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Rethinking Princeton Traditions

On a strange back-to-school season and its unexpected potential for the Class of 2024.

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The Story of Suk-ho Peel

Author’s Note: Around 90% of the text of this story is taken verbatim from Wikipedia articles on various famous Princeton alumni, after Kenneth Goldsmith’s lecture and seminar “Uncreative Writing.” If you are curious to know from which alumnus certain details … Read More

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Zaide’s Office, Embodied

“I wondered what kind of philosopher he might have been, having known him only after his thinking and memory had become impaired.”

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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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When I was 16, I was Hot

The first months of freshman year went by so quickly. I hooked up with the guy who became my boyfriend within days of arriving on campus, and my friends and I managed to garner the attention of what seemed like … Read More

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Hail Mary!

When I walked into “practice” for Athletes in Action (motto: “Jesus was a player, too”), I must admit I had my reservations. Growing up in the Episcopal Church, I had no experience whatsoever with extended sports metaphors.

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Masks and Motherhood: Reflections on Simon Stone’s Medea

A consideration of a modern reimagining of an ancient play

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Sunday Matinee

Blind Guy sits on park bench, looks out, the day reacts: A Man jogging by with his buxom new Bride envies a Widower, lonely old fat— propelled by gravity, on a skateboard he glides sips a milk-shake, hits a hidden … Read More

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A Brief Account of the Leipzig Games Convention

The first stop was, logically, Hall 5, probably the best hall of the convention and the home for current video game titans Microsoft and Nintendo. Microsoft’s entry into the video game market is a recent development to this writer who … Read More

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Download G.O.O.D. Fridays

Kanye West divides and provokes and resides like few entertainers suspended in the stratosphere of fame. His skill as a musician is indubitable, but so is his misbehavior. To some, he is a prophet of the heavens, speaking Truth to … Read More

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Covid on a Post-Covid Campus?

“Now that the University is not monitoring the pandemic as closely through testing, Covid is a silent landmine, invisible and creeping. No matter how lightly I tread, its threat looms just beyond the visible realm.”

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Only In Name: The Myth of Model Minority Assimilation

“There is a sad symbolism to this game of catch-up, a sense of sprinting after an ideal that is perpetually out of reach.”

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