuality.

Again, important terms with real weight behind them. But those terms get thrown around so loosely, it’s more of a way of shutting up dissidence or generalizing a situation than actually having a meaningful conversation.

And that’s the key there: having a meaningful conversation. Everyone is growing and evolving. But if you’re simply LOOKING for the chance to call someone out, or be offended, or just find faults in someone’s ignorance, you’re putting any chance of a civil conversation to a screeching halt.

Feminism is not a stick with which to beat other women. Seriously. Depending on where we come from, I’m pretty certain that at some point or other some of us would have fielded remarks or questions from fellow women about our race, our hair, our weight, our ambition at the workplace, our faith, our politics, our choice of clothes, perhaps even our willingness to openly identify ourselves as “feminists” or carry the feminist mantle.

Only through listening and empathizing and not judging, can the feminist movement thrive and continue to make beneficial inroads relative to our varied circumstances.

So, can feminists be their own worst enemies? Drawing the line between conversation and cannibalization can be hard, but it’s definitely a struggle worth fighting for.

Events Friday Apr. 7 ΔΦΕ Grilled Cheese Night, 9 pm, 800 Castle Point Terrace Omega Phi Beta Empanada Night, 9 pm, Behind Jonas Hall Into the Woods, 8pm, Debaun Auditorum Saturday Apr. 8 ASCE - Practice FE Exam, 8 am, P 116 Into the Woods, 2pm and 8pm, Debaun Auditorum Theta Phi Alpha Frat Family Feud, 8 pm, B 118 C2GS The Super Epic Lan After the Epic Lan, 9pm, BC 122 Sunday Apr. 9 Alpha Phi Omega book Raiser, 10:30 am, 510 Washington St. Sigma Delta Tau, Eat Your Way Through Hoboken, 2PM Babbio Newman Catholic Association Mass, 5pm, Jacobus Monday Apr. 10 ASCE GBM 3, 9pm P 116 SIT-TV GBM, 9pm, SIT-TV Studio Stevens Hobby Robotics, 9pm, BC 218 NCA Newman Night, 9 pm, BC 204 Tuesday Apr. 11 Open Improv Comedy Show, 9PM, P 116 Society of Women Engineers GBM, 9pm, P116 Stute GBM, 9pm Jacobus 212 Wednesday Apr. 12 AIAA Internship Night, 12PM, BC 319 Gender Stereotypes in the Workplace: 1pm, BC 219 The Link GBM, 1pm Jacobus Large Conference Room Janaya Khan: Demanding Social Transformation, 2PM, BC 122 TSA Life After Stevens, 7PM, Jacobus Lounge WCPR GBM, 9 p.m., Jacobus Basement Manga Book Club, 1pm, P20 Thursday Nov 17 Fun with Fluorescence, 9pm, M103 CSA GBM, 9pm, BC 210 C2GS Weekly Lan, 9pm, BC 122 EWB GBM, 9pm, BC 310

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Women’s Lacrosse falls at No. 2 TCNJ

Loncar and Sellitti homer as Softball splits with Ramapo

ON DECK IN SPORTS

Saturday Stevens Sports Information

SSI - Junior Corinne Loncar and senior Emily Sellitti homered as No. 22 Stevens Institute of Technology softball team split with Ramapo College in a non-conference doubleheader Wednesday.

Junior Cara Napolitano drove in a pair of runs and junior Farryl Groder added an RBI single as Stevens improved to 16-8.

Nicole Mahoney homered and Harper Patski collected four hits for Ramapo, who closed the day with a 7-6 record.

“I thought we really showed our true colors coming back to win the second game today, not letting the first game dictate how we started off play in the second game,” Sellitti said.

Ramapo 9 No. 22 Stevens 1 In the opener, Ramapo hit three home runs en route to a 9-1 victory.

Harper Patsko hit a solo homer to left to open scoring in the second and Nicole Mahoney and Grace Brennan each hit two-run shots in the fifth to break the game open.

Farryl Groder drove in the lone run for the Ducks.

Patsko led off the second with a long blast to

left off starter Olivia Gemma (5-1). Kendra Decker singled. Brennan walked and Olivia Mahon singled to third to load the bases.

Sierra Machinski single up the middle to score Decker. Mahon made a baserunning error and was thrown out by Amanda DiLeo. Machinski stole second. Jackie Howarth blooped a single to left just beyond the reach of third baseman Emily Sellitti to score a pair of runs.

Howarth scored the final run of the inning on Nicole Hernandez’s ground ball to short.

The five-run cushion was more than enough for Erin Fitzsimmons (42), who scattered two hits over five innings without striking out a batter, in earning her fourth win.

No. 22 Stevens 7 Ramapo 6 In game two, junior Olivia Gemma drew a basesloaded walk to score Samantha Schattin with the go-ahead run as the Ducks rallied for a 7-6 victory to earn a split of the doubleheader.

Corinne Loncar and Emily Sellitti hit long home runs for Stevens in support of sophomore Marissa Cappello (4-4), who

pitched her fourth complete game of the season.

In the decisive fourth inning, Amanda DiLeo led off with a walk against Christina Brizek (2-2).

Schattin swapped places with DiLeo, reaching on a fielder’s choice for the first out of the inning.

Sellitti singled through the right side and Farryl Groder walked to load the bases. After a Ramapo pitching change, Loncar fouled out, bringing up Gemma, who worked a two-out walk off Katrina Buczkowski to bring in the go-ahead run.

Sellitti’s two-run shot in the sixth provided the Ducks with a 7-4 lead.

Ramapo would score two times in the seventh to trim the lead to 7-6 on back-to-back RBI singles, but Cappello induced a flyout from Ally Spellman with the tying run on third to end the game.

Up Next: The Ducks return to Waterfront Park for an Empire 8 Conference doubleheader with Alfred University on Friday, April 7. First pitch times scheduled for 3 and 5 p.m. A fan bus will depart from Jonas at 2:30 and 4:30.

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SSI - Senior Kathleen Kalbian gave the Stevens Institute of Technology women’s lacrosse team an early 1-0 lead, but the Ducks were unable to maintain the advantage and fell at No. 2 The College of New Jersey, 12-3, in a non-conference game Tuesday evening in Ewing.

Freshmen Hannah Condren and Kyra Bednarski also tallied goals for the Ducks, who fell to 8-3 on the year. Kathleen Jaeger recorded six goals for the second-ranked Lions, who improved to 6-1.

The game marked the final non-conference action of the 2017 season for the Ducks.

“We played 30 minutes of solid lacrosse, but we needed to play 60,” head coach Celine Cunningham said. “There is a reason they are a top-ranked team. We fought hard. We just just need to be smarter with our possessions and play to our full potential.

We need to put this behind us and get ready for Nazareth.”

Defensively, freshman Emily Shanklin earned three draw controls and junior Victoria Alvarez picked up three ground balls to lead Stevens. The

Ducks were 0-for-2 on free position shots. TCNJ was 2-for-3 on free position shots with Jaeger netting both goals. TCNJ held a 10-7 advantage on draw controls.

TCNJ outshot Stevens 25-8. The Ducks were 10for-15 on clear attempts, while the Lions were 11-of13. Junior Stephanie Schnelzer made seven saves in suffering her third loss of the season.

After a scoreless six minutes, Kalbian’s goal gave Stevens a 1-0 lead. Three straight goals, including a goal by Jaeger with Stevens down a player, put TCNJ in front 3-1. Condren’s goal trimmed the deficit, but the Lions scored the final two goals of the half, including Erin Harvey’s goal with 42 seconds to play gave TCNJ a 5-2 advantage at the intermission.

The teams exchanged goals to open the second half, with Bednarski’s goal drawing the Ducks to within three (6-3). After the freshman’s marker, TCNJ scored the next five goals to close out scoring.

Up next: Stevens welcomes Nazareth College to Hoboken on April 8 in a return to Empire 8 Conference play.

Speedy Ducks total seven steals in win over Ramapo SSI - Freshman Corey Natofsky drove in a pair of runs and freshman Eric Zickert scored three times as the Stevens Institute of Technology baseball team defeated Ramapo College, 6-5, Wednesday in non-conference action in Mahwah.

Junior Alex Detweiler drove in three runs for Stevens and the Ducks stole seven bases in improving to 11-11-1.

“Detweiler put a great swing on the ball, helping us to a four-run inning,” head coach Kristaps Aldins said. “Without that clutch, two-out hit, it likely would have been a completely different flow to the game.”

Rob DeAngelis drove in three runs for Ramapo, who

fell to 7-10.

Trailing 2-0, the Ducks rallied in the fourth to grab a 4-0 lead. Sophomore Carlos Leon led off with a walk and promptly moved to third on consecutive steals. Matthew Paski walked. Zickert reached on a fielder’s choice and sophomore Donny Gherardi singled to load the bases. Natofsky walked to force in a run and prompted a pitching change.

Kevin Foulds promptly struck out Michael Mule’ for the second out. Detweiler followed and promptly cleared the bases with his first triple of the season.

Natofsky added an RBI single in sixth and Zickert scored on a throwing error in the eighth. Natofsky,

Zickert and Leon each stole two bases.

Ryan Larsen (2-3) pitched a perfect 1 1-3 innings for his second career victory.

Sophomore Charlie Ruegger threw two innings in picking up his fourth save of the year.

“Our bullpen really stepped up today,” Aldins, said. “Each of them was able to get some key outs in critical spots.”

Ramapo plated a run in the ninth off Ruegger, but with runners on the corner, senior P.J. Wiegartner snagged a screaming line drive off the bat of Cory Heitler to end the game.

“Wiegartner and Natofsky each played key roles with huge defensive plays,

4/2 4/2 4/2 4/2 4/2 4/2 4/2 4/4 4/5 4/5 4/5 4/5

EQUESTRIAN Zones 9 a.m.

Long Valley, NJ

MEN’S GOLF

NYU Invitational TBD Bloomfield, NJ

MEN’S LACROSSE

@ Houghton College 12 p.m.

Houghton, NY

WOMEN’S LACROSSE

VS Nazareth College 12 p.m.

SOFTBALL

VS Houghton College 2 p.m. & 4 p.m.

MEN’S TENNIS

@ Alfred University TBD Alfred, NY @ Houghton College TBD Houghton, NY

MEN’S TRACK & FIELD

Coach P. Invitational 10 a.m.

Bethlehem, PA

WOMEN’S TRACK & FIELD

Stevens Sports Information

some smart baserunning and some situational hitting,” Aldins said. “It was great to see us do some of the little things that it takes to win close games against quality opponents” Andrew Hamel started for the Ducks, allowed two

runs, one earned, in two innings of work.

Brian Chinni (0-1) allowed an unearned run in one inning to take the loss.

Up Next: The Ducks head to upstate New York for an Empire 8 Conference doubleheader on April 8.

Duck Country Scoreboard Date

BASEBALL

@ SUNY-Canton 1 p.m. & 3:30 p.m.

Canton, NY

Stevens

Opponent/Event

Score

Result

Baseball Baseball Golf M Lacrosse W Softball Softball Tennis M Women's Lacrosse Baseball Softball Softball Tennis W

VS Ithaca College VS Ithaca College Rosemont Raven Invitational @ Alfred University @ St. John Fisher College @ St. John Fisher College @ Skidmore College @ The College of New Jersey @ Ramapo College VS Ramapo College

2-4 5-14 N/A 21-0 2-1 0-9 0-9

L L 8th W W L L L

VS Ramapo College @ New Paltz

3-12 6-5 1-9 7-6 2-7

W L W L

Stevens Sports Information

Coach P. Invitational 10 a.m.

Bethlehem, PA

MEN’S VOLLEYBALL

VS Southern Virginia University 11 a.m.

VS Marymount University 3 p.m.

Sunday BASEBALL

@ Alvernia University 3 p.m.

Reading, PA

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