I had my first view of the island from the ferry, a stout, iron-walled vessel with smooth plastic pews on two decks and a horn that sounded like an animal moaning in pain. Around it, the June evening light resisted darkness until the last possible moment, like a child struggling to staying awake until dawn. more ...

So there I was, at the friend of a friends’ friend party in the summer time ready to engage in what I hoped to be a raucous good time with a bunch of people I didn’t really know. After a little squeeze play through the crowd of substance abusing teenagers, I made my way around the three-story, thoroughly trashed Georgetown townhouse, admiring its resiliency in withstanding a countless number of over-crowded keggers year after year. more ...

For the undergraduate population at Princeton, the social life and weekend debaucheries tend to gravitate towards the east of campus, where Prospect Street provides a variety of diversions from campus responsibilities that disappear, or are routinely ignored, at midnight on Thursdays, Saturdays, or any other time when tap calls. For campus graduate students, however, the somewhat elusive D-Bar, or Debasement Bar (do some refer to it as Da Basement? I wouldn’t be surprised), invites its customers to descend the stairs below the tower of the Old Graduate College, literally into the basement, and thanks to university sponsorship, consume a wide variety of drinks at very wallet-friendly prices. more ...

On a cold and rainy winter evening, Dr. Cornel West and Professor Robert George sat down in a cluttered office to dialogue for Green Light Magazine. Cornel West GS *80 is the Princeton Class of 1943 Professor of Religion and author of both the 1993 national bestseller Race Matters and the new book Democracy Matters among a host of other influential scholarly works. Robert George is the McCormick Professor of Jurisprudence and director of the James Madison Program in American Ideals and Institutions at Princeton. George is currently a member of President Bush’s Council on Bioethics and has authored numerous articles and books including, The Clash of Orthodoxies: Law, Morality, and Religion in Crisis. Amidst two full hours of debate, disagreement and frequent laughter, these two brilliant public intellectuals discussed everything from Princeton to newspaper advertisements. more ...