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TI, Cottage, Ivy, Cap see spike in numbers while Tower sees fall
Published: Monday, February 9th, 2009
Nearly 700 students took part in Bicker last week — the most in at least four years — signaling strong demand for membership in the selective clubs in the second year of the four-year residential college system.
The five bicker clubs admitted ...
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Congratulations to all the clubs. I hope the university provides adequate upperclass housing for the increased number of students who will need it following the surge of interest in Prospect.
Maybe they can expand upperclass housing into parts of Whitman?
"Tower, Cap see fall"
If you look at the Prince article about bicker from last year, it said Cap took 80 of 105... and this year you said they took 90 out of 130... so I don't see how there's a fall in numbers.
Congrats everyone, and here's to more years of bicker and sign-ins.
Summing the individuals who bickered at each club gives a total of 683. That doesn't mean 683 students (or your "almost 700") bickered, unless each student bickered at only one club. Because students may bicker at multiple clubs, the number of students who bickered equals the figure of 683 divided by the average number of clubs bickered by each student. An average of 1.5-2.0 clubs per bickeree yields a total number of students bickering more in the 350 - 400 range. The change from last year should be similar to what was reported assuming that the clubs/bickeree average remained similar.
We are definitely allowed to bicker only ONE club these days.
Don't you look like an idiot.
Yup, only 1 club.
What does it say that the University is so invested in developing the
four year college system, building Whitman and Butler to that end,
and yet the interest in joining eating clubs seems to continue
unabated, or even to be increasing? Is it a failure of the U
Administration to sufficiently incentivize second year students
to consider the alternatives? Is anyone thinking about the social and financial repercussions of this failure?
Alternatively, the explanation may be that such an evolution just takes time and insufficient time has been allowed to see the desired change. It is
troubling that the energy of the school seems to be going in one direction and that of the students in the other.
Grad '66,
I think it's just emblematic of the strength of the eating club system. For a student's last two years at Princeton, he or she gets to hang out in huge mansions with your best friends, eat better food than the dining hall, and party for free if that's his or her thing. That's a pretty compelling alternative to the confusing four year college structure, which is seen by many as simply an extension of the two year colleges. That already existed before--it's called being independent.