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If you are reading this, you’re probably a little bit of a weirdo. That, or whoever gave you this magazine most definitely is. I referenced Lewis Carroll’s Alice in Wonderland in my application to be Street’s editor–in–chief last December. A caterpillar asks Alice, “Who are you?” to which Alice responds, “I—I hardly know, sir, just at present—at least I know who I was when I got up this morning, but I think I must have been changed several times since then.” I was trying to come up with some cohesive definition of Street, and quoting a children’s book seemed to be the closest I could get. Over the past year, I have stammered and blanked when trying to explain what exactly it is that I spend most of my time on campus doing. An arts and culture magazine? Sure, whatever that means. An alt–weekly? Get me a walkman. The “New Yorker of Penn”? Aspirationally. Rumor has it, there was a point in the early aughts when Street as an institution was blacklisted from almost every campus party. We na

Letter From The Editor Letter from the Editor: Best Of Notes From a Cuckoo Editor–in–Chief By Norah Rami Dec 5, 2025 11:46 am Jackson Ford / 34th Street Magazine If you are reading this, you’re probably a little bit of a weirdo. That, or whoever gave you this magazine most definitely is. I referenced Lewis Carroll’s Alice in Wonderland in my application to be Street’s editor–in–chief last December. A caterpillar asks Alice, “Who are you?” to which Alice responds, “I—I hardly know, sir, just at present—at least I know who I was when I got up this morning, but I think I must have been changed se

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