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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Coed or not, I don't get how you work your ass of in high school and go through a rigorous and selective admissions application process, to then have to "interview" for a decent place to eat, study and socialize.[/quote]

The Daily Princetonian frequently makes that exact argument to no avail.   The answer is that, if you don't want to "bicker," you typically join a low-key "sign-in" club that just has a lottery system, keep a university meal plan, or become an "independent" who lives in a dorm/apartment with a kitchen.

Coming from a middle-class family and a public high school, I considered the eating clubs a negative when deciding whether to attend Princeton, but I still had a very good time there.  I'd love to see the university force the hand of the "bicker" clubs and put an end to the practice, but I was still friends with some of their members - just outside those clubs.  Tiger Inn was the rowdiest club decades ago, and it sounds like nothing has changed.  [/quote]

"Bicker" (i.e., selective eating clubs) came close to ending about 30 years ago, around the same time that a longstanding effort to force certain all-make clubs to become co-ed was coming to fruition.  For many years, selectivity and the persistence of some all mail clubs were seen as closely related, that the club system needed to become fully modern.  Unfortunately, when the all-male clubs (all of which were selective but not  comprising all the selective clubs) went co-ed, it inadventently provided new life to the old system of selectivity, as many women were very attracted by selectivity.  It's interesting that not one club since 1980 has converted from selective to non-selective (sign in/lottery) status, which I think is unfortunate.[/quote]

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