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PRINCEWATCH

Back from hiatus, PrinceWatch is here to keep campus journalism accountable. This week we’re punching up with this triumph of data analysis:   “Top Universities released decisions. Admissions Instagram followers plunged.”   (Published April 3rd, 2023)   A melodramatic headline … Read More

by Sierra Stern on April 23, 2023

Only In Name: The Myth of Model Minority Assimilation

“There is a sad symbolism to this game of catch-up, a sense of sprinting after an ideal that is perpetually out of reach.”

by Sierra Stern on February 20, 2022February 22, 2022

Kissing Covens: The Gilda Stories as a Manifesto of Radical Black Love

“The horizontal, chosen family works outside of the law — in The Gilda Stories, love is never codified by a wedding, same sex and interracial relationships play out beyond the reach of history, and one can have limitless mothers.”

by Sierra Stern on November 16, 2023

Prayer to the Stratosphere

“The chunks of Amie’s life were too insignificant to be measured in Christ or Common Era. Even her birthdays seemed an inaccurate measurement of the passage of time.”

by Sierra Stern on September 19, 2021September 18, 2021

Flightlessness and Being Mine: On Black-Jewish Non-Belonging At Princeton

“I have to sift the hate out of Judaism where I can, the hate I have for myself, the hate other people have for us, and the hate I identify in certain Jewish communities directed toward women or Palestinians or Black people.”

by Sierra Stern on November 6, 2022November 6, 2022

A Mysterious De-Personing

“More than a few miles from home, I conclude this first sliver of college convinced of the notion that I’m more fiction than fact. Now more than ever, I feel like a character, and not a good one.”

by Sierra Stern on April 25, 2021April 24, 2021

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.

by Beth Villaruz, Sierra Stern on October 4, 2020October 3, 2020

Losing a City

“Regardless, an aquiline parasite lived inside me, compelling me violently with its bald-eagle talons to wage psychological Revolutionary Warfare against my own best friend.”

by Sierra Stern on August 1, 2021July 31, 2021

Letter from the Editors

Dear all,   Since we came to Princeton in the fall of 2020, this little paper has remained a constant source of inspiration, camaraderie, and much mirth. We’re honored to usher in the 46th volume of the Nassau Weekly.   … Read More

by Sam Bisno, Sierra Stern on February 19, 2023

Telescoping Space

To telescope, we begin with 300 words, then slice the word count in half for each successive section. We stop when the numbers stop dividing evenly. Looking around and beyond us, this week we telescope “space.”

by Lara Katz, Olivia Zhang, Peter Taylor, Sam Bisno, Sierra Stern on March 28, 2021March 28, 2021

Letter from the Editors

We strive to be a democratic publication, one whose direction is shaped by our contributors more than our editorial staff. When we floated the idea for a sex issue, we received overwhelming enthusiasm from the Nass community. So we went … Read More

by Sam Bisno, Sierra Stern on November 16, 2023November 29, 2023


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