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Photo: Amanda LangPhoto: Amanda Lang

Saahil Patel ’12 (left) was the winner of a student challenge question announced by Dean James J. Valentini at the March 7 John Jay Awards Dinner. The challenge question: Of the five honorees, name the honoree connected to the following number type: an ordinal (answer, third: Daniel S. Loeb ’83, Third Point); a numeronym (answer, a16z: Ben Horowitz ’88, Andreessen Horowitz’s URL, a16z.com; and a pure number (answer, 30: Ellen Gustafson ’02, 30 Project). As the first student to answer all questions correctly, Patel was awarded a lunch date with the dean; they dined together on May 2.

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