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Princeton's Prospect Club has voted to continue last year's controversial "open" Bicker policy. Tighter specifications are expected to eliminate the confusion which resulted last year from an overflow of "hundred per centers...
Again opening its doors to all sophomores who wish to become members, Prospect has added the stipulation that declaration to join must be made before a certain hour on Open House night, the climax of the Bicker period. In last year's Bicker, Prospect kept its books open even after all men "in trouble" had refused its bids, in order to accommodate leftover candidates from other clubs...
Since the new Prospect specifications mean less assurance that all who want to may join a club, the Bicker's governing body planned a meeting to re-define "100 per cent...
Whatever effect the clubs may have on their members as individuals, their effect on the college as a whole is practically nil, and this is probably the system's strong point. At Princeton, where every undergraduate must join a club in order to eat, everyone must submit to Bicker's embarrassing process of social rating. The same is approximately true of any college where there is a widespread fraternity system. Some bitterness and bad feeling are bound to result when there is pressure on everyone to join and the club system is a matter of college-wide prestige. This...
...corner, on a busier street, sets a building simple as reality, and as unavoidable as 1959. That is Prospect Club, its name a wistful mark of its exclusion. Prospect has always been the poor club, the wonk co-op club without servants, but last year it held an open bicker so that the University might have a hundred per cent club membership, Prospect became the catalyst in a big change--the biggest in seventy-five years--in the Princeton formula. After Prospect threw itself open to all bids, a group of either contemptous or indignant sophomores refused to bicker...