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Just Cool Enough for School
Bicker is an important rite of passage for people with a creeping suspicion that they might be cool. Champagne bubbles and dreams of Ivy League grandeur saturate even the most level of heads. Some even go so far as to pop their collars. Remembering back to my sophomore days, I think I might have even…
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Recovery
On Allie’s fourteenth birthday, Christopher felt his hard-won sanity begin its retreat—right there at the kitchen table. It started as he watched Allie, his step-daughter, try to tell Cyndi, her mother, stories about their day at Christopher’s parents’ ranch: the picnic, the piñata, the horseback riding—their birthday traditions. Cyndi was just as absent from the…
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What we talk about when we don’t talk about sex
Last Monday night, a sassy redhead wearing cat-eye glasses and glitter-and-fishnet stockings took the stage of McCosh 10 to give a talk about sex. While her appearance foreshadowed a Harper’s Bazaar-esque talk on steamy sex tips, Lauren Winner came to Princeton courtesy of a range of student groups from the Anscombe Society to University Health…
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Don’t Sweat the Bullshit…and it’s ALL Bullshit
How many times have you heard a friend or acquaintance congratulate herself on her ability to bullshit? … Funny thing: currently, the best-selling book at the U-Store is called On Bullshit.
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Think Outside the Box or Die
The word on the Street is that Princeton academics are as bland as Beast, and Dean Malkiel is a woman on a mission to institute some major diversity.
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Voices and Vices
Why can’t we all just sing along? Upon closer inspection, it is clear that a performance groups such as a cappella are the first taste—and gateway—of a vice far more addictive to Princetonians than Beast or cocaine…