Beautiful girlfriend: I thought you liked me for my personality.
Realistic boyfriend: It’s okay.

“I was attracted to this accepting community, a space for anyone to express themselves and their thoughts beyond pure academics.”

“I had made a positive impact on someone else; I had connected through my words to another mind, another person.”


“I hope and expect those feelings will only increase as I watch where it goes in the next forty.”


“The Nass taught me to trivialize the serious, to take seriously the trivial.”



“But whether these vital conversations unfold in the pages and meetings of the Nass or elsewhere, we hope they will unfold nonetheless.”




Unpacking and reflecting on the “deep-seated racial ‘master-labor’ power dynamic between the Chinese employers and Filipino maids in Hong Kong.”

Reflecting on gender dynamics and college-party culture on different campuses, and the protective measures some students take.
Beautiful girlfriend: I thought you liked me for my personality.
Realistic boyfriend: It’s okay.