Man Hunt

October 5, 2023

True and False: Bacon Transgressions

Let’s play a game.

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Man Hunt: Full Design

Read the full design version of our latest issue here!

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Nass Recommends

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Hunter

“The truth is that in every annoying, badly done Facebook meme, there is a grain of truth hidden somewhere. Because even the hunter puts down the rifle when the rabbit is served to him on a silver platter by strangers he’s never going to see again.”

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Death of a Novel

A Nass writer reflects on the grief of losing her first novel.

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Lemonade // Drain

“Neither you nor your soul is waiting for me at   the end of this,” — Nick Flynn, “Cathedral of Salt”   All I ever wanted was a kitchen and you standing in the tile-white light. Me, on the floor, … Read More

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On Wizardly Humane Justice

Ditch Harry Potter for a different, more just classic.

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A History of Silence: Elision and Destruction in the New Mexican Landscape

“There’s power in not having to care. As Inez Guzmán remarks, the film Oppenheimer can leave New Mexico just as its subject did: apparently without a second thought. But there’s also power—more ambivalent, yes, but also more lasting—that comes with needing to pick up the pieces.”

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Verbatim

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Overheard during mid-lecture break

Exploitative junior: My sister is a freshman here. We have a great deal going. I buy her alcohol and she does my laundry.

Overheard in Car

Student: Didn’t the Prince publish that really awful article about that kid with the Filipina maid? It was called, like, “Gloria.”

Nass Editor-In-Chief: That was the Nass.

Overheard in Kwanza

Person wanting trail mix: Let me get in there

Person holding trail mix: You know who gets in here all the time without asking?

Legacy student: Legacy students

Overheard by the tables in that long hallway in Dillon

Soft-spoken philo-bro: I'm trying to cut back on the caffeine. 300 milligrams a day was feeling risky.

Chatty gay: And how much is in that yerba mate?

Philo-bro: Only 200. It's about the tapering.

Overheard at the pregame

Cooked junior: Pre-frosh? You mean high school student. Okay, so I’m a pre-grad student. I’m a pre-father. I’m a pre-dead man.

Overheard in Coffee Club

HUM student: To be frank, I kind of don't understand the point of science.

Overheard in Prospect Gardens

Guy in Princeton Squash backpack: If there were a zombie apocalypse I'm not sure I'd be able to keep moving

Overheard near Frist

Girl 1: I’ve been buying so many clothes on my mom’s credit card

Girl 2: Doesn’t she mind?

Girl 1: It’s okay, I buy smaller things in-between so she doesn’t notice the big purchases when she looks at the statement.

Overheard in WPRB studio

Tallest man in the world, pointing at a picture of outer space: Would you finger yourself there?

Overheard in roommate groupchat

23-year-old roommate: Can we play photo roulette when you guys get back to the room tonight?

Overheard in Practical Ethics

Skeptical student, googling: Is Socrates a real person?

Skeptical student: *drops the class*

Overheard in the Rocky Common Room

English major, reading the most recent Nass issue: Oh, so the second article they're publishing is a semester out of date… classic…

Overheard in Firestone study room

American history buff: This isn't about you, we're talking about one of our nation's great founding fathers.