University sophomores eager to bicker a newly-revived Cannon Club will have to look for other eating options. For now, the building between Tower and Quadrangle clubs will remain Notestein Hall, home to the University writing program.
While Cannon's graduate board finalized its purchase of the building from the University in 2001, the University continues to lease space from the club on a temporary basis, University Vice President and Secretary Thomas Wright '62 said.
The University's lease extends until at least the end of the academic year, Wright said, which would make it impossible for the club to open for new members during the current Bicker and sign-in period. The length of the University's lease is at the discretion of the club's graduate board, Wright said.
The club has already missed several target dates for reopening. While the University had imposed a deadline of April 1999 for the graduate board to repurchase the club, the deadline was extended twice to 2001. Once the purchase was finalized in 2001, graduate board president Warren Crane '62 predicted that the club had a 50-50 chance of reopening.
The building still requires extensive renovations to make it suitable for use as an eating club, and the graduate board has had difficulty raising the required sums of money.
The club, with its signature cannon on the front lawn, closed in 1975 during a period of diminished student membership in eating clubs. By 1990, the former Cannon Club had merged with the struggling Dial and Elm clubs to form the Dial, Elm, and Cannon Club (DEC).
DEC, which occupied the Dial and Elm clubs, closed in 1998 but retained the option to buy Cannon back from the University.
The club had become legendary for its wild parties and double tap room.
In a previous interview, graduate board president Warren Crane '62 said the renovated club may add a third taproom.
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