A Better Course Guide

Nass Staff

Courses you actually want to take.

Weddings and Celebrations

Emily Levy

A chance encounter; a fated beginning; a supernatural love connection infused with sweat and Top 40 pop hits.

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:

R.I.P. Hummer

Stephen Martis

It is with tremendous sadness that I report on the passing of a great American hero. On February 26, 2010, the Hummer passed away in Sichuan Tengzheng’s botched attempt to purchase the brand from General Motors.

Obama on Afghanistan

Conor Gannon

Live Blogging of the President's address on December 1, 2009.

Letters from the West, Part II

John Nelson

In the Fall of 1930, Soviet architect Andrei Konstantinovich Burov was part of a team assembled by Moscow to visit Detroit’s state-of-the-art factories and to establish links with America’s leading industrialists...

Where the Wild Things Still Are

Zack Newick

I haven’t been young in a very long time, at least in the sort of way Max is in Maurice Sendak’s Where the Wild Things Are. That book, which sits on my bookshelf at home with a tattered cover and a note from the author to my six-year-old ...

Interview with Sprinter Sebastian Steffen '13

Jack Hutton

Freshman Sebastian Steffen is one of the newest and fastest members of the Princeton Varsity Track Team. Hailing from Greifwald, Germany, Sebastian placed fifth in the 200 meters at the German National Championships at the age of 19. He holds personal bests of 10.56 seconds in the 100 meters and 20.86 seconds in the 200 meters, which put him into contention for qualifying for the 2012 London Olympics...

Headless and Gone

Minqi Jiang

After her father escaped the October Revolution, and after her parents fled deeper into Poland from the Russian Invasion of 1920, Magdalena Abakanowicz was born. At the age of nine she saw the Third Reich sink its talons into her homeland. At the age of fifteen, she watched the Nazi ...

Gomorra

Luca Barone

Abraham “looked toward Sodom and Gomorrah, and toward all the land of the plain, and beheld, and, lo, the smoke of the country went up as the smoke of a furnace” (Genesis 19:28).  Matteo Garrone’s horrifying film Gomorra depicts a sun-bleached Campania engulfed in a conflagration of mafia violence where one could easily mistake the smog of illicit industry for the brimstone of divine retribution.  The Neapolitan mob is known as the Camorra, phonetically inviting the allusion to the Biblical exemplar of collective evil, and the film succeeds in making it an apt comparison.