This piece was written by Gianna Callegari and Keenan Yates.
With every new beginning comes a wave of uncertainty and confusion, and starting college is most definitely no exception!
The Stute
On August 29, 2021, Hurricane Ida touched down in Lousiana as a category 2 hurricane. (Correction: Since then, Hurricane Ida progressed to a category 4 hurricane, and the correct term is “made landfall” not “touched down.”
As a part of this summer’s student-led activism pushing for the renaming of Gianforte Family Hall, student organizations are uniting together and taking a pledge to boycott the building.
In recent weeks, many Stevens students have turned to social media platforms to call for Stevens to rename Gianforte Family Hall (GFH).
This summer, students are again advocating for Stevens to rename Gianforte Family Hall (GFH) through a change.org petition and other initiatives happening primarily through social media.
This summer, students are again pushing for Gianforte Family Hall (GFH) to be renamed. Also known as the Gateway Academic Center, GFH was named in 2017 after Montana Governor Greg Gianforte ‘83 due to sizable donations he made to Stevens.
After over a year of COVID-19 pushing events and classes to virtual settings, commencement 2021 took place in person. Spread out over a series of eight in-person ceremonies, graduating students were able to walk across the stage at the Meadowlands Expo Center in Secaucus, NJ.
March 25, 2021 marked the commencement of this year’s TechFest, an annual music festival hosted by the student-run Entertainment Committee (EC) at Stevens.
On Friday, April 30, the annual Ansary Entrepreneurship Competition took place virtually; this is the second consecutive year in which the event was not held in person due to the pandemic.
Hello! Frequent readers of The Stute might not recognize my name as a typical staff writer — I’ve been the Head Copy Editor for the past four years, editing in the shadows fixing Oxford commas, sentences that are just not quite right, and cases of oh no no no how on earth do I fix this fueled by Pepsi and cold pizza in three different Stute offices until the wee hours of the morning.