Members of the Hoboken community gathered in Babbio 118 this past Wednesday to hear from author and longtime Hoboken resident Holly Metz on her ongoing findings regarding “the Stevens family’s history of involvement in the slave trade and the life history of Peter Lee, who began his life as ‘the property of Colonel John Stevens.’”
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Despite its size, the Stevens undergraduate population keeps itself busy via various channels, most notably through Registered Student Organizations (RSOs). Each day, it is common to see multiple events in the various buildings on campus.
Two weekends ago at the Leadership Connect summit, I received a text message from a friend and former writer/photographer for The Stute in the middle of a presentation by Chris Shemanski.
One of the most telling bits of insight we got from Kanye West’s social media confrontation with rapper Wiz Khalifa in the past few weeks was a particular string of tweets referencing model and founder of eponymous not-for-profit organization, Amber Rose.
“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.
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.
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.
By Katie Brown
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.