Category: Campus

RUTH!

The second woman to serve on the Court and the last of Bill Clinton’s appointees, Justice Ginsburg built her legal career on the fight for women’s rights and was instrumental in a number of ACLU-led fights—but on Thursday she was here to avoid all that.

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Cosmic Vibes & Forgotten Lives

“What is a memory? What launched the study of memory? How can our knowledge of memory serve us in the future?”

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“So I got this Adult Store…” and Other Stories from the Campaign Trail

Political campaigns are at once noble and naïve. On one level they are not akin to anything so much as a revolution, albeit one that requires only a temporary commitment.

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The Burden of Proof

Princeton’s campus is insulated from the dangers of a city. It teems with P-Safe cars. But for much of the community, in the privacy of our dorm rooms and our own mattresses, it is not safe.

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Le Cirque, C’est Chic

One pearly-teethed, outdoors adverse Princeton debutant examines the thrilling liberation of circus arts.

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A Brief Account of the Leipzig Games Convention

Soon our hour of traveling past fields of grain and windmills in the plains of Saxony came to an end, and we arrived at the Leipzig Central Train Station. It was time to get to the Convention Center. At first … Read More

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The Princeton Rub

Princeton. A well-established, reputable institution. A hotbed of intellectual curiosity and homoeroticism. Wait – come again?

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Is porn anti-sex?

“Kids…absorb pornography very differently from the way adults do…. Even young teenagers are generally not sophis- ticated enough consumers to differentiate between fantasy and reality…. They learn what women supposedly look like, how they should act, and what they’re supposed … Read More

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Excess and Thrift

Last night there was an enormous raccoon prowling through the dumpsters in Wilson. The girl I was walking with recoiled, but I was sympathetic—ever since I joined the free food listserv I often feel like a nocturnal creature rummaging through … Read More

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Murray-Dodge is Nothing

Murray-Dodge has substance and is not empty.

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Society Girl

I spent this past week in the basement of Friend, in a windowless computer cluster, working on a lab report for Chemical Engineering. Pizza came in and Excel spreadsheets came out-a perfect mass and momentum balance. I happened to notice … Read More

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Play It Again, Sam

They are the prophets of unwanted gaiety, the minstrels of midnight madness—they are the piano players of Frist, and I hereby appoint myself their public defense.

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