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Imagine Princeton without Bicker.
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Imagine Princeton without Bicker.
Abiodun Azeez ’12 knew even before she arrived on campus last fall that she didn’t want to join an eating club.
In the fall of her sophomore year, Sarah ’10 received an e-mail from her sorority inviting her to an unusual gathering. Instead of advertising an upcoming semiformal or tailgate, this e-mail announced one of the sorority’s annual Bicker workshops.
During his junior year, Ted Price ’10 had trouble finding time for regular meals at Ivy Club, where he was a member. He was a distance runner on the track team, and he found himself spending large sums of money on food, beyond his Ivy membership dues.
During her sophomore spring, Kaitlyn Hay ’10 wanted to join Charter Club, along with many of her friends. Despite the University’s financial aid programs, cost proved to be a barrier for her.
"I really do think that the vast majority of people here are honorable.”
Many college students wouldn’t think twice before feigning illness or computer malfunctions to explain to a professor why an assignment is late. But at the University of Virginia, that could get you expelled.
During her freshman year, Julia Neufeld ’10 plagiarized her roommate’s computer code — and got away with it.
Each day during Dead Week, some of the 14 faculty, staff and student members of the Committee on Discipline (COD) assemble in West College around a long oval table. With Dean of Undergraduate Students Kathleen Deignan, the committee chair, seated at the head of the table and an accused student accompanied by a single representative — usually a faculty member or dean — on one side of the table, the committee will hear cases and dole out punishments for infractions of “Rights, Rules, Responsibilities” (RRR).
Last January, Shafiq Kashmiri ’10 was working alone in his room on the final problem set for an upper-level engineering course when his phone rang. It was a classmate — someone who often struggled with work for the class — calling to ask for help with the assignment.