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E-PrinceAll but one eating club filled to capacity following Bicker and second-round sign-ins, signaling strong demand for club membership in the first year in which the four-year residential college system has been in place.
The selective clubs admitted a total ...
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lolololol TI is about as selective as Charter.
Even with Tower hosing more than half the kids who bickered, it's still lamer than TI and really cannot be considered the most selective club in the sense of who and what the club is.
The only reason why so many bickered Tower is because way more people with no shot of getting in bicker there than anywhere else, seeing just how lame so many of the current members are and thinking that based on that they must be cool enough to get in. Also, the club does a really good job of having parties in January that are way better than 99% of the nights during the year and of encouraging people to bicker by making it totally non-selective and not self-selecting to decide to bicker. TI has the opposite problem. The bicker there is so harsh that no one wants to do it unless they're pretty sure they're gonna get in.
I think that what I'M True Blue said is probably correct, but he's kind of a stuffy jerk for directly pointing this out. He should also not limit his analysis to TI because the same could be said of Ivy, Cottage, and Cap. By the way, 'selective' means very different things: for tower is means the ability to impress their particular membership, whereas for TI it means the ability to fit into their cesspool of an alcoholic wasteland, etc etc etc for every other club. The few that still fit the typical definition of selective (rich, beautiful, and refined) seem to be only Cap, Cottage, and Ivy.
Many bicker Tower do so for the sake of bickering an eating club. Most members only know a few of the bickerees, and the ones that get in are either marginally more fun than the others or are members of Triangle/theater. Most selective alright...
The main reason Tower is comparatively easy to get into is the size. The 'Colonial Plus' effect comes from that extra 40 people. The grad board remembers the lean years of the early '00s and wants to stock up on money while it can. If only 65 people were admitted per year, and a lot of us wish it were that way, membership would largely mirror the other bicker clubs, albeit with fraternities and sports teams replaced by a cappella and Triangle. (If that sounds like hell, just think about having to sit next to a sea of Pi Phis or KAs every meal. No thanks.)
Hopefully people will stop bickering just to bicker--10-15 people at minimum will end up dropping the club by next fall. But as long as people see the Tower admission process as unthreatening and fun, they will continue to give it a shot.
Why don't you all go finish your schoolwork instead of this bullshit? Or have a beer at any of the clubs. These comments will seem really clever when you can't find a job, getting hosed from "Employment Club."
Yeah I think we need to remember that each and every club (but especially the bicker clubs) has its share of stereotypes and stigmas. You can't take potshots at Tower for having tools unless you're willing to concede that your own club (whatever it may be) is in fact well known for its drunkards/cokeheads/airheads/etc. You might think you're rich, beautiful, and refined, but that translates easily enough to snobby, stuck up, and arrogant, and might explain why not very many people want to bicker your club. Regardless of what you need to tell yourself in order to justify the way you act, having money and/or being pretty does not actually make you better than other people.
I just think it's hilarious that Charter is going to end up hosing more people than two or three "selective" clubs.
Hey, how come charter is so popular this year? What changed?
I also love how, despite everyone having friends at most of the clubs, the nitpicky hilarious stereotypes of each club persist.
Hey now, everyone stop your hating on Tower. The true reason why we got 217 bickerees this year is because we're a great MEMBERS club, offering the best food and formals plus frequent, awesome members-only events. We've also been packing the club almost every Thursday and Saturday all semester--not just at our January bicker parties, where we would have to go members only by midnight. Moreover we've been improving in all these areas and I think that's reflected in this year's bicker round.
Finally, of all the bicker clubs, Tower is the hardest to stereotype, although of course everyone tries regardless. Theater and acappella are probably the most prominent groups, but they are still minorities in a well-mixed soup of Kappas, AEPis, class presidents, Mock Trialers, Whig-Cliates, Prince editors, Rhodes Scholars, Princeton Faith in Actioners, Ultimate Frisbee players, Club Soccer members, Dancers, Press Clubers, College Republican officers, USGers, OA leader-trainers, and a smattering of everything else imaginable.