Members of three eating clubs added to their ranks this week following the conclusion of the fall Bicker process.
Tower Club accepted 18 of 38 bickerees, a slight increase from the 15 students taken last fall. Club officers, however, limited new membership to juniors.
Ivy Club took 12 of the 26 juniors and seniors who bickered. While Ivy did not release numbers last fall, only 8 of 45 were accepted in fall 2004. Officers were not available for comment.
The number of new Cap & Gown Club members has also not been released, though unofficial reports suggest that 23 new members have been accepted. Cap admitted 8 students in fall 2006 out of a pool of unknown size. The club's officers did not respond to repeated requests for comment.
Continuing its practice of the last few years, Tiger Inn did not hold fall Bicker.
For the first time in several years, Cottage Club did not hold fall Bicker. Last year, it accepted 5 of 19 prospective members, a drop from the 11 bickerees it took in 2005.
Tower president Jon Fernandez '08 said that his club's decision to accept only juniors was made to alleviate the disparity between the number of juniors and seniors in the club. "We were doing everything we could for the financial stability of the club to right the difference," he said.
Fernandez said the high number of bickerees from a single class — 38, versus 45 students from two classes last year — "is a testament to the strength of this bicker class."
While the four-year residential colleges, shared club and college meal plans and two free upperclassmen meals per week have changed the dynamics of student life at Princeton this year, Fernandez is confident that students remain attracted to the Street.
"The clubs are still able to offer [the] atmosphere, community and services that the residential colleges haven't met," Fernandez said.
"I don't think [the opening of Whitman and Mathey as four-year colleges] affected our numbers at all, and it certainly hasn't affected the quality of our bickerees at all."
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