Category: Campus

Define Your Terms: Responding to Joshua Leifer’s Misguided Wall Street Allegations

The breadth and depth of financial services extends far beyond the scope of the causes of the financial crisis, and to identify a sector that comprises 9 percent of the economy or even any of the companies within that sector as wholly anything is a mistake.

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Life, Pornified

A critical look at anti-porn activism at Princeton.

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Work Life Balance

The Yale administration’s insistence on a student income contribution is reinforcing inequality along race and classlines.” So proclaims a new campaign launched at Yale, organized by the group Students Unite Now (SUN), aiming to eliminate the student income contribution for undergrads … Read More

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Stay Tenacious

The report’s interpretation is not at odds with the Sotomayor speech, but doesn’t fully understand it, either.

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I Am Not the Übermensch

Why do we feel compelled to shut down anything that deviates even slightly from the social standards to which we have unwittingly chained ourselves?

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Seeing Myself Clearly

This binary between “school” and “cool” is something even my own parents, haters
of dim lighting and monthly contacts prescriptions, acknowledge as well, if only implicitly.

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Lyssna: A Review

The performance was viscerally compelling. Immersed in evolving harmonies and asymmetrical rhythms, I found myself transported to a space outside the predictable and rigid schedules of junior spring, of deadlines and word counts, into a rustic, sunlit world where patterns existed to be deconstructed and reformed.

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What Does a Good Girl Look Like

Women, more than men, feel compelled to meet superhuman standards.

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When Tigerhub Goes Down

The twenty-one hours to himself during the day aren’t so bad, but the three hours at night are paralyzing. He always tells himself, in the midst of particularly productive days, that he’ll be able to finally start doing things during the night, but when the time comes he’s scared of going out.

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Julia

The first text I sent you said “love me.” I had met you once, and sent it from your roommate’s phone. You were too cool to play it cool.

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Peer Review

Since the beginning of time, editors at The Nassau Weekly have taken their pens to each other’s Common Application Essays. And yes, The Nassau Weekly has been around since the beginning of time.

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103 Things to Do as a Prefrosh

The Nass compiled the definitive list of necessary prefrosh experiences

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