Word: bickers
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Jews are probably not as actively discriminated against as they used to be. How much discrimination there is during Bicker (when the clubs choose their new members) is impossible to say. But the fact that five times as many Jews join Wilson as join the average club is significant and exposes the exclusionist nature of the club system...
...revolt, they were repelled by it. The club system is an incredible joke to them, too trivial to bother with. So they left the revolt to the campus leaders--club members who were involved in the system and wanted to change it. Not radically, now. Just an adjustment in Bicker...
There are several reasons why the Bicker revolt failed this year. Altman mentions the administration and the alumni, and they are both a very large part...
...Tomorrow: A timid administration, a fanatic alumni, and a complacent student body caused this year's Bicker revolt to fail, and could keep Princeton's peculiar anachronism around for a long, long time...
...that is the system. However cruel and arbitrary it might be, few Princeton men reject it. There has not been a major change in its structure since Ivy Club was founded in 1879. Once a sophomore has gone through Bicker, he settles down in his club and is very content and comfortable. The club stereotype seems to crystallize his personality. He may have come to Princeton vaguely thinking he was preppy, but when he made Ivy he was sure of it. Patterns form. The club man begins to think he cannot get along with anyone outside his circle of club...