<p>an interesting piece in the village voice about farris hassan, who "briefly became an international media figure for making [a] clandestine Christmas-break voyage to Baghdad" in 2005, and who is hoping to take his tricks to princeton next year.</p>
<p>College is definitely on Hassan's mind. Although he's undecided and nervous about mentioning preferences in public, he admits that he's thinking Ivy League, perhaps Princeton. </p>
<p>"This may sound pompous, and I probably won't get in, but John McPhee teaches at Princeton," he says with enthusiasm. "He's one of the founding fathers of the New Journalism movement... It would be sort of like a dream of mine to sit in John McPhee's class."</p>