Regarding 'Rethinking Bicker from the inside' (Stephanie Greenberg, May 12):
It is a shame that Greenberg's well-intentioned piece will do little to change the phenomenon at work every fall and spring as sophomores and juniors vie for spots in eating clubs. Such noblesse oblige has graced these pages plenty of times before with nary a change in anyone's behavior.
But she does make a good point in her penultimate paragraph, alerting would-be Bicker participants to their implicit support of such a system. Students will choose how they wish to be judged — how formally (since all sign-in clubs judge you anyway) and how rigorously or humiliatingly.
We encounter "tests of friendship" before, during and after Princeton. Bicker participants — particularly those who get hosed — should remember that, far from life, Bicker is but one manifestation of the deplorable inner insecurities that lead people to want to exclude others. That Bicker itself is at times demeaning, both during and after the process, is regrettable, but does not make it unique among tests of friendship.
Bicker; don't bicker; go independent. Whichever you do, however it works out, don't take it too seriously. Adam Gitlin '03
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