Category: Campus

Drunk and Hungry

It is Saturday and a drunk Princeton student is stumbling home through Frist Campus Center on one of the many nights on the Street where an eating club’s theme demands no pants, just boxers.

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Perches

“All these little fires / give me a sense of placelessness / odd because the walk here at night / is landmarked to tell me exactly where I am.”

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Which Starlet Are You Most Like?

Hillary Duff’s gonna be SOOO mad

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Secret Charlie Rose

Note: Charlie Rose is a talk show host who speaks with notables from around the globe in a casual across-the-table setting that floats mysteriously in a formless black void. Everybody knows that. But what “viewers like you” don’t know is … Read More

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A View of Reunions from Behind the Scenes

Behind the scenes of Princeton’s annual alumni event, a small number of dedicated student trucking teams work tirelessly to keep Reunions running smoothly. Responsible for driving a fleet of large box trucks, crews of student truckers single-handedly transport all of … Read More

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Inside Princeton’s Underground Student-Run Restaurant

A prix-fixe, a poached pear, and a labor of love.

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Bikes I Hate

I like most bikes in this world, especially my friend Jenn Ruskey’s. Hers is green and quite stylish and still works after two years. Most bikes are a-okay. But in my two and one-twenty fourth years at Princeton I have … Read More

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Hopes and Dreams

We were ripped off, as usual, as the three of us stepped out of the taxi and into a steamy, puddle-filled section of Hanoi. Adam, a towering Beta from Long Island, wasn’t too happy. “Fifty five thousand fucking dong! Fuck … Read More

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My Fair Math Tower

“A brutalist chic makes my heart quite weak / Dare I describe the wonders of Fine Hall?”

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An Appraisal of a House on Fire

Ever since I realized, a few months ago, that the qualities that make me an anomalous 22-year-old are not mere deficiencies but a product of a legacy, I’ve daydreamed of a time when such a legacy would have still been … Read More

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The Desert of the Meal

Slavoj Žižek seems like he is on the brink of a nervous breakdown when he lectures. He waves his arms wildly. He pulls at the front of his unassuming gray T-shirt. He grabs at the hair on his forehead. He … Read More

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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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