The 26th Annual Nass 100

Staff

1) Whatever ancient crime forever embittered the staff of Thai Village.
2) The Princeton Tiger’s obsession with third floor bicker. You guys are in Tower, assholes.
3) People who, when you tell them that snot tastes better than earwax, say “Yuck” and pretend they’ve tasted neither.

The Specter of Foodalism

Marek Hlavac

There is one thing that sets Princeton University apart from all the other institutions I have spent time at. It is the irrational tendency on the part of my fellow students to go where the food is.

This Week's Verbatim

Overheard at Princeton...

Summer Music Round-Up

Jake Harter

Most articles on music this summer did not trumpet ambitious musical endeavors but rather the continued floundering of tour and album sales. Like the movie industry, this season was set apart by sequels and unexpected sophomore successes.

Up a Creek Without a Paddle

Justin Gerald

When the Twin Towers fell, George Bush and his folks wasted very little time (give or take seven minutes reading a children’s book) in deciding that this act of seemingly unimaginable violence needed resolve and force, and that showing strength would unify the American people. Even I wanted to ...

A City to Live In

Alexis Okeowo

"I'm a very visual person, I have a very visual understanding of the world; but I couldn't have imagined what Princeton would look like as a campus, and I couldn't have imagined what the people would look like," says Jacob Rosenzweig, a Tulane student currently studying at ...

In the House of the Rising Sun

Staff

Mardi Gras never defined my image of New Orleans. To me Mardi Gras was a cliché that was not quite rooted in a city so steeped in two things above all else: food and jazz. Mardi Gras was to New Orleans like a Carnivale mask, worn on one night and then discarded.