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  • Farewell, Connor

    Farewell, Connor

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    Several weeks ago President Shirley Tilghman, Dean of the College Nancy Weiss Malkiel, and memoirist Cornel West gave their final regards to former USG president, Pyne Prize winner and reality television show contestant Connor Diemand-Yauman in a private, unpublicized ceremony. The Nassau Weekly has obtained a transcript of Prof. West’s remarks. Listen. Connor Diemand-Yauman is…

  • Let’s Talk About Rape

    Let’s Talk About Rape

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    Princeton students are special. We’ve been told this upon every rite of passage we have experienced. No one ever dares to contest that they have near-superhuman aptitudes for creativity and hard work, Renaissance men and women all, steeped in the finest principles of humanism. Yet there is one thing in which we cannot manage to…

  • Reconstructing a Night Out

    Reconstructing a Night Out

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    I woke up around 9 AM on Sunday, the Lord’s Day, and the first thing I noticed was that I was not wearing my clothes.

  • ARA 101

    ARA 101

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    As I stood outside the door to Frist 212 on the first day of my freshman year, waiting for my Arabic 101 class to start, a bright-eyed boy in a polo shirt bounced up to the door. I smiled at him, and he stood weirdly close to me, clutching his books. I was unnerved. Soon,…

  • The Band

    The Band

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    Just a few nights ago, I was eating at Whitman when the band came to play during dinner. Their entrance was met with the usual palpable dread. Aside from a few clapping friends, the reaction of the dining hall was mostly a muffled groan, rolling eyes and petulant, commiserative stares at nearby friends.

  • Terms May Apply

    Terms May Apply

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    When one freshman sat down with the dean of her residential college last winter to discuss a medical leave, she was not expecting to spend the next eight months at home.

  • A Weekend to Remember

    A Weekend to Remember

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    I didn’t plan on writing this article. When the weekend started, I was really annoyed that I had a ten-page paper hanging over my head, and I had to spend most of my time all the way down at West Windsor fields for the Ivy League Rugby Tournament.

  • Your Humor, My Pussy

    Your Humor, My Pussy

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    Members of Princeton’s Asian American community respond to a recent verbatim.

  • On Playing School

    On Playing School

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    A personal reflection on compensating student athletes.

  • Setting New Standards

    Setting New Standards

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    When the Daily Princetonian announced, on October 6, that grade deflation was “dead,” campus remained oddly quiet. There was no cheering, no laughing or dancing or popping of screw-top champagne.

  • Freshman Year From My Childhood Bedroom

    Freshman Year From My Childhood Bedroom

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    “Applying to colleges, I held one core condition: there was no way I was staying in this town.”

  • Judging Desire

    Judging Desire

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    A few years ago, I attended a lecture on disability fetishism. Disability fetishists include people who are sexually attracted to people who are missing digits, joints and limbs. There are websites and chat rooms in which “devotees” exchange pictures, information, and advice. Some are turned on by the idea of cutting off their own limbs…