What's Your Professor Listening To?

Elizabeth Landau

In their own words, straight from their CD players to your ears, here are some Princeton professors’ current favorite artists and albums:

This Week's Verbatim

Overheard at Princeton...

The Fifth Annual Theatre Intime Freshmen One-Act Festival

Ali Sutherland-Brown

I sat. And I waited. And waited. And waited. And, in doing so, I got concerned for the fifth annual Theatre Intime Freshman One Act Festival. The stage lighting shone too brightly and for too long on a set of clashing oranges and teals in a 1960s home. It was ...

The Philology of the Orgasm

Max Kenneth

American vernacular explodes ecstatically, euphorically such that it becomes positively contagious—seeping into our speech patterns, our lives. The use of sexual terms  augments our tendency and predisposition for this vernacular, but it too can be found in other languages.  Ben Johnson himself said: “Language best shows a man; speak ...

iFlurtz, and I Hurts

Justin P. B. Gerald

There are many students here who, next Monday, will be able to spend the day or the night with someone they care about deeply. These people are lucky. The rest of us will spend St. Valentine’s Day doing something that doesn’t involve roses, relationships, or romance. Everyone knows ...

Mahmoud et Ariel

Freddie Lafemina

“Mr. President, they’re ready to see you now.”
“Give me just another minute. I’m almost done.” In an otherwise pristine Oval Office, the President’s desk was littered with unread daily briefs, crayon drawings, baseball cards, and candy wrappers. He had been working very hard on two top-secret ...