This Week's Verbatim

Overheard at Princeton...

Human-Bone Scythes, Poleaxes, Death and Boobs

Dan Abromowitz

As you might have guessed, the Nassau Weekly is full of a bunch of super-nerds who are really into books and junk. To give you an indication of how into books they are, consider this: Every week, they have their meeting in a library. Also, once, no lie, I saw ...

"Never Travel Far, Without a Little Big Star"

Stephen Martis

Big Star are sacred to me – a summer devotional, everything that John Cusack and Emilio Estevez could never be for me, a holy confessor and mentor. I would be surprised if that other late auteur of American adolescence, John Hughes, didn’t draw inspiration from their sugar-coated, angst-filled gems in ...

This Shall Be the Greatest NBA Finals of All Time

Chris Hernandez

Rumor has it that at the Nass, there is a gap in the otherwise omniscient knowledge of the staff, and that that gap is called “sports.” Not so, ladies and gentlemen. Let me tell you a thing or two about layin’ up the three-pointer ball and slammin’ in the dunkin’.

Community Service, Reimagined

Greer Hanshaw

Our Art Therapy Breakout trip, led by sophomores Arielle Sandor and Sojung Yi, started not in Washington D.C. but along the way in Baltimore. The first day, before our group had even established strong ties, we found ourselves at the Rita Project, a non-profit organization which works to prevent ...

Community Service, Reimagined

Minqi Jiang

Most people think Boulder is a ski-town. They are probably right. But in fifty years, I would not be surprised to hear that most people think Boulder is the Shangri-La of the fifty states. Can you imagine Lhasa transfigured into a half-college, half-resort town, replete with snowboarders threading the base ...

Three Cheers for Queering the Census

Brenda Jin, Johannes Muenzel

Next Monday, March 29, Princeton University will begin distributing Census forms to Frist Center mailboxes for students who live on campus. Students will also find another envelope in their mailbox that week, containing a short letter and a pink sticker with the following words: