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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Lac de Sainte-Croix
Spontaneity escapes me, I swim in fear of unlikely tsunamis, or phantasmic beasts. I swim with a raincoat on, protecting my words from the world. My ears tinged with the muffled sounds of laughter. My body quaking under the temple of thoughts I’ve built. I find myself in a canyon of…
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Barbie Pink and Rani Pink: Crushed Under Corporate Feminism
“Adapting Marx on capitalism, a character in the film notes that ‘Kenland contains the seeds of its own destruction.’ Well, so does Barbie.”
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A Case for Disgust
“And yet, God introduces Adam and Eve. Around them, creatures dance and indulge and huddle and purge. Birds shit humans. Dying men fart birds. He treats euphoria and terror with the same technical perfection, blurring the line between a familiar Earth and an alien world”.
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The Children’s Book That Hurt Me Most: Three Experts Discuss
A Nass writer seeks closure for Each Kindness, a children’s book without a resolution.
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SEPARATION RITUALS
We are in the magic-room, as she is calling it. I write that down. She is cute and funny, even now. But of course she is. She calls it a sanctuary. I write that down too. My mom is working so hard On making this place beautiful. She is not here. …
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The Meaning of Life According to My Inbox
Recently, my email account has doubled as my journal. I can’t stop writing emails. Not the usual, 10-liner, meeting set-up emails, but lengthy, rambling, floods of words in which I entirely reveal my personal vulnerabilities to recipients I have never met before. My subject line: “Advice for a Graduate.” My goal: to gather the instructions…
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Below the Belt
A Nass writer details the struggles Muslim students face using university restroom facilities.
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Root Canal: Full Design
This week, the Nass looks deep into the construction of cavities, finding a world where the dance is improvisational and the restrooms are mindful.
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Reveries of Bloomberg Basement
If you venture into the depths of Bloomberg Hall, along a gloomy corridor that echoes with the thump of laundry machines, you will find the entrance to Room 044. Just another pale door in a series of pale doors, the unadorned surface gives no indication that this is the portal to a magical realm. Enter…
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PRINCEWATCH
Back from hiatus, PrinceWatch is here to keep campus journalism accountable. This week we’re punching up with this triumph of data analysis: “Top Universities released decisions. Admissions Instagram followers plunged.” (Published April 3rd, 2023) A melodramatic headline that captures the meaningful relationship between cause and effect. Not much to say about this…
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Eating Clubs, A’s, and AI: What Profs Really Think About Us
Princeton, from our professors’ point of view.