Healthy Nasculinity

December 2, 2017

Nothing Recycled

“Last spring, five Princeton undergraduates founded Woke Wednesdays, a podcast dedicated to issues of race on Ivy League campuses and across America.”

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Farmers and Princeton Against Hunger

“Eight-hundred pounds of beautiful Arkansas Black apples later, we took off our gloves. Some wiped off their foreheads. We squinted at each other in the sun, smiling.”

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Nothing On the Inside

“It all stopped, very suddenly, for Robert Bailey, just before his 31st birthday. One moment he was thinking, remembering things, talking silently and invisibly in his head—in other words, he was altogether active, interiorly speaking, and then it stopped.”

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Thanksgiving

“We pass it every year, the way the parade passes. Then we arrive home with the last notes of the song, evidence against our staying power, our packaging, upon return, found intact.”

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Dorothy Cochran’s Four Pieces of Advice to Young Artists

“One afternoon, Dorothy Cochran—New Jerseyite, artist, septuagenarian, self-described pied piper—was walking through the Montclair Art Museum, where she has been teaching a printmaking class since 2010.”

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Hotovely’s Excursion in the Orange Bubble

“Princeton is a university that cares deeply about free speech. However, Princeton, much like the CJL, at least suggests the idea that it does believe in limits to free speech.”

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East and West

Photography by Esti Matulewicz.

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Verbatim

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Overheard at a birthday dinner

Senior TI woman: In a feminist way, I don’t need a penis to have a threesome. But, I do want a penis for a threesome.

Overheard on Nassau Street

Construction worker: I may disappoint Jesus but I would never disappoint you.

Overheard in Wu

Sophomore Pi Phi: After working on a problem set with two bros, I had to join Princeton Students for Gender Equality.

Overheard while stalking fall break Instagrams

Senior Pi Phi: Wow he went to Africa! Oh wait… I think that's just North Carolina.

Overheard strolling along prospect avenue

St. B's senior: Someone once described Cannon to me as a glorified Chili's

Overheard in a Nass meeting

Man: I took a snapchat video at Jewish prayer… is that what they call it? Anyways I found out that was really taboo.

Overheard on crowded train from the Hamptons

Theta sophomore: I'm at the point where I would be fine with sitting on someone's lap.

Overheard in Wright

YDS frosh: The people v. OJ Simpson was my political awakening.

Overheard in Edwards

Woman 1: Fun fact: my grandfather was a Princetonian from the midwest.
Woman 2: Did he win a Rhodes scholarship?
Woman 1: No, he was Jewish.

Overheard in Bed, Bath, and Beyond

Marxist, looking at a display of toothpastes: This is why I hate capitalism; I'd rather the government just tell me what kind of toothpaste is best.

Overheard in a chemistry precept

TA: Office hours will be from seven to eight. PM, because I’m a loser and I don’t have anything better to do with my Friday night.

Overheard heading to pregame

Junior theta, to little boy: Do you want to come with us?!

Overheard in the Friend Center

Sophomore Pi Phi: Do you know what a humble Canada Goose is? A MonCler.

Overheard in a dorm

Insecure freshman: I wish I was a masochist so I could actually enjoy Princeton.

Overhead at Cap

Connecticut Son of Princeton: Last time I rebelled against my parents, I applied to Duke.

Overheard in the Lewis Center

Socially curious first-year: I don't understand Pi Phi. Is it just a coven of hot girls?

Overheard at Terrace

Junior history major: You have a tenuous grasp on both grammar and Marxism.