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

“I hardly believe that I am the first to bring this to your attention, but I feel compelled by my allegiance to our university’s mission to ask: why don’t we spend more time talking about dinosaurs?”

Chris Hedges, Pultizer Prize-winner, teaches a creative writing class comprised half of Princeton students and half of inmates at a women’s prison nearby. He and Boris Franklin, a former student of his, spoke to me about the role of education in prisons, the standing of women, and the necessity of divestment from private prisons.

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When she was seven, Kaya said, “If I ever grow up and have my own bank account, the first thing I’m gonna buy is a Christmas tree and then Christmas tree ornaments.”


“Will Frost— “gods clown,” blue-grass harmonic player, certified mid-wife, UC Berkeley graduate and Abraham Lincoln look-alike—sits on the bench outside Small World Coffee eating a bagel with grape jelly.”

One student’s controversial dance piece becomes the centerpiece of a conversation about mental health on campus

“We’d love to have you on our team! Don’t think of it as working for the Nass; think of it as letting the Nass work for you.”

“There’s no way to keep their memory alive perfectly; with time, their carcasses will fade from the streets and then from memory.”


“But I can say this: as I stood on stage on that final sold-out Saturday and belted out the final lyrics to the finale, “We’re home!” for the first time since arriving on Princeton’s campus I felt like I had a place on this campus. I felt at home.”
Beautiful girlfriend: I thought you liked me for my personality.
Realistic boyfriend: It’s okay.