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CHAPTER NEWS

RECENT GRADUATE : Brad Faskowitz ’17 chapter president
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will benefit us in the coming year as we
build up the freshman and sophomore
classes.
This semester, we’ve been prioritiz-
ing the improvement of our compliance
with national standards by working
closely with our live-in consultant, Ian
Davis. We’ve set a series of goals and ac-
tion items to assure we reach full accred-
itation with HQ standards by the end
of the semester, which will both increase
our status with National and grant us a
discount on our insurance. We’ve opted
into a pilot program for the 10-day new
Brad in Venice during a post-grad trip to Europe before starting his job. member education period, which can be
read about on page three. After sending
Editor’s NotE: We caught up with recent graduate Brad Faskowitz ’17 to see representatives to both regional officer
where the road has taken him since Vanderbilt. From the hometown of Orange training and Grand Arch Council, the
County, California, Brad earned his degree in computer science and cognitive chapter was able to begin building a
studies. As an active member, he served the chapter as chaplin and scholarship closer relationship with HQ that we
chair. Today, he is working as a software developer at Microsoft.
hope to strengthen in the coming years.
After graduating cum laude with a As for day-to-day life in the chap-
double major in computer science and ter, things are looking up all across the
cognitive studies and minor in engi- board. I live in the house and have the
neering management in 2017, I settled good fortune to be around everyone as
down as a software developer at Mi- everything’s happening. From weekend
crosoft in Seattle, Washington. I work cookouts, to Monday Night Football, to
on the Cloud platform / infrastructure late nights studying in the Chuck Hig-
team for Windows Defender, protecting gins ’67 Chapter Room, this brother-
Windows clients from malicious files. hood is strong, loyal, and united in our
On the side, I’ve developed a website commitment to the improvement of not
called SentiVest (sentimentinvest.com), only ourselves and our brothers, and our
which scrapes news articles from vari- chapter as a whole. We have tremendous
ous sources, runs the text through a forward momentum right now and I am
sentiment-analysis algorithm, and uses beyond excited to see where the future
the results for investment decisions—so takes us as individuals, and the broth-
far, the algorithm has beaten S&P 500 erhood as a whole, as we continue to
and the Nasdaq composites. Aside from grow and better ourselves.
developing software, I have taken up Brad burns up the rowing regatta at
his neighborhood gym.
indoor rowing. At an indoor rowing LEDN,
regatta at my neighborhood gym, I won me much of the scaffolding I needed to
first place in the 500m and 1000m rows be my best self while at Vanderbilt and
with times of 1:16 and 2:47, respec- thereafter. I look forward reconnecting
tively. with my fraternity friends in the future. James Whitty
Phi Psi Tennessee Delta provided Chapter President

chapter spotlight
from Vanderbilt in May. help them record vocals in various stu-
(continued from page 2) dios. I also write music for myself, and
Mars and Portugal the Man. It was a re- Outside of school, what do you do I’ve recently released an EP on Spotify—
ally good experience and I look forward for fun? search “Griffin Louis” and I’m the first
to pursuing a future career in artist I produce/write music, for one thing. to show up. I also play a lot of basket-
development (whether at Atlantic or an- I make a lot of rap beats for different ball and am an avid Yankees, Giants,
other comparable label) after I graduate artists in Nashville and New York, and and Knicks fan.

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