Mr. and Mrs. SEAS Pageant Victors Named

Zvi-Week ended with a bang last night as students flocked to see the Battle of the Bands and the crowning of the new Mr. and Ms. SEAS.

The week started last Sunday with an opening reception where ESC President Dan Okin, SEAS '07, dedicated the annual Engineering Week, also known as E-Week, to Dean Zvi Galil.

ESC VP of Student Life Elizabeth Strauss, SEAS '08, and the Student Life Committee planned the events for Zvi-Week.

Four ladies and four gentlemen competed in the Mr. and Ms. SEAS Pageant, and five bands competed in the Battle of the Bands, which were organized by Kim Manis, SEAS '09, and Erin Svokos, SEAS '09, both members of ESC.

Last year's Ms. SEAS, Sarah Clarke, SEAS '07, lost her title to Shella Bakke, SEAS '10. Robert Sokola, SEAS '09, was crowned Mr. SEAS.

Competitors in the pageant were judged in three categories: costume, question and answer, and talent. The costumes ranged from Spider Woman and Power Rangers to Wilma, who works in John Jay Dining Hall. Many of the questions and answers revolved around Galil, whose presence was represented by a life-sized cardboard figure.

Sumeet Shah, SEAS '08, was asked to use his best math pickup line to ask Zvi out on a date. "I wish I could be your derivative so I could be tangent to your curves," Shah said seductively.

Many references were also made to Galil's well-known e-mails. Tani Olhanoski, SEAS '10, decided to show up in a cow's outfit, claiming that "it's a dolphin. If you think it's a cow, it's probably because you're too stressed," in reference to a stress test involving dolphins that Galil sent out in an e-mail.

Between pageant acts, each band performed a couple of songs for the audience and three judges. The Folk started out the night with their music, followed by Charlie Foxtrot. In the end, DJ Tanner and The Shake tied for the $200 cash prize for Battle of the Bands.

Tanner said he expected to win. "It [winning] feels exactly like I knew it would feel. It feels great," he said. "I'm gonna have a crunk afterparty."

Other events during the week included discussion panels featuring Engineers Without Borders and the Biomedical Engineering Society and the kickoff of CU Assassins.

Assasins, which began last Thursday at 9 p.m., is now in full swing, as the number of agents has dropped rapidly from the original 240 to a mere 128 at press time. Teams of four agents complete their tasks with the water gun they were given, aspiring to be the final team standing that receives the $400 prize.