This Week's Verbatim

Overheard at Princeton...

Suckapella

John Tamplin

A cappella groups must have come into existence when God banished Adam and Eve from the Garden of Eden. In a perfect world, a cappella groups would not exist.

Poetry, or How to Pray Without a God

Dixon Li

April is national poetry month, but a lot of people don't know or care about it. Completely understandable. Many teachers introduce us to poetry as if it were a fine science.

Forgot about Ray

Zack Newick

Editor’s note: The following is a brief selection of a running diary of Game 2 of the Knicks-Celtics playoff series, played on April 19, 2011 at TD Banknorth Garden in Boston.

Fire and Glass

Maia ten Brink

“The hellest job,” Mike Souza says, was making 20 super-thin cigar-shaped nuclear target cells in his glassblowing shop in the basement of Princeton’s Hoyt Laboratory.

Just a Tiny God

Joel Newberger

Last Sunday, I spoke with one of my dear friends about God. We were walking down some path strewn with magnolia petals, as the sun finally shone through the trees, talking about the trees, the breeze, the news.

Prince Watch

Alfred Prufrock

Welcome ladies and gentlemen. I know what you guys have been thinking –- since it’s been so long since we’ve had a Prince Watch, that must be because the Daily Princetonian has finally achieved a journalistic integrity which puts it beyond our childish jabs.