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Princeton in the Nation’s Service: Inside Princeton’s BDSM and Kink Club

“The College does not endorse the views or activities of any independent student organization,” said Harvard College spokesman Jeff Neal in November of last year, after the College granted official recognition to Harvard College Munch.

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Goody Bag

On grandma’s food scraps, preserved with care.

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Mortem Ex Machina

I remember the first time someone I knew died. My sister’s friend had gone missing, and when the news finally came that her death was sure, I privately went through my phone, which had previously been my sister’s, and searched for the friend’s name.

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Splitsville.com

Our Photo Booth binges are etched with permanent pixels in ways my pubescent voice-cracks will never be. Which is terrifying. So I exhausted hours upon hours to bury three years of my life in Mark Zuckerberg’s treasure chest of secrets, but only after staring down each, one by one, and casting it into the dark anonymity of “untagged.”

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Drop-kick me, Jesus

It certainly looks like things cannot get any worse for the Little Sisters of Hoboken, New Jersey, when two-thirds of the nuns die from ingesting a tainted soup prepared by Sister Julia (Child of God). When the play opens, the … Read More

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This Affects Me

Two years ago when I was ‘outed’ to the entire university community by The Daily Princetonian in a classic Prince counterfactual and misquoted “news” piece about an alleged election controversy, I promised myself to never be put in a situation … Read More

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The Mare’s Teaching

During breaks from Princeton, instead of lounging on the couch, I can be found somewhere on Route 95, clutching a Ziploc bag full of carrots and heading to northern Massachusetts with my mother. It’s our ritual—a necessary pilgrimage to visit the members of our family who are too big to live at home with us, but no less loved for it.

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Corecore and the Logic of Montage

“This genre’s title, corecore, makes a totalizing claim on the thousands of balkanized subgenres and subaesthetics that fleet past the user: only a certain set of objects and clips can be dazecore or college dormcore, but corecore encompasses all such ‘cores,’ all these oddly particular aesthetics.”

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Richard Nixon’s Legacy Lives On!

I had never seen ping pong look so good. In fact, before this Saturday, when the Princeton Table Tennis Club played Peking University’s team, I had never even seen competitive ping pong played before – excepting a few scenes in … Read More

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Leftism in Limbo

At first glance, it seems that the culture wars never really ended; they simply slipped out of public consciousness temporarily.

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The Blades

“The body politic existed as it should; the blade grew to join the body as it should; the body bowed to the wind — all as it should.”

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Intime Knows that Sex Sells

They say you learn something new every day. “Aight,” you’re going, “but do you really?” I’m gonna go out on a limb now and say that that’s the basic premise of this here education: learning. But even if I’m generous … Read More

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