Freshman girl #1: I’ve been trying to eat healthy lately…it’s really expensive and it goes bad really quickly.
Guy: No preservatives. Twinkies, like a fine wine, get better over the years.
Freshman girl #2: What happens to tofu when it goes bad?
Guy: It turns into meat.
Overheard at late dinner
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Bringing Out the Dead
Reconstructing the fragments of a life: documents, memory, and the weight of the past.
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Metamodernism
“You stare at that tan bag with odd patches and watch the puddle forming around it slowly grow, spreading out across the hardwood floors.”
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Letting It All Hang Out
If there’s one thing The Nassau Weekly has learned from Ellie Diamond, it’s that a good cry is worth the wait.
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Second Look: Full Design
Our big debut! All our hard-hitting journalistic goings-on inside. Find a copy around campus, or take a look at the full spread below:
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After Trump’s win, Princeton’s right wing is preparing to take charge
The Heritage Foundation, the Whig-Clio election watch party, and Princeton’s place in the conservative orbit
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Princeton Pro-Life on the 2024 United States Election
The political attachments and detachments of Princeton Pro-Life in the face of the general election
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On Campus, the Israel Divestment Struggle is in Limbo
On September 30, 2024, during a Council of the Princeton University Community (CPUC) meeting, two dozen pro-Palestine protesters gathered off to the side of the room, tape over their mouths. They held paper signs with slogans such as “Princeton your hands are red,” “Anti-Zionism ≠ antisemitism,” and “drop the charges” — the latter a reference to…
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Keeping Princeton Cemetery Alive Through the Seasons
SPRING On one day you may come across a trumpet fanfare heralding a US president; on another, a woman meditating cross-legged under a tree; and perhaps on Halloween, the touch of a phantom hand. Rows of neatly arranged headstones stand next to the boulevard of trees stretching softly into the sky. Now and then you…
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Closest to the Solution: The Story and Legacy of Princeton’s Prison Teaching Initiative
A Second Look writer speaks with formerly incarcerated students, PTI educators, and Princeton administrators about the resilience of the program
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Q&A: Eliza Griswold on Journalism in a New Trump Era
A Pulitzer-Prize-winning professor talks electoral reporting and the journalistic horizon
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The Ripple Effect: Yue Yin’s Eras of Creation
A Nass writer reconsiders the classical recounts her experience working with a celebrated choreographer at the Princeton Dance Festival
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I’ll Be Your Baby Tonight: Full Design
The sun is setting, and the Nass is getting out of here. We still have a few tricks up our sleeve.