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...Colonial, probably the most progressive of the top five clubs (others are Cottage, Ivy, Cap and Gown, and Tiger), members decided to keep Bicker this year in a close vote. Bicker won last month, 42-36, but 13 club members resigned before the crucial ballot over a complicated "moral" issue. They would have swung...
...moral" issue involved the University's participation in setting liquor rules and women's visiting hours for clubs but not in overseeing the selection of club members. The University cannot say that it is neutral in the affairs of private clubs if it sets social rules, the 13 argued, so they would not sign an agreement to obey those rules, required of all club members. Colonial is an influential club, and if the resignations had not been so untimely, it is clear that other clubs would have followed the Bicker boycott...
Cloister Inn had also been discussing a boycott of Bicker until its graduate board told club members to stop stirring up trouble. After the remonstrance, Cloister's president Valery H. Taylor took a poll in which members split nearly in half on whether or not to Bicker...
There is a kind of sorrow about it all. James W. Newman, the president of the graduate board of the Inter-club committee, commented two weeks ago on the University's purchase of Key and Seal: "The passing of an institution that has received the dedicated efforts of many people over the past 50 years is always a sad thing, no matter what the institution." He might have been talking about the club system...
Said Goheen last month at a press conference: "If this movement [at the Wilson Society] and the move to the new club were to snowball it would certainly put pressure on some of the clubs ... [The Trustees committee] envisages a changing pattern of dining arrangements and social life for undergraduates at Princeton, neither eliminating clubs as such, nor perpetuating their present overwhelming dominance...