The Juicy Campus Issue

February 21, 2008

Letter From the Editors

Allies, Enemies, and Non-Combatants, It is with great fanfare and pleasure that we bring you this, the third issue of our tenure as Editors-in-Chief. This week you’ll find a portrait of former Senator Majority Leader Bill Frist ’74, an analysis … Read More

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The Fifth Column

Regardless of what Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama tell you, it looks like the race for the White House is turning out to be quite the familiar affair. Of course, the fact that the Democratic nominee will either be a … Read More

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Is the Juice Worth the Squeeze?

JuicyCampus, an anonymous forum devoted to gossip and rumor, has taken off in recent weeks on college campuses across the nation, and represents what is perhaps the final stage of the digitization of student identity. Where before individuals controlled the level of disclosure contained in and the accuracy (or inaccuracy) of their online façades, now anyone may say anything about anyone.

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PrinceWatch, Reloaded

PrinceWatch is back! For years the Daily Princetonian has been running bizarre and often incomprehensible features on facets of campus life that are of interest only to drooling alums and university administrators who like to see their names in print. We at PrinceWatch hope to bring to light the most egregiously offensive examples of Prince pseudo-journalism in the hopes that one day the Daily Princetonian will give itself a long hard look in the mirror and close its doors for good. Right.

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Sittin’ Pretty in Wham City

A week and a day after I saw Dan Deacon play his new DVD, Ultimate Reality, at Bard College, I saw him buying a camera at B&H in Manhattan. B&H is probably what the Nazis feared the planet would look like by now: an electronics store run and mostly staffed by Orthodox Jews, every item carried from the shelf to the salesman to the register by conveyor belts, each one tricked out with neon blue trim.

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Notorious E.V.E.

I hate vaginas. I always have and always will. They’re dank and cavernous and horrible, and I feel bad for every man or woman who has to venture down there without a bulwark between him and that juicy, pungent vag-spunk. … Read More

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Gossip Girl Returns

The Writer’s Strike is over! Listen closely and you can hear the clicks of the computers as writers across America happily click away. All is good in the world, except for all of that bad that’s still in there too. … Read More

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Syncopation

Two days before, I was alone, thinking about what it must feel like to have a heart that beats when it wants, attune to no one and free to roam around the range of time like a novice drummer. Thinking … Read More

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A Study in Atlantic Salmon

The thin strap of a duffel bag cut into Milo’s shoulder as he stood on the front step of the old house where he grew up. He studied a painfully new, gold mailbox that dangled a limp newspaper in its … Read More

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Verbatim

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Overheard in PHI384

Prof. Rosen: Why would a self-regarding act, like homosexual behavior, have grounds for punishment under the harm principle?
Student #1: Well, it might motivate others to think that it is a
good thing to do, through television and stuff.
Prof. Rosen: It might motivate others to participate in a self-regarding act?
Student #2: It might make those people go to Hell.

Overheard at Kosovar independence celebration

Student: You'd think the Yugoslavians would know not to count their chickens before they hatch.

Overheard in Frist

Girl, to boyfriend: Jim, did you say that porn was prettier than me?

Overheard at Cap

Guy: I love women! I mean, I'm not a feminist or anything, but I'm certainly tolerant.