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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Are they snobfests or just basically dining halls?[/quote]

what do you think? snobfests, all the way.[/quote]

Not really.  About half are open to any students who sign up to eat there and some still have a system that’s equivalent to a fraternity/sorority rush. I’m surprised Eisgruber hasn’t put an end to those clubs but I guess they’re important to some alumni. [/quote]

They are important to many alumni who have very fond memories of their times at eating clubs, in large part because many bear almost no resemblance to the snobfest OP and others seem to envision.  And as for the few clubs that do somewhat match those images, they are very easy to avoid them if that’s your seen.[/quote]

I have fond memories of Princeton, but the Bicker clubs stood out as places where I felt unseen and unwelcome, as a student from a middle-class background lacking the social connections or capital of classmates from fancier backgrounds.  Every year a significant number of undergraduates call on the administration to put an end to Bicker as antithetical to the school’s commitment to diversity, and every year Eisgruber comes up with some reason to do nothing.  I guess they can ignore how the reputation of the eating clubs discourages a lot of top kids from even applying to Princeton as long as they’re only admitting 5-6% of applicants, but it likely contributes to the significantly lower volume of applications Princeton receives compared to some of its peer schools. [/quote]

I don’t agree with painting all bicker clubs with the same brush and, while some alumni would like the university to get rid of bicker (doing so wouldn’t be that easy), I don’t think anywhere near the majority think the university should do that.

If you don’t like the social scene at Ivy or Cottage, don’t go to Ivy and Cottage. I certainly didn’t.[/quote]

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