Meet Monday: Steven Pincus
Genevieve Pilch | Staff Photographer
Steve Pincus, a junior emerging enterprises and entrepreneurship and business management major, has many leadership roles on campus. His roles include being president of Phi Delta Theta and treasurer of Otto’s Army.
Steven Pincus is a modern day renaissance man. He can confidently discuss Michelin-starred restaurants, name drop jazz musicians from the 1940s and run off baseball statistics from his favorite team, the Cleveland Indians.
The junior emerging enterprises and entrepreneurship and business management major said he likes to be on a schedule, which is necessary due to his penchant for leadership on campus.
He is currently president of the fraternity Phi Delta Theta, vice president of the Syracuse University Entrepreneurship Club, treasurer of Otto’s Army and a U100 tour guide.
“I am definitely a go-go-go type of person,” said Pincus, who describes his daily style as “business prep.”
As a Los Angeles native, this driven attitude propelled Pincus to apply to colleges on the other side of the country. He added that his personality just seems to fit better on the East Coast.
“The first time I ever saw snow was at SU. That winter was my first snowball fight,” Pincus said, whose next goal to sled down the hill outside of Crouse College.
Traveling far from home has never been a hindrance for Pincus, who spent his Fall 2013 semester studying abroad in Hong Kong.
As a business major, the transforming region was the obvious choice, he said. Pincus visited ten countries including China, Malaysia, Singapore and Cambodia.
Besides traveling, another lifelong passion of Pincus is baseball.
From the age of three until he came to SU, Pincus had always played on a baseball team as a left-handed pitcher, first baseman and right fielder.
“My first semester of college was the first time in my life I wasn’t playing baseball, I wasn’t on a team,” he said. “I wondered who am I going to lead? Who has my back?”
Pincus found the answer to those questions when he joined Phi Delta Theta, where he serves as president and a member of the fraternity’s executive council.
“The fraternity is definitely one of my proudest accomplishments. We’ve come a long way,” he said. “I have a team of about 100 people now.”
Published on March 24, 2014 at 1:00 am
