Category: Campus

Take a Leave of Absence: It’s Easier Than You Think

A Nass writer investigates why and how students take leaves—and what it’s like to be gone.

by on

Masturbation Lunch

Talking female pleasure with Ellen Heed.

by on

Making Friends

It all begins with the fourteen page Panhellenic Recruitment handbook that arrives in your inbox shortly after registration, a process in which some very enthusiastic girls in the basement of Dod take a picture two inches away from your face. … Read More

by on

Excess Baggage

Psychoanalyzing handbags.

by on

Collara

Cigarettes come with a Surgeon General’s warning on the carton. There is a disclaimer at the end of every Cialis ad. The honorable Miller, Budweiser, and Absolut Vodka companies remind us to only drink responsibly. But men, look into your closets.

by on

An Interception

That long diagonal, from Point A to Point B, also happened to contain Point Me, somewhere in between.

by on

Stay Tenacious

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

by on

Le Cirque, C’est Chic

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

by on

Pitch Imperfect

It wasn’t a dare made on a drunken night nor was it a private joke made with friends—one that would make us splutter at random moments to the displeasure of a passersby. It wasn’t even one of those mental promises made casually to myself (CVS run, get pens; sign up for dinner with faculty) that eventually slips into languid oblivion.

by on

Adapting Art: A Call for New Monologues

And if it were to embrace a more expansive view of womanhood…a new production that seeks to radically transform the way women are perceived and perceive themselves, could also deal more thoughtfully with other perspectives.

by on

Large Drunk Appetites

Because of my tendency to mumble vague feminist claims, or perhaps because of my decade-long ugly duckling phase, I have always been pinned with the word “jaded.” I suspect this is because my first crush called me “chipmunk face” too many times, so I eventually beat him up in second grade and then gave up on romance before I knew what it was.

by on

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

by on