High Rise

November 30, 2023

The Brain Behind the Brush: Uncovering Mary Blair’s Animation Legacy

Your favorite Disney animations were the product of invisibilized women’s labor.

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High Rise: Full Design

In the final issue of volume 47, the Nass pays a visit to President Clinton’s stomping grounds, cries with Joyce Carol Oates, and does or does not do drugs in the Bay Area.

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Did a Top Science Journal Publish a Creationist Paper?

Dumb logic and intelligent design in a recent Nature article.

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July

“By the eighth day words had begun to fail me. I thought in silent images. It was hot. We ate greedily, excessively, grilled meat on the bone, whole fish smiling up from the table, savory noodles prepared in cold sesame sauce with fresh cucumber. I sat around for hours after lunch feeling uncomfortably full.”

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Nass List: What’s Wrong With Me?

What’s wrong with us?

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True and False: Bay Area

A drug deal that wasn’t. A minister on mushrooms. Which is real, and which is fake?

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October

“You didn’t talk to me today. And I suppose I didn’t say anything either. So I searched for an excuse for you to remember me, wondering what I could possibly ask.”

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“Fact-Heavy and Exceedingly Vapid”: A Visit to the Bill Clinton Presidential Library

A shrine to Slick Willie and his presidential T-rex.

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New New Yorkers

How marked-up student housing is driving gentrification in New York City.

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Inevitable Acts: Ruminations on The Lady with the Pet Dog

Through Joyce Carol Oates, a Nass writer ponders the inexorable force of love.

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A Banlieue Dance

A portrait of the Saint-Denis suburb of Paris, as told through a pickpocketing.

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Overheard in Daily Princetonian newsroom

Staffer of Brotherly Love: “I know nothing about football except ‘Go birds.’”

Overheard in Charter basement

Text from mom: “Flirt away, my handsome son.”

Overheard in Front of Fitzrandolph gates

Anxious frosh guy: “DC? I’ve been to every museum on the National Mall…”

Eager blonde: “Well, I’ve—“

Anxious frosh guy: “Twice.”

Overheard in Terrace

Sustainable fashion advocate: With micro bangs you’d be the intersection of baby girl, cutie patootie, and little munchkin

Overheard during a chance encounter on Elm

Surprised friend: Woah! I thought you were holding Bananagrams, but it's actually just a banana.

Overheard at painful Terrace brunch

Stoner German major: "There’s kinda beef between the Benjamin and Adorno fandoms."

Overheard in Holder

Frosh taking care of drunk friend: I've been around a lot of people who have been McCoshed or PMCed and he is not at that point yet

Overheard in Firestone

Scholarly Grammarian: I can’t take another erotic poetry course, I already took one on Sappho!

Overheard in East Pyne

Italian Person: Wait, the Communists weren’t Christian??

Overheard in Jadwin

Harvard alum: “I didn't think anything of Mark Zuckerberg, he was just in my CS24 class.”

Overheard in Fine Hall

BSE frosh: "I would rather do 100 math problems than read two pages."

Overheard in Coffee Club

Irish poetry scholar: “The thing about me is I know for a FACT that Fintan O’Toole is a bisexual.”