KERFUFFLE

October 8, 2017

Mom’s (Extra-Chunky!) Bolognese

A family heirloom recipe of zero generations.

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A Requiem for Rowing

“I miss the bonding that can only result from that mutual suffering, the singing in the shower, the conversations in the ballroom while we stretched our exhausted limbs, the sprint up the hill to dinner before our hair froze into icicles.”

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Found in Translation

Migrants in Greece find much-needed work as translators for aid organizations. Translation work represents a rare bright spot amid gloomy employment prospects for recently arrived migrants.

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Schrödinger’s Lottery

“Maybe it was the cheap thrill of furiously scratching them with a quarter, and seeing all those shimmery silver shavings pile up.”

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Edison by Train Window

“Bread lying open face on the lightly dented
plastic, white table, the one you 
always see at bake sales.”

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Monopoly

“I slipped two hotels into my pockets; I slept with some under my pillow that night, and the little silver piece I put in my sock for the day.”

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The Birth of a Language: An Interview with Judy Kegl

“On September 20, 2017, Kegl delivered two lectures at Princeton on language instincts and sign language. I was able to interview her in East Pyne before her second talk. The interview has been edited for clarity and length.”

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Princeton on Crutches

“There are so many random steps on campus that you don’t notice until they become a barrier. It’s hard to explain the dread that washes over you when you’re trying to crutch from Schultz to Friend in ten minutes and encounter a flight of stairs.”

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Verbatim

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Overheard on Poe Field

Nass publisher: I like to think of the Nass as a less sexy Playboy.

Overheard in 1901

Ivy junior, recounting Harry Styles concert: The girl next to me was obviously a YouTuber. She was wearing a beret!

Overheard at Terrace

Feminist: I think each one of her boobs are eighteen of my boobs.

Overheard at Terrace

Brooklynite: If I knew how to drive, I'd know how to drive stick shift.

Overheard at Ivy

Ivy senior/Zete ringleader: Yeah, so let's do those same Zete hoodies from last year but with Trump on the front.

Overheard in RoMa

Nass editor, on former roommate: We crossed paths so little last year that I didn't even find out he had an exorcism until like three days ago.

Overheard at a pregame

Jewish senior man, commenting on his physical fitness: None of this screams "knows what to do in a gym." "Knows what to do in a deli?" Absolutely.

Overheard in Wright

Upper West Sider: My favorite adjective is “collegiate gothic.”

Overheard in Whitman

Nass frosh: My brother’s really into Kant, but like, if you wanted to be cool in high school you had to read the more continental stuff.

Overheard at Terrace

Ivy gear chair, on rave attire: Yeah this is what I wear, lambskin jackets.

Overheard on Neo Yokio

Jaden Smith: As you know, I've been very depressed and it's affecting my attitude towards field hockey.

Overheard at Sunday brunch

Female Ivy junior, after a conversation about Saturday night sexcapades: We are just like Sex and the City…actually, it's more like Abstinence and the Suburbs.

Overheard at the Fields Center

Friend from Hong Kong: How was Yom Kippur?
Cultural Jew: Fantastic.
Friend: What a time to be alive! And Jewish!

Overheard at postgame:

Astonished Ivy member: The TI women's bathroom is a freaking help desk. No, more than that. I walk into a bunch of girls who are too drunk, and there's a whole chain of command in place to help them.

Overheard in TI

Senior Woman: I'm strictly attracted to Jewish boys. Don't verbatim me. I'm LOOSELY attracted to Jewish boys.

Overheard in Pyne

Supportive girlfriend, about New York Review of Books intern: He's not good at rapping, but he can rhyme very well.