Today in the NYT: Palestinian-American and Jewish students are friends.

So it's a slow news um, month here in snowy Princeton--a month of no classes, of students shuffling to and from Firestone's confining basement floors, greeting each other with the number of pages they've yet to finish before Tuesday, at 4 pm. Welcome to reading period at Princeton.But things are still happening, Inkblots! Real things! Newsy things!

• They found the guy who shut down Newark security for hours last week.
• The New Jersey State Senate voted 20 to 14 against a bill legalizing same-sex marriage in the state.
• And finally...so these two freshmen on the Princeton women's basketball team, Lauren Polansky '13 and Niveen Rasheed '13, are friends, right? And one of them is Palestinian-American and the other is Jewish. But they're like, totally friends and they want to win basketball games, by working together! And they don't even care that one of them is Palestinian-American and the other is Jewish!  Crazy, right? And guess what, Polansky's Facebook profile picture is even "one of her and Rasheed in a friendly embrace!"  This is a real story. In the New York Times.

Are we being "post-racial," or just normal, when we ask...Why is this a story?