Patricia Valderrama

Class of 2011



Article Collection

Gingerism on the Princeton Campus?

Patricia Valderrama

Invisible Issue — Aug 12, 2009

According to the Malleus Maleficarum, a treatise on the hunting and killing of witches, "Those whose hair is red, of a certain peculiar shade, are unmistakably vampires." While prejudices such as these have mostly faded since the treatise was published in 1486, two Princeton students still found the need to create the Redhead Society in 2004.

Ando kicks the ‘Cup O’Noodles’

Patricia Valderrama

Invisible Issue — Aug 12, 2009

One year, one month and sixteen days have passed since the death of the brilliant and esoteric Momofuku Ando. As the creator of Ramen Noodles, esoteric he was not. He brought noodles to the masses—and to me. When I recently read the tragic news of his death, I chugged ...

Dispatch from the Fringe

Patricia Valderrama

Invisible Issue — Aug 12, 2009

Fringe, like Lost, is a show that immediately ensnares the viewer with its mysteries. Within the first five minutes, we are left wondering what kind of chemical weapon can cause the pilot to erupt in huge boils before his jaw falls off.

Don't Watch Fringe

Patricia Valderrama

Invisible Issue — Aug 12, 2009

Last week, this writer ended a review of Fox’s new show Fringe with the words “Watch it.” Oh, how wrong she was.

...One More Time

Patricia Valderrama

Invisible Issue — Aug 12, 2009

Many Britney Spears fans have similar, and often slightly incomprehensible reactions to the pop idol’s new single, such as, “this song is real catchy lol stuck in my head so often. in a way soem of the things she pronounces like madonna lmao i don’t know why,” and ...

Do I Even Give a Shit?

Patricia Valderrama

Invisible Issue — Aug 12, 2009

Although Fox has already aired the third episode of the last season of Lost, I haven’t watched it yet. I started watching the show two years ago, in a summertime binge. Accus- tomed to watching the series with little to no commercial breaks, and without the weeklong wait between ...

The Reconcilables

Aaron Smargon, Conor Gannon, Naomi Nix, Nick Tagher, Nikki Leon, Patricia Valderrama

Forward March — Mar 4, 2010

Late last month, WPRB News sat down with General David Petraeus, commander of United States Central Command and recent recipient of Princeton’s James Madison Medal, to discuss military issues in the Middle East, from the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq to drones and cybersecurity. Nick Tagher, Naomi Nix and ...

Obsidian Butterfly

Patricia Valderrama

Counter-Colicchio — Apr 8, 2010

*Obsidian Butterfly: Itzpapálotl, goddess at times confused with Teteoinan, our mother, and Tonatzin. All of these female divinities have fused in the cult that since the sixteenth century has worshipped the Virgin of Guadalupe.

Ode and Germinations

Patricia Valderrama

The Literary Issue — Apr 29, 2010

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The taste of your mouth and the color of your skin,
skin, mouth, my dearest fruit of these swift days,
tell it to me, were they always at your side
for years and for journeys and for moons and suns
and earth and weeping and rain and joy
or ...