Second Look

December 5, 2024

“Only the People Save the People!”

Resistencia and the future of organizing in Princeton

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Second Look: Full Design

Our big debut! All our hard-hitting journalistic goings-on inside. Find a copy around campus, or take a look at the full spread below:

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Letter from the Editors

This week, the Nass sheds its navel-gazing literary skin and reveals a journalistic underbelly.    We are thrilled to present to you the launch issue of Second Look, the Nassau Weekly’s latest venture. The Second Look section brings the Nass … Read More

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After Trump’s win, Princeton’s right wing is preparing to take charge

The Heritage Foundation, the Whig-Clio election watch party, and Princeton’s place in the conservative orbit

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Princeton Pro-Life on the 2024 United States Election

The political attachments and detachments of Princeton Pro-Life in the face of the general election

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On Campus, the Israel Divestment Struggle is in Limbo

On September 30, 2024, during a Council of the Princeton University Community (CPUC) meeting, two dozen pro-Palestine protesters gathered off to the side of the room, tape over their mouths. They held paper signs with slogans such as “Princeton your … Read More

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Keeping Princeton Cemetery Alive Through the Seasons

SPRING  On one day you may come across a trumpet fanfare heralding a US president; on another, a woman meditating cross-legged under a tree; and perhaps on Halloween, the touch of a phantom hand. Rows of neatly arranged headstones stand … Read More

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Closest to the Solution: The Story and Legacy of Princeton’s Prison Teaching Initiative

A Second Look writer speaks with formerly incarcerated students, PTI educators, and Princeton administrators about the resilience of the program

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Q&A: Eliza Griswold on Journalism in a New Trump Era

A Pulitzer-Prize-winning professor talks electoral reporting and the journalistic horizon

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Verbatim

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Overheard in Terrace

Thinks in emotions: I don’t know if we’re dating or anything…

Thinks in numbers: The amount of square footage you’ve covered does not say friendship.

Overheard in Campus Club

Dietetic dialectical diatribist: I don’t think a vegan framework gets us most directly to what I want to see in our society. On the list of big picture issues, it is NOT making the top five…

Overheard in Charter Club

From a Central Asian dictatorship: It was a bad month for democracy. I’m fleeing the country now.

Overheard on a date

Male feminist: I’m going to let you finish your sentence in your mind. 

Overheard in Choi Dining Hall

Bickered Ivy, joined Cap: It’s surprisingly rewarding when you fall into the current of normalcy.

Overheard at a networking event

Woman in STEM: I am going to go circulate around the brothers now.

Overheard through Telegram

Just got ghosted on Hinge: It doesn’t matter, the life is ruined already.

Overheard on the way to wine night

Sensorially sensitive: My bottles are so loud, it’s embarrassing.

Overheard near Dod

Traditional (mentally-shackled) woman: I just feel bad after drinking. Alcohol makes me feel depressed the morning after.

Liberated (depressed) woman: Sounds like a skill issue.

Overheard in Firestone First Floor Bathroom

Honor Code Violator: Yeah, ever since ChatGPT came out, I've been finding it so hard to write sentences.

Overheard outside Butler

Returning from the Street: What did she say about you?

Perceived Aristocrat: She said I don't seem like someone who would mingle with the poor.

Overheard at the Triangle Show

T.I.’s Southern Gentleman: If I were given the opportunity to be Jewish, I would love it. I can't imagine having that taken away from me like that.

Overheard at Charter Friday

Has their priorities straight: I couldn’t break up with him today. I had a COS project.