Invasion of Privacy

April 15, 2018

Peer Review

“Since the beginning of time, editors at The Nassau Weekly have taken their pens to each other’s Common Application Essays. And yes, The Nassau Weekly has been around since the beginning of time.”

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Bleak Dorm

Princeton’s degree of social exclusivity is abnormal. Whether compared to colleges whose social lives are dominated by bar culture, or colleges with extensive Greek life, Princeton stands out in the extent of its social hierarchy and in the lack of truly inclusive late-night social spaces.

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Princeton Student Climate Initiative’s Plan for Action

The stories of people of color are consistently excluded from environmentalist narratives because they require consideration of our environment not in isolation, but as an intersectional struggle with racial and economic justice.

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Isle of Dogs review

“In any case, it is left up to the viewer to not get too lost in the dazzling visual spectacle of the film, and be sure to consider that despite the immaculate attention to detail, some details might still have been rendered invisible.”

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Ethical Engineers

“Overturning decades and decades of conduct of computer scientists is a Herculean effort, but it’s one that is perhaps long overdue.”

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The Nass Recommends!

A dream-pop mirage and a volcanic short film about death — an ideal Sunday?

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incandescence / fluorescence

“She had written,/I can feel the little vibrations of the bus up and down.
/A silent fleshy hum, a reminder of discontent and inadequacy.”

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Verbatim

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Overheard at Ivy

Reformed prepster: In high school, I had a playlist called vineyard crimes.

Overheard on Nassau

Junior Terran: The only time I ever snorted Adderall, I hung out with neo-Nazis. They were surprisingly so normal.

Overheard at Ivy dinner

Australian soph: Más Flow just makes me think of my period.

Overheard in Ivy

Ivy soph, after learning he was younger than the frosh with whom he was speaking: Well I’m a member here so…

Overheard on business major’s computer

YouTube search bar: how to treat people

Overheard in Rocky

STN-less soph: I'm really into pie charts these days... like, emotional pie charts.

Overhead in Forbes

Sleep-deprived frosh, at 3 a.m.: I'm so pale because of the weather that I'm actually beginning to experience white privilege.

Overheard in GroupMe

Soph woman: Come to TI to watch straight men shake their hips like they haven't told a lie in their lives.

Overheard in a JRN class

Nass editor: I have really good musk.

Overheard at TI

Jewish man: I’m flexing to stay warm.

Overheard in Cuyler

Press Club co-president: I don't think I ever really learned how to write an essay.

Overheard in Terrace

Small-town soph: Flavored condoms are like … the worst.

Overheard in Whitman

Homesick New England soph: If Tom Brady retires before I graduate I'm dropping out.

Overheard before walk of shame

Fuckboy # 324: If there is anything I can do to make your stays more pleasant, please do let me know.

Overheard in Forbes

Senior woman looking at a poster: MAVRIC is like a group that organizes events to help men be less shitty men.
Zete junior: Believe it or not, that's also the mission statement of Zeta Psi.

Overheard in 1903

Senior female: I just don’t identify with the word “pussy.”

Overheard in Studio

Random soph: Thesis fairying is like social security. You pay into it for three years and then you get less than expected when you're a senior.

Overheard in Montreal

Former events editor: This is an advanced bakery.

Overheard over coffee

Philosophy major: Moms are a lot like 3D printers. . . . I heard that in a TED talk.