Guard 1: Did you watch the Rutgers game?
Guard 2: Of course!
Guard 1: Really?
Guard 2: No.
Overheard while exiting Firestone
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Lemonade // Drain
“Neither you nor your soul is waiting for me at the end of this,” — Nick Flynn, “Cathedral of Salt” All I ever wanted was a kitchen and you standing in the tile-white light. Me, on the floor, drinking pink lemonade & watching the minutes blink 30 In all my years I’ve…
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A History of Silence: Elision and Destruction in the New Mexican Landscape
“There’s power in not having to care. As Inez Guzmán remarks, the film Oppenheimer can leave New Mexico just as its subject did: apparently without a second thought. But there’s also power—more ambivalent, yes, but also more lasting—that comes with needing to pick up the pieces.”
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There’s a Woman by the River: The Delta Blues with Lala Craig
“When she sings, her voice batters the crowd like baseball-sized hail. No one is safe.”
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Dogs Out: Full Design
This week, the Nass invents a new major, sings the blues, and asks what the end of affirmative action means for Princeton students of color.
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Olivia Rodrigo’s Sponsored “get him back!” Video Fails to Be Iconic
Does Olivia Rodrigo have more to give than GUTS?
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Why Am I Still a Statistic?
“While I believe in the pipe dream that colleges should give each student, no matter how sparkly, the same care and attention, my more grounded argument is this: Why does worthiness stop being ‘holistic’ after students of color have been accepted to college?”
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Barbie Bubble: How Leaving Princeton For New York Took Me Off the Shelf
“Displays of public indecency jolted me more than I’d like to admit. Living in the city this summer, I felt I was experiencing patriarchy as I had as a little girl—as something new.”