Word: bicker
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...university is vitally concerned with all aspects of Bicker"--William D'O. Lippincott, dean of students, Princeton University--"but it has been, and still is, the policy to leave the conduct of club elections completely up to the undergraduates. We do not plan to use pressure to have these men integrated...
...selective. Selectivity implies the right of a club to impose a religious quota, if it so desires,"--text of a statement released by the Interclub Committee, Princeton University, February 10, 1958--"The ICC does not approve of religious and racial discrimination, but has no power to control the Bicker policy of individual clubs. Ultimate responsibility for religious and racial discrimination rests with individual members of individual clubs...
...According to all present indications, Bicker will be back next year...
...been much talk of phasing out Princeton's eating club system, "the quest" has persisted, albeit markedly different from the 1958 process. The university's admission of women and increases in the number of applicants have affected the eating-club system more than any other factors. Jim Buck, Bicker chairman at Ivy, says...
...clubs on Prospect St., only five--Ivy, Tiger Inn, Cap and Gown, Cottage and Tower--remain "selective," still using Bicker to choose their new members; the other eight use a lottery system to determine club membership. And although Ivy, Tiger Inn and Cottage insist on retaining their all-male exclusiveness, the other clubs now accept women...