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\\snipps was the original underground server on campus, serving the school with hours of entertainment and fun until it was shut down by the administration. The server began as a humble repository for Family Guy episodes, and quickly grew to super-stardom as the premier source of multimedia content. At its peak, \\snipps reached a size of approximately 800 gigabytes, until it ultimately met its doom at the loose lips of a certain Matt Burakowski before the glorious presence of the IT department. The name still commands respect in conversation around campus, and is often brought up in reference to \\suicidal.
\\suicidal came to fame after the fall of \\snipps during the academic year of 2002-03 as the new electronic hangout on campus. What began as a small desktop has now grown to a substantial size, which is now rivaled only by \\minkus. The life and times of \\suicidal have been salted by persistent conflicts with the Stevens IT department. At present time, \\suicidal has now expanded its notoriety into a t-shirt line, sported by countless students on campus.
As the story goes, the horse statue on campus was once drilled through and filled with water during the chilly winter months. The water then froze to create the illusion of urination. This stunt, which certainly rivals the best of the MIT Hacks , is relayed to incoming freshmen year after year.
As the story goes there used to be a dorm in the Hudson River that was a boat. This boat, the SS Stevens was commissioned by Stevens at one point to combat the lack of space available for on-campus housing. This boat was the object of many a student prank, but perhaps most notable is its run-in with the FCC. There are many different stories as to what took place. Generally speaking, the boat was used to broadcast the signal of the campus radio station, WCPR, into Canadian frequencies, as well as takeover many local stations in the New York metropolitan area. The FCC had to come in and shut them down, and there have been no boat dorms since. How this came to happen is the question that remains mysterious to present day students, which has result in the formation of many rumors. Some say that the students placed an antenna into the river, which produced the effect of shutting out every broadcast on the eastern seaboard. The most credible, disseminated by actual Stevens Alumni is that the string of lights strung up over the mast of the ship were plugged into the same electrical circuit used to broadcast the WCPR signal throughout the Stevens campus. (WCPR used an AM broadcast system that used transmitters coupled in with the electrical system to broadcast the signal on the frequencies of 740 kHz am and 750 kHz am. This allowed it to remain free from FCC restrictions and meant that the station did not need a license.) As such, the lights acted as a powerful antenna.
During the academic year of 2003-04, the Stevens cannon on Castle Point (Hoboken) was removed from its rightful place and relocated to the pitcher's mound on Debaun Field. This wonderful stunt occurred under the midnight watch of the Stevens Police. An even older report states that the cannon was once relocated to the New York City Public Library.