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When Altman talked to President Goheen about the University spending more money to change the club system into something more equitable, he got the answer, "Well, you know we're a poor University." As absurd as it seems, Goheen has a point. He seems to be disillusioned with Bicker. He told a Princetonian reporter in November: "There are no valid ways to make sound judgments...people turn to extraneous, superficial things...Students lose their sense of fair play and good sense in Bicker." But Goheen is not willing to sponsor a wholesale change in the club system, or even publicly...
...clubs are privately-owned, and the University has no real financial control over them. That is again the club rhetoric. Actually, the University is not neutral at all. It could exert a great deal of control over Bicker. Right now it provides financial aid for clubs with money trouble, uses its offices for Bicker registration, oversees the Gentleman's Agreement, and gives scholarship aid to club men even though their board costs twice as much as an Independent...
...Club and of the Grad ICC. Although he has led the way in promoting more intellectual activities in clubs by providing speakers and libraries, Newman is typical of the reactionary element of the grad boards. Steve Oxman, president of the Undergraduate Council (UGC) and the prime mover in the Bicker revolt, said that Newman told him that even if 100 per cent of the undergraduates favored the new proposals, the grad ICC wouldn't budge. Only three grad board chairmen said that they would approve of changing Bicker, and then only if the Grad ICC and the UGC were nearly...
Oxman calls the Grad ICC "obdurate," and that seems a mild epithet. He sees no chance for the enactment of his proposal to liberalize Bicker unless there is a radical change in the nature of Princeton's alumni. And there does seem to be a change coming somewhere on the horizon...
Princeton undergraduate sociologists are constantly making studies of the oddities of Bicker and the club system. The chart below lists the clubs and the Woodrow Wilson Society and compares Darryl Kancko's face ranking of the clubs to Nelson Rose's consensus ranking. The face ranking was prepared using the Freshman Herald for the Class of 1967. A sample of students rated the 718 men on the Princeton grading scale, from 1 (top) to 7 (bottom), from what they thought of them just looking at their faces. Rose's ranking was gathered from questionnaires of more than 100 clubmen. Face...