Struggles with words: I think I will likewise receive the same great pleasure.
Overheard in Tower
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Telescoping Space
To telescope, we begin with 300 words, then slice the word count in half for each successive section. We stop when the numbers stop dividing evenly. Looking around and beyond us, this week we telescope “space.”
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On Deciding Not To Live In A Literal Castle
A first-year student wrestles with the decision to stay at home in a semester with so many students on campus.
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Enfleshment
“If the body cares not for itself, / who would care for it? / What is the use / of wasted breath?”
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Breakout – Full Design
This week, the Nass celebrates Women*s History Month with a series of brilliant, probing, and devastating pieces by and about women* of all kinds.
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A Letter from the Publishers: Celebrating the Women*s Issue
The co-publishers of the Nassau Weekly celebrate the third-annual Women*s Issue.
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Fake Housewives, Get Out
In which a writer contemplates the influence of housewives, real and fake.
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Refusal, Or: Three Cauliflower Ears
In which a Nass writer celebrates the work of prominent surrealist Leonara Carrington.
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Weight Watcher
“No matter how good my grades are or how well I do in my after-school clubs, I fight with my body.”
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The Long and Short: Hair
“Every time I looked in the mirror, my cropped hair reminded me that I had suffered, had experienced something that none of my peers could comprehend.”
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Lincoln
“He wouldn’t have taken it normally, but there was a girl at Lincoln’s shoulder, a fiber science major who kept touching his button-down to inspect the weave, and he couldn’t tell afterwards whether she’d only kissed him because it was 100% cotton.”
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