On Saturday, April 9, 2022, the Stevens Orchestra performed their spring concert, “Mostly Baroque,” in DeBaun Auditorium. With their winter concert having no audience and being recorded instead, this is the Stevens Orchestra’s first in-person, live concert since pre-COVID-19.
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After over two years of the pandemic, the Entertainment Committee (EC) has been planning an in-person Techfest, an annual concert event at Stevens.
On Wednesday, April 13, the SGA hosted a vigil outside Palmer Lawn acknowledging the ongoing conflict between Ukraine and Russia. Speakers Leo Maksymenko, Alexander Stanczak, and Nicole Malantchouk gave speeches describing their personal attachment to Ukraine, the ongoing conflict, and ways that the Stevens community can contribute to helping Ukrainians.
On April 1, Stevens announced that “effective Monday, April 4, 2022, masking indoors will be optional in campus facilities at times when physical distance can be maintained.”
Pride Week is a Stevens tradition, stretching from Saturday, April 2 to Friday, April 8. Liliana Delman, Director of Office of Diversity, Equity & Inclusion explained, “Pride Week is an annual campus tradition celebrating the LGBTQ+ community [… ] A collaboration between Torch Alliance, oSTEM, the Diversity & Inclusion Committee, the Athletics Department and the Office of DEI, Pride Week is an opportunity to celebrate Pride during the school year when everyone is on campus, since the official Pride Month is in June.”
Last week, Stevens Dramatic Society (SDS) came back with their second production this school year, She Loves Me. This was SDS’s first in-person musical since the pandemic and took place from March 31 to April 2 in the DeBaun Auditorium.
On March 17, 2022, Stevens students from the Music and Technology program sent out a petition asking for increased campus space to accommodate the academic and creative needs of individuals in the program, saying that “the students of the Music and Technology department do not have enough space on campus to adequately and satisfactorily fulfill academic requirements and learning goal” in the petition’s longer description.
Stevens has a variety of housing options for incoming first-year students, and each hall has its unique benefits and detractions. There are a few common amenities in each hall, including free laundry facilities and available kitchen spaces in each dorm.
Stevens Institute of Technology, along with five other colleges, received the 2022 Healthy Campus Award from Active Minds, a nonprofit organization that encourages mental health awareness for young adults.
On March 21, Stevens announced that they will now be providing on-campus testing for students at the Student Wellness Center, located next to North Building.