Word: clubs
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...seven years of existence Wilson has undergone a metamorphosis. It has become as much a closed society as the clubs are. But ironically, the Wilson members are bound together by their fervent opposition to the isolation of the club system. Wilson's president, Dan Altman, says sarcastically, "To an outsider, this insularity is childish nonsense--to us, it is a way of life, 'the Princeton experience...
...mustache, was one of the founders of an experimental college at Princeton this year. Again, its founding appears to be a reaction to Princeton insularity. About half the students at the experimental college are Wilson Society members. The Society last year withdrew from the Gentleman's Agreement, which governs club parietals and drinking. Altman says the Society withdrew "on the theory that, in return for a facesaving agreement for the University, which can wave around a piece of paper upon which is written, 'I will be a good boy,' it offers students little besides paternal rules and offers officers...
...exclusionist club system has created this strange situation, by which all the Wilson radicals are herded up to Wilcox Hall to grow angry with the Princeton way of life and yet let their own Society become insular. Nearly all Wilson members are of this outcast variety. They care very little about actively participating in changing the system. Instead of providing the nucleus of this year's 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...
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...