Student: I feel like these people should just, like, go to college and join a frat instead of flying off to join ISIS. Like, they just want to be part of something. So join something else, like, even the YMCA
Overheard in the slums
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The Septumber Issue: Full Design
In the first issue of the semester, the Nass investigates sectoral bargaining, keeps a promise to a demon, and travels into the heart of Ireland’s magic.
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Covid on a Post-Covid Campus?
“Now that the University is not monitoring the pandemic as closely through testing, Covid is a silent landmine, invisible and creeping. No matter how lightly I tread, its threat looms just beyond the visible realm.”
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“Fighting for Everyone”: From California to Pittsburgh, Sectoral Bargaining is Building Worker Power
A writer investigates a new thread in the fight for worker justice.
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In Too Deep
In a supernatural cafe, a student must keep a promise to a demon before closing for the night.
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A Dish Window of One’s Own
“…upon closer inspection you realize it’s not paper, it’s a full hand of press-on nails pressed into the strawberry ice cream pressed into the bowl. It’s a bridge too far.”
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Capri-Sun: Full Design
This week, in the annual Summer Issue, the Nass reflects on nostalgia for the iPhone 6, bends like a blade of grass, and writes poems from a Costco gas station.
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The Blades
“The body politic existed as it should; the blade grew to join the body as it should; the body bowed to the wind — all as it should.”
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Short Guide for Running
Twenty satirical directives for running in the city.
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from a costco gas station in california
“but roots are live wires, and you never saw / that I’m more brick than concrete…”
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White Supremacy and the “Cancel Culture” Backlash
An opinion piece exploring the ideological basis of vocal pushback against “wokeism” on campus.
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iPhone Reflections
“Looking back at it now, it feels like that iPhone 6s was like an omnipresent eye throughout my adolescence, there to capture and see it all, completely unfiltered.”