"My day is not complete without sugar free jello, a stick of beef jerky, and six diet cokes," U-Council Chair Alison Arensman '04 quipped in response to a question posed by Kean Tonetti '06, founder of the new campus publication Peeps.
Tonetti said she started Peeps to "test the theory that anyone at Princeton would have something interesting to say" when approached in casual conversation.
Recently, a second new publication called Bamn!, edited by Brian Cochran '06, has appeared on campus.
The University granted official recognition to both Peeps and Bamn!, saying that each offers a form of expression distinct from existing student groups.
The idea for Peeps originated in a discussion between Tonetti and a friend in which the two mused over which students, professors and administrators they would most like to interview if given the opportunity.
Since that time, Tonetti has compiled a simple set of questions and, on the Peeps website at www.princeton.edu/~peeps, posted answers she has received from interviews with a wide variety of people.
Pointedly nonspecific, Tonetti's questions delve into people's eccentricities, "from the irreverent to the insightful, one peep at a time," according to the publication's website.
Tonetti said the Peeps mission is to introduce faculty, students and alumni to one another in a more personal and accessible manner.
"We want to get a glimpse of peoples' personalities," Tonetti said. "Or lack thereof, as the case may be."
So far the site features responses from President Shirley Tilghman and USG President Matt Margolin '05, among others.
With a mission similar to Peeps', Bamn! started as "a venue for pushing the envelope," Cochran said.
While Cochran said he respects and has contributed to established student publications, he suggests that they have formats that are too restrictive.
As an alternative to existing publications, Bamn! aspires to expose inventive and possibly divergent opinions within the University that Cochran believes are pervasive yet currently unarticulated.
With stapled binding and crude lettering on its first issue, the magazine attempts to "shift emphasis" from polished products to the raw and unfiltered articulation of exciting ideas, Cochran said.
Cochran added that he is willing to print almost any poetry, stories or piece, with spatial limitations as the only constraint.
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