Khoda, the secret senior honor society at Stevens, is a mysterious organization that “promotes a unified effort between students and the rest of the Stevens community to uphold and promote a high quality of student life.” In the past, the Khoda website was updated annually to reveal the members of Khoda from the previous year. This trend has since been broken and the list of Alumni members has not been updated since 2019. Although there is an email address listed on Khoda’s website, attempts by The Stute to contact Khoda have been unsuccessful.
Members are chosen based on their noticeable involvement in the Steves community and are expected to display leadership qualities that will allow them to make improvements for the student body. Each year new members are “tapped in” by current members. On this day, Khoda can be spotted walking across the campus wearing black cloaks. Members have been known to keep their heads down and ignore comments made by observers.
Most notably, Khoda completes a “Safety Walk” each semester with the Vice President of Facilities, the Vice President of Enrollment, and campus police in an effort to address infrastructure problems. Although Khoda claims that the organization is a bridge between the student body and the Board of Trustees, the Safety Walk is the only specific event that is known to be done by Khoda. The remainder of their time is assumed to be spent in meetings discussing topics that are not revealed to the rest of the Stevens community.
Khoda has gone through waves of criticism, with students claiming that a secret organization cannot be in enough communication with the student body to make adequate changes. Despite these concerns, according to an article written by Mark Krupinski, Khoda has become increasingly secretive over the years.
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