When I walked into “practice” for Athletes in Action (motto: “Jesus was a player, too”), I must admit I had my reservations. Growing up in the Episcopal Church, I had no experience whatsoever with extended sports metaphors.

I like Chick Literature. Rather, let me qualify, I like Jane Austen as read under the auspices of Chick Lit. This doesn't mean I like Colin Firth or Hugh Grant-in fact I distinctly dislike both. I haven't seen Hugh's performance in Ang Lee's Sense and Sensibility ...

What are the elements of a group's sound? If you listened to all the records by the Postal Service, you'd think that the unifying force was spastic electronic beats and Ben Gibbard's dulcet tones. If you listened to every Radiohead song, you'd know that success is ...

I think I was the first person unassociated with Swimming Upstream to see the production. Ever. This seems like pretty heady stuff as I sit in warm darkness waiting for the cast's final run-through to begin. I feel like an insider: I watch volunteers scurry behind the set with ...

When we hear “Jane Austen,” we tend to think of country manners, happy endings and Colin Firth in a wet shirt. So, when posters announcing the third lecture in the Princeton University President's Lecture Series went up several weeks ago-“Jane Austen and War” given by Claudia Johnson, the ...

This is not a eulogy; it is not a ritualized recounting and remembrance of a man's life pronounced with threnody enough to disquiet but not to deject.

These days you can find a DVD box set for just about any television series you've ever loved. And yet, some gems continue to elude us - the long-defunct MTV shows The Head and Buzzkill come to mind.

The movement for Socially Responsible Investment (SRI) makes explicit what has always been implicitly the case: that where a person or institution decides to invest their money has social, environmental, and general ethical consequences. Investors are not used to thinking about these consequences because for so long most of them ...

I spent this past week in the basement of Friend, in a windowless computer cluster, working on a lab report for Chemical Engineering. Pizza came in and Excel spreadsheets came out-a perfect mass and momentum balance. I happened to notice that I was one of only two girls in the ...